‘Cultural left responsible for 9/11.’... so says conservative intellectual Dinesh D’Souza

[RedEarth]

‘Cultural left responsible for 9/11.’Prominent conservative intellectual Dinesh D’Souza is releasing a book today titled, “The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11.” D’Souza is a fellow at the Hoover Institute, and formerly served at the American Enterprise Institute. Despite the book’s inflammatory thesis, D’Souza suggests that the book “avoids much of the strident rhetoric seen in other ‘liberal-bashing’ books.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/16/cultural-left-responsible-for-911/

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Some from AEI

wants to blame the 'cultural-left' for 9-11? :rofl:

Pot calling kettle black.

[rpgamerd00d]

2. "other ‘liberal-bashing’ books.” ROFLMAO! He referred to his own book as liberal-bashing !

That is too funny.

[Supersedeas]

5. Let's begin with a concession and they explain why it is not so strident

[Warren DeMontague]

3. So why does Dinesh D'Souza HATE FREEDOM? nt

[Porcupine]

32. Because he's Dick Cheney's sock puppet that's why. nt.

.

[EFerrari]

4. Yeah because we were in power that year.

Oops!

[Rex]

6. Well of course, there always has to be someone pushing the RW

bullshit envelope. Always good to have test feelers out there to see what the 'public' thinks. Great way to test apathy.

[BOSSHOG]

7. Now that conflicts with the notion that bush let is happen

so he could be a war hero and ride on a plane and kill people and do all kinds of cool stuff. Of course you won't see a book about conservatives and responsibility because as the lemmings have been trained, conservatives aren't responsible for anything.

Hoover Inst, AEI, wow what a resume.

[spanone]

8. Like there's no Liberal bashing in the fucking strident title???? Bite me dinesh.

[silverweb]

9. "conservative intellectual" ?

Isn't that an oxymoron?

:evilgrin:

[fasttense]

10. Pure BS.

It'll make it to the top ten best sellers list with some carefully selected mass purchases from very select vendors. I'm sure a lot of right wing money is going to be wasted on this piece of crap. All in an effort to shove the corporate elite lies down your throat.

Of course the TRUTH will be carefully avoided in this poorly written book. You know like the FACT that Rice cakes and crazy king george were warned in writing about the attack and they did absolutely NOTHING.

[walldude]

11. Didn't Jerry Falwell have to eat his words

when he tried to pull this same shit? Same broken record, Abortion, gay rights, no morals, they hate us for our freedom and Christianity, blah, blah, blah. Amazing how none of the blame ever seems to fall on the people who were staring at the document labeled "Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside The US."

[robertpaulsen]

12. Yes. Another reich-wing "intellectual".

:rofl:

[Emit]

17. And, ironically, D'Souza wrote a "glowing" biography of Falwell

"In 1987 his free-flowing conservative prose, which by now included a glowing biography of Moral Majority Leader, Jerry Falwell ironically titled “Jerry Falwell: A Critical Biography,” got him a job inside the Beltway as a domestic policy analyst for Reagan..."

http://campusprogress.org/tools/118/know-your-right-wing-speakers-dinesh-dsouza

[Warpy]

13. It's a good thing Scaife funded all those right wing

stink tanks, or crackpots like D'Souza would be seen for exactly what they are and never find gainful employment.

:sarcasm:

[Emit]

14. "I seem to have gotten under the skin of every aging hippie, every depressed post-Marxist kook, ever

Said D'Souza: "I seem to have gotten under the skin of every aging hippie, every depressed post-Marxist kook, every radical feminist who has hung out in academic enclaves. I've gotten used to the phenomenon of being heckled by people twice my age."
http://www.fumento.com/dinesh.html

More on this nut:

... With this impressive resume behind him -- and having penned a glowing biography of Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell -- D'Souza was hired as senior domestic policy analyst in the Reagan administration. As a (former) John M. Olin scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he (formerly) receive(d) an annual grant in excess of $100,000. His subsequent books have also received backing from the Madison Center.

In 1995, D'Souza came out with "The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society." The book argues that low-income Black people are basically "pathological" and that white racism isn't really racism at all, just a logical response to this "pathology."

D'Souza maintains racism will only end when

"...blacks as a group can show that they are capable of performing competitively in schools and the work force...If blacks can close the civilization gap, the race problem in this country is likely to become insignificant."

The book would have made interesting reading on the Middle Passage, that early example of European "civilization." And in fact, D'Souza also writes that slavery itself was not a racist institution, merely "economic."

He further states that segregation was designed

"...to assure that (Blacks), like the handicapped, would be...permitted to perform to the capacity of their arrested development."

The book was reportedly marketed extensively in business circles. (From "Buying a Movement.")

http://www.mediatransparency.org/personprofile.php?personID=6

[Bluebear]

15. Boy the righties love to "get under your skin" & irritate people

Ideology aside, they seem to enjoy the process and bothering people more than the intellectual (?) argument itself.

[Richard Steele]

39. It's the only thing they're good at. They sure can't run a country worth a fuck.

[Mythsaje]

24. And I am none of those things

and he's gotten under my skin too.

He can take a long walk off a short pier.

He can go fuck a rolling donut.

He can perform impossibly contortionist sexual acts on himself.

[americanstranger]

31. I wonder if he's ever been beaten senseless by someone twice his age.

I'd be happy to give it a try.

D'Souza is a poison.

- as

[Monk06]

35. Here's a short list of the AEI 'scholars' and the institute's financial contributors

And here's the bio of the Psycho in Chief

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Kovner


Scholars and fellows
• Lynne Cheney, wife of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, AEI senior fellow.
• Mark Falcoff, Resident Scholar Emeritus and Latin America expert.
• Ted Frank is resident fellow and director of the AEI Liability Project.
• David Frum, an author and former speechwriter for Bush, is a resident fellow.
• Reuel Marc Gerecht is a resident fellow. He is the director of the Project for the New
American Century's Middle East Initiative and a former Middle East specialist at the CIA.
• Newt Gingrich, member of the Republican Party and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives between 1995 and 1999, is a senior fellow at AEI focusing on health care (he has founded the Center for Health Transformation), information technology, the military, and politics.
• James K. Glassman, author of Dow 36,000, is a resident fellow.
• Michael Greve is the John G. Searle Scholar and director of AEI's Federalism Project.
• Frederick M. Hess studies education policy and is executive director of Education Next.
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a former Dutch politician, women's rights activist and critic of Islam.
• Frederick Kagan is a military historian and signatory of Project for the New American Century manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses (2000) along with his brother Robert (co-founder of the PNAC) and his father and fellow neo-conservative, Donald Kagan.
• Jeane Kirkpatrick was the former U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and was an AEI senior fellow until she died in 2006.
• Irving Kristol, Senior AEI member and founder of political journal The Public Interest and the foreign affairs journal The National Interest. He is known as the 'Godfather of Neoconservative Movement', His son, William Kristol is a prominent member and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century.
• Michael Ledeen was previously involved in the transfer of arms to Iran during the Iran-Contra affair -- an adventure that he documented in his book, Perilous Statecraft: An Insider's Account of the Iran-Contra Affair.
• Allan Meltzer is one of the foremost academics studying monetary policy and the Federal Reserve Bank. He, along with economist Milton Friedman, pioneered monetarism, the now widely accepted theory that inflation is entirely the result of the growth of the money supply. Dr. Meltzer is currently working on the second volume of his History of the Federal Reserve.
• Joshua Muravchik, is a Resident Scholar. He researches Middle East politics, democracy, neoconservatism and the history of socialism.
• Charles Murray, an influential policy writer and a researcher, is the W.H. Brady Scholar in Culture and Freedom. He is best known as the co-author of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve.
• Michael Novak is the George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy and Director of Social and Political Studies at the institute. He has written extensively about the role of faith in government.
• Norman Ornstein has been a Congressional analyst and political commentator for more than thirty five years.
• Richard Perle served on the United States Defense Policy Board and is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense.
• Sally Satel is a psychiatrist and author of PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine.
• Radosław Sikorski, conservative Polish politician and minister of defence (as of 2007), AEI resident fellow from 2002 to 2005, executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative.
• Christina Hoff Sommers is a critic of the feminist movement. She is the author of Who Stole Feminism and The War Against Boys.
• Fred Thompson, Television and film actor, currently appearing on the television show Law & Order, former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, researches "National Security & Intelligence (China, North Korea, and Russia)" for the AEI.
• Ben Wattenberg, a speechwriter for President Lyndon B. Johnson, is a senior fellow.
• John Yoo, formerly of the Office of Legal Counsel, and a professor at Boalt Hall, is a visiting scholar.
• Karl Zinsmeister, editor in chief of the American Enterprise Magazine 1994-2006, as of 2006 Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.
Funders
AEI has received more than $30 million in funding from sources including the following:
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.
• Castle Rock Foundation
• Coors
• Earhart Foundation
• JM Foundation
• Microsoft Corporation <1>
• Philip M. McKenna Foundation, Inc.
• John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
• Sarah Scaife Foundation
• Scaife Family Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation

The AEI is a very privately funded RW Propaganda Shop financed by the RW Wall Street Elite

IT IS NOT A LEGITMATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

EVERYONE INVOLVED ARE CORPORATE INSIDERS WITH A GLOBALIST DOMINIONIST AGENDA

ALL OF THEM ARE BAT SHIT CRAZY BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY ARE RUNNING THE SHOW AND
THE CHIMPSTER IS THEIR WHITE HOUSE MEAT PUPPET.

[endarkenment]

16. Another empty 'intellectual' pandering to the elites

so that he too can have a seat at their table. Fuck every one of them. Fuck their bullshit neolib/con consensus. Their idiocy is running the bus of civilization right off a cliff.

[nebenaube]

18. To me, books like these are like yelling fire in a theatre...

This shit is dangerous...

[leftofthedial]

19. we definitely are. we allowed bush and the other perpetrators of 9-11

to seize power in the coup of 2000.



our bad.

[KG]

20. 'conservative intellectual?' no such thing.

this guy is one of the willfully stupids.

[Bobbie Jo]

23. Oxymoran....n/t

[Peace Patriot]

21. Look, we really have to do more to tag sources and funds for this fascist

drivel, and focus on how these nutball minority views are being given a Big Trumpet way out of proportion to their numbers--and focus less on, 1) answering nutball arguments, and 2) helping the fascists to promulgate their nutball minority views.

I'm raising the question of legitimacy--legitimate debate. It's been on my mind lately, re Bush and his "plan" to secure the oil contracts in Iraq. I don't think he is a legitimately elected president, and the polls and lots of other evidence bears me out. He is furthermore a major criminal in more ways than I can count. Neither he nor the lapdogs in his Junta have a right to have their opinions promulgated any more. I don't recognize them as having any legitimacy. I don't want to hear them any more. All they have is raw power--the power to kill and torture and rip up the Constitution.

And I've been thinking this about the pervasive fascist propaganda-mongers all over our war profiteering corporate news monopolies, and even on C-Span, and sometimes even on AAR (when someone like Al Franken wastes airtime on Washington Post "pundits"). Basically, we have 5 billionaire fascist fatcat CEOs controlling all news and opinion in the country (except for the Internet), and rightwing billionaires funding propaganda mills like the AEI, to churn out more and more propaganda, all in the service of war profiteers and the death of American democracy.

Why promote them? Why quote them? Why mention them at all? And, if we must, for some reason, I think that the filthy money behind items like this needs to be stressed much more and in detail. Who is publishing this crap? Is the publisher invested in war? Like that.

DU at times seems obsessed with what the fascist "think tanks" and corporate news monopolies are spewing out. This vomit thereby accumulates a sort of legitimacy and authority. I'm not saying to completely ignore it. We need to know what's being said. But how do we put items like this in proper perspective, as the extremely manipulative, and extremely well-funded fascist vomit that it is?

When we DON'T put it into proper perspective, we end up shadow-boxing. The spewers of this crap don't care what we think about it. All they care about is that it's the topic of discussion--that fascist money is able to put it there, to be talked about. They thus mark the spectrum of public discussion way over to the far right.

We SHOULD be talking about dismantling the corporate news monopolies--and attacking the non-profit status of ratfuck institutions like the AEI and the Hoover Institute, and running its toady writers like D'Souza out of town on a rail. Instead, we're REACTING to "the left" being accused of responsibility for 9/11!

Just sayin. Something to think about. Over the last several weeks, I've had trouble finding a single speaker for the majority of Americans on war issues anywhere on my radio dial--C-Span, BBC, AAR. Only Randi. No matter what time of day I tuned in--Bush and Bushites or other warmongers. Granted, this was a very sporadic survey, somewhat timed to commutes. But still. The thing that really ticked me off (besides Franken giving air time to WaPo) was the "Blue Dog" Democrats on C-Span--after the biggest anti-war voters' rebellion in our history. Cut the budget. The military budget? Well, no--gotta "give our troops everything they need to blow the Middle East to smithereens." Where were the progressive Dems? Where were the leftists (majorityists)? Where were those trying to de-fund the war? And this wasn't even war profiteering corporate news monopoly radio! It's far worse over on the other parts of the dial, where psycho war criminals are treated with respect and where they DO believe that "leftists" caused 9/11.

I don't want hear Condi, or "Blue Dog" Democrats, or the Washington Post any more. I turned it off and sang to myself. This is the problem. We have so few choices of news, analysis and comment on the public airwaves, or in print, that have any reality at all. And we need to fight THAT--as a power and money and dirty funding issue--and not give them yet another forum, this one.

[MilesColtrane]

22. Damn that George Clooney!

He received that briefing entitled: Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S., and he did nothing!

I gues the words, "FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks..." are meaningless to him.

[MilesColtrane]

25. And another thing...

Be careful Dinesh, someday your followers may decide that "that foreigner is right, let's deport all them foreigners."

How can anyone take what this man has to say seriously? He dated Ann Coulter. Obviously his brain is broken.

[devilgrrl]

26. They don't call him "Distort D'Newsah" for nothing.

Racist prick! :nuke:

[damntexdem]

27. Wow, the 'cultural left' has made the big time!

Ranked right up there with gays! And feminists! And Democrats!

Shall we give three cheers?

[magellan]

28. Those crazy conservative writers

Their works of fiction belong in the Psychology section under "Oppositional Defiant Disorder" (ODD).

Symptoms:

1. Often loses temper
2. often argues with adults
3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adults' requests or rules
4. often deliberately annoys people
5. often blames others for his or her mistakes or misbehavior
6. is often touchy or easily annoyed by others
7. is often angry and resentful
8. is often spiteful and vindictive

Describes the entire Bush** administration and its hangers-on.

[varun]

29. As a fellow Indian immigrant in America

I am ashamed of Dinesh. Dinesh should know better...he was a minority in his own country (He is a Christian from a Hindu majority India).

He is our "Uncle Tom"

:eyes:

[nam78_two]

30. As someone of Indian ethnicity, I share your shame.nt

[liberaldemocrat7]

36. He's no Gandhi for sure.

Yes, I have seen this fellow speak with an effeminate voice for years and he does for Indians what Clarence Thomas and Armstrong Williams does for African Americans and Michelle Malkin does for Phillipine people.

and George W Bush provoked the 9-11 attacks. Read "Forbidden Truth" by Dasquie and Brisard.

[Greg Helmsley]

38. Definatey no Gandhi, BUT......

The impression of what you're sayin sounds a bit, well, racist. Sure, they should be rightfully criticized, but the race card should go. It makes our side look bad.

[Blue_Tires]

33. um...yeah

didn't they already play that card a few times before? (Falwell, Robertson, Malkin, Coulter)

i'm eager to see this book's "evidence" after he called black america as a whole a bunch of lazy, low-intellect criminals

[AtomicKitten]

34. It was beautiful watching Colbert handing him his ass.

[marmar]

37. Dinesh O'Souza is such a waste of oxygen....

And the irony of all this is, had O'Souza attempted to fly immediately post-9/11, during the period of extreme Islamo-/East Asian-ophobia by the ignaramuses in this country, he would likely have been taken off the plane. He really should know better.

[Initech]

40. Conservative intellectual? Is that an oxymoron?

Every conservative I've ever met or seen on television spouts the exact same pre-fabricated GOP talking points like it's their own personal opinion. D'Souza is no different.