Dinesh D'Souza Exonerates Al Qaeda, Blames American Left for 9/11

[BurtWorm]

When it comes to laying blame for Sept. 11 – the greatest attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor – one of America's foremost thinkers says it doesn't lay with the terrorists.

Instead, America's enemies are right beneath our noses. Dinesh D'Souza identifies them as our "cultural left."

D'Souza is the best-selling author of "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus," and helped coin the term political correctness. His latest controversial work is appropriately called "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11" (Random House).

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/1/15/194114.shtml?s=al&promo_code=2C29-1

Now as if that isn't hilarious enough, click on the link and take a look at the ads running down the left of this "news." If they don't tell you all you need to know about the quality of human being on the American right--well, what more could you possibly want to know?

:rofl:


PS: Wow! D'Souza is actually proud of helping to "coin the term political correctness!" But that (like his claim of being "one of America's foremost thinkers" :spray: ) is total bullshit. In fact, it first appeared in American political circles long, long ago when American lefties, borrowing it from Maoists (I think), used it poke fun of the ultra-earnestness of certain of their own comrades.

[BrewerJohn]

1. OK, I bit. Actual ad from newswacks

:rofl:

[liberaldemocrat7]

9. Dinesh DiSouza appears an enema bag of the right wing.

Never mind the facts should apply to Dinesh Desouza a man who cannot even speak with a man's voice.

9-11 happened because the Taliban did not want George W bush to invade Afghanistan before 9-11 and the Taliban struck us first. George W Bush provoked the 9-11 attacks.

Dinesh DeSouza: Enema bag of the day and full of Craaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaap

[xchrom]

2. it's not possible for The Right to come up with an honest thinker.

''political correctness' falling out of dumbass d'inesh's mouth takes on an intelligence he never intended.

but i have a suggestion for him -- let him go to work for a security company and he can do cavity searches on every one who looks arab to him.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Distort D'Newza was peddling the same crap on Thom Hartmann yesterday...

Thom sounded like he was having a hard time keeping a straight face.

However, I find this part of the story quite interesting...

D'Souza is the best-selling author of "Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus," and helped coin the term political correctness.

I've always maintained that, counter to conventional wisdom, "political correctness" was never a label created by liberals to shame others into following the progressive party line, but was instead the creation of right-wingers trying to find a way to discredit us and our values. Us, because we could be portrayed as intolerant bullies forcing others to live by our standards. Our values, because it became easy to dismiss any norms of civility by writing them off as "P.C.," and even making incivility a seeming virtue of independence. ("Too bad if it bothers people that I call a cripple a cripple and think that n*gg*rs are inferior to whites. Hey, at least I'm not being 'politically correct'." :puke: ) Now, I finally have some proof.

[BurtWorm]

11. I distinctly remember lefties in the 1970s using it to make fun of overearnestness

on the left. It wasn't meant as anything other than self-satire. Wingers stole it and put it to the use you're talking about in the late 1980s, early 1990s. "PC" became another way of saying "Shut up"--in fact, a more effective way, because it was an accusation of participation in left-wing cultural totalitarianism at the same time. Of course, it was a ludicrous charge, being made at the very apex of right wing power in late 20th-century America.

[JCMach1]

4. He's wrong, It's the Clenis

:eyes:

[LynneSin]

5. Best Selling Author?

:rofl:

He's another one of those bulk-bought bookwriters. I could be a NYTimes best seller if I sold my soul to the right-wing propaganda machine.

[matcom]

6. who?

[Frank Cannon]

7. How do you "help" coin a term?

I mean, you either coin it or you don't, right? Either you're the first to use it or you're not.

Did someone else coin the term "political" and he coined the term "correctness"? :shrug:

[KharmaTrain]

8. What A Terrible Time To Launch A Wingnut Book...

The other day they had one of the Powerline asshats who all but admitted the traffic on that coven of hate peaked around '04 and hasn't grown since (my bets are its been on decline)...and the ratings of Faux and hate radio continue to decline. Methinks Barak Obama's #1 standing on the NYT's Best Seller list isn't going to be endangered by this toilet paper replacement material.

Many of these hate mongers got lucky...made a fortune writing about the Clenis, along with bulk buys, and somehow became "best selling authors". It also helps that Murdoch and Scaiffe keep the printing presses primed for this type of trash. Now, Clinton is a past memory, Hillary still isn't enough of a threat (except in their own circles) and their own "heroes" have been discredited.

The good thing is a couple years ago, a "book" such as this would have gotten a lot of serious airtime. D'Souza would have been on with Wolfie and Tweety and with Matt & Katie then off on a big tour. Now, it appears the "mainstream" corporate media is not about to be roll out the red carpet anymore.

[City Lights]

10. He pretty much laid the blame for 9-11 on Clinton last night

on The Colbert Report. He said that Clinton did "nothing" after the embassy bombings in the 90's or the Cole bombing and that OBL said the lack of response from the US emboldened him to do 9-11. He's a real sack of shit.

edited for truthiness...;-)

[EstimatedProphet]

12. I'm tired of being called an enemy of America by enemies of America

[mitchum]

13. That's why I call him "Gunga Dim"

[truebrit71]

16. LOL!!

:rofl:

That's very witty....

[HamdenRice]

14. Point of information: origins of the term "politically correct"

Originally the term was used earnestly and seriously by some leftist factions, especially certain Marxist-Leninists and Maoists. Recall that Marxist-Leninism was also called "scientific socialism." They believed that their theory was as scientific as, say, physics.

In the social sciences and liberal politics people can have different opinions and come to different conclusions, but in hard sciences there are right and wrong -- or correct and incorrect -- answers to questions.

Believing their theory to be as objective and rigorous as hard sciences, these Marxists would say there are "correct" and "incorrect" political stances, as in "comrade, you analysis is not politically correct." Kruchev also used a Russian expression, in his famous speech denouncing Stalinism, that could be translated, "politically correct." I believe Angela Davis used to use that kind of language in the late 1960s, from whence it was adopted mainly by certain elements of identity politics, especially feminists:

From an old listserve discussion:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9411a&L=linguist&P=2602

"Dolphin states that its first use in the U.S. was by Angela Davis in 1971 when she argued that there could be no "opposing argument to an issue which has only one correct side." Then in 1975, the then-president of the National Organization of Women said that organization was moving in "the intellectually and politically correct direction." The 1971 quotation seems to confirm Mark's view that only those who accept political authority over the quest for truth could use the term
with no ironic intent."

I think that the listserve discussion incorrectly concludes that people who used the term unironically believed that "correctness" came from political authority (as in, "comrade, the party has already decided the issue, which is now the politically correct line"), while I think they (mistakenly) believed that correctness came from scientific, objective analysis.

Most of the liberal and progressive left did not share that kind of certainty, and therefore did not use that kind of language. In the 1970s and 1980s as a response to the most strident leftists on campuses, right wingers began to use the term derisively.

[BurtWorm]

18. As I say, I distinctly recall people who were clearly lefties (including a Marxist)

using the term to make fun of some utterly humorless campus Socialists in 1977. That's when I first heard the term used ironically, to my memory, and whenever I heard it in the next 10 or 15 years, it was always from a lefty laughing at someone else on the left who had zero sense of humor. I know that it was originally an unironic term used by "scientific socialists," as you say. But I'm pretty sure wingers didn't use it until it had been popularized by self-satirizing lefties. (Unless maybe Tom Wolfe used it in one of his books making fun of New York's Central Park West radicals?)

[enigmatic]

15. This has been his shitck since Dartmouth

And it's the worst case of idiocy since Yakov Smirnoff: Unplugged...

[lpbk2713]

17. NewsMax .... it figures.

They have a distorted view of reality and they just have to inflict it on the rest of the world.