The Wit & Wisdom of Dinesh D'Souza

Very witty:

Although D’Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife, Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée.

Finally, near 11 p.m., event organizer Tony Beam escorted D’Souza and Joseph to the nearby Comfort Suites. Beam noted that they checked in together and were apparently sharing a room for the night in the sold-out hotel. The next morning, around 6 a.m., Beam arrived back at the hotel and called up to D’Souza’s room. “We’ll be down in 10 minutes,” D’Souza told Beam. D’Souza and Joseph came down together, and Beam took them to the airport.

The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D’Souza’s behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D’Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said “nothing happened.” When I called D’Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.”

According to San Diego County (Calif.) Superior Court records, D’Souza filed for divorce only on Oct. 4, the day I spoke with him. Under California law, that starts the clock on a six-month waiting period for divorce. D’Souza on Oct. 4 told me his marriage was “over,” said he “is sure Denise is the one for me,” and said he had “done nothing wrong.”

The episode is a strange twist in D’Souza’s otherwise meteoric rise in the evangelical world. He developed a reputation among evangelicals with a string of best-sellers, including The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which spawned a movie, Obama: 2016, which has now grossed more than $30 million. He broke into the Christian conference and megachurch market in 2007 with the release of a book that year, What’s So Great About Christianity.

D’Souza now receives speaking fees sometimes in excess of $10,000 from Christian groups, putting him in the top tier of Christian speakers. In 2010 he became president of The King’s College, New York City, which is supported by Campus Crusade for Christ, now called Cru. At that time he moved from California to New York, with his wife staying in California.

D’Souza said King’s board chairman Andy Mills has known about his marital trouble for at least two years. Mills confirmed that through a spokesman, Mark DeMoss, who added that Mills was “hopeful about restoration and both he [D’Souza] and Andy were praying to that end.” DeMoss said The King’s College board met by conference call to begin “looking into the situation.” D’Souza participated in a portion of that call, DeMoss said. Following that meeting, on Oct. 15, D’Souza wrote in a text message to me: “I have decided to suspend the engagement.”

I'm surprised more people aren't saying something about this one!

i just saw this. absolutely priceless.

speaking of "king of the trolls"...

buzzfeed has the lucky lady of course

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/other-woman-in-dinesh-dsouza-affair-is-a-dsouza

if you google the "young woman"s name, you get her picture and fb profile. She looks pretty young.

ha xp

D'Souza's America

Denise liked Nine Inch Nails.
September 18th

The Three Types of Liberal Pests You Find in Your Own Backyard, by Denise:

http://tinyurl.com/9nko4lg

she sounds like a real gem i wish them both the best

They do seem made for each other, why condemn their obvious true love?

Her whole existence is flawed, but Dinesh brings her closer to god.

Vom.

now you're down in it ned

btw chick looks like a dude in anne coulter drag which is probably the point

World, a publication that strives to "report bad news because Christ's grace becomes most meaningful when we're aware of sin,"

Plenty to keep them busy

When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.”

Reminds me of the scene in Snow White when she asks the seven dwarfs when they last washed their hands. "Recently!"

how is this a scandal, really? right-wing evangelicals forgive almost anything if you say you've been born again/touched by the hand of god/raised them a lot of money/etc.

although the "you're asking me if i already filed for divorce.... yeah... hmmm....i'll get right on that...." is kind of LOL.

"you have to file for that?"

Well that first link is from World mag, v. much an evangelical publication, and it sounds like there were people who pretty much flat out told him from the get-go he was not exactly in a state of grace.

Ha, related to which:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/108694/the-right-wing-rivalry-behind-dinesh-dsouzas-sex-scandal

And with guns a-blazin'!

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/10/17/2016-obama-america-film-maker-am-not-having-affair/

I sought out advice about whether it is legal to be engaged prior to being divorced and I was informed that it is.

"Hey, you, is this legal?"

"Uh, maybe?"

"Great, thanks!"

This has more of a back-and-forth, with the author of the original article responding in turn:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/october-web-only/dinesh-dsouza-denies-infidelity.html

Hahaha okay that article has an AMAZING bit:

When CT asked D'Souza directly for his response to charges of infidelity, he responded: "It's absolutely not the case, um, that, um, that, um, um, you know, it's.... Look, the issue here is that World is attributing to me an admission that I never made—is attributing to me a quotation that I never said. That to me is the problem. … They are just claiming based upon my non-assertion that I did something that I didn't do."

Haha that's gold.

play on, playa

um, that, um, that, um, um, you know, it's....

That's making a Pharcyde song go through my head.

"The approach in the article ... is a clear effort to destroy me and my career," D'Souza said. "To me, that is a kind of viciousness masquerading as righteousness"

an "approach" he is ah intimately familiar with. of course he probably considers karma a pagan concept

More here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2012/10/17/no-no-no-we-were-fine-with-the-racism-but-the-adultery-is-upsetting/

But D’Souza wasn’t embraced by the evangelical tribe just because he affirms the creeds and C.S. Lewis. What made CT and King’s College and the rest of mainstream evangelicalism decide that D’Souza was one of us was his political history — a former policy aide in the Reagan White House, D’Souza is fiercely opposed to abortion, gay rights, feminism and progressive taxation.

As Sarah Posner said, “D’Souza’s … rise in the evangelical world is due in no small part to his conspiracy-minded claims about President Obama’s ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior.’”

Yes, conspiratorial warnings about Africans and anti-colonialism contributed to D’Souza’s legitimacy among evangelicals.

ha m coleman that's a good catch

'You can't fire me, I quit!' Or something like that.

Related:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/october-web-only/dinesh-dsouza-resigns-as-president-of-kings-college.html

enjoying this so much

Loving how d'Souza was all 'libel!' and CT went back to the principals in the original story who said, "Nope, World reported it accurately."

the things we do for love

also all these people hate each other so much it's amazing

Narcissism of VERY small differences...

enjoying this so much

― there is no dana, only (goole), Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:26 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post

otm

x2

don't really give a f who he's sleeping with but this is pretty delightful, x3

caption this:

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834515c2369e2017d3c11a2ef970c-500wi

I would but:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/big-love-king-s-college-dsouzas-mistress-was-also-married

SERIOUS LOLs here.