The Wit & Wisdom of Dinesh D'Souza

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.

HAHAHAHA

unbelievable. and yet, not.

She also called herself a “strong believer in the concept of Republican Motherhood.”

a strong believer in something you made up

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/sites/default/files/joseph-desk.png

let's talk about this photo

"Hey, you, is this legal?"

"Uh, maybe?"

"Great, thanks!"

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:33 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair, it probably is legal. I mean "engaged" isn't really a legal status, so I don't see why it would be illegal to be engaged while still legally married.

on her desk is Of Love and Lust by Theodore Rowwrr.

that's an interesting question

xp

xxpost -- Given my newest link there, they decided it takes two to tango on that front.

"Oh you're married too! Let's get engaged!"

can't find it online but d'souza's description of himself and his unsufferable republican pals and their 'hilarious prank days' in college is one of the most (inadvertently) uproarious things i've ever read.

would it be too liberal-smug to suggest that these peoples' lifetime ensconcement in the 'straight and narrow' has left them totally unable to think or behave honorably when life gets actually dicey?

i do think there's a kind of blindered moral narcissism at play, yes

if that's what you mean

well yeah

but more that if you have a whole career+lifestyle+ideology built on sexual and moral purity, when desire takes over you're actually less able to deal with it within those rules.

idk, maybe not. there's a whole angle of hero-worship here that a 'normal' affair doesn't have.

(We developed) a guerrilla strategy that was as effective as it was fun. Where do I start? I don't know. Conduct a survey to find out how many professors in the religion department believe in God. Distribute a pamphlet titled "Feminist Thought" that is made up of blank pages. Establish a Society for Creative Homophobia. Prepare a freshman course guide that lists your college's best, and worst, professors. Publish Maya Angelou's poems alongside a bunch of meaningless doggerel and see whether anyone can tell the difference. Put a picture of death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal on your Web site and instruct people who think he deserves capital punishment to click a button and electrocute him on-line. Whew, I better stop with these suggestions before I get too carried away.

(Jeffrey) Hart was exactly the opposite of the conservative stereotype. He wore a long raccoon coast around campus, and he smoked long pipes with curvaceous stems. He sometimes wore buttons that said things as "Soak the Poor. In his office was a pincher-like device that he explained was for the purpose of "pinching women you don't want to touch".

I remember some of those early dinners at the Hart farmhouse. We drank South American wine and listened to recordings of Ernest Hemingway and F.Scott Fitzgerald, and of Robert Frost reading his poems, and Nixon speeches, and comedian Rich Little doing his Nixon imitation, and George C.Scott delivering the opening speech in Patton, and some of Winston Churchill's orations, and the music from the BBC version of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. There was an ethos here, and a sensibility, and it conveyed to me something about conservatism that I had never suspected. Here was a conservatism that was alive, that was engaged with art, music, and literature; that was at the same time ironic, lighthearted, and fun.

dying

"God has a mighty future for Dinesh, but there are some things he has to go through first"

when i see someone in a long raccoon coat smoking a meerschaum the first thing i think is "bolshevik"

In his office was a pincher-like device that he explained was for the purpose of "pinching women you don't want to touch".

Um...