The Wit & Wisdom of Dinesh D'Souza

FUCK YOU!!!!!!!!

1. It wasn't any of these people (or ANY leftists) that got us involved in this retarded war.
2. How do any of these people have any control over whether the USA "loses" in Iraq? Bush doesn't even pay attention to the 3/4 of the American people who want out of Iraq, let alone luminaries of the left.
3. Can any of these numbskulls fucking get it through their thick skulls that MAYBE, the way to "win" the WOT is not through violence and torture? That running around the middle east and threatening and slaughtering people is not a way to win friends and influence people? Seriously! Why is this common-sense argument so hard to grasp?
4. Is there anything more pointless than arguing with this fuckwit in a posting he will never read?

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Perhaps your readers would be intrigued with a discussion of the argument rather than anathemas against its expression. To call the book McCarthyite and a “national scandal” will neither stop the jihad nor save Israel in a nuclear age.

we have both the simplistic obfuscation and fear-mongering in the 2nd sentence, and an appropriation of the other side's languge in the 1st. Please, please, you liberals should use your pussy "debating" ways to truly find out if liberals are america haters and the cause of the worst domestic terror attack evar.

He helped found the Discovery Institute with Bruce Chapman. The organization started as a moderate group which aimed to privatize and modernize Seattle's transit systems but it later became the leading think tank of the intelligent design movement, with Gilder penning many articles in favor of ID and opposing the theory of evolution.

: "I do think that writing about technology and picking stocks is a very powerful and edifying discipline," he said. "It requires you to have a purchase on reality that is much more rigorous than the average evolutionary biologist has or the average free-floating technology writer has."

WSJ: "I do think that writing about technology and picking stocks is a very powerful and edifying discipline," he said. "It requires you to have a purchase on reality that is much more rigorous than the average evolutionary biologist has or the average free-floating technology writer has."

Well you know, after the part where Kyra Sedgwick lost her baby in the car accident, Campbell Scott got really interested in the fate of the unborn, and eventually wound up having a bit of a religious conversion.

imagining the cognitive gymnastics it must take to be both a techno-utopian and an intelligent design fanatic is giving me a headache

Rethinking Abu Ghraib
By Dinesh D'Souza
Monday, February 26, 2007

...Most Muslims did not view it as a torture story at all. Muslims were not outraged at the interrogation techniques used by the American military, which are quite mild by Arab standards. Moreover, many Muslims realized that the most of the torture scenes in the photographs—the hooded man with his arms outstretched, the prisoner with wires attached to his limbs—were staged. This was simulated torture, not real torture.

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Lynndie England and Charles Graner were two wretched individuals from Red America who were trying to act out the fantasies of Blue America. Casting aside all traditional notions of decency, propriety and morality, they simply lived by the code of self-fulfillment. If it feels good, it must be right. This was bohemianism, West Virginia-style.

At some level, the cultural left recognized this, which is why most of its comments about Abu Ghraib assiduously avoided the issue of sexual deviancy. The left’s embarrassment on this matter seems to have drawn on class prejudice. For some liberals, soldiers like Graner and England were poor white trash getting into trouble again. Of course if Graner and England were professors at an elite liberal arts college, their videotaped orgies might easily have become the envy of academia. If they were artists staging these pictures in a loft in Soho they could have been hailed as pioneers and encouraged by leftist admirers to apply for a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.

But being low-life Appalachians, Graner and England inspired none of these elevated thoughts. Instead, liberals moved opportunistically to attack the military and discredit its prisoner interrogation policies—even though these polices had nothing to do with what actually happened...

At one point Berkowitz accuses me of holding that “the cultural left presents a threat to America as grave as that posed by radical Islam.” What? The Left is as dangerous to America as al Qaeda, the radical mullahs in Iran, the jihadist insurgents in Iraq, and the worldwide network of radical Islam? Nowhere do I say this, and I challenge Berkowitz to substantiate his allegation. My point is that the cultural Left, through its well-documented policies and its values projected abroad, is greatly strengthening the position of radical Islam. The two groups, I write, work in a kind of scissors motion, each prong operating separately, but moving toward the common end of defeating Bush’s war in Iraq. Yet Berkowitz accuses me of equating the danger posed by the Left and the Islamic radicals, as if I’m weighing one against the other.

Dinesh somehow has all the worst properties of both Trumpites and NeverTrumpers. He’s both extremely racist and unconcerned with intellectual honesty AND a credential-fetishizing nerd who longs for mainstream validation. A primetime asshole.

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 15, 2018

self-clowning oven

This is actually the correct pronunciation. Most Americans say it wrong. Thailand is pronounced phonetically. It’s “Thighland,” not “Tai-land.” https://t.co/kiQI7FveEM

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 6, 2020