Writing in Forbes magazine, hardscrabble investigative reporter Dinesh D'Souza has presented America with some startling facts: Barack Obama is ruining America in order to realize the socialist, anti-colonialist dreams of his drunk-driving, wife-beating polygamist African dad, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. Having read D'Souza's article on the Internet while taking a break from browsing Match.com for "new young women without cancer," historian/journalist Newt Gingrich deemed D'Souza's nonsense the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.” Gingrich asks a Serious Follow-up Question: is Obama "so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?”
This type of out-of-the-air analysis works in reverse. (Or on other presidents, as mrbilfl already noted.)
Gingrich's failure to impeach -- and symbolically castrate -- his chief political opponent (Bill Clinton) in the 1990s has manifested itself as a functional insanity with regard to the current president.
Ronald Reagan's inability to win or succeed top film roles led him into a delusional fantasy that he could portray a President of the United States. He was authentically dishonest.
Dinesh D'Souza's early life in India and migration to the U.S. have created a fundamental dichotomy in his pysche which can only be resolved through hyper-identification with idealized American values. As a result, he is of neither world and is consequently insane.
<a href="http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/09\/quote-7.html" target="_blank">Sullivan</a> is having a field day with this kraziness.
All anti-colonialism is not the same. The relevant variables are the racial-ethnic character of the colonized country, the racial-ethnic character of the colonial power, and the politics involved.
American Revolution anti-colonialism? Totally cool. Mexican Revolution anti-colonialism? Yeah, okay. Kenyan anti-colonialism? You gotta be kidding me. C&#039;mon. Kenyans? Luo tribesmen?
This type of out-of-the-air analysis works in reverse. (Or on other presidents, as mrbilfl already noted.)
Gingrich&#039;s failure to impeach -- and symbolically castrate -- his chief political opponent (Bill Clinton) in the 1990s has manifested itself as a functional insanity with regard to the current president.
Ronald Reagan&#039;s inability to win or succeed top film roles led him into a delusional fantasy that he could portray a President of the United States. He was authentically dishonest.
Dinesh D&#039;Souza&#039;s early life in India and migration to the U.S. have created a fundamental dichotomy in his pysche which can only be resolved through hyper-identification with idealized American values. As a result, he is of neither world and is consequently insane.
&quot;Authentically dishonest.&quot;
Let that sink in for a minute.
Sounds like Gingrich is mad that Obama turned down a shared hot tub invitation. Bitchiness is SO unbecoming, Newt.
<a href="http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/09\/quote-7.html" target="_blank">Sullivan</a> is having a field day with this kraziness.
Newt Gingrich was born Newton Leroy McPherson.
i think that&#039;s about all that needs to be said.
All anti-colonialism is not the same. The relevant variables are the racial-ethnic character of the colonized country, the racial-ethnic character of the colonial power, and the politics involved.
American Revolution anti-colonialism? Totally cool. Mexican Revolution anti-colonialism? Yeah, okay. Kenyan anti-colonialism? You gotta be kidding me. C&#039;mon. Kenyans? Luo tribesmen?