Posted on 08/28/2012 9:04:54 AM PDT by Buck-I-Guy
WASHINGTON (AP) — ‘‘2016: Obama’s America,’’ a new conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama’s political views, took in $6.2 million to make it one of the highest-grossing movies of last weekend. The film, written and narrated by conservative scholar Dinesh D'Souza, argues that Obama was heavily influenced by what D'Souza calls the ‘‘anti-colonial’’ beliefs of his father, Barack Obama Sr., a Kenyan academic who was largely absent from the president’s life.
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The AP and the Boston Globe - now there are two highly reliable sources. ROFLMAO
A new list of Fact Checks just in:
1) Obama had his Birth Certificate forged on Feb. 3, not Feb.
2) Obama fraudulently used the SS# of John Daniels. Not John Smith, when forging his SS Card in 1980.
3) Obama’s draft card was doctored in 1978 not 1979
4) To obtain the finishing touches on the anti american communist indoctrination he visited Frank Marshall Davis as a child on Mondays and Wednesday. Not Thursday and Saturday.
You see, everything about the film is a lie.
I didn’t think the story about the removal of the bust of Churchill from the oval office was stupid. I thought the action of returning it simultaneously with assuming the Presidency was unbelievably rude and ignorant. Americans expect better public and private behavior from the leader of their republic. Can you imagine any other US president doing something that hateful and arrogant? The story was very telling.
AP has a notorious history of slanting stories to propagandize for the Democrat Party. That they want to criticize anyone else’s accuracy is hypocritical in the extreme
I Googled the author: prior to AP, she worked for CNN.
Credibility at risk? Nat.
Therefore some of them.... Of course the writer doesn't list any of these.
Beth Fuoy a deep thinker...NOT. She doesn’t think the absent Barack Obama Sr. had any influence on little Barry Soetero? When I watched the film I got the immediate impression that Barry’s mamma used to pump his head full of glorious bed time stories about the wonderful Barack Sr. I also got the feeling that when Barry lived in Indonesia his new adopted father didn’t really have any time for Barry and in fact the disagreements they had lead to his deportation back to Hawaii to live with the grandparents.
Yes, Obama was rude and a host of other invectives...but what was stupid - and I stand by this opinion - was the articles about this that did not give the full story. Like I said, we have so much ammo on ODumbo, we don’t need to withhold information to make stories “better.”
"But it’s difficult to see how Obama’s political leanings could have been so directly shaped by his father, as D'Souza claims. The elder Obama left his wife and young son, the future president, when Obama was 2 and visited his son only once, when Obama was 10."
Misleading by saying that Mr. D'souza said that Obama was directly shaped by his father. Directly as in person-to-person? I cannot imagine Mr. D'Souza said person-to-person.
The newspaper's dabbler is clueless. Obama is a biological and ideological product of ultra leftists and his absent father certainly leaned Marxist. His mentor was a wallah in the CP/USA. As a youth Obama could have viewed his Marxist leaning father as a heroic and powerful man in far off Kenya. Obama's political leanings certainly were influenced by an ideology embraced by both his mother and his father and he certainly admired his father and his mentor.
The dabbler speculates to refute: "D'Souza seems to suggest . . . ."
The dabbler presents her "well-researched" and most powerful proof against D'Souza's facts: "Many of them don’t hold water."
The Afghan war goes on and our military continues to kill the enemy the only way a president can stop it is by ordering the military to stand down -- the Obama Administration meanwhile is willing to work with the Taliban and pack up and leave on a scheduled date. I believe those are facts.
Diplomatically vis-a-vis the Falkland Islands. Where's proof that Obama backed 100% the U.S. refusal in April to endorse a final declaration on Argentina’s claim to the islands? Sometimes even a president must do what he personally opposes.
D'Souza knows about the trade and economic sanctions against Iran so was the "Obama has done nothing" about Iran really what D'Souza charged? Even the newspaper employee typed in "Obama opposes a near-term military strike on Iran, either by the U.S. or Israel, although he says the U.S. will never tolerate a nuclear-armed Iran." Seems Obama is a bit bifurcated. So how can D'Souza be totally wrong?
The dabbler never mentioned the British Embassy clarification about the Prime Minister Winston Churchill bust.
The article is a bust that is certainly welcomed in the Oval Office.
Perhaps because the debt under Bush was dwarfed by Obama's?
Perhaps because for 7 1/2 years of Bush's tenure we had great prosperity despite 2 wars and meanwhile Obama heads an economy with unemployment consistently over 8%?
IDIOT journalists.
It was considered “tasteless” to dredge up the fact that Obama confessed to eating dog meat as well.
She runs cover for Bobo re: Catholic issues -- contraception, Notre Dame, etc. And not very well at all.
Obama is Kenyan muddy on his whole sorry life.
Then it's Fair and Balanced.
For the PRO-O films are also muddy.
Just how much of a role "anti-colonialism" played in the lives of father and son is a matter of interpretation, but calling an attack piece "fact checking" implies that the "fact checkers" are doing something more than pitting their opinions and interpretations against other opinions and interpretations.
"Fact checking" allows propagandists to get on their high horse and turn differences of opinion into ethical violations.
That said, I think D'Souza is on the wrong track, and if he really claims without evidence that Obama was preoccupied with the problems of native Hawaiians in his younger days or "coached" in "oppression studies" at Punahou, it does work against his thesis.
There are a lot of "of course" assumptions that people don't question. It's not hard for a reporter to nail these things down if he does his homework, not doing so cuts into a writer's credibility.
Did any liberals care about fact checking Farenheit 911??
The information in this film is very acurate, except it doesn’t go far enough. It’s been well established that all
of Obama’s influences including his grandparents were of
a socialist nature.
Or that the "academic" was allowed by Hahvuhd to mail it in from Kenya to get his Ph.D., after he was kicked from the country and from the free-lunch study program he was on, for getting yet another young white girl pregnant, this one an underage teen (as in, "statutory rape").
The guy was scum, a Mau-Mau, and a lounge lizard.
It's said that he and his diving-buddy Rahm Emanuel frequently were, in the big limousines that came and went from Man's Country.
Save for later posting at local town’s forum.
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