Posted on 09/11/2012 2:26:55 PM PDT by NYer
If you’re not taking flak, you’re not over the target.
Via Hollywood Reporter:
Perhaps the president was hoping 2016: Obama’s America would come and go unnoticed like so many other political documentaries. But seven weeks after its opening, the film is still going strong, promptingBarack Obama to finally respond, which he has done through a lengthy entry at his campaign’s website that calls the movie “a deliberate distortion” of his “record and world view.”
The entry at BarackObama.com quotes from several negative reviews of the film and claims Dinesh D’Souza, who stars in the film based on his book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, has a “long history of attempting to add a veneer of intellectual respectability to fringe theories, conspiratorial fear-mongering and flat-out falsehoods.”
The entry is dated Sept. 5, just ahead of the weekend in which 2016: Obama’s America became the second most popular political documentary in history, behind only Fahrenheit 9/11, and the sixth most popular documentary of any kind. The movie has earned $26 million domestically since opening July 13.
Among the movie’s inaccuracies, according to BarackObama.com, are the following:
“D’Souza falsely claimed that President Obama said he didn’t believe in American Exceptionalism …”
“D’Souza falsely asserted that President Obama funded $2 billion in Brazilian oil exploration even though numerous fact checkers and reporters have noted that President Obama had nothing to do with the loan.”
HT: Drudge
You know, it’d be cool if this flick was #1 today.......
Danger! 911, America, on 9/11.
Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.
- Lois L’Amour
My sister and I went to see it. It certainly is NOT a propaganda, but a true documentary (fine, I admit, I wanted some propaganda, got none and was a little bored at times).
It was nothing but FACTS. Pure and simple facts. Personally, I thought the film gave too much credit towards barry, or were too nice to him, which ticked me off (I believe he deserves NO credit).
We also learned of another barry "mentor". I'm terrible w/ names, but it was some professor who stated he and barry could no longer be in contact because it might ruin his chance at being elected.
I brought this up in another thread, and someone listed barrys 5 "mentors" from the documentary, in which I could not remember this guys name.
If you are out there reading, could you please list them again? Thanks!
Question: Did Bush complain about Michael Moore documentary????
Bump
Barack Obama’s Founding Fathers: Bill Ayers Frank Marshall Davis Edward Said Roberto Unger (Harvard) Jeremiah Wright
Then show us your records, otherwise GTH!
:-)
Moore admitted his was basically false, since things were taken out of context and woven as the truth.
Notice there are no media asking questions, Bush could not even take a walk around te Whiehouse without being ostracized, Obama can say and do anything, no problem.
Moore admitted his was basically false, since things were taken out of context and woven as the truth.
Notice there are no media asking questions, Bush could not even take a walk around te Whiehouse without being ostracized, Obama can say and do anything, no problem.
So, let’s debunk Obama’s quibbles with the movie. I’ll start with the last one, the bank bail-outs, TARP.
Tarp was voted on by the Democrat led Congress, that was joined by a lesser number of Republicans, 171 Democrats plus 91 Republicans. The NYT in 2008, gave the credit to the Pelosi led congress, so I would call it for Obama, although Bush signed it and gave out much of the money.
Another of Obama’s complaints about the film concern Obama’s views on Amercian exceptionalism.
That’s rather easy since Obama is a post modernist, who believes is relativism of just about everything, and considers history to be nothing but a meta narrative that was designed to prop up the oppressors of the world, the western White males.
If Obama thinks that America is exceptional, he believes that it is only because America has exploited and oppressed the minorities of the world. This is what Obama wanted to fundamentally change.
right you are. here’s a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jOmzTLdr_m4 says newsmax turned down his banner ad.........this url seems to need to be copied & pasted...don’t know why
His being PISSED has sure encouraged me and hubby to go see it tomorrow. I was wavering on seeing it, BUT not now. rofl
How about the fairy tale that the Obama campaign and the media spun in 2008?
I fear the movie is just preaching to the choir, as Obama supporters will not bother to see or evaluate anything about his background or motives.
Going to Support the effort.
I have seen the film. I think it is reasonably accurate, though it is done to support Dinesh's theory of President Obama's world view. It uses President Obama's own words (or words that he claims) to support the theory.
I met Dinesh a few years ago. We hit it off, and he impressed me as an honest intellectual. He did not stoop to calling the 911 terrorists "cowards" for example.
I believe that this film is an honest exposition of what he believes President Obama's world view is.
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