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
That would be sweet!
To me, that was the line of the movie!
I have heard similar from others on this thread. I think I will find time to see it, perhaps on DVD. I’ll give the movie a chance.
I’d recommend seeing “Dreams From My Real Father” instead - MUCH better documentary and is more important because it explains WHY Obama thinks like he does. Preaching to the choir here but still very much worth a watch.
He’s right it wasn’t a $2 Billion loan to PetroBras it was closer to $10 Billion for Soros’ campaign donation.
Pray for America
Thank you. Saving this one so I don’t have to ask.....again!
=)
ditto!
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