Posted on 08/21/2012 12:08:47 PM PDT by jazusamo
Years, and sometimes decades, pass between my visits to movie theaters. But I drove 30 miles to see the movie "2016," based on Dinesh D'Souza's best-selling book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." Where I live is so politically correct that such a movie would not even be mentioned, much less shown.
Every seat in the theater was filled, even though there had been an earlier showing that day, and more showings were scheduled for the rest of the afternoon and evening. I had to sit on a staircase in the balcony, but it was worth it.
The audience was riveted. You could barely hear a sound from them, or detect a movement, and certainly not smell popcorn. Yet the movie had no bombast, no violence, no sex and no spectacular visual effects.
The documentary itself was fascinating, as Dinesh D'Souza presented the story of Barack Obama's life and view of the world, in a very conversational sort of way, illustrating it with visits to people and places around the world that played a role in the way Obama's ideas and beliefs evolved.
It was refreshing to see how addressing adults as adults could be effective, in an age when so many parts of the media address the public as if they were children who need a constant whirlwind of sounds and movements to keep them interested.
Dinesh D'Souza's own perspective, as someone born in India who came to America and became an American, provided a special insight into the way people from the Third World often perceive or misperceive the United States and the Western world.
That Third World perspective is Obama's perspective, D'Souza demonstrates in this documentary, as in his book — and it is a perspective that is very foreign to that of most Americans,..
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Thanks much for linking that, gaijin!
the author of the movie is on the Mark Levin show at the bottom of the hour
Sorry, you may be a truthteller but Thomas Sowell’s reputation is what I’ll go with and if he says powerful, it’s powerful.
Thanks for the heads up, ag!
we’re freepers, we do that.....lol
Thanks again, that was well worth listening to.
I especially liked his take on America being a special country and Obama wanting to change that. Not only redistributing the wealth but giving our prestige (so to speak) away.
thumbs high
bump for later read
Given that Democracy is mob rule it looks to me like Islam is compatible with it.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Hubby and I drove 60 miles one way to see this movie today. It was excellent and Mr. D’Souza did not just “trashtalk” Obama (like I would have). He explained where Obama got his skewed worldview and why he is obsessed to impose his father’s dreams on the rest of us “colonialists”.
I wish all young people would see this movie.
Thanks WL, am looking forward to seeing it.
Anyone in SoCal going to see it at the Mills in Ontario?
Interesting, and thanks for the insight.
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