A Review Of Dinesh D'Souza's America
This is an excerpt, the full review can be accessed on the above link.
D’Souza examines the philosophies and tactics of counterculture icons Howard Zinn, Bill Ayers, and Saul Alinsky, intellectual foundations for what passes as thought with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He recognizes that they reject America’s founding ideals. The only use they have for them is as an engine for a massive guilt trip. At this point, he fails to take the offensive, and he should have. The question, unfortunately, is never asked: if they propose to tear down those ideals, with what do they propose to replace them? Showing Obama lying repeatedly about health care and dramatizing young Hillary Clinton learning from the master, Saul Alinsky, are good theatre, but amount to preaching to the choir. When that choir leaves the theatre, there is an intellectual battle to be fought, and while D’Souza leaves his audience with renewed appreciation for America’s greatness, he issues little in the way of intellectual ammunition.
D’Souza examines the philosophies and tactics of counterculture icons Howard Zinn, Bill Ayers, and Saul Alinsky, intellectual foundations for what passes as thought with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. He recognizes that they reject America’s founding ideals. The only use they have for them is as an engine for a massive guilt trip. At this point, he fails to take the offensive, and he should have. The question, unfortunately, is never asked: if they propose to tear down those ideals, with what do they propose to replace them? Showing Obama lying repeatedly about health care and dramatizing young Hillary Clinton learning from the master, Saul Alinsky, are good theatre, but amount to preaching to the choir. When that choir leaves the theatre, there is an intellectual battle to be fought, and while D’Souza leaves his audience with renewed appreciation for America’s greatness, he issues little in the way of intellectual ammunition.
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- 1Posted by edweaver 10 years, 6 months agoI have not seen the movie yet so I cannot speak to its contents but I can speculate to his logic. I would expect him to lay it out the facts but allow each individual to use their own intellect to choose a course of action. And it should not take a rocket scientist to determine the correct path once they realize the path we are being taken down. That is assuming they don't agree with the path. With our current education system, I wonder how many think it is the wrong path.Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink|
- 1Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 6 months agoAfter giving us a good pep talk, he is expecting us to galvanize into a counterrevolution against the Alinksyites.Mark as read | Best of... | Permalink|