The Three Stooges do Joe McCarthy

by: Paul Rosenberg

Mon Sep 13, 2010 at 13:30

Objectively Pro-Taliban

by digby

There's been a lot of chatter this morning about Newtie's comments touting Dinesh D'Souza's absurd new book, The Roots of Obama's Rage setting forth the idea that Obama inherited some sort of African Colonial philosophy from the father he never knew. (It's in the blood dontcha know.) I know this has absolutely nothing to do with race on Newtie's part because racism in America is dead and Republicans would never try to exploit it anyway, certainly not by promoting the idea that that Obama is a primitive angry black man. He's just being his usual "intellectual" self, giving us all (poison) food for thought, sort of like when he blamed liberals for Susan Smith drowning her children.

And yes, that does make me want to do yet another post on Newtie's neo-KKK proclivities, but it's not my idea of comic relief.  That comes a little farther down where digby quotes from the Booklist review of  D'Souza's earlier book.  She writes:

He's the author of the book The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11 described by Booklist this way:

D'Souza once again turns his eye for social criticism to liberals, this time asserting their responsibility for the rise of anti-Americanism abroad and perhaps even the terrorist attacks of 9/11. The cultural Left in the U.S., by pressing for sexual freedom for women and gays through birth control, no-fault divorce, and support for gay marriage, has not only undermined American culture but also provoked the ire of religious conservatives in other nations, most prominently Islamic fundamentalists. Contrary to President Bush's assertions that terrorists and their supporters hate American freedom, D'Souza asserts that what they really hate is our licentious culture. He notes that American conservatives have more in common with Islamic Fundamentalists than with American liberals.

Whaaaa?  "American conservatives have more in common with Islamic Fundamentalists than with American liberals."  Hey, isn't that pretty much the very same thesis that Markos has which is causing conservatives all across the land to label him a hater and all the gentlefolk in Versailles to roll their eyes like like a pair of dice in the Paradise Inn at 4 AM in the morning?

As Sarah Palin would say, "You betcha!"

And the Publishers Weekly review is even more to the point:

Conservative pundit D'Souza (Illiberal Education) roots the blame for the 9/11 attacks in the left wing's "aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family" in this mostly lucid but unconvincing argument. Pointing to Hillary Clinton, [inarticulate Bush supporter] Britney Spears and [closet Britney fan?] Noam Chomsky, he decries those who have teamed up with Hollywood and the U.N. to foist an irreligious, sexually licentious, antifamily liberal culture-epitomized by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and gay marriage initiatives-on a Muslim world that rightly reviles it. By deliberately attacking Islamic values, the left tacitly allies itself with al- Qaeda in its effort to defeat Bush's war on terror and thus discredit conservatism at home [???], he asserts. But D'Souza's claim that Islamic extremists are inflamed solely by America's music videos and feminists-not its U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or American support for Muslim dictators-is too single-minded. For example, he paints Abu Ghraib poster-girl Lynndie England as the personification of liberal sexual depravity, without acknowledging that the U.S. Army sent her to Iraq, not the left. Charging that liberals aid terrorists while sympathizing with the terrorists' culturally conservative worldview, D'Souza's critique of American cultural excess trips over its own inconsistencies.

Jeeze "mostly lucid"??? If that's "mostly lucid", I don't think we really need any gibberish to fulfill our minimum daily requirement for like the next ten years.

Back in the old days, it was so simple:  Liberals were more like socialists than conservatives were.  And socialists were sort of like Communists without the tanks, nukes or Gulags. Ergo, liberals were all secret Commies at heart.  It's nice, neat and simple.  No fuss, no muss.  Nowadays, not so much.  But this is ridiculous!

No wonder they decided to go with this whole "secret Muslim" thing.  It's much less complicated and free from all the booby traps that "Booby"  D'Souza keeps falling into every time he turns around.