Dinesh D’Souza’s “2016" Feature-length Obama hate film funded by rich conservatives

[Douglas Carpenter]

Arriving this summer in a theater near you: Dinesh D'Souza's anti-Obama documentary, funded by rich conservatives

article from salon.com by Mariah Blake

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/06/dinesh_dsouzas_2016_feature_length_obama_hate/

With the campaign season kicking into high gear, D’Souza is hoping to see the pattern repeated. The flame-throwing pundit has just finished a feature-length documentary, called “2016: Obama’s America,” which will debut in Houston next week and open in roughly 300 theaters across the country later this month. The film — the most recent in a string of mud-slinging election-year releases — revisits the arguments in “Roots,” namely that America is being governed according to a vision dreamed up by Obama’s father, a “philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions.”

But the film doesn’t just rehash old ideas. D’Souza says it also works in new revelations about Obama’s politics and history, and takes aim at his own critics. More importantly, it rounds out D’Souza’s theory with a raft of grim predictions about what will happen if Obama is re-elected. “If we understand Obama’s compass, we can project what a second Obama term might look like,” D’Souza explains. “Every president is a little different in the second term — they’re less tethered to public opinion and more concerned with what they actually want to do.” In Obama’s case, this means more freedom to pursue his anticolonial goals.

While the film itself was not yet available when this story went to press, the trailer resembles a cross between a high-budget feature and standard Tea Party agitprop. Grainy images of Obama are interspersed with fading “Hope” posters and shots of rioters and garbage-strewn third-world villages. At one point, a young black man in jeans and tennis shoes is show crouched over Barack Obama Sr.’s grave. ”Obama has a dream, a dream from his father,” the narrator intones, “that the sins of colonialism be set right and America be downsized.”

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/06/dinesh_dsouzas_2016_feature_length_obama_hate/

youtube: trailer for 2016

[immoderate]

1. This may rival "Atlas Shrugged."

I am disappointed that Dinesh's ringing soprano is not heard.

--imm

[longship]

2. Creationist douche bag!

Fucking lying ass hole, too.

[RockaFowler]

3. What the heck was that??

[Bigredhunk]

4. In Too Late

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This turd is opening at almost every theater around me in Eastern IA this Friday. I don't know if the moronic billionaires behind this crap pay a lot of money to get the movies into theaters or what. I remember Moore's last movie didn't play at the local AMC. It only played at the local indie theater. But every turd the right puts out comes to the local AMC (and most of the other big theaters). They get all the lame christian movies too. The last christian one (about abortion, starring John Schneider) bombed.

I'm sure this will be another bomb like:

atlas shrugged (11% on RT - total bomb)
the undefeated (0% on RT - total bomb)
i want your money (0% on RT - total bomb)
etc....

These always open inexplicably around here. You don't hear anything about them. Then you're checking movie times, and you see 12 normal movies and some weirdo movie. Invariably, they're either gone from the theater by the following Friday...-or-...they're down to 2 showtimes by the following Friday and are gone by the next Friday. They do try though. I remember reading this article in the Chicago Sun-Times re: atlas shrugged movie...stating that it sounded like it was going to be a smash hit. They couldn't keep up with demand. It lasted about 2 seconds in theaters and bombed financially. Someone must've paid to get the shill story published.

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/movies/4935704-421/gold-from-ayns-vault.html

Anyway, they must have their trolls out. RT is usual full of libs, as movie fans tend to be. But there are many comments under the 3 reviews this turd currently has there, and they're overwhelmingly teahadist.

[Katashi_itto]

6. As a filmmaker I would call it a vanity piece, The backers get to say they are both in

"Movie Business" and then say they had political importance. Plus its a great tax write off. No down side here on that end. In the right wing echo chamber Fox and other crap organizations like it now can reference this "documentary" for their own talking points. It won't make a dime, and will go the way of "The Undefeated"

[Heather MC]

5. I don't get it?

A trailer is suppose to intice you to want to see the whole movie. That trailer made no sense, I saw a black family fighting over a monoply game, that's nothing new My brothers and i did that all the time. Then there were people standing outside in the cold drinking hot coffee, so there will still be coffee in 2016, GREAT!!

Future is looking good families will still have Monoply and Coffee will be in abundance yeah Obama!