Friday, October 26, 2012

Dinesh D'Souza's D'vorce

 Good-looking swinger Dinesh D'Souza.

Dinesh D'Souza doesn't understand why Christians think he should be divorced from his first wife before getting engaged to his new fiancee and sharing a motel room with her. He's quoted in Wikipedia saying:
"I had no idea that it is considered wrong in Christian circles to be engaged prior to being divorced, even though in a state of separation and in divorce proceedings. Obviously I would not have introduced Denise as my fiancée at a Christian apologetics conference if I had thought or known I was doing something wrong."
It turns out that he didn't file for divorce from his wife until days after he was caught in a Comfort Inn love nest with his "fiancee", Denise Odie Joseph, right-wing blogger/groupie.

Does he just have a difference of opinion with other Christians? Is he gearing up for a Mormon presidency? Or does he hate Christianity as he accuses Obama of doing. Could it be that the devout Christian D'Souza was projecting his own secret but deep-seated hatred of Christianity onto Obama?

D'Souza was forced out of his job as president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City.

Dinesh got his langoti in a bunch over the article in World, a Christian magazine, which broke the story. It reported that he had admitted that he had shared a motel room with his "fiancee" but that "nothing happened".

He later denied that he said it. But when a reporter from Christianity Today asked D'Souza if he was having an affair with her, he replied, “It's absolutely not the case, um, that, um, that, um, um, you know, it's.... Look, the issue here is that World is attributing to me an admission that I never made—is attributing to me a quotation that I never said.”

D'Souza claimed that he'd known Joseph less than three months.

From The Daily Beast:
It remained unclear late Wednesday whether D’Souza was telling the truth about the timing of his acquaintance with Joseph, whom former students and staff members told The Daily Beast has been seen around the King’s campus for months. Screen shots of Joseph’s now-deactivated website obtained by The Daily Beast show she was writing glowing posts about D’Souza as far back as April, referring to him as a “famed conservative blogger” and one of “our favorites.” A section of the site offering “recommended reading” featured D’Souza first on the list, along with a gushing paean. “When this man passes, the world and the West will have lost an intellectual giant,” Joseph wrote.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/dinesh-d-souza-goes-on-counterattack-over-alleged-affair.html

Apparently The King's College, Christian as it is, is not the right-wing institution D'Souza imagines. Again from The Daily Beast:
D’Souza’s conflict within the college recently surfaced in a small flap over his comments in an interview with The New York Times’ Stanley Fish. Defending the school’s reputation against charges that it teaches Creationism, D’Souza said, “We don’t teach Christian doctrine.” He also emphasized his view of the school as a right-wing training ground: “Our students are not being prepared to enter seminaries, but to go to Goldman Sachs and Capitol Hill and Shanghai, where, from a liberal point of view, they will be even more dangerous.” The comments caused controversy at King’s when they were reported by the student newspaper.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/16/dinesh-d-souza-fianc-e-scandal-rocks-the-king-s-college.html

And another quote from The Daily Beast about D'Souza's book, based on his movie, attacking Obama's mother:
D’Souza argues that part of the reason Ann Dunham [Obama's mother] sent Obama to live with her parents in Hawaii was so she could pursue affairs with Indonesian men. “Ann’s sexual adventuring may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that she was a large woman who kept getting larger,” he writes. On the next page, he continues, “Learning about Ann’s sexual adventures in Indonesia, I realized how wrong I had been to consider Barack Obama Sr. the playboy … Ann … was the real playgirl, and despite all her reservations about power, she was using her American background and economic and social power to purchase the romantic attention of third-world men.”
There is no evidence for any of this—D’Souza mentions the name of exactly one man who Dunham had a relationship with after her divorce. Even if it was true, however, it’s hard to see how it’s relevant to Obama’s supposed taste for subversion, since as D’Souza himself points out, Obama wasn’t living in Indonesia at the time. The chapter is simply an expression of glandular-level contempt. It shows that a writer once considered a legitimate conservative intellectual has been reduced to sputtering “yo mama” at our president.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/28/with-dreams-from-my-real-father-have-obama-haters-hit-rock-bottom.html

Is D'Souza projecting again? The movie resorts to Freudian psychology to accuse Obama of modelling himself after his father with whom he had no contact. He claims that the fact that he had no contact with his father made him even more likely to model himself after him. Is this because D'Souza recognized his own deep-seated psychological problems? Was his baseless attack on Obama's mother an attack on his own mother, or was he revealing suspicions about his wife of twenty years from whom he claimed to have been separated? When he says he realized he was wrong to "consider Barack Obama Sr. the playboy", was he arguing his own innocence, trying to justify his own outrages against Christian morality?

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