Highbrow birtherism: D’Souza links Obama policies to “the ideology of a Luo tribesman”
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 1st, 2010 4:50 am by HL
Highbrow birtherism: D’Souza links Obama policies to “the ideology of a Luo tribesman”
Dinesh D’Souza appeared on Fox News’ Glenn Beck to discuss how his “anti-colonialist” theory explains the motivations behind President Obama’s policy decisions. While doing so, D’Souza invented some facts and mangled others in order to peddle the ridiculous notion that President Obama is “a captive of the ideology of a Luo tribesman from the 1950s.”
D’Souza’s highbrow birtherism attributes Obama’s policy decisions to his African heritage
D’Souza: Obama is “a captive of the ideology of a Luo tribesman from the 1950s.” On the September 30 edition of Glenn Beck, after making a variety of false, misleading, or bizarre assertions about President Obama, D’Souza claimed:
Obama is not anti-American in that he wishes ill on America. He wants what’s best for America. He thinks it’s really bad for us to be a colonial power. And therefore, in his view, he is doing right for America by pulling us out, by knocking us off our pedestal, by in a sense taking us from being the world’s arrogant superpower. He wants us to share the wealth. He thinks he’s gonna get a better America. The problem is, he’s stuck in this theory, he’s frozen in this time machine. In a sense, he’s a captive of the ideology of a Luo tribesman from the 1950s. It’s an incredible idea.
D’Souza myth: Obama returned Churchill bust to Britain to lash out at Chuchill’s colonial policies
D’Souza Claim: Obama returned Churchill bust due to hatred of Churchill’s colonialist policies. D’Souza claimed that Obama’s “anti-colonialism explains” the return of a bust of Winston Churchill to the British government when Obama took office “very well,” saying that Obama had returned the bust because of his opposition to Churchill’s colonialist actions during his tenure as prime minister.
D’Souza said that the torture of Obama’s grandfather and arrest of his father during the British response to the memorandum issued by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to the director of the Minerals Management Service said that in the wake of “the recent blow-out and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico,” “I find at this time and under current conditions that offshore drilling of new deepwater wells poses an unacceptable threat of serious and irreparable harm to wildlife and the marine, coastal, and human environment” and that “[t]herefore, I am directing a six month suspension of all pending, current, or approved offshore drilling operations of new deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific regions.”
A June 16 Washington Post article explained that “the same tiny Texas subcontractor” authored the Gulf spill response plans for BP, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Shell Oil, and ExxonMobil, The same article also indicated that those companies “listed the phone number for the same University of Miami marine science expert, Peter Lutz, who died in 2005” in their spill response plans.
