Yesterday: what a lovely day in the city....the Union Square green market, Whole Foods, shopping, shopping, shopping....
...and we had the extreme pleasure of viewing Dinesh DSouzas new film, "America: Imagine the World Without Her."
1. Talk about deja vu!
It was the big screen version of another day at the USMB!
On the one side was the slanders of Howard Zinn and all the other America-haters, and then the answers, provided by D'Souza to all the lies and inaccuracies of the Left.
The Left: the film noire version of politics.
2. He begins by giving the Left's slanders of America... of Indian genocide, theft of Mexico's 'lost provinces,' slavery, America as an imperialist nation. And he doesn't pull any punches: he provides their side fully and allows spokespersons such as Eric Michael Dyson, Bill Ayers, Ward Churchill, and others, full latitude.
Our board Leftists would have been smiling and nodding! I could just about hear the "atta boys"!
3. But he then inserts all that they leave out, and corrects the fabrications. Four or five times I could feel a tear beginning to form.
We hear from Alexis deTocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, as well as contemporary scholars.
a. Actual footage of Saul Alinsky provides his insights....we should learn from same.
4. "Despite being panned by critics film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the movie with a 26 percent rating the movie's audience has given the movie a 73 percent approval rating..... "although a good chunk of it features progressives spewing out hate for their country in their own words, the film does a decent job of debunking the narrative that some surprisingly hold that the U.S. is historically and currently a force of evil across the world.
5. .... his argument that both Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were influenced by the academic Saul Alinsky and consequently want to turn the United States into a socialist country...."
D'Souza's 'America' Makes $2 Million Over Fourth of July Weekend
6. "Dinesh DSouza, the controversial social commentator who shook up Hollywood with the $33 million earned by the theatrical release of his Obama 2016, is back with a more polished and more powerful message.... if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.
7..... DSouza tackles Americas greatest sins: its treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the transfer of half of Mexico to the U.S. after the Mexican War of 1848, and its supposed colonialist behavior. Consider his treatment of those subjects as his direct rebuttal to the works of radical historian Howard Zinn, whose textbooks treating Americas history as one of ceaseless oppression dominate many American high schools and colleges."
D?Souza?s America | National Review Online
8. Not everyone found it so:
"DSouza cannot help himself. Hes discovered a way to get rich hurling red meat Obama-baiting to an audience that cannot get enough of that. So he abandons any pretense of making a movie about how this country should have a more vigorous debate about its image, its principles and just what the truth is about its history." Movie Review: Dinesh D?Souza tells ?America? what?s wrong with it, again | Movie Nation
9. The audience applauded at its conclusion.
10. My fondest wish....perhaps fantasy...would be that every government school that showed Al Gore's polemic would feel obliged to show this rebuttal of the lies that school children are forced to learn today.
But....the reality is that the number one endeavor of the Left is to silence opposition voices, not debate them.
If I had to sum up the entire epic, it would be found in the words of Abraham Lincoln's prescient prediction:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
I hope that even our Leftist pals will be curious enough to go see it....even if they feel it necessary to go in disguise.
...and we had the extreme pleasure of viewing Dinesh DSouzas new film, "America: Imagine the World Without Her."
1. Talk about deja vu!
It was the big screen version of another day at the USMB!
On the one side was the slanders of Howard Zinn and all the other America-haters, and then the answers, provided by D'Souza to all the lies and inaccuracies of the Left.
The Left: the film noire version of politics.
2. He begins by giving the Left's slanders of America... of Indian genocide, theft of Mexico's 'lost provinces,' slavery, America as an imperialist nation. And he doesn't pull any punches: he provides their side fully and allows spokespersons such as Eric Michael Dyson, Bill Ayers, Ward Churchill, and others, full latitude.
Our board Leftists would have been smiling and nodding! I could just about hear the "atta boys"!
3. But he then inserts all that they leave out, and corrects the fabrications. Four or five times I could feel a tear beginning to form.
We hear from Alexis deTocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, as well as contemporary scholars.
a. Actual footage of Saul Alinsky provides his insights....we should learn from same.
4. "Despite being panned by critics film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes currently lists the movie with a 26 percent rating the movie's audience has given the movie a 73 percent approval rating..... "although a good chunk of it features progressives spewing out hate for their country in their own words, the film does a decent job of debunking the narrative that some surprisingly hold that the U.S. is historically and currently a force of evil across the world.
5. .... his argument that both Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama were influenced by the academic Saul Alinsky and consequently want to turn the United States into a socialist country...."
D'Souza's 'America' Makes $2 Million Over Fourth of July Weekend
6. "Dinesh DSouza, the controversial social commentator who shook up Hollywood with the $33 million earned by the theatrical release of his Obama 2016, is back with a more polished and more powerful message.... if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.
7..... DSouza tackles Americas greatest sins: its treatment of Native Americans, slavery, the transfer of half of Mexico to the U.S. after the Mexican War of 1848, and its supposed colonialist behavior. Consider his treatment of those subjects as his direct rebuttal to the works of radical historian Howard Zinn, whose textbooks treating Americas history as one of ceaseless oppression dominate many American high schools and colleges."
D?Souza?s America | National Review Online
8. Not everyone found it so:
"DSouza cannot help himself. Hes discovered a way to get rich hurling red meat Obama-baiting to an audience that cannot get enough of that. So he abandons any pretense of making a movie about how this country should have a more vigorous debate about its image, its principles and just what the truth is about its history." Movie Review: Dinesh D?Souza tells ?America? what?s wrong with it, again | Movie Nation
9. The audience applauded at its conclusion.
10. My fondest wish....perhaps fantasy...would be that every government school that showed Al Gore's polemic would feel obliged to show this rebuttal of the lies that school children are forced to learn today.
But....the reality is that the number one endeavor of the Left is to silence opposition voices, not debate them.
If I had to sum up the entire epic, it would be found in the words of Abraham Lincoln's prescient prediction:
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
I hope that even our Leftist pals will be curious enough to go see it....even if they feel it necessary to go in disguise.
