The Professor Has An Epiphany
by digby
The other day I wrote that it wouldn’t matter if the traditional conservative intelligentsia rejected Dinesh D’Souza’s insane, racist “Obama is an African revolutionary” thesis because the far right has it’s own “professor” Glenn Beck and if he endorsed it, it would gain traction. Well, he’s almost foaming at the mouth he’s so excited about it.
Media Matters culled the following quotes from his show today:
D’Souza: Obama “did not set foot” on the mainland until he was 17; He’s “unknown” and not an “all-American” guy
Beck: D’Souza’s article on Obama isn’t “theory,” “it’s just fact”
Beck adds, “You don’t reject the name Barry and go for Barack as a way to embrace the culture that you’re in. That’s not embracing America”D’Souza: Obama has sold to the American people a “foreign, strange ideology” from his “Luo tribesman” father
D’Souza: Obama’s “rage” is rooted in his “personal history” and comparable to “the guy in the Schwarzenegger movie” who wants revenge
I had a feeling that this Angry African nonsense was going to appeal to Beck. (I’m sure Limbaugh will be on it as well, as soon as he’s done wanking himself unconscious over Christine O’Donnell.) It’s a beautiful dogwhistle, containing all their primitive fear and loathing toward blacks without ever having to evoke the unpleasantness over American slavery and Jim Crow. D’Souza has delivered.
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