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Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 05:52 AM Aug 2016

feel good time...review of Danesh D'souza's hit piece doc of HRC:

Just over a year ago, not long after being released from the confinement center where he spent an eight-month sentence, author, filmmaker and convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza took to Twitter to offer up his followers a photograph that purported to show a young Hillary Clinton with a Confederate flag prominently displayed behind her. Even a glaucoma victim could tell that it was a fake—a doctored version of a photo of her as a student as Wellesley in 1969 that ran in Life magazine—but somehow this managed to get by him. When he did eventually post a vague correction, he instead advised his followers to make fun of her glasses and hairdo, neither of which appear to be especially outrageous for a Wellesley student in the late ‘60s. Now imagine that photograph—dubiously sourced, factually questionable and suffused with nasty personal cracks instead of any legitimate insight or criticism—and you have D’Souza’s latest film, “Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party,” a work that almost makes his previous cinematic efforts, “2016: Obama’s America” and “America” seem lucid and well-reasoned by comparison. Little more than an extended version of the kind of political screeds that can be found online with only a minimum of effort, this is just a terrible movie, and, depending on the conditions that were set forth, there is a chance it could be considered a parole violation as well.


If you think I'm being gratuitously mean (or giving up a spoiler) by referring to D’Souza as a convicted felon, then you should know that the movie actually opens with him being sentenced to eight months in a halfway house, community service and a $30,000 fine for committing a campaign-finance violation involving getting straw donors to contribute to the campaign of a friend running for the U.S. Senate. According to the film, D’Souza is really being convicted for the crime of having made a movie that dared to expose Obama as a lying, cheating monster hellbent on destroying America. While in the stir—in which he seems to be the only one not convicted of a violent crime—he asks around about the big gangs and how they consolidate their power. After getting a primer from fellow inmate Roc, it dawns on him that what he is hearing is oddly familiar. “What if the goal of the Democratic Party is to steal the most valuable thing this world ever produced?” You know, America!


ahhhhhh, what a clean, refreshing feeling!

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/hillarys-america-the-secret-history-of-the-democratic-party-2016

edit to add this' from link:

“Hillary’s America” may well be the single dumbest documentary that I have ever seen in my life—nearly two hours of poisonous bluster and anti-historical rhetoric that comes across like the desperate ravings of someone trying to make a few more bucks by rehashing the same nonsense before his gravy train finally leaves town.
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Egnever

(21,506 posts)
3. Bahahah!
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 06:05 AM
Aug 2016
Hillary’s America” may well be the single dumbest documentary that I have ever seen in my life—nearly two hours of poisonous bluster and anti-historical rhetoric that comes across like the desperate ravings of someone trying to make a few more bucks by rehashing the same nonsense before his gravy train finally leaves town



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Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)
4. over 400 comments, too, which show a typical contrast between reality based life forms and
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 06:11 AM
Aug 2016

the feebs, who, for example, deny climate change, as represented therein

worth reading a few, for extended yolks

Javaman

(62,530 posts)
6. D’Souza is the tRump of filmmaking.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 09:47 AM
Aug 2016

D’Souza knows it's unmitigated bullshit, but that doesn't stop him from feeding it to the gop mouth breathing base as their daily portion of pig slop. And those mouth breathing rubes? they gobble it up as if it's some later day Citizen Cane and D’Souza; the Orsen Wells of the right wing.

dembotoz

(16,805 posts)
7. this piece of trash was given a bunch a screening in my gop county
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:18 AM
Aug 2016

whole bunch of showings at the two theaters in the county.....

hope marcus lost their ass on the showings

Raster

(20,998 posts)
9. an old work acquaintance was crowing on FB at how he and his missus were invited...
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 10:26 AM
Aug 2016

...to the "exclusive" cast and crew premier party... The stupid is strong in Texas.

UTUSN

(70,695 posts)
10. Priceless last sentence: He "admonishes people to ... vote. Okay, *he* can't" (convicted felon)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 11:19 AM
Aug 2016

From "Blinded by the Right" by David BROCK (Hillary's original persecutor who rehabilitated), D'SOUZA was one of Laura INGRAHAM's college boyfriends (yuck, both ways) and the two of them posted flyers around campus outing Gay students. Other tidbits: INGRAHAM crawling on all fours across barroom floors; pointing a loaded weapon at a boyfriend who dumped her; plotting media career by auditioning in revealing tiger stripes or somesuch; COULTERgeist subsisting on wine and cigs; INGRAHAM dishing on the kinks of LIMBOsevic and other wingnut fatcats; DRUDGE courting BROCK with flowers.

klook

(12,155 posts)
12. OMG, I need a brainwash now
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:08 PM
Aug 2016

Those hideous mental images of Laura Ingraham, the right-wing barroom queen...Drudge courting Brock with flowers... hilarious and horrifying -- must unthink...

UTUSN

(70,695 posts)
14. Oh but she's a convert to Catholicism & adopted Russian orphans & survived cancer
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:24 PM
Aug 2016

The converting was a thing in the late '90s among Spooks, FBI, and Robert NOVAKula (and INGRAHAM) - probably Opus Dei. After her conversion and she reemerged into the public eye, I tried to peer into her soul like Shrub with PUTEEN and listen for some kind of spirituality in her erstwhile verbal viciousness. I looked in vain to detect some "Christ-like" love, humility, charity, etc. Nothing different. Same vile bile, like the Mad Monk HANNITY, who could have started the Crusades all by himself the way one Mad Monk did it back then.

I even called "The Little Sisters of the Poor" and talked to a Mother Superior to ask what kind of Christ-like change of demeanor might be expected of a convert. The Mother didn't know who INGRAHAM is and I e-mailed her some links. She said she would follow up but knew of no donations to her outfit.

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klook

(12,155 posts)
15. Very interesting - thanks
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:29 PM
Aug 2016

Another "Christian" who mouths the platitudes in hopes of polishing her image and avoiding the Eternal Fires of Heck.

klook

(12,155 posts)
11. 4% rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:03 PM
Aug 2016

That's at least 3% better (or possibly 6%) better than Drumpf's popularity with African-American voters...so he's got that going for him.

Nac Mac Feegle

(971 posts)
13. This was in a local multiplex
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:15 PM
Aug 2016

And the entrance to the theater was partially blocked by an advertisement for a film called "
Trolls".

I thought it fitting. It restored my faith in humanity, a little bit.

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