'2016: Obama's America' filmmaker -- I am not having an affair

By Dinesh D'Souza

Published October 17, 2012

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  Dinesh D'Souza in "2016."

Editor's note: In September, author/director Dinesh D'Souza's movie "2016: Obama's America," became the second highest grossing political documentary of all time. On October 16th, on the day of the film's release on DVD, an Evangelical Christian publication, World magazine, published a story which raised questions about D'Souza's marriage and subsequent engagement. D'Souza responds below:

A recent article in World magazine gives the false impression that I, a married man, had an affair with a woman Denise Joseph at a Christian conference in Charlotte, N.C.  The article alleges that I shared a hotel room with her and introduced her as my fiancé.  Finally it states that I filed for divorce only on the day I was confronted about my conduct by intrepid reporter Warren Smith.  Here are the facts:

1. My wife Dixie and I have been separated for two years. Dixie approached me and demanded this [a separation] before I came to King’s College to become its president in late August 2010.  I informed the chairman of the college about this at the time.  I also informed the reporter who wrote the World article, Warren Smith, but he deliberately left it out of his piece, even though it is entirely relevant to the context.  

2. I met Denise three months ago.  We are not and have not been having an affair.  Nor did we share a hotel room in Charlotte.  Smith did not even ask me about this.  Instead, Smith apparently deployed conference organizer Alex McFarland to call and raise the issue with me. 

I clearly told McFarland that Denise and I stayed in separate rooms. McFarland knew he didn’t have what he wanted, because he subsequently called me back and asked me again.  I realized McFarland may be fronting for Smith, so I told him I didn’t have any further comment.  I’m not sure whether McFarland is lying or Smith is lying, but one of them made up the quotation attributed to me that we stayed in the same room but “nothing happened.”  This is pure libel.

3.I sought out advice about whether it is legal to be engaged prior to being divorced and I was informed that it is. Denise and I were trying to do the right thing. 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 fiancé at a Christian apologetics conference if I had thought or known I was doing something wrong. But as a result of all this, and to avoid even the appearance of impropriety, Denise and I have decided to suspend our engagement.

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.

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4. While World notes that my divorce filing was registered with the court on October 4—giving the impression that I moved quickly on the day their reporter spoke to me—in reality I had been working with a San Diego law firm on this for the previous two weeks.  

5. So why would World write such a misleading, sensational story that we would normally expect from the tabloids?  Actually there is a back story here which was noted by Amy Sullivan at the New Republic, as well as numerous other sources. Marvin Olasky, the editor of World, is the former provost of the King’s College. Olasky was on the search committee when I interviewed to be president, and he vehemently opposed my candidacy. Olasky publicly admitted that he was resigning his position as a consequence of my appointment.  The reporter who wrote this story, Warren Smith, also used to work as a consultant for King’s until I decided not to renew his contract.  And what was Olasky’s gripe against me?  As he put it, I was seeking to make King’s a non-denominational “mere Christianity college” in the image of C.S. Lewis.  This for Olasky was simply intolerable.   Having nursed his grievance for two years, now apparently Olasky is using World to continue his vendetta.

6. Ultimately this is not just about Olasky or even World magazine.  It is also about how we Christians are supposed to behave with one another. And the secular world is watching. Is this how we love and treat fellow believers? If my conduct was improper, wouldn’t it be the decent and charitable thing to approach me about it?  Instead, here is a clear attempt to destroy my career and my ministry.  This is viciousness masquerading as righteousness.  And this is the behavior that is truly worthy of Christian condemnation.

Dinesh D'Souza, narrator and co-director of the film "2016: Obama's America," is the author of the bestselling new book "Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream." For more visit www.DineshDSouza.com.

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El Presidente described his grandfather as a house nigger - why?

By Dinesh D'Souza

Published September 11, 2012

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“My image of Onyango, faint as it was, had always been of an autocratic man—a cruel man, perhaps. But I had also imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule… What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger.”

In one of the most remarkable passages in Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance," he uses the terms "collaborator," "Uncle Tom," and "House nigger" to describe someone he detests. That someone, it turns out, is his own grandfather! We have a striking phenomenon here: the first African American president using the N-word, and to refer to his own grandfather! Ordinarily this would be occasion for massive comment and analysis, but if there has been any, I am not aware of it.

So what could possibly cause the president to describe his own grandfather in this appalling way? The answer, it turns out, provides an important insight into Obama’s character. The president is not the healer and unifier that he said he was four years ago. Rather, he views people who disagree with him—including members of his own family—in terms of ideological kinship or betrayal. And by Obama’s standard, even his own grandfather is an ideological sellout deserving of insults and abuse.

President Obama is not the healer and unifier that he said he was. Rather, he views people who disagree with him—including members of his own family—in terms of ideological kinship or betrayal.

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Onyango Obama is an odd candidate for such abuse, because he was himself a victim of colonialism. In fact, he suffered far more under colonialism than did Barack Obama Sr. 

Onyango Obama was born around 1895, the very year the British established Kenya as a "protectorate." By the time Onyango was 25, Kenya was an official British colony. Onyango was a house servant in Nairobi. He had to carry around identity papers that included evaluations of his previous domestic work. During World War I, Onyango enlisted to help the British who were fighting the Germans in East Africa. He worked for several years with road crews in the former German protectorate of Tanganyika, which was taken over by the British. Onyango also served during World War II in a British regiment called the King's African Rifles; in this capacity he traveled to Europe and Asia.

During the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s he was detained in an internment camp, along with tens of thousands of other Kenyan males. He was there for approximately six months and, according to his wife Sarah, endured torture at the hands of British soldiers. (This account has been disputed by David Maraniss in a recent biography, but Maraniss provides no proof that Sarah Obama's account if false.) Eventually Onyango was released, lice-ridden and looking aged.

So far we might expect that Onyango would have his grandson's full sympathy, and this indeed was the case.

It is what followed in Onyango's life that got Barack Obama thinking very differently about him. His grandfather, Obama learned, was an Anglophile. No, he did not consider the British to be inherently superior to the Africans, and he did not approve of British mistreatment of Africans. But at the same time, he performed admirable service for the British, as the evaluations on his identity card showed. One employer said Onyango "performed his duties as personal boy with admirable diligence." Another commented, "He can read and write English and follows any recipes....Apart from other things his pastries are excellent."

Throughout his life, Onyango identified the British with civilization and progress. He had grown up in an Iron Age society. He saw what British rule meant in Kenya and around the world.

Onyango had the good fortune to study English at an English mission school, and consequently was one of the first in his tribe to learn to read and write in a Western language, something in which he took great pride. He grew skeptical of shamans and witch doctors at a time when such figures were highly revered in his village. He took regular baths and became obsessed with cleanliness, not permitting cows to come near his hut because they brought insects with them.

Obama's brother Roy told him that their grandfather "would make you sit at the table for dinner, and served the food on china, like an Englishman." Onyango was considered the first Luo tribesman to discard traditional garb and wear Western clothing, not just pants and a shirt but, more controversially, shoes. One of Onyango's prize possessions was an RCA gramophone. Onyango permitted only his closest friends to come and listen, but they had to sit outside the gate of his compound, and no one was permitted to touch the gramophone. In keeping with Luo tradition, Onyango as a young man had his six front teeth removed; later he adopted the Western solution of getting dentures.

From Obama's point of view, Onyango's unforgivable heresy was not merely his admiration of the British, but how this man contemplated the differences between Western and African ways.

When Onyango returned home to his village after his confinement, he began to ponder the question of how the British, from their tiny island, were able to conquer so much of the globe. Here I must quote Sarah Obama on her husband: "He respected the white man for his power, for his machines and weapons and the way he organized his life. He would say that the white man was always improving himself, whereas the African was suspicious of anything new."

According to Sarah Obama, Onyango admired three things about the British. The first was their level of knowledge. "To him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power," she said. Onyango also considered the British to be generally fair-minded. "If you do a good job for the white man," he liked to say, "then he will always pay you well."

Finally, Onyango unfavorably contrasted African organization with Western organization. “How can the African defeat the white man,” Onyango would tell his son Barack Sr., “when he cannot even make his own bicycle?” In Onyango's words, "The white man alone is like an ant. He can be easily crushed. But like an ant, the white man works together. His nation, his business--these things are more important to him than himself....Black men are not like this. Even the most foolish black man thinks he knows better than the white man. That is why the black man will always lose."

Onyango's favorable disposition toward the West, provoked in Obama a visceral reaction. Obama reports that as he heard Onyango's views, "I...felt betrayed." Of Onyango he says, "I had imagined him an independent man, a man of his people, opposed to white rule....What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely, causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House nigger." And thus it came to be that Obama came to view his own grandfather as an ideological sellout, and to write him off with the N-word.

We see here a defining Obama trait which contrasts dramatically with the image he portrayed in 2008. 

In reality, Obama is a polarizing figure who divides the world into the good guys and the evil guys. For him, the latter group is simply the enemy. Today that group is Mitt Romney and the Republicans, but it is instructive to see that the first of these villains, from Obama's point of view, was his own grandfather.

Dinesh D'Souza, narrator and co-director of the film "2016: Obama's America," is the author of the bestselling new book "Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream." For more visit www.DineshDSouza.com.

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D‘SOUZA’S ANTI-OBAMA DOC SURPASSES 3 MICHAEL MOORE FILMS AT THE BOX OFFICE

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"2016: Obama's America" has topped three Michael Moore films at the box office, according to Deadline Hollywood.

Conservative author Dinesh D‘Souza’s “2016: Obama’s America” has surpassed three Michael Moore films at the box office, making it the second-highest-grossing political documentary, according to Deadline Hollywood.

Deadline reported that as of Saturday, “2016” had grossed $26.2 million, beating out Moore’s “Sicko” ($24.5 million), the Oscar-winning “Bowling for Columbine ($21.5 million) and “Capitalism: A Love Story” ($14.3 million). It also topped Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” ($24.1 million). The numbers are not adjusted for inflation or higher ticket prices.

Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” sharply critical of President George W. Bush, still holds the No. 1 spot at $119.1 million.

D’Souza told TheBlaze last month that the liberal filmmaker served as an inspiration of sorts in the making of “2016.”

“Michael Moore made ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ and he dropped it in the middle of the national debate,” D’Souza said. “The conditions look very similar, except we have a Democratic president, Obama, very controversial.”

Deadline noted that “2016” has been doing well in several hotly-contested battleground states, including Florida, Ohio, Colorado and Virginia. California, New York and Texas are also among the top states contributing to the film’s box office success.

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Right-Wing Filmmaker: El Presidente's An Anti-Colonialist

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September 1, 2012

In mid-July, an obscure film called 2016: Obama's America opened in just one theater in Houston. The film proposes that President Obama is weakening the country — deliberately.

Conservative writer Dinesh D'Souza, its co-director and star, traveled to Hawaii, Indonesia and Kenya to test that theory, and this week, his film could be seen at 1,500 theaters across America.

Many critics have blasted the conspiratorial tone of the film, which D'Souza calls a documentary.

Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz spoke with D'Souza and asked what he means when he argues that the president is trying to weaken America. "This is a matter of having an ideological hypothesis that comes right out of Obama's book [Dreams of My Father]. And by laying it forward, people who watch the film can make up their own mind," D'Souza says.

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On why he thinks President Obama is deliberately trying to weaken the U.S. economy

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"Obama is an anti-colonialist. He has a dream, and it's the dream from his father. Anti-colonialism generally is based on the premise that the Western countries, and now the United States, have become rich by invading and occupying and looting the poor countries, so that the wealth of the world is unfairly distributed. And what Obama wants to do is correct that. How do you correct it? You correct it ultimately by making sure that the previous colonized countries have better access to growth and power, and if there's a cost for that you put the cost on the colonizers, in this case the United States."

On why he believes President Obama's family background influences his policies

"I would not normally hold Obama accountable for the views of either his father or his mother had he not written a book detailing how influential his father and also to some degree his mother have been on him. So I'm simply following Obama's story."

On former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker's assertion that the film was misrepresented when he agreed to be interviewed for it

"The interview with David Walker was on the specific topic of debt and I don't attribute to David Walker the argument of the film or even my view that Obama uses debt as a form of global re-distribution. So, we don't misrepresent him in any way, he doesn't claim we do."

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