Sunday, August 19, 2012

GIVE US LIBERTY Review of Dinesh D'Souza's "2016 : Obama's America"



 
I saw Dinesh D’Souza’s movie ‘2016: Obama’s America’ last night. I went by myself to the 9:00 pm showing at a local theater in Thousand Oaks, CA. I counted about 50 patrons; the vast majority over 50 years of age.

I am always reluctant to be overly critical of anyone’s artistic endeavors as I often ask myself, “Could you have done a better job?” From a creative standpoint however, it was very well done. The documentary was slickly presented, well-photographed and I especially liked the creative graphics employed throughout the movie. The pace was good and the story while flawed in my view, held my attention. In fact many times I found that my blood pressure would rise and at times I felt compelled to blurt out loud, “Liar!”, “Fraud!”, “Traitor!” when the usurper’s image dominated the screen and he was engaged in some typically mendacious activity. There was no similar reaction by the rest of the audience until very late in the movie when there were a few snickers and derisive comments that probably were the result feeling emboldened by my prior outbursts.

On the whole, I must say that I was disappointed that the movie did not live up to my expectations – at all. I did not find the movie to be particularly compelling or hard-hitting, probably because I am well-versed in the story and so much was not covered, glossed over or misinterpreted. D’Souza could have painted a much grimmer and more realistic take on what is really happening to America today. The message is there…but it is lacking the honesty I expected.

While I knew that the eligibility issue would not be addressed, I was profoundly disappointed that D’Souza presented as FACTS that Obama was born in Hawaii, at Kapiolani Hospital and that his birth father was in fact the Kenyan, Barack Obama Sr. In addition, D’Souza gives every impression that he fully buys in to the fact that Obama wrote “Dreams From My Father” and accepts the content as factual. Talk about naïve!

Of course, the idea that Barack Obama Sr. is the usurper’s father is an essential premise to the movie and D’Souza hammers home the idea that the Kenyan was an incredibly important influence on Obama’s view of the world. I personally find that to be a gross overstatement of the real truth given all the research that is “out there”.  Unfortunately, this is an assumption by D’Souza that HAS NOT been substantiated and there are a myriad of reasons to doubt the veracity of some of D’Souza’s claims. From that standpoint I believe D’Souza has been less than stellar in his research.  In fact, I felt that D’Souza exhibited a great deal of naivety about Obama.

I agree with others, that D’Souza moderated his tone for the most part and tried to be objective. It certainly was not a hit piece on Obama but rather a cautionary tale to the American people that Obama was not and is not the person that the he presented himself to be in 2008. And of course, D’Souza does make it very clear that Obama poses an existential threat to the American way of life, our prosperity and our safety. There is no question about that.

I will give the movie a B MINUS because D’Souza assumes facts not in evidence and the movie could have been more hard-hitting and compelling. The conclusion was somewhat benign. In my opinion, DiSouza misses the mark when it comes to revealing the true malevolence of Obama and the purpose behind his anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-life policies, actions, words and dreams.

P.S. I am grateful that D'Souza made this movie. I urge everyone to go see it. Obviously it will not help the Usurper gain any votes! Oh to think how truly impactful this movie could have been.

2 comments:

  1. I went to the 4:35 showing in Charlotte, yesterday. The theater was full - FULL. I was shocked. Seriously. I thought that it would be my friend and me, maybe a handful of others. [When I went to see Atlas Shrugged last year, including me there were fourteen or fifteen of us in the theater. Coincidentally, same theater. Apparently only one cinema is allowed to show the "conservative" films, here.]

    No young people that I could see. If there were some, and there may have been, they were hidden in the crowd. The rest of us - forty, fifty, sixty-ish. ALL white. [If ever there was a theater of sitting ducks, we were it.]

    I read Dinesh D'Souza's book quite a while ago. I thought there were parts of 2016 that followed the book fairly closely. And, I was quite disappointed that he didn't hit hard enough at the ending. But, there are those of us that KNOW what the ending is if the usurper-in-chief gets another term. [I thought I was the only one who referred to him as the usurper! Usually I refer to him as the jeja - short for jugearedjackass ass.]

    "The pace was good and the story while flawed in my view, held my attention. In fact many times I found that my blood pressure would rise and at times I felt compelled to blurt out loud, “Liar!”, “Fraud!”, “Traitor!” when the usurper’s image dominated the screen and he was engaged in some typically mendacious activity." Blood pressure rise?! Mine was boiling. And I did mutter under my breath "liar" more than once. But there were no outbursts. The one scene, where the Dinesh is saying "white guilt" got the jeja elected and they were showing the crowd [where? at the Lincoln Memorial?], you could hear others saying, "ut-uh" and "not me." But that was the only outburst until the end. Someone in the crowd did yell out "he has got to go!" and people cheered and clapped, but that was it.

    Could NOT stand that Dinesh started it out by saying that the jeja was born in Hawaii at whatever hospital blah blah blah. Really? Where is the proof. And the payment of a goat for the grandmother's interview - where they took three - was good. But, then, of course that interview comes to a complete hostile halt. [Take the goats back, then, Dinesh!]

    Someone in the audience a row or two behind me, at the end, as we were all waiting to leave our rows, I heard a woman say, "My daughter and son-in-law need to see this." I couldn't help myself and responded, "The ones that need to see this are too busy watching Idol and Jersey Shore." There were a few "You got that right" and "Amen to that" responses, but nothing remotely raucous, that's for sure.

    All in all a good movie - not great. And, I'm glad I saw it. What is really unfortunate is that it won't be out for the masses and in a Redbox machine. Just don't see it making it far.

    One other note. All bags were being searched. I don't go to the movies. I refuse to support a Hollywood that is MOSTLY liberal - why does Sarah Jessica Parker get $10,000,000 to do a Sex in the City movie [no clue what she got for it]? The woman couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag if the top was open. Yet, she is RIGHT there hosting a fund raiser for the usurper. Nope. Not going to support it. So, that our bags were being searched came as a surprise to me. Kind of like, "We've got homeland security at the movies, now?" Like a "sheeple" I opened my bag and said, "Is this so that you can make sure I don't have a can of Diet Dr. Pepper in here?" The woman doing the searches, with no facial expression or anything said, "No. A gun." Oh. Well, alrighty, then... I did turn around to no one in particular and said, "I can't believe we are letting this happen." [Note to self: Leave bag in the console next time.] Did the searches start after the Batman shooting?

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  2. High quality cinematography, well researched. I came away feeling greater compassion and sympathy for Obama. D'Souza was quite fair and used Obama's own words to tell the story. Nevertheless, the truth about Obama's background and neocolonial based hatred is frightening. It is now clear why Obama hates America and is hell-bent on destroying it. Anyone who votes for Obama in 2012 will have to be suicidal.

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