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Dinesh D’Souza’s Bizarre New Book

From the Progressive:

Dinesh D’Souza is at it again.

In his new book, “The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11,” conservative ideologue D’Souza blames the American left for Sept. 11. Here’s how his reasoning goes: The Muslim world is angry at the United States for the moral and cultural breakdown that liberals brought about in this country, and then exported to the Middle East. In addition, the left exhibits an anti-Americanism in its critique of U.S. policy that is quite similar to the worldview of Islamic fundamentalists.

“The cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the nonprofit sector, and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world,” D’Souza writes in the portion excerpted on the book’s back cover. “Without the cultural left, 9/11 would not have happened.”

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D'Souza, as the essay observes, is one of the more polite conservative pundit weirdos on TV, and you'd probably recognize him because he's one of the few non-white faces in this category. But that doesn't make him any less of an idiot. The essay, if you click through to it, does a good job tearing down D'Souza's "arguments," if you want to dignify his rantings by calling them that--I mean, really, if he's right about American morality motivating Islamic terrorists, which he's not, implicit in his view is that we ought to make all women wear head coverings and not drive and whatnot. So if you really need a rebuttal, go check out the essay. What bugs me, however, is that mainstream news organizations actually treat D'Souza and his ilk as worthy of a seat at the discussion table, while at the same time utterly marginalizing serious far-left voices. It makes a mockery of public discourse.

It's probably a very good thing that my bottom of the line cable package doesn't provide CNN.

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