Meet Dinesh D’Souza, co-producer of "2016".
But more interesting is how he met President Obama's brother, George.
‘I Have No One Else to Ask’: Dinesh D‘Souza Says He Paid Hospital Bill for Obama’s Half-Brother
Conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza, seen here in a clip from his film "2016," said he paid the hospital bill for President Barack Obama's half-brother George Obama.
D’Souza, whose new anti-Obama film “2016” features one of the world‘s first looks at the president’s impoverished Kenyan sibling, detailed the situation that unfolded a few days ago in a piece posted Thursday on FoxNews.com:
He was a bit flustered, and soon informed me that his young son was sick with a chest condition. He pleaded with me to send him $1,000 to cover the medical bills. Since George was at the hospital I asked him to let me speak to a nurse, and she confirmed that George’s son was indeed ill. So I agreed to send George the money through Western Union. He was profusely grateful. But before I hung up I asked George, “Why are you coming to me?” He said, “I have no one else to ask.” Then he said something that astounded me, “Dinesh, you are like a brother to me.”
Read more of George's story: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/16/how-became-george-obama-brother/#ixzz23kh4HRoD
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Which is to say, of course, that nearly every American family has problems of some kind, and many thousands of people, if not more, can probably relate to having a family member going through both severe medical and financial problems at the same time. You know who probably can't relate to this? Mitt Romney. The man has $101 million is his IRA. His IRA. He's a prominent member of a worldwide financial enterprise (oh, they're also a church) which took in something like $8 billion last year (I say "something like" because, like Romney, they don't report all their income).
When Romney says he'll end Medicare as we know it, I doubt he is touched by what impact that act will have on seniors. It's just dollars to him, just numbers. President Obama has struggled with some of the same issues that Americans have faced in their daily lives. He had to watch his mother die of cancer. If you're a conservative reading this, and your internal response was something like, "so, what?" then maybe you should consider that if you're so charged up that you're blind to the sufferings of others, then maybe the story Sheila posted means nothing to you except a way to hack at the President. And, maybe that speaks to something within yourself that is horrible and ugly. Just maybe.
Finally, you call Dinesh D'Souza a "conservative commentator" (your powers of understatement are - well, I was going to say impressive, but I rather think it's just laziness), but I am well familiar with Mr. D'Souza's writings, debates, and works as a Christian apologist. No doubt it was in the capacity as a Christian minister, not a conservative commentator, that Mr. D'Souza was acting. And, evidently, if you minister to someone in pain who happens to be related to someone famous, you get to cash in on a big movie about it. Instead of calling him out on the hypocrisy, you just parrot the party line. Conservatives hammer away at liberals because we care about people and the environment (and, fortunately, many of us no longer operate under the mythological view that human "have dominion" over the earth). This story highlights how callous and unfeeling conservatives can be when motivated by politics.
In short, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
Great comments Jay however I would advise you look above and be careful as those on the right may injure you when falling from the elevated platform of righteous indignation. "A"
Jay seems to have a problem understanding what the subject matter is. Where in the article is the name Romney even mentioned? But the obvious reply somehow is that he is either responsible for the man's plight or, through some contorted thought process, his money and church are at fault.
I did not realize that Romney is responsible for Obama's brother, my bad. And, of course, because Romney did not do as Jay would want him, it's also his church's fault. Right!
You attack anyone not caring as 'blind to the suffering of others' Can't say that's true or not but isn't he OBAMA's BROTHER? Don't you think Obama would be sensitive to the suffering of his brother's family? He has the money and resources to help. Hello?
Also, he lives in Nairobi. To the best of my knowledge there is no US Medicare in Nairobi. So, why this rant?
By the way, I love the last paragraph. "Conservatives hammer away at liberals because we care about people..." If only that were true, the part about liberals caring I mean. Look, Obama's a liberal, right? Obama has the means and ability to take care of his entire extended family, right? Looks like someone on the liberal side of the political spectrum dropped the perverbial ball.
Last, but not least "This story highlights how callous and unfeeling conservatives can be..." So, let me get this straight. Because a conservative commentor pays the hospital bill for President Obama's extended family out of his own pocket, he is labeled callous and unfeeling. Jay, I'm going to enjoy your commentaries. I love the comic relief.
Look Einstein, I'll keep it simple for you. The difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a liberal believes that the govt is the solution to the many problems that plague our society. Conservatives know that the govt is usually the source of those problems, or at a minimum, make them worse. Your part of the problem Jay.
You use my name, but you withold yours. curious.
The "subject matter" to which you refer is surely set in a lrger political context. Oh, did you think the upcoming movie had nothing to do with the upcoming election? You know, the one in which Mitt Romney is a candidate? I know well the subject matter, sir.
Okay, you missed the point. That may mean that I did a poor job of explaining it, so I'll give it another go. The fact that Mr. D'Souza not only made this story public but also cashed in on a movie deal using this story as fodder is "why this rant" (I would, of course argue that this is a discourse, and not a rant, but I defer to your most esteemed judgment in the matter). Anything to get Obama out, right? So, here's a guy who, in the course of his duties as a minister of jesus, encounters this poor soul - and uses him to score a political point. If you think that's "comic relief," then your sense of humor is a bit more crass than mine.
Dr. Albert Einstein was a genius and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist. I can only assume you used his name as an epithet because when you think of Einstein, your ability to define him stops at "smart person." I would encourage you to read a book written by him, and then maybe pick up one of Dr. Michio Kaku's works. Kaku is a physicist working on the problem that eluded Einstein throughout his life. I digress, but when you use well-respected men's name like that it doesn't make you look very well read.
"A liberal believes" and "conservatives know." Your self-assurance is admirable, sir. It's a terribly safe thing, to know that you know, that you have no doubts because the truth is assured. As for me, I'd rather go with a more evidence-based approach. The evidence seem to be that the extremism that typifies the conservative approach to government just doesn't work. You're free to disbelieve that.
Now, I don't think I'm part of the problem, but who knows? I have decided for myself, though, that right or wrong, I'm going to be who I am and say what I believe. And, part of that is attaching my name to my views on atheism and liberalism when it might be safer to hide, like you are hiding now. And, why do you hide? The people who read and contribute to this blog, they are your people! If you'll hide from your enemies among your friends, then maybe you have more to hide than just your beliefs.
I don't have any of those accounts so used "anonymous." I have read some comments from others on other sites who think Dr. D'Souza may have been a victim of the Western Union frauds that are perpetrated on many. Even though he knows George Obama personally, it appears he was put through to the "nurse" at the "hospital" by George himself instead of dialing the hospital directly. Do we have any information on whether this was a hoax perpetrated on the kindly Dr. D'Souza?
Jay look at what you are saying. You are promoting that believing in an absolute truth is wrong.
But you are doing this absolutely.
I for one would love to have a conversation with you on your points. I am not exactly the most well read but I am intellectually curious.
You get some free time give me a holler. Not even attempt to convert you. Just good discussion on popular topics.
Love to understand the big turn around with you.
Dale, I am saying that there are precious few "absolute truths" out there, and when your basis for thinking you have one is a desert religion full of superstition and myth, a religion which mostly must be ignored (um, we don't believe most of the Old Testament anymore because that was for Israel - nevermind the fact that, whether for Israel or not, the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament contain some of history's worst examples of genocide, racism, slavery, misogyny, and generally wicked behavior - not perpetrated by people who misinterpreted god - but, by jehovah himself!).
Now, you subtly charge me with a kind of relativistic modality of argumentation, asserting absolutely that there is no absolute truth. Perhaps I have failed to spell this out properly, thus creating confusion. Let me attempt to clarify.
I am an atheist and a naturalist, a naturalist in the sense that I do not believe in a supernatural element to the world. I do not believe, for example, that there is any part of me that will supernaturally survive my death (a "soul," if you will). These beliefs do not exist in a vacuum, but within the context of a world dripping with religious and superstitious thought. You quite literally cannot sneeze without someone ascribing the event to bad spirits. I jest, but all of the world's great religions and most of the world's minor ones make assertions about the universe, the world, and the human experience (your "absolute truths," Dale) which cross into scientific territory. This is no surprise. Religion pre-dates science. Before there was astronomy, there was astrology. Before chemistry, alchemy. Before the germ theory of medicine, your disease was the result of spirits. Before the science of geology, floods and earthquakes were expressions of the wrath of the gods. Fortunately, science was invented, and as science progresses in its understanding of the world, religion must retreat. "Absolute truth" included: in the 1500s a belief that the earth was the center of the universe; in the 1600s, a belief that life spontaneously appeared as a miracle of God; for example, as in the formation of new trees and plants; in the 1700s, that every animal that had ever lived is still alive today, as implied by the book of Genesis; in the 1800s that life was designed, as it appears to be, and not a result of evolution, as it is now proven to be; in the 1900s, that the universe is of an age consistent with the book of Genesis, though in this century the age is proven by three independent methods to be between 13 and 14 billion years old; and, finally in the 2000s so far, the notion that humans are specially created by God has been assailed by science with the decoding of the human genome and the discovery that humans have the same genes as every other living thing on the planet, just in different sequence - positive proof that the heirarchal trees that can thus be drawn showing relationshop between humans and every other living things are, in fact, family trees.
Science advances, religion retreats. I am an atheist because in thousands of years, no argument for the existence of god has survived. No argument for the supernatural has persisted. But the odds are overwhelming that the whole notion of religion is a false notion, created by humans in an attempt to control one another. We should have grown out of religion's fanciful claims centuries ago, but today public policy is written based on the religious right's voting bloc.
I would, of course, be glad to discuss my "big turn around" with you in person. I think it not a particularly interesting story, but important to my own intellectual development.
"I am an atheist because in thousands of years, no argument for the existence of god has survived. No argument for the supernatural has persisted. But the odds are overwhelming that the whole notion of religion is a false notion, created by humans in an attempt to control one another. We should have grown out of religion's fanciful claims centuries ago, but today public policy is written based on the religious right's voting bloc."
Awful bold statement, but then again, narcissitic intellectual superiority is one root cause of human misery. . . Some of the world's most famous atheists:
Lenin
Stalin
Mussolini
Hitler
Pol Pot
Kim Il Sung
Mao
Fidel Castro
Margaret Sanger
In short they have a desire to kill on a massive scale. . . . some call it reducing the human carbon footprint.
For all of you who have ever had a miracle, ever heard a child cry when delivered, ever seen the bills that just were enormous get paid, ever felt peace when you were so upset, worried, when a child was sick,etc...speak
up.
Those of you who don't know the God I know are missing out. Go ahead and believe He doesn't exist. Be my guest. Be my guest.
I know when there should have been death, life survived. I know my angels are watching over me. I don't care if you atheists don't see that. But there's a God, alright.
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