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"Distort D'Newsa" now a CNN analyst
Controversial right-wing pundit and author Dinesh D'Souza has a new title
-- "CNN analyst." On June 5, during coverage of former President Ronald
Reagan's death, D'Souza (known by some as "Distort D'Newsa," according to
1985 and 1991 articles in The Washington Post) appeared on a CNN breaking
news segment; on June 6, D'Souza appeared on three CNN programs: Lou
Dobbs Tonight, American Morning, and Anderson Cooper 360. On the latter
two programs, the anchors -- Soledad O'Brien and Anderson Cooper,
respectively -- identified D'Souza as a "CNN analyst."
As an undergraduate in the early 1980s at Dartmouth College, D'Souza
gained national notoriety as co-founder and editor of the conservative
newspaper The Dartmouth Review. During D'Souza's tenure as editor of the
Review, according to a September 22, 1995, article in The Washington
Post, "[T]he off-campus newspaper [The Dartmouth Review] published an
interview with a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, using a mock
photograph of a black man hanging from a campus tree, and 'outed' at
least two gay students."
>From 1987 to 1988, D'Souza served as the senior domestic policy analyst
at the White House under Reagan. Since then, backed by right-wing
foundations (which have supported his work as a research fellow at the
American Enterprise Institute and currently support his work as the
Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution),
D'Souza has written several books, including the racially charged The End
of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society in 1995.
According to a dossier by Media Transparency: The Money Behind the Media,
"The book argues that low-income black people are basically
'pathological' and that white racism really isn't racism at all, just a
logical response to this 'pathology.'" According to D'Souza's personal
website, in The End of Racism, D'Souza "argues that the American
obsession with race is fueled by a civil rights establishment that has a
vested interest in perpetuating black dependency." D'Souza also argued,
in a September 1995 Wall Street Journal op-ed, that "[t]he best way for
African-Americans to save private-sector affirmative action may be to
repeal the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
On August 22, 1999, The Washington Post reported, "[E]fforts by
conservatives to build support among blacks were set back by the angry
reaction of African-American conservatives Glenn Loury and Robert Woodson
to books on race by two conservative authors, neither of whom is black:
Charles Murray ("The Bell Curve") and Dinesh D'Souza ("The End of
Racism"). In a highly publicized decision, Loury and Woodson resigned in
protest in 1995 from the American Enterprise Institute, where Murray and
D'Souza [were] fellows."
D'Souza's writings have appeared in major newspapers, including The Wall
Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has also appeared on such TV
programs as ABC's Nightline, CBS's Face the Nation, FOX News Channel's
Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, and CNBC's Dennis
Miller.
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"You cannot cripple an opponent by outwitting him in a political debate,
You can do it only by following Lenin's injunction: 'In political
conflicts,
the goal is not to refute your opponent's argument, but to wipe him
from the face of the earth.'"
--The Art of Political War (4thReichKlan Political Manual)
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