--- Gabe Menezes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dinesh did not excel, please go to the following > site to read more:- > http://logosonline.home.igc.org/kelly.htm > How Dinesh Gets Over: > The Unmeritorious Scholarship of Dinesh D'Souza..... > Mario replies: Gabe Menezes has not mentioned a single specific issue of disagreement with Dinesh D'Souza's opinion(s) that we can debate. Instead Mr. Menezes has posted a highly biased article by political opponents of Mr. D'Souza filled with crass innuendo, long on omissions and short on facts.
Gabe Menezes says that Dinesh D'Souza did not excel. The article he has posted describes Mr. D'Souza's scholarship as "unmeritorious". These assertions are patently false as you will see from his real achievements mentioned below. Dinesh D'Souza was so highly regarded as a student that he was hired to work in the White House, during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan, as a policy analyst, even before he was a citizen of the US. This is another achievement his opponents cannot dispute, regardless of how much they hate his ideas. Here are some real FACTS that contradict Mr. Menezes' and Ms. Kelley's claims that Dinesh D'Souza has not excelled even in the highly competitive atmosphere of the US, where immigrants have to compete with native-born Americans to earn every achievement. I hope readers are familiar with Stanford University, one of the foremost universities in the world, where D'Souza works now, Dartmouth University, an Ivy League university from which he graduated Phi Beta Kappa for academic excellence, Investor's Business Daily, a prominent financial publication, The New York Times, and Newsweek. Keep these institutions in mind so that they form a backdrop to the claim by his critics that he has not excelled: Dinesh D'Souza is the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by InvestorÂ’s Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans. Before joining the Hoover Institution, Mr. D'Souza was the John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. In 1987-88 he served as senior policy analyst at the Reagan White House. From 1985 to 1987 he was managing editor of Policy Review. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. Another example of his excellence is that he has written several highly acclaimed books, works for a major think tank, and is in great demand as a speaker paid over $ 10,000 per speech. If this is not excellence in the highly competitive environment of the US, then I would like to know what Gabe Menezes thinks is excellence, especially when compared to the achievements of Dinesh's politically motivated critics. Instead, unable to challenge his ideas, and stung by his verbal barbs, they seek to tear him down.
