Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:01:48 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo <[email protected]>
I picked up this article from The Goan Voice, UK. It mentions stuff about the most embarrassing (to me) Goan in the USA. Warning: This is not for the feint of heart. This is also a primer on how far a person can go in the good ol' USA when he is extreme right-wing. http://www.alternet.org/workplace/145181/do_obama_and_geithner_have_the_same_flaw:_accommodation_instead_of_moral_action/ Mario responds: Talk about embarrassing Goans overseas. Whether you agree with Dinesh D'Souza's opinions or political philosophy or not, shown below are some of his accomplishments in America. Keep these accomplishments in mind when you read Mervyn's posted article where the author, Mark Ames, writes, Quote: The Dartmouth Review's editor at that time was Dinesh D'Souza, an Indian immigrant eager to play the suck-up waterboy to the university's white rightwing elite -- even if that meant being their dark-skinned face of elitist white racism. Under D'Souza's editorship, the Review not only attacked the very same affirmative action that helped D'Souza get into Dartmouth,..." Unquote. Ooooh! "Suck-up waterboy"? "Dark-skinned face of elitist white racism"? "affirmative action" helped D'Souza get into Dartmouth? Quite a dispassionate and objective observer this Mark Ames, isn't he? Now compare this with what others have said about Dinesh D'Souza: http://www.dineshdsouza.com/more/about.html Excerpt: D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor’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. A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983. [end of excerpt] Dinesh is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Members are elected based on academic excellence. From the society web site, "You must be elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa by the chapter where you received your bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. degree. We must receive confirmation from the chapter before you can be registered as a member of the Society." Here is what the ancient Honor Society, Phi Beta Kappa, founded in 1776, means which includes Bill Clinton among its members: http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=&id=8 Here is some information about the members of Phi Beta Kappa: http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_InfoView.aspx?t=&id=59 Excerpt: Seventeen U.S. Presidents, thirty-eight U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and one hundred and thirty-six Nobel laureates can be counted among the ranks of Phi Beta Kappa members. [end of excerpt] Mervyn is correct. With accomplishments like these, every Goan should be embarrassed that Dinesh D'Souza is a Goan. And Mark Ames says that Dinesh is a "Suck-up waterboy", "Dark-skinned face of elitist white racism" who needed "affirmative action" to get into Dartmouth. I don't think either Mervyn or Mark Ames like Dinesh, do you? Here is an interesting snippet from Mark Ames biography: http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/mark_ames/profile.html Excerpts: A native son of the California suburbs, Mark graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Rhetoric. He quickly discovered that the wretched post-Reagan world was no place to spend a life, so he fled to the chaos of post-Soviet Russia, a culture far freer in all the important ways than pious, cheerless America. After a few failed stints in Russia’s perilous business world, first as a liquor distributor and later as the personal secretary to an Indian beer magnate, Ames moved into journalism. In 1997, he founded The eXile, which CNN described as “brazen, irreverent, immodest, and rude", adding that it "lampooned and investigated greed, corruption, cowardice and complacency”. [end of excerpt]
