Is Kenya America’s Fifth Column?

It is now possible to say anything and to lie (“The Roma are not being targeted,” etc.), which, in the past, brought about the resignation of Richard Nixon and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. The prize for disgrace is awarded to the conservative commentator (But does he still deserve this qualifier?) Dinesh D’Souza.

Explanation:

Dinesh D’Souza, who was born in Mumbai, India in 1961 and arrived in the United States in 1978, began his career as an ultra-conservative columnist by denouncing gay students and professors — whether or not they had chosen to make their sexual identity known — in the Dartmouth University paper. This debut provided a foretaste of what was to follow. In an article in this month’s Forbes magazine, D’Souza promotes his new book, “The Roots of Obama’s Rage,” by writing the cover story for the bimonthly whose nickname has long been “Capitalist Tool.” The article is entitled “How Obama Thinks.”

From this title, D’Souza unpacks the most implausible and sick thesis of 44. “Obama is trapped in his father’s time machine,” explains D’Souza. The best is yet to come. “Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation’s agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son.” Warning: A member of the Luo tribe is installed in the White House without the world being aware of it. Of course, the newly minted American explains that Obama spent the first 17 years of his existence outside the U.S.: “Hawaii, Indonesia, Pakistan,” as if Hawaii were not an American state, and even though Obama went to Pakistan for a single short stay while he was a student. D’Souza forgets to tell his readers that the future president’s mother (white, born in Kansas …) awakened the young boy at four each morning when he lived in Indonesia in order to teach him U.S. history before he left for school. But [D’Souza] doubtless prefers this armchair psychoanalysis, as if he could judge a man whom he has not met and whose anti-colonialism, in the 1940s or 1950s was not a dishonorable idea, because he had grown up in Kenya, a British colony.

This entire story dishonors the one who wrote it. And if D’Souza and his supporter, Newt Gingrich, are believers in psychoanalysis, it’s too bad that they never thought to psychoanalyze George W. Bush who, to do better than his father, led the world into the disastrous Iraq war.