CPAC 2013 - Dinesh D'Souza

“We are now living in the America that we warned our fellow citizens could come to pass if President Obama were re-elected,” said Dinesh D’Souza, best-selling author who will return as writer and host. “Like it or not America is now the nation that Barack Obama Junior and Senior dreamed of creating. Americans are right to be terrified as they see the transformation of America take place before their very eyes. But it’s at great moments of peril like this that we need to regroup and rediscover the first principles of what made America great.”

“We intend to bring the same level of excellence, integrity and honesty to this production and, if we’re successful, we’ll once again be embraced by the American filmgoing public and ignored by the Oscars,” quipped producer Gerald R. Molen, himself an Academy Award® winning filmmaker of such hits as Schindler’s List, Jurassic Park and Minority Report, who returns as producer.

“To paraphrase George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life, the question all people should ask from time to time is what would the world look like if America never was-and that’s a question I often ask myself,” added D’Souza. “President Obama looks at America as an oppressive force, both against its own citizens and abroad, while I and millions of others around the world have a different view: that America has been a great blessing to its own people and to the world. We intend to provide both serious answers and have some fun as we take Obama’s dreams for America to their logical and conclusions.”

2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the worlds most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"

2016: OBAMA'S AMERICA Dinesh D'Souza's Movie with Glenn Beck on GBTV
aired August 2012

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Dinesh D'Souza - The Author & Filmmaker the White House Can No Longer Ignore

It’s not every day that a guy provokes the rage of the President of the United States. Now the President has launched a ferocious attack against me and my film 2016: Obama’s America. Posting his comment on barackobama.com, Obama calls the film “an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear” him by engaging in “subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks.”

For weeks the President tried to ignore the film, no doubt hoping that it would go away. Unfortunately for Obama, the film has continued to gain momentum. It has been seen by more than 2 million people, earned more than $27 million, and become the second biggest political documentary of all time. So now he has decided to come out with guns blazing.

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Mary Grabar - Story and Politics

Republicans, especially those within the ranks of the establishment, have insisted that during this general presidential election, it is upon the policies—not the person—of Barack Obama that they will set their sights.

This judgment is understandable enough.

For one, Obama is a Democrat. As such, he has the juggernaut of the so-called mainstream press behind him. Republicans, that is, are at a considerable disadvantage in the public relations war.

Also, and at least as importantly, the Democratic occupant of the White House has been universally hailed as America’s “first black president.”

Considering that decades worth of leftist propaganda courtesy of the media and the Democratic Party has succeeded in creating the popular perception that Republicans don’t like blacks, it would be all too easy for Mitt Romney and company to be portrayed as “racist.”

Of course, Romney and his supporters are already depicted as “racist.” And as time draws nearer to Election Day, charges of “racism” promise to accelerate in both frequency and intensity.

There is another reason why Republicans may want to reconsider playing things too close to the vest.

Simply put, the voter does not live by policy alone.

The economy is the most important issue for the electorate, so talk of debts and deficits is imperative. However, most of us don’t get too terribly excited about numbers, and when those numbers are in the billions and trillions, the average person will not relate to such abstractions.

But if economic (and other issues) are situated within the context of a story, then otherwise dead facts can be brought to life.

Actually, even this is an understatement of the power of narrative in politics. Obama, for instance, spoke scarcely of facts at all in the election of 2008. Rather, he espoused glittering (yet entirely vapid) rhetorical generalities and scored a decisive victory over his opponent.

What Obama knows is what all great orators and rhetoricians have always known: the heart is much easier to move than the head.

It seems that if they didn’t know it before, Republicans are now beginning to discover this as well. This, at any rate, is what can reasonably be taken away from two recent developments: Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention and Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary, 2016: Obama’s America. Together, these two phenomena may very well have swung the election decidedly in Mitt Romney’s favor.

Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night situated her husband’s campaign within a larger narrative context of his life. That is, while we have known about Mitt Romney the politician, we now know about Romney the person. D’Souza’s film, on the other hand, serves the invaluable function of doing for Obama what Mrs. Romney’s speech did for her husband.

Mrs. Romney took a wrecking ball to the story of Romney “the vulture capitalist,” the “tax cheat,” the cool, merciless gazillionaire that the Obama campaign has labored long and hard to craft. She humanized her husband by recounting the tribulations and joys of their long life together. Ann introduced to the world Mitt the loving father of five wholesome boys and grandfather to ten children; the devoted husband of a wife to whom he has been faithful for 43 years, through good times and bad; the grateful son who recognized his parents’ gifts for the divine blessings that they were by working tirelessly—and successfully—to bring them to fruition.

Contrary to what Obama and his allies in Washington and the media would have us believe, the Mitt Romney of whom Ann Romney spoke most definitely does not put profits before people.

While Ann Romney is telling her husband’s story, Dinesh D’Souza continues to tell Obama’s in an ever increasing number of cinema theaters around the country. And the two stories couldn’t be more different.

D’Souza does not dispute Obama’s claim that he was born in Hawaii. However, he tries to show that although the President was born in America, he is not of it. Rather, Obama views the country with the same kind of skepticism, even indignation, with which the Third World subjects of colonial rule—like his African family—view America. Obama’s utterances and deeds since taking office, D’Souza contends, make perfect sense when considered against the backdrop of his “anti-colonial” vision. We learn that these policies are not the products of Obama’s incompetence. They aren’t even the fruits (or poisons) of conventional Democratic politics. They reflect Obama’s obsession to rectify the injustices to which formerly colonized peoples in the Third World had been subjected by Westerners.

Republicans should continue with their talk of policies. Yet they must be equally ready to tell good stories.

Mary Grabar

Mary Grabar is a writer and college English teacher, whose parents escaped from Slovenia in 1959 and spent a year in a refugee camp in Austria. They immigrated to Rochester, New York, when she was two.

Her views have been formed by experiences as an immigrant during the racial violence in Rochester in the 1960s and then at her alma mater, Benjamin Franklin Junior-Senior High School.

She tried to be a liberal, but then quickly realized that it was an exclusive club. Her conversion to conservatism was cinched when she returned to school in the master's program in English in the 1990's.

In spite of the hostility of most of the faculty and the torture of having to wade through postmodern nonsense, she earned her Ph.D. from the University of Georgia in 2002.

Mary Grabar is a frequent Columnist at Town Hall.com and writes articles for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Newspaper.

Visit Mary's Website and her other Website: The Literate Citizen

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2016 The Movie

2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"

Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America’s ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.

Immersed in exotic locales across four continents, best selling author Dinesh D’Souza races against time to find answers to Obama’s past and reveal where America will be in 2016. During this journey he discovers how Hope and Change became radically misunderstood, and identifies new flashpoints for hot wars in mankind’s greatest struggle. The journey moves quickly over the arc of the old colonial empires, into America’s empire of liberty, and we see the unfolding realignment of nations and the shape of the global future.

Emotionally engaging, 2016 Obama’s America will make you confounded and cheer as you discover the mysteries and answers to your greatest aspirations and worst fears.

Love him or hate him, you don’t know him.

2016 Trailer 1

2016 Trailer 2

Click HERE to see 2016 Movie Review by Dr. Thomas Sowell.

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