Silly Season

Below, a trailer for "2016: Obama's America," a political-propaganda documentary that alledges to explain the "real motivation" behind all the sinister things paranoid dumbfuck white people conservatives were sure that Barack Obama was going to do but didn't do so now they're sure he's just waiting to do in his hypothetical second term. The bulk of this particular theory is coming from one Dinesh D'Souza, whose supposed "eureka!" concerning Obama is that he's not a socialist but rather an Africa-centric anti-colonialist who wants to dismantle American/Western power to the benefit of nations/peoples who previously suffered under Western colonialism - the "between the lines" on that, of course, is "White people, look out! Obama is going to take your stuff and give it to brown people!"

D'Souza, incidentally, is the author of "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and It's Responsibility For 9/11;" which argued that secular American cultural exports like feminism, abortion-rights, atheism, gay-equality etc. are to blame for making Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists decide to attack the United States. So... yeah, charming guy.



Does the Republican Party power-structure (who, let's be clear, would CRUSH this thing if they didn't think it would help) buy D'Souza's batshit psychoanalysis? Probably not - but that's not the point. The point is it offers a faux-reasonable excuse to juxtapose images of the President with footage of black people rioting violently. Y'know, because this is ALL about the economy and has absolutely NOTHING to do with race.

Incidentally, observe the (seemingly) out-of-context, near-subliminal shot of a black family squabbling flailingly over a game of Monopoly starting at around 0:51. You stay classy, GOP.