[VIDEO] Dinesh D’Souza Unveils Hillary Clinton Video Ahead of DNC Speech
Posted: July 28, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, And the Money Kept Rolling In, Andrew Jackson, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Anti-fascism, Broadway theatre, Democratic Party, DNC, Evita, Guinevere, Helen of Troy, Helena (Empress), Hillary Clinton, Hollywood Reporter, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon B. Johnson, Slavery, The Pantsuit Report, Woodrow Wilson 1 Comment
The clip coincides with the launch of a new website where D’Souza answers critics who claim his movie distorts facts. ‘Detractors and several film reviewers have been challenging many of its claims’. Example claim: ‘Democrats had backed slavery and the Ku Klux Klan decades ago’. This is in dispute, really? 
5 percent of critics gave ‘Hillary’s America’ a positive review, compared to a favorable review from 82 percent of the audience.
“‘Evita’s foundation funneled money given to the poor into her own bank accounts,’ D’Souza says in the clip. ‘Certainly, the Clintons wouldn’t steal from the poorest of the poor?’”
Hollywood Reporter: Hours before Hillary Clinton is set to accept the Democratic nomination for president, Dinesh D’Souza has releasedscene from his documentary film Hillary’s America that compares the former secretary of state to Eva Peron, the Argentine politician famously accused of money laundering in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita.
The release of the scene coincides with D’Souza launching a website that he says debunks criticisms of Hillary’s America by offering evidence that what he says about her and her party in his movie is historically accurate.
His “evidence” page cites various historical sources and quotes notable figures, like Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon B. Johnson, to make the case that Democrats had backed slavery and the Ku Klux Klan decades ago.
The Hollywood Reporter puts Scare Quotes Around the word “evidence”, for unknown reason @THR #ScareQuotes #Journalism #DemsInPhilly #panic
— Pundit Planet (@punditfap) July 29, 2016
Since D’Souza’s movie opened two weeks ago, detractors and several film reviewers have been challenging many of its claims. The Hollywood Reporter’s reviewer likened the movie to a “highly subjective history lesson” while the Los Angeles Times said it “doesn’t even qualify as effectively executed propaganda.” On Rotten Tomatoes, only 5 percent of critics gave Hillary’s America a positive review, compared to a favorable review from 82 percent of the audience.
[Read the full story here, at the Hollywood Reporter]
Republican nominee for president Donald Trump, meanwhile, has endorsed the film. Read the rest of this entry »
