From the NYRB site I learned

artappraiser — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:43:00 +0000

In reply to I consider the review to be

From the NYRB site I learned that Hoberma, is the senior film critic at The Village Voice (by clicking on his name.)

I didn't know that, and even before I did, I didn't think this essay for NYRB blog was meant as a standard film review. It didn't read to me like it was intended to be one. That's not something that the NYRB is known for offering. If he wanted to do one, he has his own venue to do so.

In any case, I posted this because I was not even aware that the film had been made much less that it was being promoted by right wing talk shows, and as Hoberman says in the essay that it has been quite popular, others might be in the same situation as me. In that it could explain where certain anti-Obama memes that one might hear come from.

As far as Dinesh D'Sousa, I would say that anyone who is interested in the selling of conservative ideology in this country, for whatever reason, should make themselves aware of the nature of his work if they aren't. He's been pretty prominent in those circles for quite some time.

I consider the review to be

Aunt Sam — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 17:17:26 +0000

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I consider the review to be incomplete and stilted. Of course, since I haven't read other reviews by Hoberman, the format may be his chosen shtick for reviews.

What it did was motivate me to obtain a bit of background info on the writer of this story.

After a bit of research, it's safe to state that to label D'Souza as a right wing conservative is akin to describing hundred plus degree weather as being a bit warm.

No matter whether conceived by touted liberals or conservatives, I abhor these types of productions where the aim is solely to serve as a tool to deliver a distorted and derisive piece of fiction as a probable truth scenario to install rabid fear and distrust.

Thankfully Wiki included this too:

The film has been widely critiqued on the grounds that what D'Souza posits as being an investigation into Obama includes considerable projection and speculation and selective borrowing from Obama's own autobiography in seeking to prove D'Souza's psychoanalysis of Obama.[

Per Wiki:

He has attributed many modern social problems to what he calls the "cultural left". In his recent book The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, he wrote that:

The cultural left in this country is responsible for causing 9/11 ... the cultural left and its allies in Congress, the media, Hollywood, the non-profit sector and the universities are the primary cause of the volcano of anger toward America that is erupting from the Islamic world.^[27]

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