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2016: Obama's America
« on: August 26, 2012, 02:14:42 pm »
There's a new anti-Obama hit piece "documentary" out in theaters called 2016: Obama's America. Based on Dinesh D'Souza's ahistorical book The Roots of Obama's Rage, 2016 has done quite well at the box office, taking the #8 spot and making $2.2 million. The timing of its release as well as subject matter make me think that this film is the conservatives' answer to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, and its creator (primarily known for losing in theological arguments to the late Christopher Hitchens) wrote a  Forbes piece in 2010 that accused the President of being "the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history" and of supporting "a $100 million mosque scheduled to be built near the site where terrorists in the name of Islam brought down the World Trade Center." He chalks up Obama's actions to an "anticolonial ideology" which he borrowed from his father, Barack Obama Sr. This should give you a rough idea of how factually accurate 2016 is, and it may just do the job that the recent Swift Boat piece against Obama couldn't: mobilize conservatives to rally around the presumptive Republican nominee,

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2012, 05:00:28 pm »
They're preaching to the choir.
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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2012, 05:10:15 pm »
If it's so popular, why haven't I heard of this piece of shit before??

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2012, 05:12:07 pm »
If it's so popular, why haven't I heard of this piece of shit before??

You're not in the echo chamber

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2012, 05:30:03 pm »
It's hard for me to take this seriously, seeing how it is made by, and aimed at, people who believe Obama is a Muslim Commienazi Antichrist.

But you have to admit, the right sure knows how to milk its followers.  That redneck dollar sure is valuable!
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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2012, 05:35:19 pm »
I thought the righties already made a film in response to "Fahrenheit 9/11"... it had Celsius in the title, if I recall.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2012, 05:44:24 pm »
It's hard for me to take this seriously, seeing how it is made by, and aimed at, people who believe Obama is a Muslim Commienazi Antichrist.

But you have to admit, the right sure knows how to milk its followers.  That redneck dollar sure is valuable!

I predict in the near future that this movie is going to be found in the bargain bins at Walmart.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #7 on: August 26, 2012, 05:58:16 pm »
that is the fate of all these types of films.  Like even Michael Moore ends up 10 bucks soon.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2012, 06:29:57 pm »
I thought the righties already made a film in response to "Fahrenheit 9/11"... it had Celsius in the title, if I recall.
Yeah they have those responses to Fahrenheit, but what I meant by my statement was that this film is supposed to serve the same purpose that Moore had in mind when releasing an anti-Bush film shortly before the 2004 election.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2012, 06:31:01 pm »
Yeah, but these types of films seem to end up in the bargain bin quicker.

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« Reply #10 on: August 26, 2012, 06:53:27 pm »
If it's so popular, why haven't I heard of this piece of shit before??

You're not in the echo chamber
I actually saw a commercial for this thing the other day. For those hazarding a guess, yes it was on the history channel.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2012, 06:54:48 pm »
D'Souza is going even more all-out pro-Imperialism. Which is pretty funny considering he's of Indian descent. I mean, if you're German or something, at least you don't have direct family experience of the negatives of Empire.
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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2012, 06:57:28 pm »
D'Souza is going even more all-out pro-Imperialism. Which is pretty funny considering he's of Indian descent. I mean, if you're German or something, at least you don't have direct family experience of the negatives of Empire.
Au contraire. The Indian elite who collaborated with the Brits did very well for themselves.

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2012, 06:58:53 pm »
To be fair, the History channel has turned into the Conspiracy theory/Doomsday/ALIENS!! channel

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Re: 2016: Obama's America
« Reply #14 on: August 26, 2012, 07:42:52 pm »
If it's so popular, why haven't I heard of this piece of shit before??

You're not in the echo chamber
I actually saw a commercial for this thing the other day. For those hazarding a guess, yes it was on the history channel.
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