White House: Forbes Magazine Hit "New Low" With D'Souza Article

Dinesh D'Souza.

/ dineshdsouza.com

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that the decision to run a widely-criticized cover story by Dinesh D'Souza attacking President Obama "represents a new low."

"It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," he told the Washington Post.

The D'Souza article is built around the notion that Mr. Obama is channeling his father's views. "This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son," D'Souza writes.

He makes these claims despite the fact that the president's father abandoned his family when Mr. Obama was two years old. Father and son only met one time after that, when the president was ten years old, and Mr. Obama was critical of his father in his memoir.

Gibbs was scheduled to meet today with Forbes's Washington bureau chief over the story, according to the Post. "Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?" he said.

Both Forbes and D'Souza are standing by the article, which D'Souza describes as putting forth a "psychological theory."

Former GOP House speaker Newt Gingrich has embraced the article as illustrating the fact that the president operates out of out of a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview. That comment prompted Gibbs to speculate earlier this week that Gingrich, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, was "trying to appeal to the fringe of people who don't think the president was born in this country."

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[mpmca]

Here's a psychological theory - little Dinesh is using projection, a classic Freudian defense mechanism. Perhaps a healthy dose of psychotherapy is in order. As to Mr. Forbes, well there is no excuse.

[Thinkerwiz]

It is a sad day when Forbes sells it's integrity, turning to "yellow press" for profits. When it panders to the weak minded, who are attracted to this foolishness. The dumbing down of the America media is upon us. Fear mongering & pandering to extremist knuckle-draggers is an insult. Soon they will be showing photos of flying saucers, Big Foot and blurry pictures of Elvis sightings on their cover page for the almighty buck. Shoveling out the same bilge as the political fear machines.
Forbes...this will not be forgotten. Most Americans are not morons..just quiet.

[dhouseblend]

I have to admit that I have yet to read the article in Forbes. But liberal or conservative views aside, putting a theory forward that proposes to explain the psychological reasonings and presidential actions of an African American President because of his birthright(who was born and grew up in America)seems to imply that either All African Americans, or other 2nd generation Americans are not truly American enough.

[dmlmd]

As is the case with Mr. D'Souza I too am neither a Psychiatrist nor a Psychologist therefore I am as prepared to give my 'psychological theory' about Mr. D'Souza as he is to give his about our president. I will have somewhat more validity than Mr. D'Souza since I am a Medical Doctor and not an English Major.
Mr. D'Souza is an overachiever. He migrated to the United States from India in 1978. He certainly would have wanted to ingratiate and distinguish himself not with the average working (lower caste) working Americans, but rather would have surged towards acceptance by the American White affluent Conservative culture- this to hide the blemish of his dark skin and lower caste associations as well as the suppressed anger that he adopted while studying radical Islam for 3-4 years and reading the Qur'an. He projects his own conflicts and frustrations upon Mr. Obama, and in doing this he suppressed his own disdain for America while bolstering a kind of simplistic pseudo-patriotism. He is a complex man with great communicative skills that he uses to forward his fractured political ideology while nurturing his his narcissistic and egocentric personality. Of course just as Mr. D'Souza has no standing as a Psychologist and may and probably is totally off the psychological mark with Mr. Obama. I too may be wrong about Mr. D'Souza.

Kind regards,
DM Loucas, MD

[la120365]

Two things:

1. In the article above D'Souza states himself he is putting forth a "psychological theory". D'Souza says NOTHING about this being true or even factual.

2. Go to the web site under D'Souza's picture in this article, http://www.dineshdsouza.com/ . This author is an author & speaker who makes his money when people BUY his books and LISTEN to him speak at paid engagements.

I wonder why he would write something so inflammatory....maybe to get free publicity and sell books........I wonder.

Just stating 2 facts in the article and on D'Souza's OWN web site.

[longtree-2009]

question is, has forbes ever put out a false story or corrupt information intentionally? how many times has forbes been caught red handed in printing false stories, news, articles?

[brewhafunk]

All of you paid GOP bloggers are embarrassing yourselves with this one. Oh well, just like the Forbes article and the motivation behind it........ It's all about the money. Sad.

[irreverent1-2009]

Is it kinda like George W Bush living vicariously through his father George H W Bush having to reload the Irag war because his father never finished the job and is still left unfinished?

[blindersoff]

Different in that GWB grew up with and was raised by his father. He actually said of Saddam "This is the man who tried to kill my father". Nothing of the sort is true in the Obama scenario.

[consciousnes]

Isn't it funny how when the truth hits the mark, how the pig squeals? The Whitehouse continually allows all kinds of rhetoric about what and who Obama is, but when something is printed that is right on the money they start to give the article creditability by immediately countering it with some "Put Down" like the one in this article.
Why doesn't Obama honor the flag by wearing it or by standing and saluting it?
Why does Obama apologize for the United States?
Why does Obama say the states don't have the right to govern themselves? Etc, Etc, Etc.

[brewhafunk]

Right on the money? Would you care to elaborate on how this "psychological theory" is right on the money? I am interested in the latest scientific developments of the brain. Or does "right on the money" mean the money Forbes will make selling tabloid news or the money they will make if there is a republican in The White House?

[bills416]

The President was more influenced by his white mother and grandparents than his father who abandoned him. All we hear is his relationship to his father ....there was no relationship....his father wasn't there.