Saturday, June 23, 2007

Is there really such a person as Dinesh D'Souza? By Denis Schulz

"It’s what Linus asked about Walt Disney. Was there really such a person? It was a reasonable question. Linus was what—ten-years old…eight…maybe six? He couldn’t stay up late enough to watch Masterpiece Theatre so what else was he likely to ask after watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi? If he had been watching Fantasia, the questions might have been different, more confusing, sort of like what a college student might pose after struggling through Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book: The Enemy Within.

What’s that—Fantasia, The Enemy Within…similar? G’wan! One is fantasmagorical; the other is—well, just a fantasy. But which is which? Are they at all similar? Do the rolling periods of Fantasia’s Deems Taylor match those of D’Souza? Do the crashing cymbals of Leopold Stokowski have the impact of an unchained Osama bin Laden? Does Mickey Mouse make a better Sorcerer’s Apprentice than D’Souza makes a lobbyist for traditional Islam? The Enemy Within could have been titled Waltz of the Flowers."

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