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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Dinesh D’Souza: Oh, That Fiancee…

Dinesh D’Souza: Oh, That Fiancee…

by Anne Laurie|  January 27, 20149:22 pm| 41 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Assholes

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Dave Weigel has a good piece outlining the latest Wingnut Wurlitzer SHOCK HORROR OUTRAGE, including a tasty tidbit I hadn’t seen noted elsewhere:

… Do the D’Souza defenders have anything to say about the actual charges? Well, Ingraham made fun of how short the indictment was, and … that’s about it. Reporters who’ve actually compared the indictment to the timeline of donations and refunds to Long’s campaign say they match up neatly. Reuters’ Alison Frankel pointed out that campaign finance cases like this are common, and typically settled. The FBI saw an easy “straw donor” case. It pounced.

But if you don’t accept that theory—if you see the shadow hand of a conspiracy—you’ve got so much to gain. Drudge, Cruz, Ingraham, and company lose absolutely nothing by speculating about an Obama administration hit job in easily shareable news stories and videos. Friends of Abe gets a sympathetic A1 story in the New York Times, one that silences—for now, at least—some internal debate about whether Republican politicians were taking advantage of the group, seeing their celebrity members as potential donors.

And before we ask how D’Souza comes out of this, consider where he’s been. Back in 2012, around the time of the suspect donations, D’Souza resigned under duress from the presidency of King’s College. He’d scandalized the evangelical community after appearing at a conference with his fiancé, Denise Joseph, while not yet divorced from his wife. Denise Joseph happens to be the possible “straw donor” whose money was refunded by the Wendy Long campaign…

Yes, we have previously discussed D’Souza’s fiance here. Guess that God did indeed “have a mighty future for Dinesh“, and it would involve a banana peel.

(But, for the historical record, did anyone ever track down Denise’s first husband, Mr. Joseph II?)

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41Comments

  1. 1.

    jl

    January 27, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    I saw a news item that said one of D’Spuza’s friends involved in the bundling scam is accusing D’Souza of lying to get him (or was it a her?) involved in the mess.

    If that friend was involved in the investigation, or is going to rat out D’Souza to get away from the mess, I look forward to the conspiracy theories that explain that.

    Oh, yeah. Obama went back in his time machine and planted deep covers in neo-con circles to frame Great Men like D’Souza (edit: when the time was ripe). That’s the ticket.

  2. 2.

    WereBear

    January 27, 2014 at 9:38 pm

    The last thread was discussing sex appeal and charisma. Something notably lacking in any of the current Republican crop. And yet… they manage to get themselves in trouble over it, like real people. Like Newt… I can see one wife, out of pity, but he’s had what, three?

    Case of Kissinger-syndrome/power-aphrodisiac, I suppose.

  3. 3.

    WereBear

    January 27, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    @jl: The Obama as Time Lord theory does have a lot of appeal to it.

  4. 4.

    David

    January 27, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    Prediction: D’Souza will plead guilty and the Wingnuts will pretend not to notice.

  5. 5.

    Comrade Jake

    January 27, 2014 at 9:40 pm

    Dinesh looks a little like Tay Zonday to me:

    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEwTZ2xpQwpA

    Almost as annoying too.

  6. 6.

    Baud

    January 27, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    D’Souza is going to cut a plea deal where he gets no jail time, and then make millions on the wingnut circuit claiming to be an Obama holocaust survivor.

  7. 7.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 27, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    I love the idea that Obama is lashing out at his “enemies”. A pseudo-inetllectual third rate grifter and a social club in LA featuring Gary Sinise and Jon Cryer.

  8. 8.

    Anoniminous

    January 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    @WereBear:

    To be fair, Gingrich wife #3 is actually a robot.

  9. 9.

    Sad_Dem

    January 27, 2014 at 9:45 pm

    D’Souza also outed gay classmates while still in college. Quite the career he’s had.

  10. 10.

    BruinKid

    January 27, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    Wonder if Cole will chime in on this double murder in his state from a guy who shot his new neighbors on their own property, claiming he thought they were on his property.

    And now it seems the victims were two elderly black men, while the shooter is white, so that opens up a whole new can of worms.

  11. 11.

    Baud

    January 27, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    @BruinKid:

    Seems to me that, in West Virginia, those facts close up the can of worms.

  12. 12.

    Botsplainer

    January 27, 2014 at 9:56 pm

    @BruinKid:

    Wonder if Cole will chime in on this double murder in his state from a guy who shot his new neighbors on their own property, claiming he thought they were on his property.

    And now it seems the victims were two elderly black men, while the shooter is white, so that opens up a whole new can of worms.

    Tragic, but it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall the moment Bubba was informed that one of the murdered brothers had purchased the property. The deflation of smugly violent white righteousness would be instant and devastating.

  13. 13.

    Mnemosyne

    January 27, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    @Botsplainer:

    Tragic, but it would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall the moment Bubba was informed that one of the murdered brothers had purchased the property.

    Yes, because black people who bought property in white neighborhoods have never been threatened or killed for doing it.
    /eyeroll

  14. 14.

    KG

    January 27, 2014 at 10:01 pm

    @WereBear: if he regenerates, can he run for a third term?

  15. 15.

    jl

    January 27, 2014 at 10:05 pm

    @Botsplainer:

    ” The deflation of smugly violent white righteousness would be instant and devastating. ”

    Or a fury that a good law ‘bidin’ whayte man ware cawt up in som damn trik’

    Edit: maybe them two got themselves into that Nobummer’s time machine and they time traveled their way onto the land, from a time when they didn’t own it, so they was not really on it when they owned it in honest-to-God right now time. See?

  16. 16.

    Belafon

    January 27, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    @WereBear: But it’s a little disconcerting to think that Scott Brown’s election was a fixed point in time. Obama could have at least told Massachusetts to get a better candidate.

  17. 17.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 27, 2014 at 10:06 pm

    @BruinKid: “Elderly black men?” Elderly? They were 60 and 61. Elderly? Go fuck yourself.

  18. 18.

    Citizen_X

    January 27, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    @Botsplainer: They were at a shed that was right fucking next door to and behind his house. He knew damn well it wasn’t his shed. Who lives next door to a building and imagines, “Oh yeah, that’s mine” when it really isn’t?

  19. 19.

    aimai

    January 27, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Yeah. Exactly. What makes anyone think that he didn’t know the land had been sold? Up around here they put for sale signs up and people come and look at land they are going to buy. I’d bet he knew it had been sold to them or that they were potential buyers. This is doubly the case since the shed was not on his own property and he has to have known that.

  20. 20.

    Cervantes

    January 27, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    @WereBear:

    Like Newt… I can see one wife, out of pity, but he’s had what, three?

    Three wives, numerous other entanglements.

  21. 21.

    Cervantes

    January 27, 2014 at 10:16 pm

    @BruinKid:

    Black also told deputies in his statement that the “did not warn them nor did he call 911 when saw them.”

    West Virginia’s new “Stand Their Ground” law must have come into effect.

  22. 22.

    Yatsuno

    January 27, 2014 at 10:18 pm

    @aimai: He’s been charged with murder, so at least this won’t be a SYG case. Something tells me more details will come out as the trial goes forward.

  23. 23.

    Cervantes

    January 27, 2014 at 10:19 pm

    (But, for the historical record, did anyone ever track down Denise’s first husband, Mr. Joseph II?)

    Is there a real need to do this?

  24. 24.

    Incitatus for Senate

    January 27, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    @Cervantes: I believe that’s “sit your porch” in West Virginia.

  25. 25.

    Ignaz Playel

    January 27, 2014 at 10:31 pm

    @efgoldman: My parents had to deal with a neighbor’s shed that kind of got built 8 inches over the line into a part of our yard that was kept as a fallow field. My guess is that it might be his shed and something should have been done about its location before the property was sold. Not to excuse shooting people.

  26. 26.

    mike in dc

    January 27, 2014 at 10:32 pm

    Wait, the fiancée’ s name is Denise? So now, presumably, Dinesh D’Souza is married to Denise D’Souza? Dear Lord.

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 27, 2014 at 10:36 pm

    @mike in dc: for their honeymoon, they’re going on a cruise on the Dnieper

  28. 28.

    catclub

    January 27, 2014 at 10:37 pm

    @Yatsuno: “Something tells me more details will come out as the trial goes forward. ”

    Indeed, the guy’s house had LOTS of weapons and ammo.

  29. 29.

    MikeJ

    January 27, 2014 at 10:42 pm

    I’m guessing he shot them because they left their Subaru in his field for months.

  30. 30.

    Keith P

    January 27, 2014 at 10:43 pm

    Glad someone else wondered what the deal was with the affair/engagement. I have yet to get any kind of confirmation if whatshername divorced her husband, or if she realized “holy shit, we’d have some FREAKY looking kids!” and came to her senses.

  31. 31.

    Citizen_X

    January 27, 2014 at 10:46 pm

    @MikeJ: It’s West Virginia. There’s a lot of that kind of thing going on.

  32. 32.

    dr. luba

    January 27, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hasn’t Ukraine suffered enough?

  33. 33.

    Ted and Hellen

    January 27, 2014 at 10:56 pm

    This blog sucks when Cole isn’t posting regularly.

    The back bench just doesn’t have it.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 27, 2014 at 11:09 pm

    @Ted and Hellen:

    Um, dumbass, Cole was posting like mad last night.

    You can go away now, preferably forever.

  35. 35.

    Ted and Hellen

    January 27, 2014 at 11:11 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Yes, dumbass, he was. And BJ didn’t suck. And now it does again, See how that works?

    Tonight is NOT last night, and last night is not now…got it?

    Now go defecate down your own pie hole please.

  36. 36.

    Geeno

    January 27, 2014 at 11:36 pm

    @Ted and Hellen: No, when Cole’s posting BJ doesn’t suck – The commenters DO!!!!
    lol

  37. 37.

    Another Holocene Human

    January 28, 2014 at 12:05 am

    When Dinesh (Lord of the Day) achieves sainthood, the circle will be complete. (Joining Brigid (Irish mother/fire goddess), Jeophat (Boddhisattva), Christopher (the original Catholic pious legend/mythological being) and Dionysius )

    I relish the syncretism!

  38. 38.

    Tommy T

    January 28, 2014 at 12:05 am

    The Freeperati have it all figured out – it’s just like Hitler and/or Stalin:

    Unfortunately for Dinesh-don’t-tell, someone in Freeperville brings up his groupie diddling, and a purity war breaks out, leaving few survivors.

  39. 39.

    sm*t cl*de

    January 28, 2014 at 12:26 am

    his fiancé, Denise Joseph…
    D’Souza’s fiance

    Wait, what, there’s a gay marriage in the offing?

  40. 40.

    Another Holocene Human

    January 28, 2014 at 12:30 am

    @Sad_Dem: Don’t forget being in the Mean Girls Social Circle and Libertarian Fan Club with Ann Coulter in college.

  41. 41.

    Dolly Llama

    January 28, 2014 at 12:49 am

    @Comrade Jake: That voice does not match that person at all. And what the fuck do those lyrics even mean?

    ETA: If you have to explain why you’re doing certain things in a video — i.e., I’m moving away from the mic to breathe — you’re losing.

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