A YOU TUBE SEPPUKU MIGHT HAVE BEEN MORE FITTING BUT THE WRETCHED DINESH D'SOUZA APOLOGIZED FOR HIS LATEST HOMPHOBIC OUTBURST TODAY

A male Ann Coulter forced to apologize

You probably know that there isn't a single member of Congress-- not in either house-- who is both an African American and a Republican. The Party, which can-- but won't-- boast having once elected the first African American senator in modern times, Ed Brooke (R-MA), is now completely captive of racist NeoConfederates. By January, 2009 it will be clearly recognized as a regional southern party with racist, xenophobic, Know Nothing sympathizers here and there outside the states that started the Civil War. But between now and then there will be a Republican convention and they don't usually parade their closeted KKK dragons in front of the national media. Instead they try to dig up some moderates... and some people of color, for their little minstrel show. They try to present themselves-- especially after the Buchanan fiasco-- to independents and the general public as a legitimate, all-American political party that can appeal to everyone.

There aren't all that many people of color they can turn to to shuck and jive for them. One sure shot though is a two-for-one, a person of color and an immigrant (a legal, very rich one). If you know who Dinesh D'Souza is at all, you probably remember that he's an extremely partisan far right author and commentator. He was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1961. One of his first brushes with fame was when he was a 20 year old student at Dartmouth, already a vicious little homophobe, and he published the names of the officers of the Gay Student Alliance, many of whom were in the closet. He's widely dismissed as just a male Ann Coulter (an ex-girlfriend, as was Igraham), only he's uglier and takes himself more seriously. Most mainstream conservatives view him as a lightweight and a kook and he hasn't been taken seriously in quite a few years. He writes for AOL now.

I nearly blogged about an incendiary piece he wrote last month, Gays in the Military? Ask Cardinal Mahony. But then I realized he has no following and no one cares what drivel he's babbling so why bother giving him any publicity. I was wrong. AOL was flooded with complaints, as was Stanford's Hoover Institution, a radical right "think tank" that harbors hate mongers like D'Souza.

AOL pressured him and he was forced to send out an apology to their staff today. The note wasn't published but a DWT insider was happy to send it along.

August 23, 2007
 
To: AOL
 
From: Dinesh D'Souza
 
On July 16, 2007 I posted on my AOL blog an item titled "Gays in the Military? Ask Cardinal Mahony."  This item attributed to a friend in the military the view that "if the American military gets soundly whipped in a future engagement, we could always laugh off the defeat and say: well, yeah, but you only beat a bunch of gays."
 
This was an attempt on my part at humor, but clearly it misfired.  Upon reflection the item could easily be taken as showing a cavalier disregard for gays being harmed, and this was certainly not my intention.  Some readers also thought I equated pedophiles in the church with gays in the military. The mention of the two topics in the same post may unfortunately have given the false impression that I see no difference between pedophilia and homosexuality. This is not the case.
 
I can see why some readers were offended by the tone and content of this post.  Given the sensitivity of this subject, it was careless and insensitive on my part to have adopted such a derisive attitude at the expense of others' feelings.
 
I strongly believe that all people in this country are entitled to equal dignity and equal rights.  I will be more careful in the future.

I wonder if this guy has ever considered seeing a psychiatrist.