Editing Dinesh D'Souza (section)

====''The Roots of Obama's Rage''====
The September 2010 book by D'Souza, ''The Roots of Obama's Rage'' (published in condensed form in a September 2010 ''[[Forbes]]'' op-ed), interprets President [[Barack Obama]]'s past and how it formed his beliefs. D'Souza states that Obama is "living out his father's dream", so that "[i]ncredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s", who, D'Souza goes on to describe as a "philandering, inebriated African socialist".<ref name="forbes-HOT">{{cite magazine|last=D'Souza|first=Dinesh|date=September 9, 2010|title=How Obama Thinks|url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html|url-status=live|magazine=[[Forbes]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928145329/http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html|archive-date=September 28, 2010|access-date=September 27, 2010}}</ref> The book appeared on [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]] for four weeks in October–November 2010.<ref name="Schuessler" />

Ryan Chittum, in an article in the ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'', described the ''Forbes'' article as "a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia ... the worst kind of smear journalism—a singularly disgusting work".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Chittum|first=Ryan|date=September 13, 2010|title=Forbes' Shameful Piece on Obama as the "Other"|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_audit/forbes_shameful_obama_dinesh_dsouza.php|url-status=live|magazine=Columbia Journalism Review|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223012842/http://cjr.org/the_audit/forbes_shameful_obama_dinesh_dsouza.php/|archive-date=December 23, 2016|access-date=December 23, 2016}}</ref> Commentators on both the right and left strongly disputed assertions made about Obama in the book and article. The left-leaning [[Media Matters for America]] wrote that "''The Roots of Obama's Rage'' [was] rooted in lies".<ref>{{cite news|last=Maloy|first=Simon|date=October 4, 2010|title=D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage rooted in lies|publisher=[[Media Matters]]|url=http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/10/04/dsouzas-the-roots-of-obamas-rage-rooted-in-lies/171476|url-status=live|access-date=February 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223185906/http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/10/04/dsouzas-the-roots-of-obamas-rage-rooted-in-lies/171476|archive-date=February 23, 2017}}</ref> Daniel Larison of ''[[The American Conservative]]'' stated: "Dinesh D'Souza has authored what may possibly be the most ridiculous piece of Obama analysis yet written ... All in all, D'Souza's article reads like a bad conspiracy theory."<ref name=":13">{{cite magazine|last=Larison|first=Daniel|date=September 9, 2010|title=Obama, Anticolonial Hegemonist?|url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/obama-anticolonial-hegemonist|url-status=live|magazine=The American Conservative|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160401235440/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/obama-anticolonial-hegemonist/|archive-date=April 1, 2016|access-date=December 23, 2016}}</ref> Larison criticized D'Souza's suggestion that Obama is anti-business, citing a lack of evidence.<ref name=":13" /> [[Andrew Ferguson]] of ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' wrote, "D'Souza always sees absence of evidence as evidence of something or other ... There is, indeed, a name for the beliefs that motivate President Obama, but it's not anticolonialism; it's not even socialism. It's liberalism!".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Ferguson|first=Andrew|date=October 25, 2010|title=The Roots of Lunacy|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-lunacy_508809.html|url-status=dead|magazine=The Weekly Standard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911073239/http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/roots-lunacy_508809.html|archive-date=September 11, 2015|access-date=December 23, 2016}}</ref> The magazine published D'Souza's letter, in which he expressed surprise "at the petty, vindictive tone of Andrew Ferguson's review".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Halper|first=Daniel|date=October 25, 2010|title=The Roots of Lunacy, Cont.|url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/roots-lunacy-cont_511913.html?page=2|url-status=dead|magazine=The Weekly Standard|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029020818/http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/roots-lunacy-cont_511913.html?page=2|archive-date=October 29, 2014|access-date=December 23, 2016}}</ref>