Dinesh D'Souza caught in cheating scandal

[Juggity]

Guess he's not such a devout, religious hero after all (http://www.worldmag.com/2012/10/king_s_crisis) :lol

For the record, I have no problem with the act of cheating. The issue here is that D'Souza simply hasn't been practicing what he preaches. Why should anyone take D'Souza's opinion seriously, if he doesn't take his own opinion seriously?


About 2,000 people gathered on Sept. 28 at First Baptist North in Spartanburg, S.C., to hear high-profile Christians speak on defending the faith and applying a Christian worldview to their lives. Among the speakers: Eric Metaxas, Josh McDowell, and—keynote speaker for the evening—best-selling author, filmmaker, and Christian college president Dinesh D’Souza.D’Souza’s speech earned him a standing ovation and a long line at the book-signing table immediately afterward. Although D’Souza has been married for 20 years to his wife, Dixie, in South Carolina he was with a young woman, Denise Odie Joseph II, and introduced her to at least three people as his fiancée.

Finally, near 11 p.m., event organizer Tony Beam escorted D’Souza and Joseph to the nearby Comfort Suites. Beam noted that they checked in together and were apparently sharing a room for the night in the sold-out hotel. The next morning, around 6 a.m., Beam arrived back at the hotel and called up to D’Souza’s room. “We’ll be down in 10 minutes,” D’Souza told Beam. D’Souza and Joseph came down together, and Beam took them to the airport.

The next day another conference organizer, Alex McFarland, distressed by D’Souza’s behavior, confronted him in a telephone conversation. D’Souza admitted he shared a room with his fiancée but said “nothing happened.” When I called D’Souza, he confirmed that he was indeed engaged to Joseph, but did not explain how he could be engaged to one woman while still married to another. When asked when he had filed for divorce from his wife, Dixie, D’Souza answered, “Recently.”

According to San Diego County (Calif.) Superior Court records, D’Souza filed for divorce only on Oct. 4, the day I spoke with him. Under California law, that starts the clock on a six-month waiting period for divorce. D’Souza on Oct. 4 told me his marriage was “over,” said he “is sure Denise is the one for me,” and said he had “done nothing wrong.”
The episode is a strange twist in D’Souza’s otherwise meteoric rise in the evangelical world. He developed a reputation among evangelicals with a string of best-sellers, including The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which spawned a movie,Obama: 2016, which has now grossed more than $30 million. He broke into the Christian conference and megachurch market in 2007 with the release of a book that year, What’s So Great About Christianity.

D’Souza now receives speaking fees sometimes in excess of $10,000 from Christian groups, putting him in the top tier of Christian speakers. In 2010 he became president of The King’s College, New York City, which is supported by Campus Crusade for Christ, now called Cru. At that time he moved from California to New York, with his wife staying in California.
D’Souza said King’s board chairman Andy Mills has known about his marital trouble for at least two years. Mills confirmed that through a spokesman, Mark DeMoss, who added that Mills was “hopeful about restoration and both he [D’Souza] and Andy were praying to that end.” DeMoss said The King’s College board met by conference call to begin “looking into the situation.” D’Souza participated in a portion of that call, DeMoss said. Following that meeting, on Oct. 15, D’Souza wrote in a text message to me: “I have decided to suspend the engagement.”
The King’s board plans further discussion at a regularly scheduled meeting on Oct. 17 and 18, DeMoss said.

[clambake]

looks like she's cashing the checks from the mormon movie.

[boutons_deux]

"Christians" ! :lol

"he [D’Souza] and Andy were praying to that end." :lol piety! :lol Pray, Baby, Pray :lol

blame it on LGBT destroying hetero-marriages! :lol

[George Gervin's Afro]

looks like she's cashing the checks from the mormon movie.

It's on pay per view now!

[jack sommerset]

Cheating on your spouse is despicable. No excuse for it and it sounds like he is making excuses for it. God bless

[TeyshaBlue]

This is super important.

[rjv]

d'souza should stick to writing racist articles for the dartmouth review

[CosmicCowboy]

It takes a long time for the lawyers to work out all the details during a big money divorce like that involving intellectual property, future royalties, etc. They could have been separates for months/years.

[boutons_deux]

It takes a long time for the lawyers to work out all the details during a big money divorce like that involving intellectual property, future royalties, etc. They could have been separates for months/years.

Were they legally separated? If not, why not? Sounds like he was publicly married, but fucking a new honey. "Christians!", esp those who hold themselves up as examples of Christian living, etc, etc. "2016"! :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

I knew a couple that were separated (but still legally married) for two years while their lawyers fought it out.

[boutons_deux]

I knew a couple that were separated (but still legally married) for two years while their lawyers fought it out.

I figure if the guy were such stickler for, "high profile" example of Christian morality, " in the top tier of Christian speakers", that he'd get a legal separation and be free to screw around, live apart, etc, etc. Sounds like a big liar, who "threw stones" at Barry as a big liar.

[CosmicCowboy]

Meh

Divorce happens. The guy has hit it big and probably scored a new trophy wife.

[CosmicCowboy]

Hmmmm....not bad. Not bad at all.

http://www.facebook.com/denise.odiejosephii

[TeyshaBlue]

But it's still super important.

[CosmicCowboy]

Wife #1 was probably a fat spothead.

[clambake]

But it's still super important.

damn you, it is!!!!

:cry he was my idol.:cry

[Spurminator]

Just a desperate attempt to get in the tabloids, tbh. That's what happens when you go Hollywood. Sex tape is next.

[clambake]

Wife #1 was probably a fat spothead.

a red dot named dixie?

[TeyshaBlue]

Just a desperate attempt to get in the tabloids, tbh. That's what happens when you go Hollywood. Sex tape is next.

I'm out.

[ElNono]

Dude is expanding his horizons... colonialism!

[clambake]

got caught and immediately files for divorce.

she's probably saying "so this is what it took"

[TeyshaBlue]

Dude is expanding his horizons... colonialism!

His views on marriage are "evolving".

[jack sommerset]

Hmmmm....not bad. Not bad at all.

http://www.facebook.com/denise.odiejosephii

Check her favorite quote out. God bless

[clambake]

what is it, jack?

[Wild Cobra]

Wow...

If this is the best you liberals have on D’Souza, and think it's a worthwhile topic, then you are truly libtards.

[Winehole23]

you liberals = juggity and worldmag, whatever that is

[Winehole23]

agree 110% with TB. this is super important.

[boutons_deux]

This is super important.

So was Slick Willie's blow job

TB :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

So was Slick Willie's blow job

TB :lol

Lrn2contextualize, bot.

[Oh, Gee!!]

agree 110% with TB. this is super important.

it is to the evangelical audience he is courting to buy his products. evangelicals are consistent when it comes to judging people for sexual indiscretions, so it could end up costing D'Souza big bucks if he doesn't do something to appease his audience.

[TeyshaBlue]

it is to the evangelical audience he is courting to buy his products. evangelicals are consistent when it comes to judging people for sexual indiscretions, so it could end up costing D'Souza big bucks if he doesn't do something to appease his audience.

Yeah, the evangelical population of ST Politics is overwhelming. It's super important.

[Juggity]

D'Souza makes a documentary parroting his silly opinions about Obama, throwing stones from his perch atop the evangelical throne. I made this thread because it's satisfying to see idiots like D'Souza exposed defying their own belief system. He's about to contemplate his transgressions on the tree of woe when he loses his job and nobody takes him seriously anymore.

As I stated at the outset, the cheating is not the issue here. It's clearly not super important, but it is super fun to relish the associated shadenfreude that comes with D'Souza being discredited by his own congregation and devout followers.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNGj2vMS8jk

[Oh, Gee!!]

Yeah, the evangelical population of ST Politics is overwhelming. It's super important.

maybe not to you or me, but important to others nonetheless.

[TeyshaBlue]

.......fun.....
Fun. Aim higher.

[rjv]

actually, we should all aim higher than ST political forum

[Winehole23]

presumably about half the posters here will vote in November. does that count?

[Oh, Gee!!]

Fun. Aim higher.

why are you posting in this thread if you think the topic is stupid?

[TeyshaBlue]

why are you posting in this thread if you think the topic is stupid?

character flaw.


btw...made no judgement on the "stupidity" of the topic. Just that, in the scheme of things, it ranks about 145,339.957.947,846,358,986,836,445,025 th.

[Winehole23]

@ohgee: why not? making fun of other posters is a usual mode of posting here. aren't you doing it too?

[rjv]

presumably about half the posters here will vote in November. does that count?

meh. to those who thinks it makes a difference perhaps.

[Oh, Gee!!]

@ohgee: why not? making fun of other posters is a usual mode of posting here. aren't you doing it too?

me? No, don't believe I am doing that.

[ChumpDumper]

Wow...

If this is the best you liberals have on D’Souza, and think it's a worthwhile topic, then you are truly libtards.Eh, the idiocy of his "work" speaks for itself. I didn't know that having an anticolonial mindset was un-American and dangerous. His hypocrisy is just fun.

[mercos]

Another "morals" and "values" Republican caught doing the things he preaches against. Shocker.

[Juggity]

well, that was fast.

D'Souza resigned today. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/dinesh-d-souza-resigns-presidency-of-the-king-s-college.html)

[Juggity]

I wasn't planning on bumping this again, but I hope you will read just a snippet of this article about the married woman with whom D'Souza had the affair:

Link (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/big-love-king-s-college-dsouzas-mistress-was-also-married)


As others have noted, one of the things that she lusted after on her "I, Denise, Lust After…" blog was D'Souza, one of her "favorite conservative activist philosophers (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/10/dinesh-dsouza-caught-not-divorcing-quickly-enough/58018/)." And as Brian noted (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dinesh-dsouza-religious-right-sex-scandal) on Tuesday, she shares D'Souza's right-wing views and has strong words for liberals about marriage, divorce, adultery and cohabitation.D'Souza may have lost his ridiculous 7-figure King's College salary (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/10/18/dinesh-d-souza-resigns-presidency-of-the-king-s-college.html), but at least now he has a mate who shares his deeply held hypocrisy and fluid, self-serving morality. This could be the start of something big....

Oh man :lol

[clambake]

good bump

[boutons_deux]

"Show me a Puritan and I'll show you a son-of-a-bitch"

http://quotes.dictionary.com/author/H.L.+Mencken?page=2#giyYtgkg4mkplgO0.99

[jack sommerset]

what is it, jack?

"a house divided cannot stand" God bless

[clambake]

"a house divided cannot stand" God bless

yep. thats why they booted him.

[ElNono]

Senators write FBI over Dinesh D’Souza case

Four Republican senators have sent FBI Director James Comey a letter regarding conservative author and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who was indicted for campaign finance fraud last month.
In the letter (http://images.politico.com/global/2014/02/21/2014-02-19_ceg_sessions_cruz_lee_to_fbi_routine_reviews.ht ml), Sens. Charles Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee quote Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz as saying, “I can’t help but think that [D’Souza’s] politics have something to do with it. … It smacks of selective prosecution.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/dinesh-dsouza-fbi-103777.html (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/dinesh-dsouza-fbi-103777.html#ixzz2u0N6d9iu)

[boutons_deux]

Senators write FBI over Dinesh D’Souza case

Four Republican senators have sent FBI Director James Comey a letter regarding conservative author and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza, who was indicted for campaign finance fraud last month.
In the letter (http://images.politico.com/global/2014/02/21/2014-02-19_ceg_sessions_cruz_lee_to_fbi_routine_reviews.ht ml), Sens. Charles Grassley, Jeff Sessions, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee quote Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz as saying, “I can’t help but think that [D’Souza’s] politics have something to do with it. … It smacks of selective prosecution.”


Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/dinesh-dsouza-fbi-103777.html (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/02/dinesh-dsouza-fbi-103777.html#ixzz2u0N6d9iu)



:lol what gang of assholes.

[boutons_deux]

campaign donation records and incriminating audio tape indicate that the right-leaning activist knew full well that he was breaking the law and was even planning ahead of time what he would do if he got caught.

A former aide to the Reagan White House and author of The Roots of Obama’s Rage, D’Souza is charged with using straw donors to illegally contribute $20,000 to the U.S. Senate campaign of Wendy Long, a former school friend of D’Souza’s who unsuccessfully ran against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) in 2012.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/23/prosecutors-cuckolded-husbands-tape-proves-dinesh-dsouza-knew-he-broke-campaign-laws/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[RandomGuy]

Interesting the way some of the creationist quacks end up in trouble with the law, and doing stupid things.

Faith is poisonous, IMO.


Playboy: Has no religion, in your estimation, ever offered anything of constructive value to human life?
Ayn Rand: Qua religion, no - in the sense of blind belief, belief unsupported by, or contrary to, the facts of reality and the conclusions of reason. Faith, as such, is extremely detrimental to human life: it is the negation of reason.

[boutons_deux]

faith and reason aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. The problem is when faith trumps reason, facts. Studies have shown positions of faith, emotion do not change when challenged by facts, esp when they are based on religion.

[boutons_deux]

Conservative Author D’Souza Pleads Guilty In Campaign Scheme

http://www.nationalmemo.com/conservative-author-dsouza-pleads-guilty-campaign-scheme/
and there was no need for a Linda Tripp to rescue the prosecution.

[RandomGuy]

faith and reason aren't necessarily mutually exclusive.

Yes, actually they are.

[xrayzebra]

So was Slick Willie's blow job

TB :lol

If it had been you on the other end of the telephone, would it have been important to know how much your phone call rated. I will have to say old slick was a multi-tasker. But sloppy when it came to blue dresses.

Of course the swimmer, Teddy, had a hard time driving over bridges with women other than his wife.

[rjv]

d'souza-scumbag and d-bag since his days at dartmouth and with reagan.

[boutons_deux]

Yes, actually they are.

they aren't

[RandomGuy]

they aren't

Faith is an abdication of reason. It is believing in something despite the fact that you have no good reason to.