Dinesh D'Souza, the embattled conservative writer and filmmaker, is hardly suffering the indignity of public wrath after recent high-profile problems. If anything, he has triumphed,
National Journal reports.
The author, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, followed D'Souza during his mid-summer tour promoting his political documentary film "America" and its accompanying book.
Despite
pleading guilty to funneling money to a friend running for the U.S. Senate in New York in late May, D'Souza's book and film were hits among his followers just a month and half later, as Americans were celebrating the Fourth of July.
It's been that way for most of D'Souza's career, the Journal says. Even a reported extramarital affair that cost him his job as president of King's College, a Christian school in New York City, in 2012 didn't derail the career of the self-described "bomb thrower."
"You should just see the number of times there are articles on 'Dinesh's career is over,'" D'Souza told the Journal. "My career is apparently over every two years."
Those articles began in 2007 when D'Souza published "The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11." He followed up with a movie and book blaming the anti-colonial views of Obama's father for what D'Souza sees as Obama's anti-American position.
Some on the right have distanced themselves from D'Souza since. But others, including talk show host Glenn Beck, have embraced him.
D'Souza wears the criticisms as a badge of honor. They're nothing new to him, as the left has made him a punching bag since his college days as editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review.
An immigrant from India, D'Souza developed a quick distaste for the views of fellow students who were critical of America while romanticizing South Asia.
"I said, 'What do you find particularly liberating about India?'" he wrote of his experience in The Washington Post in 1991. "'Is it the caste system? Is it dowry? Is it arranged marriage?'"
D'Souza is scheduled to be sentenced later this month on the election fraud charges. He has asked the judge for community service, saying, "This should not have happened, and I am ashamed and contrite that it did."
But the Journal notes that only two days later, he tweeted a screen shot of his Facebook page and its 350,000 "likes," adding, "The Obama campaign to shut me up: is it working?"
Fox News Channel's
"The Kelly File" has brought D'Souza in twice to debate the leftists he blames for undermining America. First it was former Weather Underground member Billy Ayers, and just last week former University of Colorado Boulder Professor Ward Churchill.
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Churchill has seen less success after his own public blaming of American foreign policy for the 9/11 attacks. Churchill was fired from his professorship in 2007 over allegations of research misconduct.
But D'Souza keeps winning, the Journal writes.
"If you've ever wondered how it came to be that a guy who makes a critically massacred movie about 'anticolonialism' becomes the most popular political filmmaker in the country, it's because you're on the other side of that divide," van Zuylen-Wood writes. "Nobody's really reading that wry Weekly Standard review or that snide Salon takedown. They're driving to a movie theater you've never been to and buying a $12 ticket to 'America.'"
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