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2016: Obama’s America or,
the legacy media’s disinterest in Obama’s intellectual upbringing

August 31, 2012 by B. Daniel Blatt

Up in the Santa Barbara area to hobnob with friends from my grad program in myth (and attend a myth conference).  This afternoon, we took a break to see the hit movie 2016: Obama’s America. Not sure I buy the thesis, but was impressed at the size of the crowd. It looked like over 150 people there for a 1 PM matinee on a Friday. And take a gander at the marquee at the theater where we caught the flick:

Seems an equal opportunity theater, going from showing a movie quite critical of Obama to hosting Obama apologists.

The flick did do one thing which all too many in our legacy media have failed to do, inquire into Obama’a intellectual background, finding the individuals who and considering the ideas which influenced the future president.

Folks in the media keep suggesting that we really don’t know much about Mitt Romney, but, well, we know a lot less about the incumbent President of the United States than we do about the man vying to replace him.  And we knew even less about Barack Obama in 2008 when he, like Mr. Romney this week, was first nominated by a major political party for the highest office in the land.

Filed Under: 2008 Presidential Politics, 2012 Presidential Election, Media Bias, Movies/Film & TV, Obama Worship & Indoctrination, Where's the Scrutiny?

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  1. ILoveCapitalism says

    August 31, 2012 at 7:26 pm - August 31, 2012

    we knew even less about Barack Obama in 2008 when he, like Mr. Romney this week, was first nominated by a major political party for the highest office in the land.

    Along those lines: it may be fun to point out again that Sarah Palin was, in 2008, MORE QUALIFIED THAN OBAMA AND BIDEN combined, to be President. Whatever you think of her – however thin her resume was – she had infinitely** more real-life executive experience than Obama and Biden.

    (**Obama and Biden had zero executive experience. Mathematicians know that when you try to compare a positive quantity to a zero, in a ratio, the ratio’s value is infinity.)

  2. TGC says

    August 31, 2012 at 7:56 pm - August 31, 2012

    (and attend a myth conference).

    Is that a conference that doesn’t exist, but people have talked about it quite a bit?

  3. Cinesnatch says

    August 31, 2012 at 9:53 pm - August 31, 2012

    Dan, If possible, can you please share the thesis and what points you agree/disagree with?

  4. Cinesnatch says

    August 31, 2012 at 11:20 pm - August 31, 2012

    The director of 2016 was responsible for outing students at Dartmouth:

    http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dinesh_D%27Souza#Outing_gays_at_Dartmouth

  5. Seane-Anna says

    September 1, 2012 at 12:11 pm - September 1, 2012

    Cinesnatch #4, And? Are you implying that discredits D’Souza’s arguments, or discredits D’Souza as a person? If not, why bring this up? (I’m assuming that your source is accurate.)

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