Dreams from a Crackpot Universe

One of the problems with journalism is its love of novelty. Fret not that an argument makes no sense, love its novelty instead! This has been exacerbated in the internet era which, for all its many virtues, has been a boom-time for crackpots. One assumes that this explains why Forbes magazine, desperate for some attention, decided to give Dinesh D’Souza its cover this week to argue that, despite appearances to the contrary, Barack Obama’s presidency only makes any kind of sense if you remember that he’s actually wanting to honour the memory of the father he barely knew and destroy the United States of America. Obama, you see, is secretly channelling “the ideology of the Luo tribesman”. Yes indeedy. Let D’Souza explain it himself:

It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States. That is what I am saying.