Controversy Doesn't Stop D'Souza's Gravy Train

Many on the right are trumpeting Dinesh D'Souza's new book not because its right or well argued, but because well... the White House doesn't like it.

Today I received the following in an email from Human Events advertising the new book by embattled conservative writer and “intellectual” Dinesh D’Souza:

I almost expect to see Obama lifted up the air Lion King style. (Though it should be noted that The Daily Show did that first.)

What’s interesting about the email is that it doesn’t argue that D’Souza’s thesis is right based on the merits (though the email does promise “reams of evidence” that couldn’t fit in the Forbes article). It argues that D’Souza is right based on how liberals (and it should be noted: sane conservatives) are criticizing it:

Bestselling conservative author Dinesh D'Souza has provoked a firestorm of controversy -- and a hail of abuse from liberals, including White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. …

Well, you can imagine the outcry. D'Souza, who is Indian-born, has been denounced as a racist, liar and much else. Virtually every major liberal commentator and media outlet has joined in the name-calling. …

This riveting new book [is] titled “The Roots of Obama's Rage” -- and despite what Robert Gibbs may say about it, we think it's such an important book, we're offering it to you FREE.

The key selling point isn’t that D’Souza is right because he is a scholarly man who did hard work, but that D’Souza is right because liberals and the White House say he is wrong.

The only question left is how far this can be taken. While this sort of standard already applies to topics such as climate change, evolution, and tax cuts as a solution to every problem, what other banal topics could this apply to? Whether it’s important to stay in school and study hard? (oh wait…)

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