Someone Think of the Children

This is happening at an actual institution of higher education:

Each spring, the King's College, a Christian school occupying two floors in the Empire State Building, hosts a series of lectures and debates on a single theme. This year's theme is villainy. In a windowless basement room, Dinesh D'Souza, the college's newly installed president, is delivering his remarks to a student camera crew, two potential donors, and about 30 undergraduates. In keeping with the college's dress code, the students wear business suits. 

"I want to talk a little bit about what I call the unique villainy of Barack Obama," D'Souza, 50, says with a grin. "In my view, it's the villainy of nondisclosure." Obama campaigned as a standard liberal, D'Souza says, but actually is a vehement anti-colonialist. "For Obama, the radical Muslims are on the right side of history -- that's why he is so unnaturally solicitous toward them." 

This theory, D'Souza's idiosyncratic twist on birtherism, forms the core of his 2010 book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, which was, like many of D'Souza's books, both a New York Times best seller and a piñata for critics of all political stripes. Even the conservative Weekly Standard lamented the book's "misstatements of fact, leaps in logic, and pointlessly elaborate argumentation." 

 An austere young man asks, "Doesn't the villainy of deception sort of pale in comparison to Obama's moral villainies, such as supporting the abortion agenda or even the redistribution of wealth, stealing from the rich to give to the poor?" 

"In a sense, yes," D'Souza concedes...

Fear for the youth of America. Somewhere, someone is being educated by a dude a step away from the tin-foil