what this accomplished. this author in particular in the past has been a foundation for these kinds of things. he wrote a whole book claiming that cultural icons, american icons like britney spears caused 9/11 by outraging islamic values, offending islamic values i ve never heard those two words in the same sentence i know, britney spears and a lot of politicians like pat robertson went on to say yeah, it s the godless american cultural leaders who caused 9/11. and that was that s what this author accomplished in that case. dinesh d souza told me he explicitly rejects the whole birther movement and he told me he drew this from obama s own memoir, dreams from my father. here is a man, the article says, who spent his formative years, the first 17 years of his life, off the american mainland in haw haurks indonesia, and pakistan with multiple subsequent journeys to africa. well, hawaii may be off the american mainland and by the
way, he only visited pakistan once as a college student. so your thoughts on that briefly. that was a real problem in that piece because i do consider hawaii part of the united states, whether it s part of the mainland or not. and he did spend some time in indonesia. i read the book. and one of the he talked about when he went to indonesia sort of becoming more might is right in his thinking when he was a kid there. so i just don t know where that where these ideas come from. this is a mystery to me. that forbes printed this and gave it that is a mystery. okay. i ve got to go. by the way, the article says that blames obama for an export-import bank loan to brazil, which in fact was done by a commission that had no obama appointees on this at the time. that was just one example people pointed to. john avlon, debra saunders, craig crawford, thanks very much for joining us this morning. and coming up in the second part of reliable sources, glenn beck, michelle obama, and one
about that. he s asked about dinesh d souza but it s just silly. i think the white house was right about the dinesh d souza piece. i don t like psychoanalyzing the president. i think there are better things we have to do as journalists. i think this was psychobabble, it wasn t even psychoanalysis. dinesh d souza. you know how you ve got to have a gimmick. it s like i grew up in mumbai and obama grew up in indonesia as a kid so he s got to have this world view. it s a 1i8y construct. and as you pointed out there were mistakes in it too. d souza told me this was a psychological theory he had devised. what do you make of this argument that o babama is adopt these anti-clonal policies and believes in this because of his dad? i think americans in general forget that the individual is separate from the sins of the father, that somehow a belief