Conservatism’s former enfant terrible has been cast out of polite society and may soon face jail time. But business has never been better.
Dinesh D’Souza is scrolling through his iPhone, showing me photos of C-list movie stars. “So my latest thing is tweeting out pictures of me with really attractive actresses,” he says, giggling. There he is, standing next to a blond woman. “This is the actress Kelly Carlson. She came to one of our screenings. She’s in, you know, Made of Honor.” (“Christie/Wife #6.”) He scrolls some more. “This is Stacey Dash, who’s in Clueless.” (“Dionne.”). “She’s a huge fan so she tweets out all my stuff.”
Ah, fame. It’s late July, and D’Souza and I are wrapping up a lunch buffet at an Italian restaurant in the Omni Mandalay Hotel at Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. With us is D’Souza’s business partner and frequent travel companion Bruce Schooley, a self-described inventor from Washington state whom D’Souza met on a National Review cruise. They’re here in the Dallas suburbs to promote D’Souza’s documentary America: Imagine the World Without Her on Glenn Beck’s radio and television programs, which are broadcast out of a nearby studio.
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