Team Obama says Dinesh D'souza film based on 'lies'

WASHINGTON: Indian American filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, whose documentary on the US president has climbed up the box office chart, has come in for severe criticism by the the Obama campaign which accused him of launching a smear campaign against Barack Obama.
The Obama campaign also alleged that the movie is a deliberate distortion of Obama's record and world view.
"The facts show that '2016: Obama's America' is nothing more than an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the president by giving intellectual cover to the worst in subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks," the Obama campaign said in a recent blog.
It alleges that D'Souza's writings and film are "based on lies (and) should not come as a surprise" given his "long history of attempting to add a veneer of intellectual respectability to fringe theories, conspiratorial fear-mongering, and flat-out falsehoods".
The documentary, which equates reelection of US President Barack Obama with the death and dismemberment of the United States of America, this week, according to Box Office Mojo, has been running at number three.