There's little doubt that young Barack Obama was strongly influenced by communists Frank Marshall Davis and William Ayers. Just about everything else in the film is Joel Gilbert's personal opinion, which he doesn't bother trying to prove.
shareIt's worse than that -- there's not even any real evidence that the young Barack Obama was strongly influenced by William Ayers.
shareI don’t think the movie says he was “strongly influenced” by Willian Ayers. It says he shacked up to him, made a connection with his politically influential billionaire father, and was subsequently elected to office. Makes sense.
The mainstream narrative is the one that doesn’t make any sense. “Guilty as sin, free as a bird”. That requires a better explanation than courts are unpredictable. Being a billionaire with a class conscience needs a better explanation than he just really cares about people. Patty Hearst didn’t go to jail either. The same media that venerates them holds up the TEA party as the poster child for homegrown terrorism, white Alqaeda, white Sharia, etc... If you don’t think they have their own mythology, then this movie had no chance of getting through.
It’s worse than that. Why was Stanley Ann Dunham posing nude for a celebrated black communist photographer under investigation by her CIA agent father? Coincidence.