Dinesh D'Souza dunked on Ball State. Responses on Twitter didn't go so well for him
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MUNCIE, Ind. — A slap at Ball State University by conservative commentator Dinesh D'Souza sent Ball State trending on Twitter Tuesday morning.
In response to a critical piece on his documentary "2000 Mules" by Ball State grad Amanda Carpenter, D'Souza on Tuesday tweeted "Ball State grad @amandacarpenter offers a good lesson in the limitations of studying film criticism at a third-rate university," complete with a link to her article, titled "Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules Is a Hilarious Mockumentary," on The Bulwark website.
Carpenter and others were quick with the comebacks, plenty of them critical of his dismissal Ball State's — or any state school's — academic worth.
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I’m a proud public school kid from a rural town who worked her way thru college on her own. I worked a bazillion jobs and spent every extra second I had on debate team. I’ll never not be grateful and happy for that. pic.twitter.com/WjBy4savtr
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) May 17, 2022
That's a really great piece from Amanda Carpenter, thank you for sharing! It seems she got an excellent education in critical thinking and writing from Ball State, no matter how much Ivy League elites like Mr D'Souza turn their noses up at public state schools.
— Heather Hughson 🇺🇦 (@HNHughson) May 17, 2022
Today I learned (thanks to @amandacarpenter's fellow Ball State grads appropriately rallying to her defense against @DineshDSouza's pathetic "attack"), that as Ball State's teams are the Cardinals, Ball State's trademark cheer seems to be "Chirp! Chirp!"
America is great.
🐦🐦 https://t.co/7jqC3Lix1z— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) May 17, 2022
Great piece by @ballstate grad @amandacarpenter pointing out felon, @DineshDSouza new comedy.
— Michael J. Hicks (@HicksCBER) May 17, 2022
A third rate university”. Really? Who do you think you are? I am proud of my public, in state, university education which led to a successful stint in law school and now I’m in my 20th year of being a prosecuting attorney. https://t.co/Y6yk7JDOQU
— Eric Hoffman (@emhoffman08) May 17, 2022
Fellow Ball State alum David Letterman, was of course cited — or memed — in some responses.
Ball State produced the most successful TV host of the last 40 years, unlike Dartmouth which produced you, the least successful TV pundit of the same time period.
— M White (@PJMatt) May 17, 2022
Before embarking on a career as a political commentator, author and currently a columnist for The Bulwark, Carpenter became well known at Ball State in the early 2000s for making claims of liberal bias among faculty members.
In November 2004 Star Press coverage of a speech on campus by Eric Schlosser, author of "Fast Food Nation," Carpenter was pictured passing out free McDonald's hamburgers and fries as a protest of BSU paying Schlosser to speak and using his bestselling book as the freshman reader.
This article originally appeared on Muncie Star Press: Dinesh D'Souza dunks on Ball State, setting off Cardinals on Twitter