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Summary: Very Informative!
Review: Honest and funny are the best words to describe "Stupid White Men". I first found out about Michael Moore when I saw his film "Roger & Me" (the highest grossing documentary of all time) in high school. His next film "The Big One" shook up the country, along with his first book "Downsize This" (4-5 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list").If you read "Stupid White Men" you will learn all about the corruption between the two party system, Global Warming & the hole in the Ozone layer (which is twice the size of Europe), George W. Bush/Dick Chenny's special intrest groups. Most important though, you will read all the things you never hear on television or the radio. In short "Stupid White Men" is a fun read. It's worth your time and money. If your unsure about this book check out "Downsize This" and learn how corporations layoff thousands of workers and move to Mexico, even when the company is making millions in profits...
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Summary: More of Moore!
Review: Mr. Moore bravely defends the Left's commitment to "Jeffersonian Democracy as reinterpreted by Karl Marx" in an "in your face" way. Most timid, modern leftist could use a heavy dose of his confrontational, unapologetic articulation of his beliefs. Moore's uncompromising belief that the constitution and the supreme court were intended for the exclusive advancement of Neo-Socialist idealogies is both refreshing and thought-provokeing - as well as being quite amusing in a reverse-racist sort of way (hey, some of my best friends are 'Stupid White men').
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Summary: Hilarious but True!
Review: "Stupid White Men . . ." by Michael Moore delivers punches right and left, but with humor. Being one of the 60% or so of Americans concerned with the ecology, the economy, America's place in the world, constant threat of terrorism, nuclear war, etc . .. and one who is constantly frustrated that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer while the middle-class American supports them all. Thank you, Mr. Moore. Take his advice, get involved with government, do what it takes to turn this country around and on the right track. The middle-class American has stayed moot for too long and taken more than they should have. We have the power and should use it. It's time to end the malaise.
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Summary: A wake-up call for the nation!
Review: I just got my copy of "SWM" and I couldn't put it down! Michael Moore is a lone prophet, shouting the truth no one wants to hear from the midst of the corporate media wilderness. This book may make a lot of people angry. In fact, if it DOESN'T make you angry, there's most likely something wrong with you. To anyone angry at Moore and not at the state our country is in, I challenge you to disprove his facts. This book should be required reading. I'm recommending it to everyone I know. It's incendiary, yes - but also necessary.
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Summary: Humor with bite and truth
Review: I bought this book yesterday and have been unable to put it down! Actually, it just confirms what I had known already. ... How can we know all these facts and not ACT! Thanks Michael - once again - to have the guts and the foresight to show your patriotism by telling the world that indeed the emperor has no clothes on. A great book that belongs in every bookshelf. Hopefully the paperback version will be available soon - so everyone can buy it!!!
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Summary: Michael Moore Does It Again
Review: Michael Moore has been a voice for the common people since his national debut in 1989 with the film "Roger and Me". In "Stupid White Men" he hits gold again. In his funny, fresh, and familiar style he once again plays the role of the little boy pointing out what everyone knows but dares not say - that the emperor has no clothes. While you may not agree with the points he makes in the book, they will make you think - and laugh.
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Summary: America's funniest populist strikes again!
Review: If we could ever get a Michael Moore/Jim Hightower ticket, it would be unbeatable -- we'd have the vast majority of the population on simple economics, and with wicked comedy we would democratically crush the corporate elite minority! Until then, we have Mike's and Jim's various forms of Free Unadulterated Speech, speaking truth to power. A reminder to those many conservatives and libertarians of the Net -- Moore was railing against the growing inequality of our society all through the Clintonian '90s, and only continues with renewed purpose under the ... reign of Dubbaya...
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Summary: Kicking Butt and Taking Names
Review: "Now is the Winter of our discontent, made glorious Summer by this Son of Bush." So would Stupid White Men, the most recent book from Roger & Me director and progressive activist Michael Moore, open if he were more inclined to Shakespeare - or found more monkeys to sit at his typewriters. Fresh off of his campaign to elect Ralph Nader, Green party candidate, in the 2000 election, and his most-recent documentary film (still unreleased and officially untitled and under-wraps), Moore returns with this slamming, damning attack on modern Amerika - and all that implies.Never one for subtlety, Moore refers to Bush as the Commander in Thief and pretty much goes from there. Those familiar with his in-your-face style and unapologetic politics will probably want to pick this book up as soon as possible, and, if Moore is right, it's not a moment too soon. Nothing is sacred here: lefties get the lampooning stick just as much as the righties, and there are equal chapters bashing Clinton (the best Republican president we've ever had!) and Bush (who, regardless of electoral votes, still lost by half a million popular votes). Moore's a hard bug to pin down, but the main premise of his attacks is that both political parties aren't working for voters, but for their own self-preservation. Heavy on issues like campaign finance reform, Stupid White Men concerns itself with taking on those maladjusted bastards who think the country somehow belongs to them, everyone else be damned: the Stupid White Men. Even before it's release, Stupid White Men garnered much support by listing as an...bestseller, largely because of the censorship story surrounding it. Over 40,000 copies had already come off the press when terrorists crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and HarperCollins, fearing that no-one would want to read an anti-Bush book in the post-9-11 world, was going to scrap the project entirely. Thankfully, they only delayed it a bit, and even though Americans might not like anti-Bush statements at the moment (although recent polls show Bush's support has slipped to pre-9-11 levels), Stupid White Men's sales have proven that Americans care for censorship even less. ... Moore has more than made up for the utter lack of decorum he displayed after the 9-11 attacks. At a time when the nation was hurting and needed time to heal, Moore decided to rub salt in the wound, and made himself a lot of enemies by doing so. Thankfully, Stupid White Men redeems him a little bit, and although his true talent lies in film and T.V., it's a good follow-up to his other books (Downsize This! and Adventures in a TV Nation). SWM is meticulously researched, which is another refreshing thing about Moore - unlike Rush and his brand of blowhards, who inspire entire books citing facts that they either ignored or lied about, Michael actually bothers to do the research and back up his claims. It's a refreshing change of pace for the modern political writer...
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Summary: The People's Champ
Review: Moore may not be our most sophisticated thinker, but he sure knows how to turn solid research into a fantastic read. Stupid White Men provides a cheap laugh in every direction, with Dubya, Gore, and Clinton coming in for special attention guaranteed to have liberals everywhere giggling with glee and a dash of self-righteousness. In between the jokes are stomach-churning, well-researched tales of some of the most frustrating events in recent times, like Governor Bush handing over the election to his brother and Enron playing fast and loose with billions of hard-earned bucks. He includes lists of sources, both articles and other books, which makes a great shopping list for follow-up reading material. If it wasn't for Moore offering up jokes about these realities, most readers would put down the book in tears. Make no mistake--this is a political work that addresses the relationships of corporations with our social and political ills. It is overwhelming and disheartening in the extreme. Like all good teachers, Moore uses his humor to make a point: we are letting this happen! Don't get sidetracked by escapades with interns while new laws are signed on maintaining the status quo. Learn as much about our business leaders as possible--chances are they are also behind-the-scenes political leaders. Join the school board. Write your senators and representatives. Run for local government. Start some new state initiatives. Inform yourself. And if Moore has his way, have fun doing all of it.
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Summary: This isn't Stupid
Review: Laugh at reality if you can. After reading this the truth seriously rings home as to what white leaders in the USA have blundered at. This is a very real book, very bold reality. More than a look at what decisions have been made, but future consequences. Michael Moore did not put this together just from everyday known events, he did some indepth study. It is mostly a book about what has taken place in the USA due to white leaders, then takes a very broad look at the results now and in our future. You get a sense of frustration from Michael, giving way as to the reason why he wrote the book, he is fed up with it, would like to change it. I have recently read a super book by an intelligent white person who talks on these exact lines but has super solutions, a must read that completes this, author, Karl Mark Maddox
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