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Summary: FANTASTIC
Review: This book is amazing...a very fast read. I thought it was going to be a bunch of liberal garbage being shoved down my throat...instead is was thought-provoking and enlightening. It will make you want to get out of your chair and change things...I know I now want to run for President as soon as I hit the age requirement. But it now!
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Summary: Quality silliness
Review: A great read for anyone who thinks they can accept the truth.And if you can't, I hope you read it anyway and blow a gasket. With that said, Michael Moore is shamelessly over the top, and as biased as is humanly possible. While he brings up excellent points, you're best off finding additional references for any topic or statistic that he brings up. The nice thing is that, for a firebrand-political-commentator, Moore isn't a "hardline," "tough," "hardball"-playing jerk.
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Summary: It wasn't even that funny
Review: Michael Moore does not recycle. He says so in chapter six. But the kicker is that he does believe in saving the environment. His recycling objection is that it's a fraud, and that nothing (or almost nothing) is actually being properly recycled. I have a suggestion that he probably won't take on how to retroactively recycle some trees. It saves paper by not producing it in the first place. Can you guess what I'm going to say? Yup. Stop printing the last eleven chapters of Stupid White Men. I'll bet you thought I was going to say the whole book is worthless. Actually, there are plenty of good paragraphs, sentences, words, and numbers sprinkled throughout the work, but identifying each individually is too much work for a suggestion that's certain to be ignored. Dear Michael Moore (he wrote letters to individuals throughout the book, so I will too - it's my homage to his writing style): I appreciate the incredible volume of work that went into writing your latest book. For what my opinion is worth, it's a shame the timing so badly messed up the release, coming so soon after 9/11. For the record, I'm in complete agreement with your assessment of how the publishers behaved towards you. The only other comment I would add about the introduction is that you seem to have confused government censorship with editorial timidity (and lack of backbone). I loved chapter one, even if you let Bush jr. off too lightly. I thought I'd followed his "legal" actions closely, but you provided details I'd completely missed and I thank you for it. If I'd stopped reading there, I would surely have given the book five stars and named my first born after you. Alas, it was not meant to be. Michael, dear Michael, you've let your ego and your pen run wild (more homage here). I know you meant this book to be at least a bit funny, even if you said otherwise after telling the world you will never hire another white person to work for you again. I know this book is not a treatise on government or economics, but is some attention to detail too much to ask? How about some better research? Or just one day of thoughtful intellectual activity. In your second most objectionable chapter, Kill Whitey (the worst was your trashing of Israel), you state, and I quote, "Who gave us the black plague? A white guy." Whoa! I had no idea white guys were so adept at molecular biology, especially back in the fourteenth century, a good five hundred years before germ theory. Or maybe you meant that a white merchant brought it back from China. See the previous sentence regarding knowledge of germ theory. Actually, the list from which I took that example would more than fill up my word count limit. Genocide of American Indians? Mostly disease (see previous comments on germ theory). Slavery. Yes, it was terrible, but it's origins go back to prehistory. Who invented it? I don't know, and neither do you. I liked the chapter Idiot Nation, and One Big Happy Prison had its moments. But then you buried your head in the sand. This is nothing to be ashamed of; lots of people do it (more homage to his style here). I refer, of course, to your trashing of the Democratic Party and your defense of Ralph Nader. My words are running out, so I'll be brief. The Bush "legal" team worked overtime to generate a "victory" margin of 538 votes. Ralph Nader's Florida count was 97488. They were not drawn from Republicans. Is my point made? I'm pleased that you saw the problem looming on your Tallahassee trip, please don't backpedal now. Your book has proved quite popular. I salute your success in the capitalistic system you seem to have so many, ahem, issues with in this book. Best of luck in your future efforts. But you're wrong, Michael. You do not understand the world as well as you think. And however many sales your often deliberately outrageous comments create, I can't condone this book. Do you know why? It's because you've made it easy, so very easy, for conservatives to bash liberalism. Your "solutions", the serious ones, not the obvious gags, are so easy to pick apart that the FOX news commentators and National Review editors can keep themselves working for thousands of hours just making the rest of us look like dolts because you produced a best-selling monument to, to what? It's hard to wage a good argument when the enemy is brandishing Stupid White Men as an example of how we supposedly think. I read in your words too much of the caricature that liberalism is fraudulently accused of every day. You've done no one a service here. And that is why I would suggest that future printings only contain the intro, the epilogue, and chapter 1. Hey, that's forty-four pages of top rate material. It's more than I've ever managed - most of us would be proud to publish that much. It would save trees. The price could even come down, denying the publishers (many of them white) that much more profit. Think it over.
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Summary: Must Read for All Americans
Review: Stupid White Men is the most educational and enlightening book about the sorry state of our nation that I have ever read. Every person (especially every Black person) should read this book and find out exactly how our government has truly pulled the wool over our eyes. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to people of all ages, races and nationalities.
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Summary: A brilliant slanderous libel
Review: Brilliantly written, but a masterpiece of partisanism. If G.W. Bush one day will take this guy to Court he will have to leave behind even his underwears. The allegations he made are absolute rubbish from beginning to the end.
If George W. was the "thief in chief" then Al Gore would have to be the stupid in chief. If you go to a department store and they cheat on your bill what will you do? having the right on your side you will fight to the end to have your money back, but what about Al Gore? He has been cheated, according to the author, of the the top job in the World and he just kept quiet about that. So, if this is real, he would have never been worth of the top job itself!
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Summary: An Excellent Read
Review: Superb content, and as ever, his attack on corporate crime are right on the money. He exposed Ken Lay before all of the Enron mess came down on us, and rightly exposes democrats for the conservatives they are. A fantastic, funny read, on par (if not better than) "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot".
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Summary: Everyone should read this
Review: This is one of the most thought provoking books I've read in a long time. I was nearly floored by some of the information he revealed and after reading this book I almost want to go out and become a champion for the improvement of our nation.
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Summary: Challenges your assumptions
Review: Received this book as a Christmas present. I had seen his film Bowling for Columbine so I knew more or less what to expect. Moore's books and films are anything but neutral or journalism in the ordinary sense, they are Moore's perspective and opinions and if you agree with him then Moore rules - but if you don't, he can be pretty infuriating. I've been involved in several heated debates regarding the issues he raises and know first hand how many of Moore's assertions are real hot buttons for some Americans. I recommend this book to any thinking person - especially Americans - would don't mind having their assumptions challenged...it can be liberating.
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Summary: count him in
Review: I couldn't believe that I had to read this for my government class, this book it utter trash. He only has 20 pages of sources, and nearly all of them being The New York Times, The Washington Post, Salon.com, and BBC News. Some of the the most disrespectful media forces out there. Compare this with Ann Coulters "Treason" and Dick Morris' "Off with their heads," which have 46 and 52 pages of diverse souces, respectively. Pure trash from a stupid, fat, white man.
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Summary: Isn't any worse than Ann Coulter
Review: Frankly, after about 50 pages I found this book boring. I am not sure exactly why but it doesn't have the impact on me that the author intended. I believe the main reason is that although the author makes many legitimate points he cannot resist putting just enough of a twist on some of his information so that some of the truth is lost. This tends to negate his impact on me.
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