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Summary: Stupid White Waste of Time.
Review: This book was a big disappointment. It was highly recommended by a fellow iconoclast who claimed it was informative, hysterically funny and compelling. I consider myself a moderate and I found the book to be unfunny, argumentatively flawed, inflammatory, condescending and self-aggrandizing. It was total letdown.The only thing this book accomplished was to cause me to pause at any future projects by Michael Moore. Take seriously at your own risk.
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Summary: My momma done tell me
Review: Funny at times, but laden with inaccurate information. The first chapter is an interesting read about our last presidential race debacle with facts presented with liberal sprinkling of personal vendetta. The rest of the book reads like a manifesto of an insane individual. Loaded with personal anger and frustration along with idiotic assumptions. The introduction basically sums up what you are in for with this book. The prose presented here is everything wrong with the world is Bush's fault. The terror attacks, the dot-com implosion, the weather. After reading the introduction I resigned myself to the understanding that the book is presenting a case that everything that happened in the beginning of the current presidential term is a direct result of Bush's inability to lead. I'll just refute one item presented here. The economy didn't collapse last year or two years ago. It started three years ago. I work in an Internet consulting firm and our work pipeline died the last summer of Clinton's second term. The majority of people who like this book will leap at these direct connections and fail to realize that the problem of today are in fact the decisions of pervious decades. We won't see the effects of most of our current presidents decisions until months and years to come.
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Summary: Misleading and Factless - Controversy for it's own sake.
Review: I read this book after a friend asured me it'd get me thinking and know the truth. The only problem is that there aren't any real facts and everything is a one-sided argument. Parts of the book are actually disturbing. The chapter "Kill Whitey" where basically he blames how horrible this country is (here I was thinking it was a pretty keen place) on white males. The bit about him firing all his white employees because they were white was pretty feeble. The gist of his book was all the world's ills are caused by republicans, jews and white guys...nice. I notice that he didn't mention that he lives in a 2mil dollar home in New York nor that he owns more than one luxury import.
The truth is that Moore sold out after the success of Roger and Me and now he does anything he can to generate controversy and trick liberals into buying his tripe. I'd avoid this book and anything Mr Moore tries to hock in the future...
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Summary: Rantings of a Proletarian Poser
Review: While I agree with many of the issues addressed in this book, I couldn't ignore the sanctimonious and condescending manner in which it was written. Moore, perhaps unwittingly, repeatedly talks down to his target audience, namely me. Being a working class liberal, I found many of the author's remarks offensive, many of his facts skewed and many of his arguments contradictory. Reading this book was like taking a martial arts lesson from an instructor who was disinterested in teaching me how to properly defend myself, but hellbent on proving that he was a total badass that knew countless techniques for kicking my face in...and then holding my inexperience against me! Perhaps I, an admitted plebian product of the flagging American public school system, am simply too unsophisticated to understand the true context of this book. Unlike the author, my philistine and naive parents did not have the time to teach me how to read and write prose and treatises by the time I was 4. You see, I had to stumble and stammer through my ABCs, while my classmates of the Michael Moore ilk were left rolling their eyes, having to wait impatiently for [those] like me to catch up to their burgeoning intellect. I may not know who the president of Finland is, nor am I fluent in a second language- in fact, the author repreatedly makes it painfully clear that he knows a great deal more "relevant" facts than most of his readers do, because he wasn't a dupe (like the rest of us slobs) into spending 4 years at inadequate American universities- but I am intelligent enough to know when I am being talked down to. Moore declares himself to be a spokesperson for the oppressed cogs in the corporate American machine. But it becomes painfully evident in his book that he is totally out of touch with those he claims to defend. He says that speaks for us voiceless, powerless masses. But then he rants about what ... we are in the same breath. He argues that we're forced to work our fingers to the bone and then bashes us for not knowing a second language or tedious political minutia (like who the present deputy foreign minister of Tonga is.) Perhaps we proletarians don't have time to indulge in those academic exercises because we're simply too busy breaking our backs trying to make ends meet. But Moore doesn't make that observation. One obvious reason is that he was never a genuine member of that demographic. Anyone who truly knows what it is like to put in a 60-hour work week working a forklift, loading trucks or driving an ambulance would not make those remarks. Ultimately, this book does not convince its conservative readers to pause and examine their causes, liberals will often find themselves patronized and offended, and neutral readers with the ability to see the logic in both sides of a divisive issue will find the book inflammatory and at best unconvincing. The only function of "Stupid White Men" seems to be to fulfill and reinforce the opinions and apparent hostilities of those readers who already sypmathize with Moore's agenda.
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Summary: U$ Corporate Government
Review: .. You must buy this book and buy copies for your friends because the truth is as important as it is disturbing. This book is extremely relevant in the face of growing instability resulting from US corporate-sponsored foreign policy in the Middle East. Everywhere I go I see people reading this book. It is reassuring to know that people are finding the truth about the US government's funding and control by oil corporations...
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Summary: Michael Moore/Stupid White men
Review: I have been a supporter of Michael Moore since Roger & Me. He tells it like it is. If you don't agree with Moore, don't buy his books. We are in a "McCarthy " era in the USA. If you don't like the Patriot Acts then you are "against the president" or a terrorist sympathizer My niece lives in Oregon. I am hearing that in certain parts of Oregon, if you honk for an anit-war demonstration, you get a ticket from the police. If you honk for a pro-war....no ticket. Thank whatever powers that be for Michael More!Stupid White Men rocks!!
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Summary: Typical Moore Baiting Tactic
Review: I suppose the title is shocking if you're not actually familiar with Moore. It's his standard ambush tactic. He seems to be aware that he is not a talented or educated enough debater to actually discuss the issues he rants about. So, instead, he stages surprise attacks on people with whom he disagrees. He then reads his prepared statement, and moves on. Another victory! This is Michael in book form. It's exactly the same as him in movie form, or in real life. Brash, annoying, naive, and poorly-thought-out. When I was an adolescent I kind of liked him. It was cool to see someone championing my questions. But he's been doing this for years now, and it is evident that he has no answers. He just wants to ride the questions to the bank. It is woefully ironic that the liberals who eat this up cannot see their own culpability. By buying into Moore's tactics you are detracting from people who actually want answers to the big questions. To Mr. Moore and his fans I say: you will never convince someone by shouting at them. You will never get into a meaningful discussion with a positive outcome if your approach is mocking and hateful. Putting a racist slur on your book cover, engaging in sarcastic and hateful put-downs, and whitewashing your own beliefs just won't cut it. It's destructive behavior. It is not unpatriotic, or un-American, to disagree with your government. Not even during a war. But it is boorish to continue to shout about your opinion once a course of action has been taken. Moore has exhibited quite competently that he is a boor. His behavior at the Oscars wasn't reprehensible because he disagrees with war. It was reprehensible because he won't shut up about it. Screaming about your beliefs when there are people in the field who need our support, need us to present a unified front, is just selfish. Do you honestly believe the war is going to be cancelled, and everyone will shake hands and go home, if you keep bothering us? Or perhaps his goals are more simple: to sell books and get on TV. Funny, I don't recall Michael Moore being involved in any protests when thousands were dying in Iraq from UN sanctions. To use a simple analogy: it's a lot like being on a sports team. You may not agree with the play, but you support the play while it's in progress. You talk about it after. Finding fault with the plan while on the field is just showboating. Now that the war is (ostensibly) over, this is the perfect time for discussion. But Moore is too petty even for that. He's deep into recrimination. How childish. Criticism is the easiest thing in the world - I'm not even paid for this and I'm doing it. If you're going to write books and make movies, come up with some solutions. At least be able to carry out a debate on the issues without acting like a jackass. Realize what the man is. Don't support him, and don't buy this book.
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Summary: Another ...
Review: Its no surpirse that Micheal Moore used his Oscar time to preach politics and promote his book, ... Moore, a man who obviously relishes a position as being a liberal arm chair general ... offers what others have been saying for months -- only with Moore, he thinks that his fantasies (no, only a handfull of people boo'ed me at the Oscars) are somehow orginal. But what can one expect when such tall tales and urban legend are spun out by the same man who looked in the mirror one day and said eureka, ''I have a title for my crumy little book.''
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Summary: What a Waste of Time
Review: I loved Michael Moores- Roger and Me. What a gift I thought this guys had. But then along came Stupid White Men and he totally has me against him.
If you believe that the Election was rigged, African American and Latinos don't get a fair break in the world, and the Jews are to blame for all that's wrong in the world than this book is for you. I don't see Israel having suicide bombers going in and killing Palestines. I don't see so called minorities (African American, Latinos, etc) not getting in colleges- As a matter of fact I see White people not getting in colleges because of reverse discrimination. I also remember that during the elections there was recount after recount. If the jails have more African Americans in them it's because they are doing the crimes and getting caught. We can't blame everything wrong in the world on someone else. Don't beleive everything this guy has to spout off in this book. I can only say that it's a good thing this was written before we liberated Iraq!!!!
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Summary: Very good book!
Review: I was offended by the chapter "Kill Whitey." On page 72 Mr. Moore writes that he fired all the people who worked for him because they were white. He even wrote "So they've all gotta go. From now on, whitey don't work here no more." But anyway, the rest of the book was good. Down to the point and an instant wake-up-call to our nation behind closed doors.
I'm a writer myself, so I know a good book when I read one. I published "Another Sixth Sense: The Fort Lauderdale Story."
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