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Summary: An Insightful book of honesty every American should own!
Review: ... This book has achieved mass word of mouth appeal and we have made it climb to the number one selling nonfiction book this year without any marketing push. This should give you some idea regarding the controversy behind these truths and the norm shattering repurcutions that may ensue. Lastly, go see his new film (and Cannes Film Festival winner) "Bowling For Columbine" it too will have an enormous political, social, and emotional impact on you as well. Michael Moore is for the people.
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Summary: Autobiography of Michael Moore=Self-Titled
Review: Usually, when someone has no point, or facts to back it up, he/she resorts to name-calling and emotion, as in the title. I watched Moore on Foxnews and his comment about Bush's approval rating, high at the time (yes, Moore was likely high from [stuff] at the time too).. his comment: "Well, the pollsters are intimidated so they rate Bush highly.." Such is his book, which I read recently. There are few facts or evidence for his points. It's written by an angry, bitter man, that much is evident. Moore would have had them recount ONLY Florida... and Democratic countires in FL at that. The hell with the rest of the nation and close-called states... so he thinks. Like I said, people resort to name-calling when they are out out of truths.
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Summary: Read This Book.
Review: It's nice to know that people actually believe that "baby bush" is an .... Michael Moore's book had me nodding my head the entire time. This book is great. The author does not hide his opinion at all. In fact, he openly believes that George W. is an impostor and shouldn't be president. Parts of this book will make you angry. Not at the author, but at the incompitent morons who represent the American people. Thank God I'm Canadian.
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Summary: Pointing out the obvious.
Review: This book was a present from a friend of mine that understood my frustration with the current state of our nation.
Mr. Moore seems to be good at pointing out the obvious "decline to negative" situations in out society (Middle class, current political status, discrimination, etc.) He is also very able to find methods and write instructions on how citizens can change the current state.
Research within the book was very through and backed his ideas. I found that he seemed very negative about the US and was not able to pull out of his negative opinion. In his last chapter he pointed out all the negative items that has happened in the past 3 decades. He might have considered motivating the reader not through disgust from the corporate American syndrome but by showing the positive activities that made a difference.
I would read and recommend Mr. Moore since I like his point of view and his sarcasm. The book was fun to read.
Have fun understanding how corporate US, like other countries, is able to blind the government with money while stealing from the people and run the country.
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Summary: Michael Moore is a treasure
Review: The best part of the book is the last fifth or so of the book where he deals with the fraudulence of democratic party populism. He goes through the list of Clinton's Republican policies. Clinton had us drinking 1942 arsenic in our water until the last days of his presidency. Bush then reversed Clinton's last second order decreasing arsenic (not to take affect until 2004), simply rerverting to levels that we had been drinking for eight years under Clinton. Moore notes that Tom Daschle and sixteen other Democratic senators had blocked efforts to reduce arsenic in October 2000. The same with the four greenhouse gasses whose reductions Clinton ordered at the last moment would not have taken affect until 2010. He notes that the democrats in Congress were actually very receptive to Bush's agenda. For instance the 37 democratic senators who voted for The Bankruptcy reform act making certain that families drowning in medical bills will continue under crushing debt. He notes that Clinton-Gore actually oversaw the lessening of fuel efficiency standards for veichles which had been at their highest during Reagan-Bush Sr. Clinton-Gore oversaw the accelerated drilling for oil and gas on Federal lands at the same level of Reagan-Bush Sr. Pollution, according to the Sierra Club has doubled along the Texas-Mexican border since Nafta was implemented. He notes that Clinton signed off on a bill denying money for abortions in foreign countries. This was the groundwork, he notes, for Bush signing a bill that denied funds to groups that advocated abortion as an alternative. Moore ridicules liberals who support Clinton who threw poor people out on the street, who expanded the death penalty, who bombed Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sudan, who allowed only a few conglomerates to own most of the media. He notes that at the end of the Clinton administration there was not a doctor willing to perform an abortion in 86 percent of the counties in the U.S. He says that what Clinton did was simply say that he was fervently devoted to the environment and abortion and his opponents were not. It didn't matter if he actually did anything in support of those things. To his liberal supporters, saying was the same thing as doing. In reality,he could harm abortion rights and pollute the air, yet his image was not hurt. He suggests that the democrats and Republicans should merge into one party. Then there would be actual differences between our parties (The Republican-democratic party vs. The Greens) "There are about 200 million of us who would like to see a real two-party system (or three-party, or four-party--hey it's a big country), with one party fighting for the right to write off one's backyard tennis court as a business expense and the other fighting for the right to see a doctor if one gets sick." He voted for Ralph Nader like I did. He notes that Gore would have won had he carried his home state, or Clinton's state Arkansas or the traditionally democratic West Virginia. Or if Bush hadn't stolen Florida, a topic to which he devotes his first chapter. The funniest part of the book is his dealing with the Stem-cell research issue. It's very funny. Perhaps the most interesting of all the interesting things in this book is his pointing out how the Bush administration goons pardoned the goons from Koch industries of 90 plus counts of pouring 91 metric tons of Benzene, a cancer causing agent, into the air and water and covering it up from federal investigators. He contrasts the media's treatment of this with the hocus pocus of holy horror Clinton's pardon of Mark Rich.
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Summary: Yawn.
Review: After some predictable digs at the Florida election and Bush in general, this book loses all focus and humor. Moore seems like someone that has just discovered the internet and includes a lot of URLs for almost everything (including step ladders and vibrators.) The middle of the book is a vast waste of disconnected ideas that seem to be there only to increase the number of pages...you wonder how many stupid white men other than Moore had a hand in this work.
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Summary: not what it's hyped up to be
Review: The first two and the last chapters are well researched, written and even managed to build in me some internal rage towards the political machine. But the rest of the chapters weren't worth publishing. Some of the issues in the middle chapters, Moore has no more insight into than the average american who watches the evening news. The sections on mad cow disease, the environment, "kill whitey" and "the end of men" were just plain boring. Nothing new - just read the papers or watch the news. And what the hell were all those grey boxed comments for? They didn't even manage to get a chuckle out of me. Just filling up pages, I think. The only thing Moore seems to have done his homework on was the 2000 elections. So, the bit on the florida scandal was an interesting read. This book is definitely not what it is hyped up to be. He seems like a good guy though.
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Summary: Well, at least some parts were pretty funny...
Review: I just got done ready Ann Coulter's "Slander" and Noam Chomsky's "9-11" so I figured I'd give this book a shot. I really didn't know anything about Michael Moore, but I remember seeing him on Crossfire one evening. So, a friend of mine let me borror his copy of the book. I put it on the bookshelf and forgot about it until I was finished with "Slander." Well, half way into reading this book, I remembered that Crossfire interview. Robert Novak was interviewing Michael. The first question Robert asked of Michael was, (and I'll never forget it), "Mr Moore, do you believe in winners and losers?" When he asked him that question, I could see Michael's face curling up in a frown and red anger was creeping all over his face. Michael was getting VISIBLY upset with being asked that. So Robert rephrased. "Do you believe in Capitalism?" "No, I do NOT! Some people will be poor as a result." That is all you need to know about this book. Michael Moore is a Global-Redistributionist who thinks that the only way the world moves forward is if everyone is equalized and if the government takes care of everyone. That is his entire agenda with this book, and his whole purpose of meaning. It's kind of sad too because there are some pretty funny things in the book. So he goes from 1 to 2 stars just for comic relief.
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Summary: Puts The Con in Conservative
Review: There is nothing like a dose of humour to diffuse any situation. Except Stupid White Men, far from diffusing, hangs like an albatross of shame around the neck of the American elite. Very much a read-them-and-weep chronology of US-style deceit, conflict-of-interest and lies, the irreverent Stupid White Men addresses politicians, schools, minorities, Palestinians, Zionists and even -bonus!- includes a pop quiz for your politicians. Michael Moore has written a well-researched almanac of the dangers threatening America. Indeed, those who dislike this book, or worse have not read it, are the perfect individuals of which enemies of America would love to see more. Stupid White Men is a great antidote to the flood of mud spewing from the belly of the beast.
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Summary: A total waste of time and money
Review: I'm just glad it wasn't my money, but that of my friend who loaned me his book. Though I'll never get back the time I wasted reading this drivel. I should have expected nothing less than total dreck from a book bearing a title that blames an entire demographic for all our ills. The last thing Michael Moore seems to be concerned with here is the concept of truth, instead regaling readers with a diatribe of pure vitriol. Launch the Scud? That's in the vein of Timothy McVeigh using fertilizer to settle his differences with the government. I guess if a liberal suggests blowing up government offices it's considered funny, but if someone on the right suggests the same thing it's hate, bigotry, fascism or any other buzz word liberals use for describing conservatives. A previous reviewer commended this book for criticizing certain Clinton Administration, sometime conservative authors don't do about the Bush Administation. Apparently that reviewer never read any of these books because they do pick apart Bush policies with which they don't agree. And most conservative authors I have read bring to light Clinton's failings in policy and character with a lot more taste and regard for fact than this book's diatribes against George W. Bush. Michael Moore is a socialist, pure and simple, who learned his brand of hatred, divisiveness and class warfare from Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin.
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