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Summary: very interesting and funny
Review: Great book starts right off. Moore does not mess around tells all. I loved this book, it was funny and full of info.It opened my eyes to the right.I am so sorry I voted for Bush it won't happen again!
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Summary: Bad...Very Bad
Review: "Dude, where's my money"! I can't believe I wasted money on this book. I agree with a previous review. It is boreing, not funny or satirical. I think Michael Moore has become what he detests, a rich white male and is having trouble with his image. Attacking everything that is white, male and upscale is popular, but it all borders on class envy. Micheal Moore adds nothing new and if you find his humor funny...man it doesn't take much to make you laugh.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Part of the fun of Michael Moore's work is that even when you disagree with him, he makes an extremely strong argument that is difficult to refute. Perhaps this is why he makes conservatives so angry. But this is healthy, if he makes conservatives angry, he is clearly accomplishing his goal.Moore's style is to pull no punches, this is a refreshing counterbalance to the PC reporting that we are deluged with in the mass media. Whether you agree with Moore that Bush stole the election of 2000 or not, it is interesting to read so as to understand the reason that such a large percentage of Americans are outraged by what took place. While I had mixed feelings about "Downsize This", I can highly recommend Stupid White Men.
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Summary: Excellent Facts, Distateful Style
Review: I was very pleasantly surprised with all of Mr. Moores documentation. I think he did a great job on that, but must the delivery be so crude. I got the sense that Mr. Moore's ego is more important to him than the facts he is writing about. I do not consider him one bit funny. He merely detracts from some very important issues.
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Summary: Funny? Hmm, not in a "ha ha" way.
Review: Where to start? The beginning? Okay. I totally dig Michael Moore. I agree with most of his political views -- especially when it comes to our current state of the nation. With that said, it's no surprise that I was STOKED to know of a new, honest book about our "president" and his daddy's helpers. I got the book as a gift and began to read it excitedly. It was the best gift I got for my b-day this year. I enjoyed the first few chapters. In one of the first couple chapters he composed an open letter to George that made me howl with laughter. Actually the first half of the book was great, but I soon became tired. Tired of the whining. Our pal Mr. Moore whines; I hate to say it, but he does. The book was a quick read (about 3 days), however I gradually grew weary of the ranting, moaning and complaining. Instead of presenting the situation and proposing a solution (as most works of this type should do), Moore presents the situation, gives facts (well-researched) and then whines about how much it all ... Large groups of people (women, blacks, the poverty-stricken) are examined and given pity. We don't want pity. We don't need pity. We know it ... to be us. What we need are solutions. Humor is a great tool and hopefully his book helped to open some eyes to the truth...but really, I kept asking, "where is all this 'doesn't everything ...' talk going?" To his credit, he does insert ideas that could be seen as solution-oriented, but most of the ideas are for humor's sake, not for the real-life crap that's truly going on in our country. He has cutesy "cut out" sections that are comically meant to help you remember certain facts, but they're presented in a way that reminded me of a kids' study book. Honestly, it was moderately insulting. Maybe that was the point? -- I guess it's the ... that don't realize the trouble we're in (and have been in for a while). Perhaps I'm used to more serious essays and I didn't "get" the humor in this book. I really wanted to, but by the end I was so tired of the ranting that I lost the energy to laugh about it. Our country is laughable. That's undeniable (just travel to any developing nation and you'll understand). Our "president" is a joke, his world vision is a joke, his environmental vision is a joke, his daddy's friends are a joke...but this book didn't make me laugh as much as I'd hoped it would. It's all really too sad to laugh about.
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Summary: Silly ... Book!!!!
Review: After pushing myself to keep going after the horrid first chapter, I now wish I would have took this book in my backyard and used it in my campfire. All this book is good for is a doorstop or a fire starter. This book is very anti-white and anti-American. The crackpot theories are based on no facts, just silliness. The obsession with America's faults turns the author into a tool of America's enemies. I do not just dislike this book because of my politics, it is boring. The jokes are not funny. The logic in the ideas are bad. ...
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Summary: Moore pathetic ramblings
Review: Like his TV show, Moore once again reveals himself to be an apologist for all things White. If you're white and heterosexual you are the cause of ALL the world's wrongs. Blacks, gays and the left can do absolutely NO wrong and the more deviant your lifestyle the more likely you'll find Michael Moore waving the flag in your defence.
This book is really pathetic, much like Moore's tv show and the man himself.
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Summary: Funny and factual, but also naive.
Review: This is vintage Moore, an even dozen sharp-minded and hilarious left-wing rants in his typical raucous, blue-collar comic style. Unlike a lot of political humorists (and serious polemicists), Moore does his research and documents his facts. If you're looking for ammunition to use in arguing with conservatives, you'll find it here, from little-known details about the electoral hanky-panky in Florida to laundry lists of Bush administration misdeeds in foreign and domestic policy to some appalling facts about American education and criminal justice. In a few places, Moore gets a little excited and stretches a point. In the chapter subtly titled "Kill Whitey," he wrote, "Even Native Americans, who are among the poorest of the poor, have fewer children living in poverty than African-Americans," disingenously failing to note that there are about fifteen times more African-Americans than Native Americans altogether. Conservatives can feel superior about this if they like - their own writers, Limbaugh, Coulter, etc., use this kind of sophistry all the time. The most disappointing thing about this book (but not surprising, if you've read or listened to Moore's other material) is the political naivete. In his lists of accusations against both Bush and Clinton, Moore lumps together executive actions and acts of Congress as if anything that happens during a President's administration is the President's fault, even if he fought against it. This naivete is particularly evident in the Epilogue, which concerns the Nader campaign (a must-read for liberal Democrats who still want to know why the Naderites didn't throw their support to Gore when it was clear that the election would be close). Moore writes about how he tried to convince the Nader campaign to support Gore on the condition that Gore adopt Green positions on the issues, apparently without realizing that if Gore had campaigned on Nader's platform he would have received the same 5% of the popular vote that Nader got. And, although Moore bemoans the possibility of turning idealistic young voters into "cynical hordes who've given up any interest in voting at all," he can't seem to recognize that the perfect formula for producing that result is his own specious insistence that Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same. Pick through this book for good stuff, and laugh if you're a liberal, but don't swallow it whole.
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Summary: Vile liberals and their utter nonesence!
Review: I was interested in buying this product, and before I did so I found a chapter of it online. Wanting to check it out I read it- it was the chapter with Moore's facinating views on race. This chapter and the fashionable hatred of Bush that Moore [ like all those other rich, white Hollywood folks] has, convinced me that I couldn't possibly waste my money on this peice of garbage! Thank goodness I did not go through with buying this shameless peice of propaganda for the liberal wing of the entertainment industry who would destroy today's hellhole of a nation and replace it with a hellhole without personal responsibility. He gives the term "subversive" a bad name! Preach, preach, preach all you rich white folks, those of us with brains will be over there, THINKING. UP THE PUNX!
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Summary: A Passionate & Funny Call to Arms
Review: If you're one of the 60% of Americans who are still angry about the 2000 presidential election, Stupid White Men is the book for you. Conversely, if you feel ok about the political process, you need to read this book. Moore begins by focusing on the real (and overlooked) reason for the election debacle, and it has nothing to do with hanging chads, Ralph Nader or even the Supreme Court. Moore recounts the outrageous actions of Florida Attorney General Katherine Harris, who cleansed Florida voter rolls of thousands of black citizens who were alledgedly ex-felons, and therefore ineligible to vote. Moore writes: "In what appears to be mass fraud committed by the State of Florida, Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush and co...removed thousands of black citizens who had never committed crimes in their lives." And that's only part of the story. Moore's tone is angry, yet he is wickedly funny and informative. His tirades against the Bush administration are eerily current. From Bush's connection to Ken Lay to Cheney's ties to Haliburton, Moore discloses the deep corportate relationships of every member of the Bush cabinet. More importantly, he takes Clinton/Gore to task for their destructive 8 years at the helm. If you had any doubt that these people said one thing and did another, it's time to face the awful truth. Moore touches on the environment, corporate crime, heath insuarance and how the non-rich, non-powerful are used and abused over and over again. As bleak as things sound, he rails against apathy and pleads citizens to take action, tossing in a few suggestions of how we the people can get involved. The book is well-researched (and includes endnotes).
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