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Summary: One American at a Time
Review: Partisan issues aside. Divisive arguments to rest. The underlying voice of "Dude, Where's My Country?" is that of relinquishing fear, returning democracy to America, healing a nation and ultimately a divided world. Moore raises questions critical to our collective American psyche - questions that I have personally benefited from asking. Upon finishing "D,WMC?" I signed up to volunteer with my local state party, attended my first Presidential debate here in Phoenix, and have personally set out to bring increased truth and understanding to family, friends, colleagues and local politicians. Of course, this means no more 'Bushing' America backward. Through well-documented research, dumbfoundingly obvious questioning and an engaging writing style, Moore succeeds at being one of the most "American" among us. Thanks Mike. We all owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude. History will be kind.
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Summary: Clueless
Review: I believe it's very easy for the common person to dismiss Michael Moore as a complete idiot. The fact is, he's not. His views, ofcourse, are based on complete Fiction... the very genre he repeatedly claims he hates. I guess if it's his OWN fiction however, he doesn't have a problem with it. He may be a little mis-guided... okay COMPLETELY mis-guided, but he's a not dumb guy. Michael Moore knows how to sell books. He knows that there is a great market out there for Liberal literature. He knows that "sarcasm" is a good substitute for "integrity" and "truth". He's knows how to promote himself over his own beliefs and the beliefs of those who take him at face-value. For Moore, it's all about making money. After all, this is the guy who invited families of the Columbine victims to a "special screening" of his movie... THEN CHARGED THEM ADMISSION! I have no doubt this book will do extremely well. Let's face it, the guy knows how to market himself. There's only one problem... He is so completely uninformed on so many polictical topics, his books have become the "MAD Magazine" of today. That's not a rip on "MAD Magazine" at all. The crucial difference is that "MAD Magazine" is an admitted comedic satire, while Moore's work is marketed as being factual. Unfortunately, his quest for ficticious conspiracies has dilluted his handle on reality.
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Summary: Sorry ass republican dupes
Review: I always find it amusing that the vast majority of the blinded right wing fools call all liberals criminals citing the Clintons mostly while ignoring probably the greatest criminals in the United States today - Kenneth Lay, who cheated thousands of Americans, Karl Rove, who leaked the identity of a CIA agent which is an act of treason, and now one of the idols of the radical right Rush "Where are my drugs?" Limbaugh, who also happens to be a fat pig as so many of you like to call Michael Moore. And just because someone doesn't agree with our bozo president and his neo-con chums doesn't make him un-american or hate america it just lets us know the guy can think for himself unlike most of the gop clones.
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Summary: The Few 1 Start Reviews Seem to Support Moore's Claim.
Review: Interesting, every 1 start review in here is a personal attack on Mr. Moore, not a single one offers an alternative view or link to a web site that attempts to refute Moore's claims.
Its almost comical and tragic at the same time how these people who believe they are "Republican" (whatever that means) just support his claims on how many people in American are being dupped by political leadership on both sides. Its comical to here people call themselves Rebuplican thinking that this automatically implies membership in some club making them feel better or somehow intelligent being anti-liberal, pro-American, pro-guns, pro-fiscal conservitive, blah blah blah. Same comedy happening with those who blindly call themselves a Democrat.
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Summary: Book on a Diet
Review: My first Michael Moore book was Stupid White Men and I thought that book was a laugh a minute. I then went out and read the rest of his books, which were almost as good as Stupid White Men. Well this book comes out and you guessed it - I was one of the first in line to pick it up. Let me say right up front that although I am a bit left leaning, I am not in the same category as the author. If you have read some of his other books you know that at times it is hard to tell his true beliefs from this outrageous comments stated for effect or comedy. With this said I was looking for more of the same from this book. The impression I got is that the author rushed this one out the door. It just seamed to be about 70% of his best game. I almost want to mail it back to the author and ask that he spend a little more time on it. Another issue I have is that about 20% of the pages (few as they are) cover a dream sequence taking place 50 years in the future. Not to say that it was dull but I want today's social commentary, not extrapolated guesses of what the issues will be in 50 years. The best part of the book covered the issues he has with GW and a number of questions he would like to cover regarding 9 / 11. This is interesting and well worth the read. He also covers and number of social and employment issues that face today's average Joe. There are a number of interesting comments in this section and surprisingly he has backed off a little on the corporate boggy man he usually makes management out to be. Overall the book is what you would expect from the author, just a little light.
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Summary: Hard questions coupled with constructive suggestions
Review: Michael Moore is characterically brilliant in mocking and skewering corporate and government figures whose actions result in suffering with savage irony. This isn't such a lampoon, however; in this book Moore is striving to provoke and mobilize readers to action to remove the current menance controlling the government and rapidly deconstructing our democratic institutions. Moore asks out loud a number of awkward, but self evident questions about the Bush family's complicity with the Saudi monarchy and the inexplicable (?) failure of the government and military to respond during the attacks on Manhattan and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Particularly disturbing are well documented chronicle of the Bush administration's evacuation of the Bin Laden and Saudi royal family members in the US, while commercial aircraft were grounded during that emergency, and Bush's unofficial meeting with the Saudi ambassador the evening of September 11. Like other critics he sees the Bush administration seizing these attacks as an opportunity for the ongoing promotion of fear and paranoia to enable an aggressive attack on civil liberties and any efforts to restrain the Republican political and corporate agenda. This book is yet another that note that the media is complicit in enabling the Bush administration's depredations. Particularly interesting is Moore's description of how Murdock/News Corporation Harper Collins sought to censor his earlier "Stupid White Men" due to its criticism of the Bush Adminstration. Moore does have a somewhat tedious tendency to get cute in this and other books, which quickly becomes cloying. This is evident in his proposing that Oprah Whinfrey be drafted as a presidential candidate. However, he does have some plausible, constructive suggestions once you sift them from a few of the nonsensical. What is evident here is that Moore is passionately concerned about the fate of our nation, and believes that civil action by the silent majority of fair and open minded Americans is essential immediately to contain the rapidly accelerating damage to our nation and the remainder of the world at the direction of the Bush Administration. Bravo to Moore, and God willing more Americans will heed his cry for help.
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Summary: The Truth At Last
Review: Michael Moore has done a great service to America. He has stated the painful truth for all to see -- this great country has been hijacked by a cabal of liars and madmen. If the average American read this brilliantly written, meticulously documented book, he would be shocked and horrified at the evil that has seeped into the corridors of power in Washington. Years from now, when history books talk about how the current Administration almost led to the destruction of the Constitution, Moore will be lauded as one of the few brave men who had the courage to say: "The Emperor has no clothes." God bless Michael Moore and God bless America -- the true America envisioned by the Founding Fathers.
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Summary: Right-wing nuts can dish it but they can't take it!
Review: BUSH IS MY SHEPHERD Bush is my shepherd, I shall be in want.
He leadeth me beside the still factories,
He maketh me to lie down on park benches,
He restoreth my doubts about the Republican party.
He guideth me onto the paths of unemployment for the party's sake.
I do fear the evildoers, for thou talk'st about them constantly.
Thy tax cuts for the rich and thy deficit spending,
They do discomfort me.
Thou anointeth me with never-ending debt,
And my savings and assets shall soon be gone.
Surely poverty and hard living shall follow me,
And my jobless children shall dwell in my basement forever.
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Summary: Take another look
Review: Although Michael Moore uses an approach that is not easy to accept, his book is an interesting and important reading. He points out a very disturbing and real current that has been influencing people's lives not only in the US, but in the world. Regardless of how you treat his style, the book is very good in a sense that it calls you to think critically about what is happening around us. It calls a reader with an open mind to look outside the window and see what is really happening to our country and the American Dream. This book is not going to convince those who only see world in black and white or those whose political convictions became a sort of religious belief. This book needs a thinking, intelligent and open-minded reader. Michael Moore is very direct and honest and this outweighs any challenges in style and writing you may find.
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Summary: Moore Is Brilliant Again
Review: While I now live in LA, I'm originally from Racine, Wisconsin. Most of us back there can tell an idiot from a reasonable person. And I certainly agree with those who say that Moore is incapable of writing in an honest and truthful manner. I have spent the past two months working on a book about the Bush administration, and virtually everything I found disputes what Moore says in "Dude". There are very serious questions about what the Clinton administration did during the 1990s that likely set the stage for what happened on 9-11. Frankly, I think that Moore does not go far enough in indicting the Clinton administration for their crimes. The entire Left-wing in this country is one virtual criminal enterprise, from people like James Carville to Bill and Hillary Clinton, and it is deeply disturbing that such people can have such a powerful effect on the relatively brain-challenged acolytes in the Democrat party. Aside from being an enormous fathead, not to mention fat body , Moore is occasionally amusing. His anecdote about Hillary demanding to be seated far from the flatulent Senator Robert Byrd is priceless. There are some actual laugh-out-loud parts of the book. Best reason to buy the book: Moore is going to use all the money he gets from the Bush tax cut to try to finally lose his virginity with a cute hooker. He'll need a lot of money to score a cute one, so buy more than one copy!
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