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Summary: A Wake Up Call to America
Review: My first Michael Moore book--am appreciative that he has the courage to tell it like it is, backed up with facts and footnotes. I was incensed about the Bush Administration's preferential treatment of the bin Laden cousins and the Saudis they do business with. First class escort out of this country right after 9/11 without ever a peep as to questioning, yet we detained hundreds of Arabs who are not related to bin Laden. Go figure. Hooray to Mr. Moore and the very pointed arguements he makes in this book. When is America going to wake up to the corruptness and double standard the Bush Administration continues to practice on us?
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Summary: Don't dismiss this out of hand
Review: I hate socialism and I think Moore is a socialist and I would not want him within a million miles of policy making.That being said, Moore makes some very good points in this book -points that conservative and liberals alike need to pay attention to. Moore is not all wrong. He is of course rabid anti-gun which tells me that are serious flaws in his way of reasoning specifically, but in general, Moore scores some serious points here. In chapter 1, Moores askes seven questions that he would like to ask Bush. They are good questions and they all deserve answers. Of course in todays climate anyone asking these questions in public risks being classified as an enemy combatant and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Put one on a sign at a Bush public appearance and you can be arrested for departing from your "certified free speech zone." In Chapter 2 Moore accuses Bush of being a pathological liar. Moore cites references. Read them before you dismiss the accusations out of hand. I loved Chapter 4 - "The United States of Boo." He deals with the current anti-terror hysteria. In reality the chances of any American being hurt in a terrorist incident are simply too small to calculate. Your chances are probably better of being hit by a meteorite. Yet this does not stop the current adminstration from trying to create the biggest and best Banana Republic Police state on the planet. Moore correctly points that the best defense against terrorism is to quit screwing around in other peoples countries. The remainder of the book is a socialist rant that advocates eating the rich and transforming the country into another Soviet Union. Moore is correct in asserting that under Bush the country is going to hell in a handbasket. What he ignores is that under his preferred system we will be going to hell in a stolen shopping cart after standing in lines for toilet paper.
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Summary: Wake Up!
Review: Michael Moore has outdone himself with this work - PLEASE consider reading this, and with an open mind. This election year is so critical for this great country! Many negative reviews of this book resort to name-calling, profanity, and gross over-generalizations ('commie', 'socialist', etc.) - and you have to love someone blasting the book with a review rife with misspellings and grammatical errors (VERY funny after you just finished the book!) PLEASE READ THIS BOOK!!
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Summary: View from outside
Review: Michael Moore offers a great boon to people around the world who work with other cultures. Long puzzled by the glaring inconsistencies of their assertions, many peoples struggle to comprehend the roots of American policies. Many American statements reflect their unconcealed loathing of cultures unlike their own even while mouthing pious phrases about "freedom", "equality" and "democracy". Moore's thesis of a regime driven by fear thus strikes a familiar chord. Most individual Americans abroad are looked upon kindly, if not with some level of affection. Yet the expressions of American leaders seem in sharp contrast to hesitant tourists or aid workers and educators travelling or working in other lands. A nation driven by fear under a duplicitous ruler at least clears away some of the mystery. Moore makes clear that within their own borders, Americans are being divested of rights they once considered unassailable. While personal freedoms are in decline, other forces, chiefly business and extractive industries, are running rampant, not only within the United States, but in other nations through an American-driven "globalisation" process. Other cultures view these newly acquired powers and expressions with familiarity. After all, as Moore notes, these are the trappings of any dictatorship throughout history. Now that Bush's regime is following the British pattern of using military force to bolster economic adventurism, the image of America to foreign eyes is clarified further. Hypocrisy, at least, is being shed for the realpolitik of conquest. Bush, using the WTC attacks much in the way Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag, is simply repeating well-known history. Those who suffer, or have suffered, such regimes, are fully aware that any dictatorship never resides solely in the power of one man, but in the cabal surrounding and protecting him. The self-interest born of ideology blinds the cabal's members to long-term impacts of their policies and enactments. Moore's primary focus in that respect is the question of a sustainable environment. He might have considered further the staggering debt to the American people, and their economic allies, these policies are generating. Moore's flights of fancy make entertaining reading, bringing smiles at his more outrageous suggestions. The idea of Saudi forces engineering the WTC attack has plausibility, particularly in light of his description of bin Laden lugging a dialysis machine through the Afghan mountains. His suggestion that America's "psychological sweetheart", Oprah Winfrey, be installed as president, however, strikes one as a desperation move. Resistance to repressive regimes often lead to such measures, and we shouldn't be critical of Moore's. In one sense, he offers hope for his readers in other countries. Oppressive regimes must be overthrown from within - to impose a new government from an outside force is simplistic thinking. The issue is timing - can the American people eject their dictator before his power, and that of his cabal, is too firmly consolidated? The mechanism is there, Moore asserts, it takes only the will of the populace to overthrow their illegally esconced leader. He would await the election, but recent exposure of Bush's fallacies in launching his crusade against Iraq suggest the time is ripe for public impeachment proceedings. Such an act would bring immense hope to people around the world suffering similar oppression. Moore's book is worthy reading for bolstering that desire, if nothing else.
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Summary: This is Socialism
Review: This guy is a socialist. He hates the free market system. He would rather see higher taxes and more welfare programs. If you think this works just look at France's economy. The reason why this country is strong is because of our free market system not in spite of it. Enginuity should be rewarded not regulated and taxed to death. Get a clue or take a econ class if you agree with this guy. The problem with liberals is they have absolutely no idea how the economy works.
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Summary: Al Franken in disguise
Review: This man is almost as stupid as Bill Clinton and Al Franken combined. Now nobody could really come close to the stupidity of Daddy Bill alone. Add in Franken and that doubles the effect. But, back to Moore he attacks the right-wing with nothing but name-calling and made-up facts filled with tons of liberal propoganda. His intelligence level reminds me of $1 billion that William J. sent to Haiti. Well, it's not there. Where it is...Nobody knows... So if the thought of purchasing this book even crosses your mind, you are probably a tree-hugger or a standing member of NAMBLA, the EPA, PETA, or something of the ridiculous sort. Michael Moore and Hillary may have something in common, this being the most anti-american authors we've seen in years. Sorry I'm out of time, I've got to go WORK so I can pay for the people depending on me for their welfare checks.
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Summary: Good to see someone still cares about the truth!
Review: Top Stuff! This should be compulsory reading for most Americans. It's a pretty damning and a pretty sobering read of this shameful period in the country's history. Remove the cotton that has been pulled over your eyes and give this book a shot.
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Summary: a moment of awakening
Review: I cannot believe this, I have always known somehow that something was amiss until I've read this book, strongly backed with facts upon facts and I just want to strangle Bush his gang as well as hit ourselves in the head for even allowing America to go this far.
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Summary: It doesn't matter that I agree with him.
Review: For the longest time I have have had fun skewering the conservatives that I work with. The right wing is a mindless flock of sheep and I never let them forget that. People like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter with their fast and loose playing with the facts were proof that Liberals could think for themselves whereas conservatives could not.
Now comes this idiot playing the same game and to my great embarrassment, all the conservatives now point out the new flock of sheep. It's embarrassing to see Liberals flock to this man like a bunch of dittoheads. I will not go into the many examples of his playing fast and loose with the facts, there are plenty of examples of this on the Web, but I will point out that this is largely the same book as Stupid White Men.
Michael Moore could add a chapter to this book, put on a new cover and sell it again next year, and he probably will.
No thanks, it doesn't matter that I happen to agree with him, as a Liberal I have to have higher standards than a ditterhead, and I can not compromise on that.
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Summary: This isn't a review as such
Review: While I am morbidly curious as to what the idiot king Michael Moore has to say about our country, I would never, EVER pay money for a book whose royalties were going to that moron. Anyone want to loan it to me?
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