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Summary: The Book I've Been Waiting For
Review: This is the book I've been waiting for Michael Moore to write. It's much more serious than his previous work, and rightly so. The Patriot Act is a serious attack on our freedoms. The war with Iraq has seriously damaged our standing in the world and is costing a serious amount of life and money. Bush's tax cuts have done serious damage to the financial stability of our country.The first two chapters of the book read like a 50 page rant, with sources in the footnotes to back up each and every point. Moore starts out on the attack. "Why don't our elected officials talk about the links between Saudi Arabia and 9/11? Why doesn't the media look into the 20 year long business relationship between Bush Sr. and Bin Laden Sr? Why wasn't there more media coverage about Bush flying 20 of bin Laden's relatives out of the country in the days after 9/11 before the FBI had a chance to talk to them? Where is our "liberal" media when we need them? Imagine if Bill Clinton had a business relationship with Timmothy McVeigh's family and flew them out of the country after the Oklahoma City bombing! What would the conservatives have said about that?" For those who don't want to read a hard-core political book, Moore also provides plenty of his special brand of sarcasm. Except it's not as warm and fuzzy as it has been in the past. Mike is pissed, and he should be after discovering the facts he uncovers in this book. You'll be pissed after you read it too, and you'll be ready to join the campaign to get Bush out of office in 2004.
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Summary: Just plain kooky
Review: Who are the people reading this and accepting Moore's "facts" without question? Moore's claims about 9/11 are just nuts, with no evidence to back them up - but that is pretty much what I have come to expect from this guy, who used to be amusing (Roger and Me). Now the guy is just a kook on the fringe.
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Summary: Tears apart Conservatives for the idiots they are
Review: Anybody who thinks Indy-minded Mike Moore is a liberal is a complete loser. He is a witty, sharp and powerful writer who is NOT afraid of the Bushistas and tells the truth, ugly as it may be, about every idiot on the planet, Repubs and Dems alike. In this new book, he offers a scathing indictment of the Bush Administration and the idiotic hatred of fear-ambushed Conservatives (How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother-In-Law is my fave chapter...) that is destroying our democracy and getting hundreds of our soldiers killed. He covers the lies Bush tells, and the reasons behind those lies (greed, power, oil, religious fanaticism) and pulls no punches in also calling to task the sins of Clinton and others, all of whom are responsible for the hijacking of our civil rights, our sanity and our civility. MIKE MOORE just may be one of the only honest political writers left on a planet slowly turning into Clear Channel induced mush. Read and learn. It's powerful, and honest stuff.
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Summary: Bah. This is exactly what we dont need.
Review: How does Mike Moore think that he's "contributing to society" with this garbage? This kind of shock politics is exactly what shouldnt happen in a bi-partisan system. Michael Moore is a pretentious, overblown windbag like so many other liberals - much worse than the conservatives. He needs to stop touting his remarkable ability to complain, and come up with a few ideas about how to make America better.
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Summary: Dude....Come on Michael....
Review: I was a big fan of Mike's work (Roger and Me, The Big One, Downsize This!, Stupid White Men), but in this book he goes a little too far.
One chapter is devoted to telling me that I can not ever hope to be wealthy in America, so I shouldn't even try, and that I should have the attitude of other countries' residents that just go to work, come home, and don't aspire for more.
Aren't you, Mike, a self-made millionaire through your film work and your self-started newspaper in Michigan?
And Mike's blind anger at the Bush administration is evident throughout this book. It's sad that Moore chooses to attack the world's war on terror (that's right Mike...not just us) as innocent Israelis and Iraqis are being slaughtered by car bombs that we and our allies are trying to prevent.
And on the "Today" show, he claimed that the terror threat is made up by the Bushes to scare me into submission and to vote Republican. His proof was that no one died in 2002 in the US of terrorism, so the Sept. 11 attacks was just a one-time thing.
*sigh*....I went out and bought Glenn Beck's new book "The Real America" to help try to balance out this far left-winged opus.
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Summary: Why does he want us to give up?
Review: Wow it has been a long time since I read a book that preached so much depression in an attempt to make me give up in life. Why does he want us to give up and stop striving for success? Very strange and sad.
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Summary: Where are you getting this
Review: Tyranny? Treason? Freedoms taken away? Where are you people getting this. Michael Moore is a flaming liberal who despises anything sacred or moral, things which our president stands up for. Why doesn't Michael try being the president, and we'll see how well he does. Right!
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Summary: Oh boy
Review: In answer to the question "Dude, where's my country?" she's gone and has been for a while now. Thirty years ago communists were our enemy, now they're our elected officials. Michael Moore is too far out to appeal to any legitimate moderate liberal or conservative. Another example of the most vocal people (on either side) being starved for attention and unable to deal with issues without slinging mud. Sad really. I don't want to know where the country is, but "Dudes, where are the grownups?"
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Summary: This is a book that has to be read by anyone who cares.
Review: This book should be read all, from the most liberal democrat, to the most conservative republican. The facts that Moore presents in this book are just that, facts...the truth. I can understand how pro-Bush supporters will automatically denounce what this book has to say, but somewhere along the way they have to realize truth, and that accept that this president and his staff has repeatedly lied to us and has lead to the deaths of innocent Iraqi citizens and our American troops. I bought this book the day it came out, and I finished it that day. It is a fast read because it is amazingly well written, and it reads like he is your best freind, sitting across from you, having an intelligent conversation about our government. One of the great things about this book is that when you are done reading it and turn on the news, such as Hardball, they are asking many of the same questions, and the liberals are starting to speak up, and the conservatives just keep on spouting the same lies and defending our president by saying that those who question him are aiding terrorism. Does this review aid terrorists, does this book, do the democrats seeking the presidency in 2004 aid terrorists because we are questioning out loud our presidents policies? I live in the greatest country on earth, where books like this can be read and published at a time when some would wish this book never existed. This book does not hurt our security or aid terrorists as Ashcroft and others who try to stop those they feel are "un-American," probably would like us to believe. If anything, this book is a weapon against terrorists because it shows that the rights and values of what we believe in and stand for are stronger that terror, are stronger than our president, and that will never fail. Thank you Michael Moore for having the fortitude (a favorite Bush word) to express your rights and stand up to those who oppose you while educating and motivating the American people and the world to try and do what is right. Again, I say, this book has to be read, it is more than words on pages, it is more than facts about the war and this presidency, it is a challenge to all who read it to do what they believe is right and to try and find the truth for themselves and act upon it. I guess you could say this book has motivated me.
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Summary: Thought provoking and compellingly readable.
Review: With footnotes listed to reference virtually every substantial fact used in this witty and patriotic book, Michael Moore challenges the reader to consider many disturbing relationships and policies developed by the Bush administration. His tone in this book is of greater concern than the pleasureful decrying of "Stupid White Men," but alas it would seem the world has completely changed (for still the worse) since then. And, nevertheless, Moore manages to elicit a bit of laughter from these serious subjects, though it's often the laughter of disbelief at our "representatives." If you're investigating these reviews out of legitimate interest in the book, as opposed to those who simply want to lower the average-star-rating of the book because they don't like what Moore says (Way to show 'em! ...you clever political-activist-geniuses you!), I think you'll find it a worthwhile investment of time and money. It's extremely good.
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