Rating: Summary: Hot Air Review: Working at a gas company I know something about hot air, and this book has so much anti-bush rhetoric it could power its own city.At any rate, I guess it has some value as a doorstop.
Rating: Summary: slander Review: As a real lib (a Libertarian) I think that Moorer is the biggest lieing idiot I have ever encountered.This book (along with "bowling")are the worst ever!!! He is so full of hatred that the books are unreadable.I got through a total of 21 pages (in the store, I would never pay for this crap)and will say that if anyone read this and agrees with it , you are a sorry excuse for a human being.
Rating: Summary: Help! the paranoids are after me Review: Yeah, yeah, 'FANTASTIC!' from New York - the secret police have got your number, in your dreams. I speak as a lifelong *thinking* liberal : this book is embarrassing trash.
Rating: Summary: Utter and Total Nonsense Review: Moore mindless drivel from the angry and misguided film-maker known as Michael Moore. For those who want of the same angry and has harsh words for George W. Bush the war in Iraq, the collapse of Enron etc et al, this is the book for you. Other books are a better use of one's time.
Rating: Summary: This book tells the truth Review: This book helped me to understand what our president is really doing, the truth about sptember 11, and the war with iraq. This book motivates me to try and change the world. It gives me insight on the large corporations, and the truth behind the tax cuts. It informs me of my president's relationship with the Bin Ladens, with the head of enron, and other large corporations. With all of the lies that our president has told us, the truth is refreshing, and scary. You will be shocked by everything that you didn't know about our country, our president and our world.
Rating: Summary: dude where's my country Review: A BOOK PACK FULL OF LIES , NO TRUTH WHAT SO EVER
Rating: Summary: Research...what a concept Review: It's refreshing to read a book that the author has actually researched. Instead of just offering up his opinions with little or no fact-checking, Mr. Moore backs up his words. One curious note: I read this on the plane on my way out of the country, and every security person I had to go through picked it up, looked at the cover and asked me about it. Not in the "are you a terrorist?" vein, but actually interested in it. One even asked me if I had purchased it at the airport, indicating that maybe he'd pick up a copy before he left work. I just found this to be interesting.
Rating: Summary: Had Bill Clinton still been in office!!! Review: Compare the endless investigations of Whitewatergate, Travelgate, Lewinskygate, and what-not with the total absence of investigations in the 9/11 attacks. Had Bill Clinton been in power Tom DeLay would not have let anything go uninvestigated. This book details all the (known) contacts between Osama Bin Laden, Al Quaeda, the Bush family, Texas oil tycoons, and the Taleban. Where I come from the administration would have had to answer some really tough questions. Here in the US the media does not seem to dare dwell on these matters. Do not question the Commander-in-Chief, at least not if he is a Republican....
Rating: Summary: Dude, Where Did You Learn (not) to Write? Review: It is hard to take this book seriously with all of the gratuitous venom that Mr. Moore continually spews throughout this volume. I find his language and style annoying, and any potential he has to make himself seem credible is lost in his effort to propagate as much baseless hate towards Mr. Bush as is humanly possible. I am glad it didn't take long to read, because what little amount of time I spent on this diatribe I felt like I wasted. I might not always agree with the politics of this current administration, but this book goes way too far. This is no better than the pundits on the far right Mr. Moore likes to attack.
Rating: Summary: Might Somehow Resemble Worthwhile, If Only... Review: Michael Moore could somehow string his bleeding-heart sentiments to something bearing weight. Michael Moore seems to suffer from the same problem that Ann Coulter does: I'm sure there are somewhat valid arguments hiding in his writing, but they are totally obstructed by his continual ethos and pathos, rather than logos. Moore writes with emotion, and in when most of what we read, see, and hear is swayed by bias (either left *or* right), it's time to open the stand to something a bit more fair. Moore continually rants and raves, sometimes to the point of incoherency, about the Rightist "faction" in the United States, without any support. So, big deal. Moore can equate the Iraqi war's justification with the purchase of a Whopper. If he spent half the effort making coherent arguments that are supported by fact and logic, rather than spewing bile at Republicans and conservatives, this book might be worth reading. Like the balance of Moore's film and written ventures, he continually appeals to the emotion of the reader. While his ideas are not without their merits, he spends so much time trying to make "funnies" and win the reader over with his easily-read style, there's absolutely no substance to the book. It seems as if he's attempting to write a high-brow book for a low-brow audience: He's idealistic and hypocritical. When he carries on with endless banter about how the September 11th attacks could have been prevented, but then goes on to slam the rise in national defense spending. Skewed? Most assuredly. How can he complain about an attack when he lobbies to cut the funding to prevent another one? Much like his film "Bowling For Columbine," Moore presents fictionalized "facts" in order to cater to his own agenda. Sur le finalement, Moore paints his readers into a liberal-esque corner. His ideas aren't fundamentally flawed, but reading his writing is boring - and the feeling is that he simply tries too hard to get his reader to slam the book shut and say "WHY THIS MR. MOORE IS CERTAINLY RIGHT!" Rather than proposing a way to change things, he instead spends the balance of the time - besides slamming his opposers - complaining. If he actually presented some theories on how to fix things, instead of simply telling readers things that they already know, this book would be vastly better.
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