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Summary: Moore Is Canadian: Uneducated, Poor, Jealous, AntiCapitalism
Review: This book rates up there with Erich Von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past" So filled with fun facts. Even the cover art comes close to the publications "Weekly World News" and Tiger Beat!" Thank goodness! If it didn't have such cool pictures, I wouldn't have read it! The only thing missing were horoscopes and cross-word puzzles at the end of the book. For that I couldn't give it 5 stars! It's a good thing to see such a high class during this time of political bashing. It's a great breath of fresh air.
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Summary: Finally someone willing to speak up!!
Review: This book is a great eye opener!! It helps us understand and consider another point of view on how we are living our lives. It's sometimes scary to think how much confidence we are giving a group of people who basically do with us what they please. I discovered Michael Moore after being terrorized by CNN (corporate news network) i am pleased to say that this discovery has brought me comfort and made reinforce my original views on how much of an UNendangered species we really are - all we need to do is change our attitude and actually CARE for the world and the people we live with - the world is not only the USA it entails many races, cultures and languages. Just imagine how boring things would be if we were all the same and did the same things!
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Summary: Theres other books thats more fulfilling...
Review: If you read around the internet about his critics you would see the mistakes he made in the book. The movie he created was great until i heared all the mistakes he made with that too. Lies and the Lying liars was much better.
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Summary: Entertainment with a dark undercurrent
Review: Reading Michael Moore is hilarious, until you think about that what he writes about is actually happening out there. The US is becoming a less great country every month. We deserve better leadership.
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Summary: Thank you librarians!
Review: Michael Moore's book, "Stupid White Men", sat for months after 9/11 because some people thought it would be unpatriotic to publish them, and then certain people wanted to ban the book, but a librarian heard about it and got on line and informed all the librairans nationally about the proposed ban on his book. Bottom line, through their protestations the book was released and the rest is history. I love my country and what it has always represented. Because of how our country has been established with its constitutional laws (until the Patriot Act) this country has been a country I felt that we could be proud of and I hope that will continue to do so. Lately, its laws have been stretched so far away from the intention of the founders of our country that it is shocking and horrifying to many of us. Michael Moore has the courage to ask the many questions that the citizens of this country have been afraid to ask but want answers to. Someone mentioned that he was sounding like a conspiracy theorist and should be discredited because of that. Well, this country is full of conspiracies, whether it be the politicians planning their campaigns, companies planning their financial strategies, men and women planning how to woo their opposites, going to war in Iraq, those who planned and executed 9/11 were conspirators, so I wouldn't knock him for wanting to know why all this has happened. He says we have been lied to time after time and since we, the people, are supplying the men and women to fight these wars and are using our tax dollars and the money that was put aside for our social security, etc. that we should have the right to know the truth. Heck, since we know some of those people that were listed as the hi-jackers have turned up alive and have alibis, we don't even know for sure if they lied to us about Osama bin Laden. Was it all for oil? I had one point that made me a little squeamish, his chapter where he pretends he is God. He made some good points in it but I thought he could have done it differently without the God bit. I know it was because Bush has made remarks about his being chosen by God to do this, but of course, as any Christian knows, God does not advocate, killing, lying, coveting, etc. which is against the Ten Commandments, so he does not live God's laws. Hitler would be more like it. The book is quite good and we needed someone who could reach the people as he has done. It takes a lot of courage to go up against the people that have so much power, but we gave a lot of them that power, maybe we can take some of it away in the next election. If they don't vote to repeal the Patriot Act, don't vote for them, pure and simple (those are the easy ones). Look to see how they have voted on issues, if they haven't voted for the good of the people or country, get rid of them and get someone else in. Clean house! If you love this country and want to keep it the way it was meant to be, read this book and others like "Bushwacked" (you see what kind of policies Bush has established), "The Great Unraveling" by Paul Krugman (tells us how Bush's financial policies are trying to destroy the social security, medicare and medicaid programs and more), Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars:..", and "Big Lies" by Conason. These books are giving the people true facts and the facts are affecting all of us, whether you are a conservative or a liberal or moderate unless you are a millionaire and then it will be unless you are a billionaire. This is indeed a precarious time for our country, don't be lulled into the trap of thinking this is a liberal versus conservative cause, because it is all of our concerns.
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Summary: Dude, It's a MUST read!
Review: I'd read almost all of the articles author Moore quoted, and seeing them in his book restored my faith in humankind. Corporate greed, hate radio, and political manipulations through fear are just the beginning in the process of history repeating. If we are lucky, this well-written series of facts will keep us from becoming just another third-world piece of land. Thank you Michael; keep up the good words!
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Summary: Dude, Where's My Soap?
Review: The choir will love it. It's the usual diatribe from our scruffy, pseudo-working-class warrior at those not willing to board the Lefty Love Train to the New-Eden-Crafted-by-Bureaucrats. College dropout Moore reeks (literally) of sour disaffection towards a government that hasn't made America safe enough, comfy enough, unchallenging enough for him and his sulky fellow travelers. Conservatives are evil or stupid or both because they insist on individual initiative, promote equal opportunity, and call racial discrimination, well, racial discrimination. Moore will never get that America's great promise is to give the greatest number of choices to each individual rather than divide the spoils among self-annointed victim groups, so I imagine he'll just get more angry and disaffected as his vision falls further from favor. He should get a bath and a real job, and stop harassing Charlton Heston.
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Summary: Moore is the big liar.
Review: This book confirms that Michael Moore just hates Bush and conservatives. He is just throwing anything to smear Bush and conseratives hoping many Americans buy his lies. I guess he is succeding doing that. He fabricated many things in Bowling for Columbine and he does same thing here. What we need is not propaganda from the radical lefts or rights, but truth and facts. It is very hard to find books that stick to the facts and wishing this country to do well. Moore and his followers should be ashamed of themselves. Moore should be irrelevent as his thinking doesn't help our society to do better, actually he is making it worse.
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Summary: It's a start.
Review: This is a consistently funny book delivered in a fast paced and readable fashion. It has some deadwood to be sure, but is sufficiently interesting to keep it afloat. I was disappointed by Mike being taken in by the Sinn Fein propaganda machine on his trip to Belfast, his confusing Gangsterism with Capitalism, and his support of the French, since they get all that they want from their American foreign investments that allow involvement in the Iraqi contracts they were supposedly barred from. He also failed to point out that countries - such as the UK and Germany, etc. - can afford the welfare states they have, because of similar foreign investments. So, like the IRA, the old colonialists ... haven't gone away, you know. A few chapters were little more than filler, where I would have preferred more elaboration of some the interesting points he does make. It's as if he's having to keep the whole thing zinging along to allow for the attention deficit of his audience, as if they are akin to the Stupid White Men he previously wrote about. Where's the Beef, Mike? On a more positive note, it will be interesting to see if the book and its associated websites will motivate a significant number of Americans to get off their whining butts and go exercise the rights their founding fathers constituted, and be active in their REASONED choice of political representation that goes beyond the flawed nature of the libertarians, the rabidly dogmatic Republicans, and the spineless Democrats. And the Greenies aren't the answer either. Much is made about the evil corporate rip off brigade. This is true enough, but such people would do a lot less damage if the investors would exercise some sense, and not let themselves be suckered into the investments in the first place. Temptation can be hard to resist in an escalating stock market, but if a company such as Enron is inexplicably ahead of the curve, it's probably a scam. Like choosing politicians, reason must prevail to avoid disappointment.
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Summary: Fun, Not Deep
Review: First off, let me say that I consider myself a liberal and hate how Dubya is bankrupting our nation and getting our nation mired in frivolous foreign wars. Whatever happened to the "WMD" and the Iraq-al Qaeda link?! Saying that, this book isn't really fulfilling as political commentary. Al Franken's "Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them" and Brugman's "The Great Unraveling" reveal Dubya's idiocy far more thoroughly. In fact, in reading this book, I felt that Moore was concentrating far too much on inconsequentials: the fact that Dubya had the bin Ladens escorted out of the U.S. after 9/11 doesn't mean very much, since the bin Ladens have disowned the black sheep Osama, and might have been subject to post-9/11 backlash here. By concentrating on conspiracy theories rather than facts, Michael Moore seemed almost like the Rush Limbaugh of the Left. I've probably managed to irritate people on both sides of the poltical spectrum now, but I have to state my opinion. There are many more reasons to despise Dubya, based on sound economics and foreign policy, that Moore doesn't touch upon. Moore is far more talented in filmmaking. The family being evicted from its home on Christmas in "Roger & Me" is a far more powerful indictment of right-wing politics than anything in this book.
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