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Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man
by Authors:
David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke
Hardcover Description:
Someone was bound to go after Michael Moore eventually and this book holds nothing back. An immensely popular figure to political left-wingers, Michael Moore presents himself as a regular working-class guy in a baseball cap with the courage to take some rich and powerful folks to task for their corrupt and deceitful ways. David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke say this populist, muckraker image is pure whitewash. Believing that this charade has gone on for too long, and done too much damage to the U.S., they have written this book to expose Moore as narcissistic and irresponsible and his body of work "as manipulative as totalitarian propaganda." To prove their point, they pick apart Moore's books and movies to illustrate how he is consistently manipulative, dishonest, and, at times, simply absurd. They show how he altered the timeline of Roger and Me in order to unfairly blame things on General Motors that happened before their layoffs, not as a result of them. Regarding Bowling for Columbine, the authors explain how he took quotes out of context and reassembled them to give the impression that people made speeches they did not make---most famously his interview with Charlton Heston, then president of the NRA. They also illustrate how Moore manipulated statistics in his books Dude, Where’s My Country and Stupid White Men to fit his theories, making some truly outrageous claims in the process. The authors have certainly done their homework, and it's impossible to view Moore's work the same way after reading this book. "How does a man with so many contradictions manage to blind his enormous trove of followers to how hypocritical he really is? How does he get away with it?" they ask. If the authors have their way, he won't much longer. Now that Moore has joined the ranks of the rich and powerful, Hardy and Clarke have engaged in bit of muckraking of their own. --Shawn Carkonen
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I bought this book just 3 days ago and read nearly the whole thing within the first 24 hours. (...) I also watch politics closely and have a very low tolerance for someone lying to me just to forward an agenda.
That, unfortunately, is what this book is about. I say that because I think Michael Moore is entertaining. While I hate his politics, I enjoy his method of delivery and the way he confronts people in the street. It's funny. But it's also dishonest. And that makes Michael Moore dangerous. He's willing to manipulate the truth to convey his version of reality. Who was the man who did this for the Nazi War Machine in World War 2? His last name wasn't Moore, was it? Because the same techniques used then are being deployed by Michael Moore today...
As an example, look at how Moore lied about the NRA Rallies in the town of Columbine and Flint. He made it appear that the NRA rushed in the days after gun violence occurred just so he could rally for "the right to keep and bear arms". In fact, the events portrayed in the movie had nothing to do with the shootings they were said to be tied to. The Columbine Event was a legally required event (there was no way to back out of it without committing an illegal act that violated the rules of organizations such as this one). Even so, all non-required portions of the NRA gathering were canceled in honor of those slain in Columbine. And the gathering in Flint following the shooting of an elementary school girl by an 8-year old boy....well, Moore would have you believe it happened right afterward. But it didn't. It happened 8 MONTHS LATER AS PART OF A SERIES OF STOPS THAT MR. HESTON MADE WHEN CAMPAIGNING FOR GEORGE W. BUSH!!!!!!
Now, those who review this book poorly and want to act like the point of the book is that Mel Gibson made money off 'The Passion of the Christ' and how that makes no sense...well, that's fine. But that's not the point of this book. Not at all (in fact, the Mel Gibson piece, just to clear things up, was merely the authors explaining how, when people do things that Michael Moore doesn't want them to do, they succeed...that's it...they were just showing Moore's bad judgement and how folks succeed when they don't take it).
No, the point of this book is simple. Michael Moore portrays himself as a simple 'man of the people'. But he's lying to you. He is a dangerous man with radical political views, and he's not afraid to manipulate the truth to try and elicit the response from you that he wants. This is, in a very real, sense, George Orwell's 1984. The truth is modified to fit Moore's reality. And if you ever call it into question, that makes you a "wacko attacko" who is out to get him.
You bet we're out to get him. Just like honest people all over this country are out to get anyone who intentionally lies or manipulates the truth just to get his way. You want to see an honest man? Take a look at President George W. Bush. He'll go down in history as one of the greats. A man who follows principle no matter what. A man that governs by what is right. Not by what a poll says.
In contrast, Michael Moore's life will be wasted, and when he's gone, he'll be forgotten. Because those without principles or morals always are.
Leftists Are Going Nuts
I loved the book AND the title. For a few Moore-Nuts who claim to have read it (I don't believe it), they think the title is insulting. To call a white man fat and equate that with stupidity is a right-wing tactic, eh? For years the left bombarded us with Rush Limbaugh fat jokes, and Al Franken called him Fat in the title of one of his books. Calling people names based on their appearance is mainly a Democrat tactic. Just ask Rush, Paula Jones, Linda Tripp, etc. As for the authors capitalizing off Moore, WHY NOT? Moore is capitalizing off the WTC attacks and dead soldiers! If he's donating the $ to charity (which I don't buy for a minute, as he's a proven liar) how does he afford several multi million dollar pads? He bought his luxuries with blood money, making a fortune off the 9/11 attacks. Why shouldn't some writers make a buck? It's their right! Everyone who calls the authors money-hungry, well, I bet you wish you could make some extra cash too. Moore is someone who has said that he hopes more Americans are killed. Is this what you Democrats want for your mouthpiece? Thank goodness someone is publishing the truth about this lying piece of garbage. Again I repeat: Moore says he HOPES MORE AMERICANS ARE KILLED! How can anyone defend this?
This book says what I've thought for a long time!!
To say it's easy to take potshots at Michael Moore is to state the obvious. He makes it almost too easy, but what potshots often lack is substance. With that said, this book makes up for the lack of substance that hurts many criticisms of Michael Moore. A few of the reviews on this site claim that there are no facts in this book, no references or accounts of events to back up the authors' claims. That simply isn't true. Almost everything is backed up. (I say "almost everything" because there are some op-ed pieces included, and op-ed pieces don't have to be based in fact. Hence the reason they're called op-ed.) I know that the primary audience for this book is people who hate Moore, but I think people who love and adore the director would be the ones best served by this book. They could read how their icon really lives and how he manipulates the medium that has made him famous. They may not like what they read, but they would at least see that "the emperor has no clothes." Of course, people who despise Moore and his "work" (yes, I am one of them) will find themselves pumping their fists in the air, saying "I told you so" a lot. It will also give them ammunition to hurl at Moore's admirers. The best thing about this book is that it covers his entire career; it wasn't something just thrown together to combat Farenheit 9/11. That lends it even more weight because there is as much criticism of Roger and Me as there is of Bowling for Columbine or his books. In all honesty, this book didn't make me think less of Moore, but I didn't expect that to happen. It just helped me justify my dislike of him and what he calls "art."
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