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Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Hardy, Jason Clark
Publisher: HarperCollins
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 111280
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 272
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Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0060779608
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.430233092
EAN: 9780060779603
ASIN: 0060779608
Publication Date: July 22, 2005
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Amazon.co.uk
Someone was bound to go after Michael Moore eventually and Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man 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 his film 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, Amazon.com
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 Touched a not-particularly-bright nerve January 6, 2008
Mr. Od Smith (Coulsdon, Surrey)
4 out of 42 found this review helpful
Michael Moore has made a lot of enemies following his outburst against George W Bush while accepting his Oscar for Bowling for Columbine and, following on, Fahrenheit 9/11.
The thing is, their level almost always soon degenerates into fat jibes and accusations that he lies, yet with no actual proof to back up the allegations. Comeon, when the phrase "Big Fat Stupid White Man" makes up the title, you can already assume the level it will operate on. Indeed, it seems to prefer taking cheap potshots at Moore - the quote "Dude, Where's Your Integrity?" on the back cover is one - and again doesn't really offer anything other than a rant about Michael Moore being un-American because he dissed the President.
The chapters are set up in a way that take cheap jibes at Moore and his books, rather than valid points: it opens with An Open Letter to Michael Moore, a counter to the opening gambit of Dude Where's My Country - and continues in this vein for 272 pages, none of which have anything to really offer. Indeed, you can go on any message board and read the rants of any number of anti-Moore people that follow the same pattern and employ the same logic, but do it in a sentence with no illusion of intellectualism, yet this book has them and goes out of its way to prove how unitellectual it is (and, indeed, the aforementioned posters).
If you don't like Moore, formulate your own opinions, and argue them in a rational and logical way - don't pick up a book that cannot do that at any point, and only succeeds at leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
 A pleasent eye-opener to moore and is work December 23, 2006
reviewer (UK)
29 out of 39 found this review helpful
I found the book, enjoyable, at times funny, and a very worthwhile read. It shows simply and clearly how Moore as attempted to decieve his viewers. I would reccomend it to anyone who has heard of or viewed / read any of Moore's work to put his work into perspective.
Its nice to see an alternative to the greedy and at times ridiculous and self-obsessed works of Michael Moore.
 This book is as right wing as Moore is left wing September 3, 2006
David (UK)
33 out of 44 found this review helpful
This book is definately worth a read. You must read this with the knowledge that this is VERY biast. But no more biast than Moore, albiet in the other direction.
It picks up on some very interesting tricks Moore uses to con viewers and readers. I dont have a problem with Moores views, however I do dispise the way he puts them across. He is not the brave anti-establishment figure as he makes out. In interlectual circles he is just dismissed.
Read this book, but be aware it is VERY anti-Moore. However there are two sides to every story
 Worth reading; more depth would have been nice February 26, 2005
Mr. R. Lewin (London, England)
57 out of 60 found this review helpful
There can't be many books that raise as many partisan feelings as this one. Reviews of this book on Amazon either seem to be one star (from the left) or five stars (from the right). Hopefully I can provide a bit of balance. I'd say this is a good book, not a great one. It certainly exposes Moore as a confused, hypocritical and highly devious operator, but what material the authors have on him they tend to spin out to length, and the book repeats the same accusations several times. It also would have worked better if the authors had adopted a more formal, scholarly, straight tone rather than going for the Moore-like, tabloidy approach. They remonstrate with him for using caps a lot, but they are equally guilty. While a lot of research clearly went into the book, it leaves you wishing for more, and surely there is more on this corpulent leftie who deals in politics for those who don't understand/like politics.
the Truth! November 9, 2004
42 out of 97 found this review helpful
That's it... just the truth for blinded people. This book confirmed what I thought about Moore. A poor guy telling lies and manipulating people to become rich and popular. Of course the US is not THE perfect country (the perfect country does NOT exist) but it can't be that wrong as MMoore seems to think...
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