Posted on 06/16/2004 7:03:27 AM PDT by visagoth
Upcoming title at Amazon.com. Here is the editorial comment
Watching Michael Moore in action -- passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against -- has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to present his own version of the truth.
Postwar documentarians gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary, and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.
How, they ask, does Moore pull off a proletarian, "man-of-the-people" image so at odds with his lifestyle as a fabulously wealthy Manhattanite? And how large of an impact do his incendiary, ill-founded polemics have on the growing community that follows him with near-religious devotion? Loaded with well-researched, solidly reasoned arguments, and laced with irreverent wit, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man fires back at one of the left's biggest targets -- politically and literally.
Who?
I preordered a copy.
Michael Moore?
Who's he?
I do know a gentleman named Neal Moore, but he's not fat and not stupid, so they couldn't be writing about him...
Ugly...they forgot ugly!!!
The title of the book is superfluous and redundant.
I'm assuming there's a good reason for this.
He looks like Jerrold Nadler?
Preordered 2 copies...
Love the title! Will there be a movie? hehehe
The book asks how Moore is able to portray himself as a normal, average guy when he's so rich and powerful in Hollywood and lives a luxurious lifestyle. I would imagine that his sloppy, dirty appearance is calculated for that purpose. If he tried to lose weight, shaved, or wore something besides ratty t-shirts and caps, people might realize how much money he has and how much he's used his so-called truth seeking to profit off of everyone else. I doubt he minds getting called fat and ugly--it's part of his crafted image and he can't work to change.
More info on the book can be found here:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=49268
This is one southern, low class, white trash, Republican voting registered Democrat that WILL NOT be seeing this piece of garbage.
I firmly believe the reason many wealthy men and women become liberals is simple White Man's Guilt, compounded by the fact that these people are so wealthy, they've lost touch with what it takes to make---and more importantly to KEEP---money. And because the money they pony up in taxes, etc. is a drop-in-the-bucket to them, they willingly transfer the fiscal burden of their liberalism on the working middle class, masked in shameless ideological altruism.
"I'm assuming there's a good reason for this".
Yeah, the fact that its a rare anti-Moore book. Do you have a problem with that?
Nope. My main problem is the fact that I'm a dumba$$ that misunderstood who's book you were preordering. PM and apologies sent.
O'Reilly said he saw the film yesterday and ran into Moore. Moore said he'd go on Bill's show. Should be interesting.
"O'Reilly said he saw the film yesterday and ran into
Moore".
Is O'Reilly OK?
That's GROSS!
O'reilly said he was going to have MM on sometime. Last time MM was on O'reilly , MM said he wanted people in his income bracket to pay 70% taxes. What a fraud! There is no law anywhere that prevents someone from sending in more taxes. I would love to see O'reilly present MM with the address of the IRS that he could send his taxes to. It would be like when the radio interviewer offered to take the baseball player (Bonds? Sosa?) down to the drug clinic for testing. The guy exploded. Of course, I wouldn't want to see MM explode. It would be like the fatman scene in Monty Python's "Meaning of Life".
If O'reilly presents him with the address to the IRS, it will be more interesting.
Everything about Moore is Gross.
Imagine someone pulling that slob's finger...eeyow!
Moore invited O'Reilly since he was going on the show. O'Reilly was underwhelmed by the film.
Eva, I read (somewhere, I'm not certain)that the anti-Moore documentary has recently been stymied by MM's army of lawyers. Of course it goes without saying that people like this can dish it out but not take it. The ratty jeans, sneakers, t-shirt, ball cap and windbreaker were simply Moore's regular attire back when he made "Roger & Me" in '89 the film that first made his reputation (In which he sold himself as a working-class son-of-an-autoworker documenting the dissolution of his native Flint, MI as General Motors globalized its operations under then-CEO Roger Smith). He has made that his uniform ever since to maintain his counterculture "street cred." I have often wondered just how much his Eurotrash worshippers are laughing at him as well as with him, seeing as he is a virtual caricature of the Ugly American they love to despise. Be that as it may, I have noticed that lefty Icons often glory in personally not living up to the ideals they espouse. It has been noted by wiser heads than myself that leftists often tend to be mean, selfish, sometimes violent people who are consciously or unconsciously buying indulgences (re: Martin Luther) by devoting themselves to fashionable causes. A most glaring example of the above phenomena would be the hard-line feminists remaining conspicuously silent at Bill Clintons' piggish abuse of women in exchange for him toe-ing their ideological line.
George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent
No thank you.
I don't want to be in the same postal zone as this vile creature.
"O'Reilly said he saw the film yesterday and ran into
Moore".
A shame he didn't run over him instead.
...Rare anti-Moore? Or rare, there are only three copies in print?
I'll bet if similar interviews were conducted with people who have had contact like this with Hillary Clinton in the past, the same conclusion would be reached.
You are right.
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