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LittleApple81 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:30 AM
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"Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man" A new book by
David T. Hardy, Jason Clarke

Editorial Reviews
Book Description
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.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060763957/qid=1088263541/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/002-1055810-2937621

and this is Hardy's homepage:
http://www.hardylaw.net/
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:31 AM
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1. Saw the ads for that. Won't bother with it, for sure.
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:33 AM
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2. Bet it'll be a REAL big seller...
maybe, to those RWers who buy in bulk, then distribute the books for free.
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skjpm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:38 AM
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4. But they have every right to publish it
I'm not going to boycott bookstores that sell it, or call them traitors, etc. Just not buying it is enough for me.
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spooky3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:45 AM
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7. I did not question anyone's right to publish it. Nor did I say anything
about a boycott, nor call anyone a traitor. What exactly are you implying?

I just said I didn't think many people would buy it at normal book prices. It's called "free market" supply and demand.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:37 AM
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3. Wow, what a clever title! Do Conservatives have ANY ideas of their own?
Same old same old. First denounce Liberals, then imitate them.
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Comicstripper Donating Member (876 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:06 AM
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14. AND.....
...not only is their title a ripoff, it's a ripoff of the wrong liberal.
"Michael Moore is a big, fat..." Is a reference to Al Franken's "Rush Limbaugh is A Big Fat Idiot Idiot.
Dumbasses.
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Citizen Daryl Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:07 AM
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15. They do have one unique idea of their own:
Taking advantage of a tragedy to steal civil liberties.

That's 100% GOP originality, baby.
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eaprez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:42 AM
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5. Just another reflection of how
...frightened they are that this movie WILL have an impact.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:44 AM
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6. How original!
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AP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:47 AM
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8. Customers who bought this book also bought:
Rewriting History by Dick Morris

The Connection : How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America by Stephen F. Hayes

Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures : A True Story from Hell on Earth by Kenneth Cain, et al

Scourge of the Liberal Media... by John Stossel

Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane by John Podhoretz
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:57 AM
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12. It's our old
Truth About Bowling for Columbine friend again. Check his humor pages, they're kneeslappers.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:50 AM
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9. Moore's a marketing genius they can't stop
...he knows their game better than they do and draws blood quickly even with the severe handicap of having mainstream corporate media campaigning against him non-stop.

He's more than the equal of the wooden headed propagandists for the military junta and corporate exploiters of war and poverty.

This reminds me of the attacks on Oliver Stone.
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:55 AM
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11. :applause: !!! n/t
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 10:52 AM
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10. I'm really sad to see such verbally impressive review,
yet its strictly a RW disgorgement of waste that ignores the fact that Moore has the evidence and is using facts to make his case. And this is an Amazon EDITOR's essay? I had no idea they were total RW mouthpeices. Crap.

Well, can't wait to see Mike's film, hopefully today. Guess I'm a member of the growing community that follows him with near-religious devotion.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:03 AM
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13. It's not a review
It's a blurb by the authors. A poorly-written one.
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FizzFuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:27 AM
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17. Huh??? But the title at Amazon says editorial........woa......
I don't have the webpage in front of me now, but I thought it was an editorial review by the Amazon people....


ohhhh...now I see. OK, that make's sense now. Thanks!!!!!
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sundancekid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:12 AM
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16. the "review" is actually from the book's publisher
... and, at least, the barnesandnoble.com page related to this upcoming book is far clearer on the reviewer souce ... but, I STILL vote with my pocketbook, and I don't waste it on trash ...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=ZYw1HVTg2a&isbn=0060763957&itm=1
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:32 AM
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18. Not worth thinking about.
Of course, it's all right for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly to have a lavish life style for spreading right wing propaganda, but God forbid that a left winger should reap the material rewards of his hard work.
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Citizen Daryl Donating Member (693 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-04 11:50 AM
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19. He's Already Writing A SEQUEL!
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