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by David Hardy (Author), Jason Clark (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; Reprint edition (7 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060779608
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060779603
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 14 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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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 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Criticizes Michael Moore's tactics in presenting his political and social views on film and in print, charging that Moore's manipulation of facts and his use of camera tricks and publicity stunts distorts the truth. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading; more depth would have been nice, 26 Feb 2005
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This review is from: Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (Hardcover)
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.
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70 of 96 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Please NO MOORE!, 1 Oct 2004
This review is from: Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (Hardcover)
Having previously met Michael Moore at a speech at the Oxford Union I must admit I gained some respect for his arguments standing up for the little man, and some fines points he normally makes concerning corporate America's drive for profit. Yet after watching Bowling for Columbine and reading some of his books it seemed that what he was claiming was simply too absurd to be true. And it was!

This book systematically (and unlike Moore using independently verifiable data), demolishes the majority of his work in order to show that time and time again whether on film or in print he has manipulated interviews, footage and data in order to lie to the general public. The pure cheek of the this 'man of the people' in splicing together films, cutting out important statements and misusing context is unbelievable.

Rational statements and logical argument are thrown out the window to make emotive and clearly untrue points.

I should admit that I agree with many of his general arguments and side with him on the issue of gun ownership, higher wages and corporate greed, yet I feel betrayed by a man who has the potential to enact serious changes yet does so in a dishonest and vindictive way, not only bending the truth but ignoring it at crucial junctures.

I would prefer reading someone who is honest and open to me about all sides of the argument and thus might have to work harder to win the point than a blatant liar whose use of misinformation makes him as bad as those he rants and raves against.

This book shows that it is not just the right-wing media than can be overly devious and nasty, liberal writers are quickly losing the plot and becoming more fraudulent in their methods.

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33 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars This book is as right wing as Moore is left wing, 3 Sep 2006
This review is from: Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man (Hardcover)
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
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5.0 out of 5 stars the Truth!
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. Read more
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Okay. I'm not a fan of Michael Moore, so I thought "this book is going to be a counterpoint to all those smug Michael Moore fans out there". Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars the profits before people brigade do their usual thing..
Typical of all right wing "journalism", the authors select portions of Moores work and personality to critique ignoring the main thrust of his arguments. Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars A waste of my time
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