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Stupid White Men
...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
by Michael Moore
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Stupid White Men ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State
of the Nation!
by Michael Moore
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- Hardcover:
304 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.03 x 8.56 x 5.80
- Publisher: Regan Books;
ISBN: 0060392452; 1st edition (February 19, 2002)
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Stupid White Men,
Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's
power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's
as fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing
bestseller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining
as a wrestling smackdown.
Moore offers a more
interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's Crashing
the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and
he's serious when he advocates ousting Bush.
But Moore's rage is
outrageous, couched in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white
men wielding martinis and wearing dickies have occupied our nation's
capital.... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us the head of Antonin Scalia!...
We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair elections. We need U.N.
observers, U.N. troops."
Moore's ideas range
from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's nonviolent
shame tactics) to over-the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls
in their cars so racist cops will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque
Democratic Party should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward
advancing our civilization ever came out of the South [except Faulkner,
Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's too hot to think straight
there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden himself beyond
porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's
My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about
America").
Whatever your politics,
Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack. --Tim Appelo
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