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The government has been seized by a ne'er-do-well rich boy and his elderly henchmen . . . Our great economic expansion is unraveling faster than a set of Firestones . . . Our water is poisoned, the ozone's in shreds, and the SUVs are advancing like a plague of locusts. . .

Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401K gold?

Well, so much for the future. Michael Moore, the award-winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the bestseller Downsize This!, now returns to size up the new century -- and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, Stupid White Men is Mike's Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. Among his targets: George W.: "President" of the United States. The Thief-in-Chief. A trespasser on federal land, a squatter in the Oval Office. Send in the Marines! Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring me the head of Antonin Scalia! Bill Clinton: One of the best Republican presidents we've ever had. The Former Yugoslavia: Bring back Marshall Tito! Nobody in America liked him much when he was alive, but now he looks like Lady Bird Johnson. The Idiot Nation: A friggin' stain on a blue dress. That's what captured our attention in the nineties -- along with slow-moving Broncos, six-year-old strangled beauty queens, and Hugh Grant's dating habits. Corporate America: There is no recession, my friends: no downturn, no hard times. The rich are wallowing in loot -- and no they want to make sure you don't come a-lookin' for your piece of the pie.

The polls indicate that 60 percent of Americans are "upset or angry" about this land in which we now live -- a land where crooked courts select the president and money rules the day. So if you're feeling the same way and you're wondering what's going to give out first -- the economy, Dick Cheney's pacemaker, or your new VW Beetle -- here's the book for you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #133840 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-27
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
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 UN observers, UN troops". Moore's ideas range from on-the-money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's non-violent 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 RJ 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

Synopsis
Michael Moore sizes up the new century - and that big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. Whether he's calling for United Nations action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta, calling on African-Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, or praying that Jesse Helms will get kissed by a man, "Stupid White Men" is Mike's manifesto on malfeasance and mediocrity.

Customer Reviews

Very impressed
This is a good account of how messed up USA is. It is an account from an american who likes to speak his mind, on all matters. He tells of how the election was fixed and much more. After reading this book i went on to buy both his dvd's which were just as good. Very enjoyable and highly recommend.

Moore is the 21st Century Jonathan Swift
Moore is angry. Very angry. His solutions to the problems of the world may be silly or perhaps wrong (some of his assertions I take issue with but on a factual basis rather than a political one). But that is not the point. In the very same way that Swift was suggesting that the Irish should eat their children rather than starve - and was taken seriously at the time - this book is as much a modest proposal to solve the ills of the world.

Yes, the book is out of date but the central themes are not. Each chapter is a pamphlet for a particular ill. Most powerful is the chapter on the idiocy of racism. This is the one chapter I read over and over again.

The most important message of the book? Far and away the most important, I think, is that all of us *must* take part in the political process: stand for your local council. Take part in elections. Stand up and be counted. This is the only way to change the world. And he is absolutely right, so this book gets 5 stars for that argument alone.

Angry and hilarious
A book every American should be forced to read. "Stupid white men" describes the sorry state that the United States are in. As the rest of the world is worried sick by the antics of Mr. Bush, a vast proportion of the Americans don't seem to understand that he is now the biggest security risk in the world. Michael Moore, Corporate America's pain in the lower backside, describes his readers how Bush got elected, what the effects of decades of relentless conservative government are on the position of the poor, the blacks, the women and other "minority groups" (as he rightly observes, women are actually the majority group, but they never DO something with this advantage). And he tells all this in a hilarious, readable way. Sometimes the references to America's national/internal affairs are incomprehensible for a European, but the overall picture is that we Europeans are right in not trusting the US leaders and government to represent us.