Product Description

"MICHAEL Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man." That's the title of an upcoming tome from Regan Books by Jason Clarke and David T. Hardy, the creators of two Web sites devoted to exposing the filmmaker's hypocrisy, moorelies.com and Moore exposed.com. "Moore shows the greatest disdain for that which he actually is...a very rich, pasty white American male," the authors say. Watching Moore spinning statistics in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Dude, Where's My Country?" spurred the authors to ask, "Dude, where's your integrity." The book, due in July, will expose his use of camera tricks, manipulated facts and spliced speeches.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #788773 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 250 pages

Amazon.co.uk
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

About the Author
Jason Clarke is a Web developer and writing interested in Nan publishing, political action, social software and useful content management. Jason owns Clarke Creative Group, a design and consulting firm that has had a hand in more than two dozen Web sites and application development projects since 2001. He is the founder of the Website moorelies.com. The site is designed to be a forum for information about the alleged inaccuracies and lies propagated by Michael Moore. The site launched on April 9, 2003. Since then, it has gotten over 400,000 unique visitors and more than 1 million hits. Jason lives in Bangor, ME with his wife and son. David T. Hardy served as an editor of the Arizona Law Review and as a Fellow of the Institute for Human Studies and is admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court. After ten years service as an attorney with the US Department of the Interior in Washington DC, Mr Hardy returned to Tucson, Arizona, where he has handled everything from death penalty appeals to First Amendment cases. He is the author of four books and 12 law review articles, one of which has been cited as authority by the US Supreme Court and 11 of the 13 US Circuit Courts of Appeals. He has appeared on Nightline, CNN News and National Public Radio. He has written countless articles lambasting Moore, many of which have appeared on Clarke?s Moorelies.com website.

Customer Reviews

Worth reading; more depth would have been nice
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.

Please NO MOORE!
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.

This book is as right wing as Moore is left wing
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