Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!

By: Michael Moore

Narrated by: Arte Johnson

Length: 8 hrs

Publisher's summary

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 best seller 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, begging 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."
• 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 '90s - 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 now they want to make sure you don't come a-lookin' for your piece of the pie."

©2001 Michael Moore (P)2002 New Millennium Audio, All Rights Reserved

Critic reviews

"The latest appraisal of contemporary American society by a popular and iconoclastic commentator." (Booklist)
"As fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing best seller, as irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown." (Amazon.com)

Witty/humerous insight to realities many ignore

This is a very thought provoking book that provides a witty and humerous insight int0 many realities that people often ignore. Although I don't agree with all of his views, at least he is standing up and calling attention to a lot of areas that certain others would have us look the way.

Thank you uncle Ronald...

The truth hurts deep...makes you think, where do we go from here ??
I'll be waiting for "Bill Bennet's - wasn't me" and "Moore's - of course not"!!
Who needs proof when you have the facts in your face, it's public records, you just have to check..!!
But hurry...they move in misterious ways..!!!

Very funny -- well, not if you're a big fan of W

Book brings to light many of the atrocities surrounding the 2000 election. It also takes a good look at George W. Bush's cabinet and shows some forsight in discussing Trent Lott and Kenneth Lay. Very interesting read.

Entertaining and informative

I do not agree with everything he had to say in the book but still brought up very valid points. Very entertaining and informative. I am glad that someone had the guts to stand up against the far right.

I Wish Moore Himself had Narrated This

What prevented me from giving this book a higher rating was the narration, which seemed to me to frequently miss the tone of delivery that Moore himself tends to impart to his text.

This doesn't make it bad, just not what you might expect to hear, if you're fond of Moore's films or TV Nation or the like.
I found that I didn't get the feeling of "What the hell's going on here?" humor that I was hoping to.

Right, Wrong- Who Cares? it was funny

This book was hilarious and I totally enjoyed it. It made me laugh even though I didn't agree with all the politics, but I never do.

I too really thought he had some incredibly interesting points about the election. What was with that anyway?

Stupid white stars

The two white stars in the average rating are probably a reflection of political views. This is a great book.

OUTSTANDING

He just speaks the truth!

WARNING TO THE RADICAL RIGHT:

WARNING TO THE RADICAL RIGHT:

You just may end up loving this big, fat, but certainly not stupid, white man and hating yourself.

I did.

Thank you Michael!

The truth about bush is creeping aou from all sides faster than the White House can out CIA agents to stop it. And Michael Moore was the one who had the guts to stand up to the republican "death" squads, insisting his boks not be intellectually neutered. Thank yoy, thank you, thank you Michael.