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

  • By: Michael Moore
  • Narrated by: Arte Johnson
  • Length: 8 hrs
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (722 ratings)

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

By: Michael Moore
Narrated by: Arte Johnson
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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 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)

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Not impressed!

Just another example of the liberal, "Who's to blame for it, and how can I profit from it!" philosophy! Very disappointing!

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Michael, YOu Must Read Your Own Books!

Michael Moore is a natural reader and standup comedian. His writing is funny as hell and great satire on late-stage capitalism. Why didn't he read his book here? Mr. Johnson is fine, but we all know Moore so well, it's surprising not to hear his voice. I tend to be on the side of celebrities and actors reading their own work.

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