Stupid white men: and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation! / Michael Moore.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, NY : ReganBooks, c2001.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 277 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 0060392452
- E 902 .M66 2001
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This resource contains humorous asides throughout. For example, a bulleted list entitled "How to Survive Global Warming." First on the list is: "Identify common household objects that could serve as flotation devices once the ice caps melt ..."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257 - 274).
1. A very American coup -- 2. Dear George -- 3. Dow wow wow -- 4. Kill Whitey -- 5. Idiot nation -- 6. Nice planet, nobody home -- 7. The end of men -- 8. We're number one! -- 9. One big happy prison -- 10. Democrats, DOA -- 11. The people's prayer -- Epilogue Tallahassee hi-ho.
“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 [the film] 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 now 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.” – from the dust jacket.
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