Stupid White Men. Eine Abrechnung mit dem Amerika unter George W. Bush

by Michael Moore

Beinahe wie in der McCarthy-Ära laufen in den USA unbequeme Zeitgenossen neuerdings Gefahr, wegen unamerikanischer Umtriebe der Ächtung anheim zu fallen. "Wer nicht für uns ist, ist gegen uns" - diese Losung gilt nicht nur Ausländern zur Warnung. Doch der solidarische Burgfrieden täuscht. Kaum erklärlich sonst, warum ausgerechnet Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!, diese gnadenlose und geradezu subversive Abrechnung mit dem Amerika unter George W. Bush, ganz oben auf sämtlichen US-Bestsellerlisten steht.

Die Lektüre dieser hoch intelligenten und gallebitteren Satire aus der Feder des Regisseurs und Fernsehmoderators Michael Moore macht klar, wie sehr "Nine Eleven" - da war das Manuskript schon fertig - inzwischen den Blick auf die Verhältnisse in den USA verstellt hat. So ist etwa die fragwürdige Machtergreifung des bei den Präsidentenwahlen stimmenzahlmäßig unterlegenen Kandidaten der Republikaner kaum mehr Thema. Sehr wohl bei Michael Moore, der Bush Junior mit betont unfairen Schlägen unter die Gürtellinie als trotteligen Unsympathen und Ignoranten vorführt, der sich bereitwillig zum Hanswurst einer reanimierten Altfalken-Riege aus Ronald Reagans und Daddy Bushs Zeiten macht.

Wer sind diese feinen, patriotischen Säulen der Bush-Junta? Mit dieser Frage leitet der Autor sein Who's who der US-Regierung ein und fährt fort: "Sie repräsentieren die bescheidenen und selbstlosen Funktionäre der amerikanischen Wirtschaft. Ich habe sie aufgeführt, damit die Truppen der UNO und NATO sie leichter zusammentreiben können, wenn sie endlich kommen, um Ordnung und Demokratie wieder herzustellen."

Moore nimmt nicht nur die politischen Missstände im Land mit ätzendem Sarkasmus aufs Korn, sondern auch Rassismus, Wirtschaftskollaps, Umweltkrise, Arbeitslosigkeit, das marode Gesundheitssystem, den bedrohten Weltfrieden und so fort. Dabei zieht er derart lustvoll über dümmlich-naive Landsleute her und den American Way of Life durch den Kakao, dass es - wenn auch nicht für jeden - eine wahre Freude ist. Antiamerikanismus made in USA, ein ungewöhnlicher Brüller!
--Roland Detsch

Genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Humor, History, The United States Of America, Comedy, Sociology

329 pages, Paperback

First published February 19, 2001

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. See this thread for more information.

Michael Moore is an American filmmaker, author and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, and Capitalism: A Love Story, four of the top nine highest-grossing documentaries of all time.[3] In September 2008, he released his first free movie on the Internet, Slacker Uprising, documenting his personal crusade to encourage more Americans to vote in presidential elections.[4] He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth.
Moore is a self-described liberal who has criticized globalization, large corporations, assault weapon ownership, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system in his written and cinematic works.

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Reviews

[Baba · Rating 3 out of 5]

Stupid White Men was Michael Moore's bestselling Manifesto on Malfeasance and Mediocrity. He rips apart the Bush conspiracy too defraud the public and steal an election as well as stuff like asking African Americans to place 'Whites Only' signs in front of businesses that practice, or do not action against intolerance.

Probably the last cutting and funny book by Moore before he began to practise the type of tactics that leant more to performance and shock journalism than anything else. A must read in the sphere of American soul gazing. 7 out of 12..

2003 read

[Annette · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm a pretty huge social liberal. Maybe it's because I've been in law school too long, but I need facts. This book is garbage. It lacks citations and simply anecdotal. Want to know how Moore proves his point that there is a water shortage? Because he was at a chic party and heard a rich person talking about taking their yacht out on the reservoir. Want to know why black people kill each other in inner cities? Because white people buy guns...people steal those guns...and those guns are sold to black people. See? It's a racist conspiracy! There is no data here, just conjecture.

i lost all respect for this guy after seeing him speak in LA. He cited a NY Times article to prove a point. I went and did the research and the article actually DISproved his point. I emailed him to let him know of this little fact and never got a response. Next thing you know he was citing the article with a different date to prove his totally wrong point.

The stupid white man here is Moore. He undermines the liberal ideologies the way Rush or Bill O undermine the conservative ideologies.

[Bram De Vriese · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read about depressing realities that still ring true today.

[Dustin · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had to read this book for a class, and, lucky me, a few weeks before I had to have it read, Moore came and spoke at my school. I got tickets for me and a couple of my friends and bought the book at the door. Michael Moore is a rambunctious fellow for someone so hefty, and he gave a good speech or lecture or whathaveyou; I wouldn't call it inspiring, but to my 21-year-old mind still adjusting to the demands of big city livin' and the expectations of being a college student, I remember being fired up with all kinds of liberal smugness and that, as I lined up afterwards to have my book signed, I had really accomplished something. Like some subtle shift had taken place and the world was set on its correct path once again. A difference had been made.

Anyway, when it was my turn to have my book signed, I looked into Moore's weary eyes and the traces of grey in the stubble on his jowels, and I wanted to thank him for giving me--not the tools for action, but the ammunition to loudly pretend to be an intellectual with half-baked political philosophy at the next campus-housing party. But I said nothing, and he just scribbled an illegible wave, like a frantic heartbeat on a monitor, onto the front page with a purple pen and slid my book down the table and I moved on.

I should have just bought a Che Guevara t-shirt.

[Nandakishore Mridula · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this book because I liked Fahrenheit 9/11, and because I share Moore's feelings towards George W. Bush. But the book proved to be highly speculative and unsatisfying, and left me suspecting Moore's genuinity, a feeling which was enhanced by watching the movies Bowling for Columbine and Sicko. He seems to edit facts and figures to prove his point, in his books as well as movies, just like any politician. His humour is also too cynical for my taste.

A humourist once wrote: "For the rose bush of satire, the laughter is the flower and the criticism, the thorn. Remember, the flower is the adornment for the bush, not the thorn." Moore's rose bush is almost all thorns.

However, I give it two stars because I think Moore fights a worthy cause.

[Will Byrnes · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you hate the guy, you would never pick up one of his books anyway. I happen to like him, mostly. The book reflects his take on the world, which is mixture of frothing vituperation at the outrages foisted upon the American people by those in power and a puckish sense of humor. His greatest strength is his films but this book offers an entertaining taste of Moore between features.

[Christian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book IS a little dated now. However, that does NOT detract from the simple fact that the presidency of George W. Bush, if one could call it that, was a farce from the outset. And that is what this book is mostly about. I won't go too much into detail and let the book do that. What I will say is that Bush Jr. should have been denied presidency on the grounds that it was and is a conflict of interest. Pure and simple! And the absolute low point in the history of the United States will forever be letting that buffoon and his crew of hired thugs cheat their way into office! Michael Moore was pretty much the only high profiler with balls enough to stand up and say "Hey! This isn't right!" and I commend him for that.
I'm going to round up this review with a quote from another famous American. Something we all need to learn if there is to be an end to the tyranny.

"You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it." - Malcolm X

[Asghar Abbas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious but very simplistic take. An extremely funny albeit jaded look at how the world is and very bleak view of politics. All kind of politics and politics of all kind, are not this definite.
The machinations behind everything is too broad and everyone involved too greedy. But his take on money and war is spot on. Even if his solutions are a bit whimsical.
He's also right about women being better human than men, for the most parts.

The way they are, the behavior of those stupid white men, and this can also be used as a colloquial term for those in power regardless of the color of their skin and gender, the behavior is just so atrocious.

I read this book in the November of 2006, when the world was weltered in blood from all the warring. Here I am reviewing it ten years later. The world has changed several times over since then, shape of its sound no longer recognizable and yet we are still at war with our own existence, still getting wounded for being here.

I appreciate what Mr. Moore does in general, more or less. I like that he's trying to change, correct the world. And sad that he cannot.

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was also curious to read this book and finally after 20 years have gotten around to it. Moore is obviously not an academic but he does write with humor. The defeat of Gore in Florida due to apparent electoral machinations is disturbing. Equally disturbing is Clinton’s legacy and Moore’s thesis that the Democrats are Republican wannabes.

Evidence that Stupid White Men still rule America is apparent with Trump and Biden both equally bad. Ok, Trump was worse. I think maybe the book helped Obama get elected but his legacy is tainted in my humble view. The inaction on Climate Change. However, with the economic turmoil of 2008 he had a reasonable excuse.

The book did make me laugh and wonder what happened to George Bush Junior’s Who’s Who in the Coup list.

[K.D. Absolutely · Rating 2 out of 5]

President George W. Bush (born 1946) was the President of the US from 2001 to 2009. He became the president on the year that our President Erap Estrada (born 1937) was ousted from his seat.

I recalled this while reading the book because I was then working as the Asia Pacific Purchasing Manager in my previous company, a multinational chemical manufacturer. Our Buyers across the region were invited over to have our conference here in Manila. During one particular dinner, my Australian team mate asked me: "So, what's the latest Erap joke?" [President Erap propagated these stupid jokes to endear him to the masses during the campaign.] So, I told him this one:

"KANGAROOS (DURING AUSTRALIAN STATE VISIT)

Reporter: Mr. President, how was your visit to Australia?

Erap: Well, it was nice. I saw many dangaroos.

Reporter: Sir, you mean, kangaroos?

Erap: No! Dangaroos! It was written:
"Beware, these animals are dangaroos(dangerous)!"

And the Australian fellow and many people on the table laughed and laughed (I did not know if it was a sincere one though since during business dinners you have to be polite to laugh if someone tells a joke, right?)

But then, the same Australian fellow, turned his head to our Singaporean team mate who was the only one not laughing and he said: "Any joke about your President Goh Chok Tong?" But the Singaporean just clipped his shoulders and said seriously: "Sorry, we don't make fun of our presidents."

Suddenly, total silence. I think it dawned on us that we were not doing the right thing. Singapore is a First World compared to most of the Asian countries that are struggling economically with all the crimes, pollution, political unrest, corruption and social injustices.

That's why, I am rating this book with 2 stars. It's not totally pointless. Moore may have made good points in the book, e.g., Bush not really won the 2000 election over Gore, Bush may not be the most intelligent president, white guys also contributed badly to the state of the country or the world, etc. Moore even gave his solid, practical and doable suggestions for white men to survive the 21st century even given to the extent of going through, i.e., step-by-step, the procedure in using the toilet. That one got me really because I grew up in the island with no toilet cover and lid and nobody taught me how to properly use them. Urg, but true.

Moore is a clever fellow and he knows his stuff.

I also figured that this book Stupid White Men came out in 2001 and seven years after, President Barack Obama became the 44th (and current) President of the US. Was it also possible that the popularity of this book even have helped Obama's campaign by setting the mind of the voters that black men are better than white men because of this book's title? I dunno. That maybe because I have been reading too many conspiracy-theory novels.

But still, why make fun of the president?

[Ken · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was prone from the start to give this book a favorable review, because my politics are right there with Moore's. For readers like me, he's preaching to the choir. I found the book alternately entertaining and disturbing as facts, statistics, serious rants and cheeky humor flew off the page. Some passages made me want to jump up and help change the world; others made me feel that it's all too much and that I'll soon be hopelessly watching our nation unravel. I suspect the author's own moods fluctuate in a similar way.

I'm only giving the book 3 stars despite my political and social agreement with the author. The book is frustratingly inconsistent. Moore has a tendency to pinball dizzyingly among fact, conjecture and hyperbole. He whips up his essays into a verbal froth, at times running head-on into generalizations that damaged my trust in him. Specific example: Moore's wholesale depiction of public defenders as inept bumblers, when instead he could have taken a more focused stance on the systemic problems and left the insulting generalization out. It's the equivalent of describing police officers as donut-eating fools. It earns a snicker from some of us, but we get nothing out of it.

Bottom line: Moore has important things to say. Unfortunately, the people who need to hear these things are the ones least likely to read this book. Even if they did read it, the inconsistencies in Moore's tone and authority would likely make the whole work easy to dismiss.

[Manny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not being American, though having spent a fair amount of time in the US, I didn't quite get the point of this book until one day I flipped through "Godless" at a bookstore. Then it suddenly became clear - you were meant to preface every paragraph with "Why should Ann Coulter have all the fun?" And indeed, why should she?

[Evelyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Given how utterly crazy the world of politics has become (again), it seemed appropriate to revisit Moore's bestseller, Stupid White Men, as the US gears up to the very real possibility of voting for one of the most despicable men in the world as its president.

Despite being originally published in 2001, shortly after 9/11, much of this book still sadly rings true and it demonstrates in depressing clarity, how little seems to have changed in America (if anything, it looks like things have gotten worse from this outsider's point of view). Told in Moore's unashamedly loud and brash voice, Stupid White Men is a scathing criticism of mainly Bush policies with biting humour thrown in to make it more palatable and engaging, though I can appreciate it won't be everyone's cup of tea. Like many, I do wish it was more fact based, but at least it's fun to read if you take it for what it is.

[Michael Finocchiaro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Michael Moore is rarely wrong to a fault. In Stupid White Men, he sets the stage to explain why the angry white man determined the result of the Dubya elections and prophetically how Drumpf got elected in 2016. It is bitingly sarcastic but if you look past the buffoonery, it does tell an ugly truth that we have not learned from much to our own undoing.

[Mona M. Kayed · Rating 4 out of 5]

الكتاب أخذ ضجة كبيرة .. ربما لأن كاتبه معروف في الأوساط السينمائية الأمريكية ..

بكل الأحوال لن أناقش أفكار الكتاب نفسها .. لأن ما لفت نظري شيءآخر مختلف ..

فقد أعجبتني طريقة المؤلف في التفكير المنفتح .. لم يسمح لنفسه أن يكون تحت رحمة الإعلام الرسمي ليحشو في رأسه ما شاءت ماكينة السلطة من الأفكار .. بل اختار لنفسه طريقاً آخر يتفق مع ميوله الخاصة ..

و بغض النظر إن كنت تتفق مع الكاتب في أفكاره أو تختلف معه .. فلا تملك إلا أن تحترم أسلوبه الخاص الذي أبى إلا أن يمضي فيه رغم الصعوبات من حوله ..

[LA · Rating 3 out of 5]

As an admitted "academic snob," I'll confess that I've stayed away from some of Moore's earlier works simply because I didn't feel he had the intellectual chops to address some of the questions that he raises. However, this book is a very humorous and sometimes frightening satire of the state of the US today. And he's not a scholar, but then again, nowhere did I find proof that he professes to be. He posits important questions for discussion and, due to his popularity, is able to put these ideas before a large audience. He reminds me of a watered-down version of Noam Chomsky --- and that's good.

Plus, those who read this book will find that they have at least been challenged to "think," much more than watching some drivel on the idiot box.

[Stef Rozitis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Actually the first thing that struck me, was how current this more than ten year old book still is. Granted the names in politics have changed in the last decade, but most of Moore's critiques could land as squarely now as in the beginning- especially his critique of the increasingly similar two parties (he is talking about USA but it also struck me how much of his political insight works almost equally well for Australia).

Moore is readable, funny, breaks things into short sections which is extremely user friendly. I sometimes found his humour jarring, I don't know if that is a cultural thing. Maybe as an Australian that almost never watches TV I am just culturally incompatible with Moore's brash brand of humour. Usually I love sarcasm, there was something so white, male, loud, stereotypical American about his way of speaking though that he lost me (mind you I suspect I would still have a beer with him if I met him).

Many of his political insights seemed to me to be pure logic disguised as comedy. Here is wry comedy made me smile. Some of the advice that went with this (about emailing and calling politicians more or about running for politics) were sound advice that I hope everyone will take (I have considered running for politics but I think my small energies are better spent supporting other politicians who challenge the system). Moore's analysis on voting for Nader (why you would, why you wouldn't and different ways of deciding) was refreshing in both its logic and in his tolerance that not everyone sees it quite his way. I also agreed with him about being screwed over honestly or not- the material endpoint is the same either way.

Sometimes he lost me by putting the comedy before the politics (I suspect there he will appeal to other people more than me). His comments about gender relations and race/nationality were a bit offensive coming from someone with his level of privilege for all that there was real critique and genuine comedy in there disguised as simply playing the fool. I also thought that at times by putting the comic agenda before the political one he got away with superficial, simplistic "Answers" that actually wouldn't work. I understand as a popular movie-maker/writer his main motivation is to entertain and to sneak in some information int he entertainment, not just to teach. But in those places I was struggling to keep reading (some of it as I say above was probably lost in cultural translation).

Worth a read for people who think politics is "boring" or "pointless" as it argues persuasively that none of us can afford to be apolitical (and that by doing nothing we are in fact supporting the bastards who want to step on our necks). The false humility in the book has a sort of charisma to it too. Give it a go!

[Genjiro · Rating 1 out of 5]

Based on the glowing recommendations of many of my colleagues from my previous job, I persuaded myself to give it a try--but not without suspicion. The one-star rating is for the humor behind the ranting and raving of Moore. For those who want to pass time, I recommend something other than this book, anything, as a matter of fact. It is probably the worst book I have ever read.

[Kristin]

Why am I reading this in 2020, you ask? Well, Jason is cleaning out some of his books and I have a sickness, an actual sickness, where I can't let a book leave our house without reading it.

[Bill · Rating 1 out of 5]

WTF? This guy delights in embarrassing people. I think he must be some sicko type of sadist that he thrills in watching other people squirm.He goes out of his way to surprise unsuspecting miscreants and then applies the hard questions. Granted, most of his targets are dirt bags and deserve to be "outed". But do they deserve the scathing embarrassment he subjects them to? Maybe. Moore, Olberman, and others who delight in ridicule as a form of muckraking, are no different than windbags like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity - different political stripe; same ridiculous MO. If I want hard-hitting, no-compromise journalism, I'll watch "Meet The Press". God how I miss Tim Russert! Oh, this book? Don't bother - unless you get all warm and giggly watching other people squirm and sweat...

[Gertrude & Victoria · Rating 1 out of 5]

Initially, I was too embarrassed to add this to my list of books. But then, I did. The reason I read this book was that I wanted to see for myself what kind of nonsense it was all about. Just judging by the title, Stupid White Men, a person with average intelligence should already be highly dubious of any claims he makes. I don't want to offend any of the members on this site, but only veritable ignoramuses would agree with the majority of Moore's ridiculous assertions and conclusions. He really needs to be more critical, thorough, and honest before he writes garbage like this again.

[Luca Ambrosino · Rating 4 out of 5]

★★★★½ ⇨ 8½

[Wendelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

if your memory of George Bush and the Bush Agenda is going short and hazy, and your patience growing long and forgiving, thinking, "oh! At least he paints soldiers now, maybe I actually like him," reread this book to remember the damage Bush has done to the country.

With humor and detail and disbelieving outrage Michael Moore lists them all:

defrauding African-Americans from voting in Florida; cutting millions in funding for workplace retraining programs for dislocated workers; cutting 200 million from the Childcare and Development Grant; eliminating contraceptive coverage for federal employees; going back on his rainforest campaign promise; defunding the Boys and Girls club; defunding public housing by 60 million dollars; cut 700 million dollars for public housing repairs; cut EPA funding by half; abandon pledge to regulate C02 emissions; appoint a global warming denier and opponent to air pollution control for Secretary of interior; pulling back from the Kyoto protocol; cut library funding by 35 million; cut funding for renewable energy research by 50%; cut funding for pediatric training; delayed rules for declining arsenic in water; revoked rules that strengthened federal ability to go after businesses that violate corporate standards and workplace safety; opening up national monuments for coal mining and foresting; reduce by 86% the program that provided healthcare for people in hospitals without coverage; nullify public access to information about potential hazards of chemical plants; cut research into cleaner cars and trucks by 28%; reject international accord banning germ warfare; allow oil drilling in Montana's Lewis and Clark national park; threaten to shut down White house AIDS office; allocate only 3%of reqireed amount by DOJ to litigate tobacco companies; push tax cuts for richest 1%; sign bill making it more difficult for middle-class to file bankruptcy, even due to medical causes; cut 15.7 million from office overseeing programs for child abuse and neglect; push elimination of programs giving free books to children; made Monsanto executive to head Dept of Interior undersec position; cancel 2004 deadline for automobiles to redevelop prototypes; rename guy who opposed Endangered Speecies act to Assistant Head of Interior; propose selling oil and gas tracts in Alaska Wildlife preserve; and of course, swerving to Iraq from the clear mission to pursue AlQaeda in Afghanistan.

These are all active things that Bush pursued, and if you had been standing in the wake of the population affected by them, whether as a person needing public housing or a veteran of Iraq or a displaced worker needing job retraining or an aspiring college student needing student loans with drug misdemeanors in your past or a middle class worker whose medical bills necessitate bankruptcy; or even just a citizen with need for clean air and water and non-dying-out wildlife, then they would have been truly evil, life-destroying, policies indeed.

So no, Bush doesn't get a pass, just because he seems all meek and likeable now and would be nice to you in your face. He still destroyed lives, social support structures, and desired to do so. He's the precursor to Trump.

[Emma Rum · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know if I will ever have the patience to finish this book. I started it because I have enjoyed Moore's movies from a young age and from the first few pages I thought I was in for a fairly good description of how "stupid white men" dominate and live off the majority's labour... I took it to the beach with a bottle of wine and ended up scribbling frantically about why it pissed me off.


His "counter-coup" is not a viable solution to the corruption of "stupid white men". He urges his readers to participate in their local Democrat party branches; feeding into a two-party system that sees minorities disenfranchised. He tells them to be "funny" in their protests - turning direct action into light hearted entertainment, a sentiment that describes his process of making profit.


He offers capitalists socialist incentives like day-care centres and health insurance as it will increase productivity - "You can stay as regressive and greedy as you want".. No, you've provided evidence as to why the whole capitalist system needs abolishing so STICK TO IT MICHAEL, or perhaps he's settling for some half-way liberal "socialism" that's passable in mainstream media to increase his booksales and popularity???

And then I got to the chapter titled "The End of Men."... Moore leads into the topic of gender inequality by addressing the fact that men are now “the minority.”... This is when I put the book down.


He did say some pretty decent things about the environment and education but it's not worth flicking through the shite for the odd good point.

[Kris (My Novelesque Life) · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 STARS

"In the winter of 2002, Stupid White Men took America -- and the world -- by storm. Tired and skeptical of George W. Bush's high approval ating, frightened by the implications of the Enron scandal -- and generally just looking for a voice of honest dissent in the thick atmosphere of jingoism that followed 9/11 -- book buyers from coast to coast swiftly embraced Michael Moore's in-your-face anti-Bush-era manifesto, making it one of the bestselling nonfiction books of the year.

With an unerring eye for greed, hypocrisy, and corruption, Michael Moore takes on the whole ugly mess of America at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Whether he's demanding U.N. action to overthrow the Bush Family Junta or calling on African Americans to place whites only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, Stupid White Men is a pitch-perfect skewering of our culture of Malfeasance and Mediocrity." (From Amazon)

A interesting point of view of America and it's politics.

[Sotiris Karaiskos · Rating 3 out of 5]

Με αφορμή την είσοδο του παλαβού στο άσπρο σπίτι μου ήρθε η έμπνευση για να πιάσω αυτό εδώ το βιβλίο. Ξεκινάει με την είσοδο ενός άλλου παλαβού - δείχνοντας ότι η ιστορία επαναλαμβάνεται - καλύπτοντας πολλές από τις πτυχές της αμερικανικής κοινωνίας. Ο Michael Moore παίρνει το όπλο του χωρίς να δείχνει κανένα έλεος επιτίθεται με σφοδρότητα και χιούμορ σε όλη αυτή την ανοησία που έφερε ο George W Bush στην αμερικανική πολιτική αλλά και σε πολλές ακόμα παθογένειες του αμερικανικού συστήματος. Ωραία πράγματα δηλαδή αλλά νομίζω ότι ότι σε αρκετά σημεία δεν μπόρεσε να κρατήσει το ενδιαφέρον μου. Σε πολλά σημεία είναι είναι εξαιρετικά επιτυχημένο το χιούμορ του αλλά σε μερικά όχι και τόσο. Ένα άλλο πρόβλημα είναι ότι πολλά από όσα λέει αφορούν την εσωτερική αμερικανική πολιτική για την οποία έχω πλήρη μεσάνυχτα, όπως και περισσότεροι μας φαντάζομαι. Από εκεί και πέρα όμως νομίζω ότι έχει το ενδιαφέρον του το βιβλίο, αν και δεν νομίζω ότι είναι κάτι το σπουδαίο.

[Yanper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Το βιβλίο αναφέρεται στις ΗΠΑ. Στο πρώτο μέρος, ο Μουρ δίνει στοιχεία για την νοθεία των προεδρικών εκλογών, στις οποίες εξελέγη ο Μπους ο νεότερος, και καταδεικνύει την δύναμη του συστήματος, που μπορεί να αγνοεί πολιτικές ιδεολογίες, την θέληση και τις ψήφους και να επιβάλλει τις επιθυμίες του.Διαβάζοντάς το καταλαβαίνεις για μία φορά ακόμη πόσο έρμαια είμαστε στις επιθυμίες του Συστήματος και πόσο αδύναμοι να αντιταχθούμε σ' αυτό.Στο υπόλοιπο με ένα ιδιότυπο χιούμορ, με αμερικάνικο χιούμορ που δεν μπορώ να πω ότι με ενθουσιάζει, εξετάζει τα κοινωνικά προβλήματα των ΗΠΑ τον ρατσισμό,τις σχέσεις γυναικών ανδρών, το εκπαιδευτικό σύστημα κλπ. Τελικά είναι ένα βιβλίο που σε κάνει να δεις με διαφορετικό μάτι την "θαυμαστή" χώρα της ευημερίας.

[Abdullatif · Rating 3 out of 5]

مايكل مور يشن حرباً شعواء في هذه الصفحات على جورج دبليو بوش و على النظام الفاسد في الولايات المتحدة الامريكية من عدة جوانب.

ترجمة ممتازة ... اطالة في بعض الصفحات ... حقائق مفجعة ( الولايات المتحدة و الصومال فقط من لم توقعا على معاهدة الامم المتحدة لحقوق الطفل لانها تحوي فقرة تحرم اعدام الاطفال تحت سن ال 18 ) !!! يا اخي اطافيلون و هنه احرار فيهون.

3 و زيادة

وفي فقرة ظريفة عن زعيم كوريا الشمالية يلي خصص 25% من ميزانية الدولة للجيش ... و شعبه على وشك الموت جوعاً ... اصبح نحنا متنا و شبعنا موت يا جماعة بما انو 85% من الميزانية عنا للجيش الابيّ

[Tracy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wish I could give this a NEGATIVE 5 stars.

Michael Moore is a mountebank who doesn't bother with facts, research or logic. He just makes up "facts", misquotes "scientific studies" and edits around interviews that don't fit his agenda.

His books are trash.

[Vannessa Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Michael Moore hits the nail on the head and has presented facts that cannot be disputed!

The Black culture has been beaten down by maliciousness and innuendo by the culture who holds all the cards! You’ll learn how white corporate American designed and marketed its message to keep Black people oppressed and to keep white corporate America to always come up smelling like roses! And, to use as a distraction while white corporate America rob America blind.

Unfortunately, Stupid White Men is a book that too few Americans will ever read.

From the book
No, my friends, it’s always the white guy. Let’s go to the tote board:

1) Who gave us the black plague? A white guy.
2) Who invented PBC, PVC, PBB, and a host of chemicals that are killing us? White guys.
3) Who has started every war America has been in? White men.
4) Who is responsible for the programming on FOX? White men.
5) Who invented the punch card ballot? A white man.
6) Whose idea was it to pollute the world with the internal combustion engine? Whitey, that’s who.
7) The Holocaust? That guy really gave white people a bad name (that’s why we prefer to call him a Nazi and his little helpers Germans).
8) The genocide of Native Americans? White man.
9) Slavery? Whitey!
10) So far in 2001, American companies have laid off over 700,000 people. Who ordered the layoffs? White CEOs.
11) Who keeps bumping me off the Internet? Some friggin’ white guy, and if I find him, he’s a dead white guy.

You name the problem, the disease, the human suffering, or the abject misery visited upon millions, and I’ll bet you ten bucks I can put a white face on it….

And yet when I turn on the news each night, what do I see again and again? Black men alleged to be killing, raping, mugging, stabbing, gangbanging, looting, rioting, selling drugs, pimping, ho-ing, having too many babies, dropping babies from tenement windows, fatherless, motherless, Godless, penniless….

…I believe we’ve become so used to this image of the black man as predator that we are forever ruined by this brainwashing.

Questions I Would Like to Ask George W. Bush
1) How did you get into Yale and Harvard Business School with low SAT scores?
2) Why did your handlers/aides stop you from holding press conferences?
3) How literate are you?
4) What caused your inability to communicate?
5) Why did your aides have to read briefing read to you (are you dyslexic or just can’t read)?
6) Being an alcoholic how many decisions did you make while inebriated?
7) Why weren’t you ever arrested when pulled over and the one time you were handcuffed and held in custody for one-hour (with your sister in the car)? Why weren’t you treated like any other drunk—why didn’t law enforcement do their job?
8) Why didn’t the republicans make as much noise about your adulterous affair as they did the democrats?
9) Why did you choose Dick Cheney to be your vice president while he had two drunk driving arrests on his record?
10) Why aren’t you honest about your cocaine use?
11) What were the three arrests about?
12) Why didn’t you complete your stint in the Texas Air National Guard?
13) Why did you go AWOL and suffered no consequences?

Things I Learned
1. Ronald Reagan rented out the Lincoln bedroom
2. Cheney voted against
a. Equal Rights Amendment
b. Funding the Head Start program
c. House resolution calling for South Africa to release Nelson Mandela from prison
d. Federal funding for abortions even in cases of rape and incest
e. Led U.S. in two of the largest military campaigns in recent history: the invasion of Panama and the war against Iraq
f. Cheney’s Halliburton had a relationship with Saddam Hussein and during his one year relationship, Cheney made $36,086,653.
3. Today’s Democrats have little time for those who can’t make their $1,000-a-plate dinners
4. Unless normal decent people run for government office, the job is left to rascals
5. Prescott Bush traded with the Nazis before and during World War II

Quotes I liked
1. It’s amazing I won, I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency, George W. Bush, June 14, 2001, …unaware that a live television camera was still rolling
2. There are those who say it all started to unravel the night of November 7, 2000, when Jeb Bush gave his brother George Jr. an early Christmas present—the state of Florida.
3. A man no one elected sits in the White House.
4. The pass two-years have seen the most layoffs since the worst years of the Reagan Renaissance devastated the country.
5. Freedom of choice is a thing of the past. We’re down to six media companies, six airlines, two and a half carmakers, and one radio conglomerate. You can choose between two political parties that sound alike, vote alike, and are funded alike by the same exact wealthy donors.
6. Jeb Bush…wife was caught by immigration officials trying to sneak $19,000 worth of jewelry into the country without declaring and paying tax on it…a felony in its own right.

Stupid White Men is a must read!