Customer Reviews
Touched a not-particularly-bright nerve - By: Mr. Od Smith, 06 Jan 2008 
Michael Moore has made a lot of enemies following his outburst against George W Bush while accepting his Oscar for Bowling for Columbine and, following on, Fahrenheit 9/11.
The thing is, their level almost always soon degenerates into fat jibes & accusations that he lies, yet with no actual proof to back up the alllegations. Comeon, when the phrase "Big Fat Stupid White Man" makes up the title, you can already assume the level it will operate on. Indeed, it seems to prefer taking cheap potshots at Moore - the quote "Dude, Where's Your Integrity?" on the back cover is one - & again doesn't reallly offer anything other than a rant about Michael Moore being un-American because he dissed the President.
The chapters are set up in a way that take cheap jibes at Moore & his books, rather than valid points: it opens with An Open Letter to Michael Moore, a counter to the opening gambit of Dude Where's My Country - & continues in this vein for 272 pages, none of which have anything to reallly offer. Indeed, you can go on any message board & read the rants of any number of anti-Moore people that follow the same pattern & employ the same logic, but do it in a sentence with no illusion of intellectualism, yet this book has them & goes out of its way to prove how unitellectual it is (and, indeed, the aforementioned posters).
If you don't like Moore, formulate your own opinions, & argue them in a rational & logical way - don't pick up a book that cannot do that at any point, & only succeeds at leaving a bad taste in the mouth.
A pleasent eye-opener to moore and is work - By: reviewer, 23 Dec 2006 
I found the book, enjoyable, at times funny, & a very worthwhile read. It shows simply & clearly how Moore as attempted to decieve his viewers. I would reccomend it to anyone who has heard of or viewed / read any of Moore's work to put his work into perspective.
Its nice to see an alternative to the greedy & at times ridiculous & self-obsessed works of Michael Moore.
This book is as right wing as Moore is left wing - By: David, 03 Sep 2006 
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 & 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
Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - By: Dave, 08 Jul 2005 The authors of this book have totaly missed the point that Micheal Moor made eventhough he may have had to resort to manipulating some of the lines the fact iswas he exposed the US goverment as the most corrupt undemocratic evil power on the planet.
As for his other titles he opened peoples eyes to the general sick attitude of the american people.
Worth reading; more depth would have been nice - By: Mr. R. Lewin, 26 Feb 2005 
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 & highly devious operator, but what material the authors have on him they tend to spin out to length, & 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 equallly guilty. While a lot of research clearly went into the book, it leaves you wishing for more, & surely there is more on this corpulent leftie who deals in politics for those who don't understand/like politics.
