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Submitted by hoegy on June 15, 2005
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Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation attacks the big, ugly special-interest group that's laying waste to the world as we know it: stupid white men. In his book, Moore calls for the United Nations to take action against the "Bush Family Junta," for African-Americans to place Whites Only signs over the entrances of unfriendly businesses, and calls on the Democrats of this nation to turn over their headquarters and return to Republican headquarters where they belong. Stupid White Men is Moore's manifesto on malfeasance and mediocrity. Among his targets in the book are President George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, the "Idiot Nation," and corporate America. Moore begins this manifesto with a sordid rambling that covers everything from the 2000 Election to every negative and suspicious detail of the President's cabinet. Moore cites Dick Chaney as a not so compassionate official claiming to uphold compassionate conservatism. He describes the cabinet as a corporate mess, detailing each cabinet member's association with such businesses as Halliburton Industries, Alcoa, Calgene, and Tom Brown, Inc. Also included in this book is a seventeen-page letter to President Bush attacking all of his policies and questioning his values. In perfect satire, Moore tries to "praise" Bush by detailing the many negative accomplishments of Bush's youthful presidency.
Other chapters in the book have such titles as Dow Wow Wow, criticizing the current state of corporate America; Kill Whitey, which discusses the current state of racism in America; Nice Planet, Nobody Home, which begins by criticizing the recycling industry; and We're Number One, which calls on Americans to realize the so-called "obvious egoism" of our government.
There is a constant, recurring theme in this book of hatred. Moore hates the current state of the nation and wants to blame it on someone. From the beginning of the book until the end, Moore's purpose is to...
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