Michael Moore's "Dude Where's My Country" (EXTRACTS)

[roughsatori]

Here is a link to the Guardian Review featuring extrats from Moore's newest book. If you read through this one, at the bottom you will find links to other extracts from the book, and an an interview with Moore. (I had not seen these posted here.)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,6761,1057357,00.html

[Terwilliger]

1. very good

that last bit is a kicker :freak:

[Room101]

3. I'm half way through, a must read.

He also brings up parallels between the Patriot act/current hysteria and Orwell’s 1984. Throws in some passages from 1984 to hammer in the point. It is very obvious Moore is a reader of Chomsky as he pointed out in Stupid White men. So far this book reminds me of Chomsky-like with Humor. Although not as much humor as SWM, he comes across as much more serous this time around.

[Josh]

2. I've got it and I'm about 2/3rds through it, having bought it yesterday -

so yes, it's a very quick and easy read.

It's quite good and harrowing in parts. Lacks the charm of "Stupid White Men" but would recommend it thoroughly nevertheless.

[Ladyhawk]

4. As a recent defector from the Republican army,

I've had a very hard time with many of these books. I couldn't make it through David Brock's book. One of the problems is that his writing style is dry. The main problem is that I learned exactly what the right wing was / is doing to our country and it nearly made me physically ill.

I recently bought Al Franken's book--first hardcover I've bought in seven years--and nearly choked when I learned Clinton had a PLAN to get bin Laden and the smirking chimp didn't act on it. My mind replayed all the pictures I had seen of those poor people jumping out of the WTC and it made me sick. Again I wonder: Bush should have known (or did know) that a major attack was coming. WHY didn't he do anything? The tinfoil hat part of me sees that the Bush Administration had the most to gain by allowing this attack to happen. I'm sorry, but even though I can't prove it, I think that Bush's puppeteers might have allowed 9-11 to happen in order to consolidate power. He certainly has used it that way.

I made it through Stupid White Men, but the first chapter about how 90,000 black voters were illegally disenfranchised in Florida by Jeb Bush and company made me feel weak. My heart starts pumping and I feel the blood rush to my face. I think of my family and everyone in this county and realize that you can fool most of the people all of the time. They won't listen.

I want to read Moore's new book. But I'm afraid I'll get stuck like I did when I got to the part in Franken's book where Bush's failure cost the lives of thousands and gave him an excuse to launch a war.

Something wicked this way comes. I've never been into conspiracy theories, but something about the Bush Regime screams collusion, treachery, deception, lies!

[dorktv]

5. *hugs*

I know the feeling...I got it today while reading David Corn's The Lies of George W. Bush.

[0rganism]

7. This nation was built with collusion, treachery, deception, and lies

For hundreds of years, our countrymen have attempted to collude, betray, deceive, and lie as efficiently and excellently as possible, in order to make this the "greatest nation on earth". I'd wager anyone who decries "conspiracy theory" on principle hasn't gone to a staff meeting at a large company yet.

[Room101]

8. The term "Conspiracy theory" is the Intellectual Equivalent to

a four letter word insult. Why debate the issue when, I can make it seem as if you just flew in from mars via a UFO. Right wingers use this dumb down tactic all the time.

[roughsatori]

6. A kick for the late night DUers

I'm off to read a Muriel Rukeyser poetry collection.