Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man

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    マイケル・ムーア観察記。『ボウリング・フォー・コロンバイン』での真実の捏造から、『アホでマヌケなアメリカ白人』、『おい、ブッシュ、世界を返せ！』での身勝手な統計。アカデミー賞での恥知らずなスタンドプレー。それから凝縮された偽善の数々によって彼の得た莫大な資産。デヴィット・T・ハーディーとジェイソン・クラークが、看過できずに立ち上がった。本書『In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man』において、ハーディーとクラークは、ムーアという極左の熱狂的な予言者を相手取り、ムーアの映像トリックや、彼の自己完結な真実を売り込む宣伝戦略などを切り捨てる。

   戦後、我々にはドキュメンタリー（記録）が届けられていたが、その後ロブ・レイナーによってモッキュメンタリー（偽物の記録）が送られるようになり、さらにはムーアがクロッキュメンタリー（ばかげた記録）という第3のジャンルを開拓した。

   いったい、どうやって、マンハッタンで優雅に暮らすムーアが、あたかも無産階級の“われわれ市民の代表者”のようなイメージを作り上げることに成功したのか、と彼等は問う。そして、どうして、無根拠な議論好きの扇動者でしかないムーアの後ろに、あたかも宗教かなにかに身を捧げるかのように、付き従う群衆が増え続けているのか？ 綿密な調査結果と、手堅く理由付けされた議論によって、そして挑発的な機知をちりばめつつ、本書は左翼の大物ターゲットに照準を合わせる。政治的かつ文学的。

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Watching Michael Moore in action—passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against—has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish it back hard to the fervent prophet of the far left, turning a careful eye on Moore's use of camera tricks and publicity ploys to present his own version of the truth.

Postwar documentarians gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary, and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

How, they ask, does Moore pull off a proletarian, "man-of-the-people" image so at odds with his lifestyle as a fabulously wealthy Manhattanite? And how large of an impact do his incendiary, ill-founded polemics have on the growing community that follows him with near-religious devotion? Loaded with well-researched, solidly reasoned arguments, and laced with irreverent wit, Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man fires back at one of the left's biggest targets—politically and literally.

Amazon.com Review

Someone was bound to go after Michael Moore eventually and this book holds nothing back. An immensely popular figure to political left-wingers, Michael Moore presents himself as a regular working-class guy in a baseball cap with the courage to take some rich and powerful folks to task for their corrupt and deceitful ways. David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke say this populist, muckraker image is pure whitewash. Believing that this charade has gone on for too long, and done too much damage to the U.S., they have written this book to expose Moore as narcissistic and irresponsible and his body of work "as manipulative as totalitarian propaganda." To prove their point, they pick apart Moore's books and movies to illustrate how he is consistently manipulative, dishonest, and, at times, simply absurd. They show how he altered the timeline of Roger and Me in order to unfairly blame things on General Motors that happened before their layoffs, not as a result of them. Regarding Bowling for Columbine, the authors explain how he took quotes out of context and reassembled them to give the impression that people made speeches they did not make---most famously his interview with Charlton Heston, then president of the NRA. They also illustrate how Moore manipulated statistics in his books Dude, Where’s My Country and Stupid White Men to fit his theories, making some truly outrageous claims in the process. The authors have certainly done their homework, and it's impossible to view Moore's work the same way after reading this book. "How does a man with so many contradictions manage to blind his enormous trove of followers to how hypocritical he really is? How does he get away with it?" they ask. If the authors have their way, he won't much longer. Now that Moore has joined the ranks of the rich and powerful, Hardy and Clarke have engaged in bit of muckraking of their own. --Shawn Carkonen