{"id":1206,"date":"2004-07-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1206"},"modified":"2018-08-13T07:34:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T12:34:57","slug":"1206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/1206\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: <i>Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man<\/i> by David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke (2004)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought two copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0060763957\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0060763957&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=c83221860914546742235807cefc26eb\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a>: one for a friend who needs intervention because he believes that Michael Moore has some good points, and one for me.  Now that I have read the one for me, I&#8217;m almost sorry I bought one for him.<\/p>\n<p>Because it&#8217;s not going to change his mind any more than reading blogs will.  I&#8217;d hoped for a reasoned listing of the inaccuracies in the equivalent of a handy table, but although this book offers a couple of chapters with that sort of thing, for the most part, it&#8217;s a blog in binding.  Andrew Sullivan and Tim Blair have essays in the book, and the other chapters contain a high snark content that one finds in political tract books and on blogs.  For example, the authors spend a chapter psychoanalyzing Michael Moore and examining how he meets the traditional definition of narcissist.  As much ad homenim as enumeration of fallacies and inaccuracies, this book disappointed me; I&#8217;d hoped for more of the latter and less of the former.  At least they successfully avoided the word &#8220;asshat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps I was hoping for too much from a book entitled <i>Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought two copies of this book: one for a friend who needs intervention because he believes that Michael Moore has some good points, and one for me. Now that I have read the one for me, I&#8217;m almost sorry I bought one for him. Because it&#8217;s not going to change his mind any more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23007,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions\/23007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}