NewsMax Catapults 'Big Fat Stupid White Man' to Amazon's Top

NewsMax ^ | 6/30/04 | Newsmax

[The Bandit]

Though it's been ignored by the big media and was only released yesterday, the new book "Michael Moore Is A Big Fat Stupid White Man" by David Hardy and Jason Clarke has already skyrocketed to the top of the Amazon.com best sellers list.

Before NewsMax began featuring the blockbuster Moore expose' last weekend, sales were slow, with the Amazon ranking hovering around the 2 million mark. But by Wednesday, "MMIABFSWM" had jumped to number eight on the Amazon list.

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The explosion in sales comes despite an array of anecdotal reports suggesting that employees at the big bookstore chains are pulling out all the stops to supress the Hardy-Clarke book. "I received an email from a friend in Tuscon who had called Barnes & Noble and they were told, 'We don't stock the book. You'll have to order it in It will take a week,'" Hardy told WABC Radio's Mark Levin Tuesday night.

Hours later, Hardy's friend discovered the same store actually had a shell full of "MMIABFSWM" on display.

After a week's worth of positive publicity that's turned Moore into an overnight Democratic-media darling, it's no wonder liberals are now trying desperately to keep the lid on.

Among the Hardy-Clarke revelations:

• Michael Moore actually grew up in Davison, Mich., a properopus suburb of hard scrabble Flint - the working class city Moore claims as his hometown. "Davison's household income is 50 percent higher than Flint's," Hardy told Levin. "The average home value is twice that of Flint. Davison's black population is less than one percent."

• These days the Democrats' working class hero lives in a $1.9 million apartment in Manhattan and summers at his $1.2 million home on Michigan's tony Torch Lake.

• Hardy and Clarke disclose how the radical magazine Mother Jones fired the "arbitrary" and "suspicious" Moore; how he started his feud with his replacement, David Talbot, who later founded Salon; how Ralph Nader's organization fired Moore; how he attacked Pauline Kael, Harlan Jacobson and other prominent critics who exposed the deceits of his schlockumentaries; how he lost a lawsuit for betraying fellow lefty activist Larry Stecco in "Roger & Me," etc.

• Moore, who after all graduated from high school, delights in ridiculing his countrymen’s poor grasp of geography. "The dumbest Brit here is smarter than the smartest American," he snickers to an audience in London. But Moore chooses not to add an important fact: young adults worldwide performed badly on the National Geographic survey he so selectively cites.

• He claims that Florida wrongly disenfranchised thousands of pro-Democrat criminals in the 2000 election. "Thirty-one percent of all black men in Florida" are felons, in his paranoid fantasy world. (No wonder this limousine liberal travels in such exclusive circles.) In reality, the Miami Herald showed that Democrat-run counties violated state law and let the overwhelmingly Democrat felons vote illegally – more than 2,000 votes, most of which went to Gore.

• Most importantly, "Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man" refutes Moore's wild attempts to implicate the president in 9/11. Every American should read these chapters. They are too detailed to summarize here, but one example will demonstrate this book's importance.

As the media lionizes Moore as the Democrats' number one truth-teller, Americans who don't appreciate the con job won't want to miss the runaway bestseller of the summer, "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man."

[gilliam]

Riiiight.....

[MikefromOhio]

The fact that they have Michael Moore being Kerry's coat holder just proves that the Democrats are definitely becoming more and more paranoid and desperate as the election nears.

[Spackidagoosh]

According to the Amazon website the book is number 3 behind Slick Willy and another book..

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/549066/ref=b_tn_bh_be/104-4175782-9744708

[So Cal Rocket]

It's now #3 on Amazon.com

[cripplecreek]

I have a cousin who used to "work" with Moore in Flint. He says Moore's story about struggling to work and go to school is just one more lie. My cousin says what really happened was that Moore rarely showed his face at the plant beyond payday and actually had others punch his time card for him. Poetically my cousin also says Moore used to steal lunches from the break room when he was there.

Its interesting to me that Moore later went on to make the movie Roger and me about the evil corporation was actually the one ripping the company off.(along with many other employees)

[Volunteer]

Michael Moore is a fat sack of something I would not want to step in.

Mr. Moore, you suck and I truly hope you get cancer and suffer A LOT before you die.

... um, did I mention that I find him to be most unpleasant?

[MarkeyD]

Mr. Moore, you suck and I truly hope you get cancer and suffer A LOT before you die. Shouldn't you be more subtle? :)

How about, you are looking forward to the time when you can piss on his grave?

[sauropod]

Order this book!

We have a vacation at the end of this month with my family (including the very liberal sister in law) and I need something to leave out on the coffee table...

[randog]

Hardy and Clarke disclose how the radical magazine Mother Jones fired the "arbitrary" and "suspicious" Moore; how he started his feud with his replacement, David Talbot, who later founded Salon; how Ralph Nader's organization fired Moore; how he attacked Pauline Kael, Harlan Jacobson and other prominent critics who exposed the deceits of his schlockumentaries; how he lost a lawsuit for betraying fellow lefty activist Larry Stecco in "Roger & Me," etc.

Jeezus, he's got a lot of anger. Was he molested as a child? If not, he should be now.

[Smogger]

[weegee]

Here's a review from that site by a whiney liberal (and a hypocrite):

I wish that this author could be a little more original. The spoofing of Moore (and Franken's) title, and the copying of the cover art work, means this work has minimzed itself.

Moore's popularity is largely because of the originality of his approach.

Mr. Moore's last book was titled "Dude, Where's My Country". Mr. Moore's last movie was titled "Fahrenheit 911".

There was a comedy released in the past couple of years titled "Dude, Where's My Car?" and a novel titled "Fahrenheit 451" (which has also been adapted for a film in 1966 and again is being adapted for the screen).

So much for the lamented "originality".

Mr. Franken was taken to courty for infringing on Fox's slogan "Fair and Balanced" and using pictures of their conservative hosts (who are also authors) on the cover.

Then again, when the guy who wrote that review has not even read the book (and likely would never concede any points that the author makes), then what is his review worth anyway? "4 of 23 people found the review helpful"

[ChadGore]

NYT Headline ?

"New book taking country by storm" ? ? ? No ?

[Volunteer]

How about, you are looking forward to the time when you can piss on his grave?

You make an excellent point. But, I am would worry that it somehow cool the fires of hell for him. So, I would refrain.

You know what really angers me about the guy? He wears a Michigan State hat. I like the Spartans. They have a great program & friends of mine went to school there. He just kind of soils the university & the team by wearing it.

Oh yeah, he also LIES ABOUT OUR COUNTRY AND IS A TREASONIST S.O.B.!!!!

There is that part too.

[Republican Wildcat]

Well, I will make my way over there and give that 'review' a negative rating.

[diamond6]

"In reality, the Miami Herald showed that Democrat-run counties violated state law and let the overwhelmingly Democrat felons vote illegally – more than 2,000 votes, most of which went to Gore."

I forgot about this, and how they prevented millitary votes abroad! Anyway, I'm buying this book! Can't wait to read it.

[carmody]

I ordered this book from Amazon just because it was one small thing I could do to strike back at Moore. The authors should film a documentary about Michael Moore using all of his own techniques against him.