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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (33103)	7/2/2004 5:02:19 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

"MICHAEL MOORE IS A BIG FAT STUPID WHITE MAN" CATPULTS TO AMAZON'S TOP SELLER LIST AP - June 30, 2004 Last weekend sales were slow, with the Amazon ranking for "Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man" hovering around the 2 million mark. But by Wednesday, "MMIABFSWM" had jumped to number eight on the Amazon list. 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 Tucson who had called Barnes & Noble and was 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 shelf 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, Michigan, a prosperous suburb outside 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 citizens 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. The claims that Florida wrongly disenfranchised thousands of pro-Democrat criminals int he 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 bestsller of the summer, "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man" or, if you prefer, "MMIABFSWM."