Stupid White Men, Michael Moore's screed against "Thief-in-Chief" George Bush's
power elite, hit No. 1 at Amazon.com within days of publication. Why? It's as
fulminating and crammed with infuriating facts as any right-wing bestseller, as
irreverent as The Onion, and as noisily entertaining as a wrestling smackdown.
Moore offers a more interesting critique of the 2000 election than Ralph Nader's
Crashing the Party (he argued with Nader, his old boss, who sacked him), and he's
serious when he advocates ousting Bush. But Moore's rage is outrageous, couched
in shameless gags and madcap comedy: "Old white men wielding martinis and wearing
dickies have occupied our nation's capital... Launch the SCUD missiles! Bring us
the head of Antonin Scalia!... We are no longer [able] to hold free and fair
elections. We need U.N. observers, U.N. troops." Moore's ideas range from on-the-
money (Arafat should beat Sharon with Gandhi's nonviolent shame tactics) to over-
the-top: blacks should put inflatable white dolls in their cars so racist cops
will think they're chauffeurs; the ever-more-Republicanesque Democratic Party
should be sued for fraud; "no contributions toward advancing our civilization ever
came out of the South [except Faulkner, Hellman, and R.J. Reynolds]," because it's
too hot to think straight there; Korean dictator Kim Jong-il "has got to broaden
himself beyond porn and John Wayne" by watching better movies, like Dude, Where's
My Car? (which contains "all you need to know about America"). Whatever your
politics, Stupid White Men should make you blow your stack.

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