So, I started reading Michael Moore's new book

[El Blanco]

First off, I haven't started the fact digging yet, but most of what I came across is the same old bullshit which has already been torn up by places like Spinsanity. I've come to expect it from him and Chomsky. Thats not what gets me.

Is it his assumed intellectual superiority? No. All pundits are guilty of this in one form or another and we all know that it is totally baseless in his case.

What gets me is his condesending tone throughout the entire book. Apparently, the average person who calls themself a conservative isn't actually a conservative. They are just affraid of change and are little children who don't know any better.

Of course, anyone who can hear from a liberal and still hold conservative valuse must be a racist neanderthal who is scared of change and sunlight. Apparently, conservatives hate black people (which is wierd because my best friend is black and further right than I am), hate gay people, and want all poor people to just die (no matter how many of themselves started out that way).

Chapter 10 "How to Talk to Your Conservative Brother in Law" is the kind of shit that gets people punched. He assumes that the vast majority of people must be bleeding heart liberals who fall in line with every liberal cause (like he certainly does) and that conservatives are "rednecks"(his word) who have quaint little habbits (all punctual and reliable for fixing sinks). They are just your crazy cousin from the backwoods of Alabama.

Then, there is his blatant hypocrasy. He blasts the president for claiming he believes God wants him to do somethings. Then , he writes a chapter as Gpd. No big deal. I've seen it done before and some of them are funny. Not this one, but some. Then, he goes on to push his liberal viewpoints in the persona of God. What makes him thinks he knows a fucking thing about God's opinion on abortion? HE just did what he blasted the president for.

Don't think I'm dead set against him because he is a liberal. I actually liked Al Franken's book. I didn't agree with everything, but it was a good read.

I dislike Moore because he is dishonest, hypocritical, sensationalist and condesending. I'm glad I didn't pay for the book and am putting it in the returns bin ASAP ( I work in a bookstore and got through most of it on a lunchbreak.)