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  • 20.10.2006 | COOLTURE
    Bum, Bush, Bu (Dude, where's my country?)
    Robert Tabula

    The corpulent and controversial Michael Moore, after a row of succesful documentaries and books, poured his open opposition and his politics into another literary sucess.



    Michael Moore, political activist, documentarist and author of publicist books, the last two of which topped the New York Times bestsellers list, openly deals with sensitive issues of american politics and economy. Through a popular and humorous approach to writing and directing, Moore turns his works into loud and noisy pamphlets widely accepted and enjoyed by the masses. His documentary Bowling for Columbine won an Oscar for best documentary, while Fahrenheit 9/11 cashed in over 100 million $ at the box offices. Pretty impressive for Moore, who successflly mocks Bush and his policies and uses his book Bum, Bush, Bu to influence Americans against voting for Bush. Although, claims Moore, Bush doesn't really need votes; he managed to win his first elections despite the fact that he got fewer votes than his opponent Al Gore.

    Moore devotes his entire book to the current president, exposing connections between Bush and various saudi families, along with the bin Ladens, who he was alegedly in bussines with. While in his documentaries Moore attemts to gain sympathy for his cause in a somewhat more serious manner, the humor in his books is sharper. However unrealistic his theories and facts presented may seem, where there's smoke, there's usually fire. Along these lines, the events of 9/11, when presented by Moore, didn't come as a complete surprise to the US government. While all flights in US were suspended, the Bush administration was gathering the influental Saudi families across the country and flying them abroad

    Since wars against terorism are waged in Afghanistan and Iraq (something Moore condemns, claiming the main reason for these campaigns is actually oil), it is peculiar there is no such war in Saudi Arabia. Moore exposes various business interests that the Bush family shares with the royal Saudi family – these connections go decades back. Arabian business is such a great part of american economy that it would most surely crash should the arabian elite decide to take their money elsewhere.

    The book itself resembles a fairly good term paper, in which Moore sometimes sounds like an angry teenager but he also uses his influence and popularity  to shake, or at leat expose, a diffrenet image of Bush, the man at the helm of the strongest country in the world. Moore's  leftwing controversy (although Moore is not so far left, nore so controversial) is often presented as a bad thing to the american public, but his view of reality (minus the fact that he will publish certain things without proper confirmation, although he would make out himself to be an objective observer) and his constant wish to remove Bush from office deserves at least a small hooray. Should Bush have lost the election, Moore could have been considered as one of the factors that had contributed to Bush's defeat.

    We live in a time when small people, like me or you, are brainwashed into fearing terrorism, the paranoia which is meant to turn us into frightened animals that are easy to control. Ha! Terrorism has been around for decades, and creating a different reality or throwing sand in our eyes is something that cannot be tolerated. Life is complicated enough as it is.

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