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Article: Dude, Where's My Country?(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- March 23, 2004
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Dude, Where's My Country?
By Michael Moore. Warner, 249 pp., $24.95.
PSALM 107 declares that "God pours contempt upon rulers." Perhaps Michael Moore, a passionate critic of Americas leaders, corporate and political, is imitating God. His brash, in-your-face, over-the-top rhetoric can make him easy to dismiss, but he marshals impressive evidence for his claims. And his award-winning documentaries and best-selling books are among the few popular voices that defend liberal points of view. While often dismissed as an "extreme leftist," Moore promotes values that most Western nations accept as a given.
Dude, Where's My Country? is an unrelentingly ...