Posted on 03/04/2007 8:00:14 PM PST by FARS
Even more than this, Michael Moore is absolutely guilty of overwhelming hypocrisy. He has preached against owning stocks as "immoral", and "a rich man's game", excoriated "wealthy Republicans" for their stock holdings and been a longtime critic of Halliburton...
But he has himself owned literally tens of thousands of dollars - and profited from 10 to 15 percent {or more} on stock holdings which included - you guessed it - Halliburton, as well as Loral and other defense industry giants.
He is gearing up for a run at the health care and pharmaceutical industries - but his stock portfolio has included Pharmacia, Pfizer, and other names which are by all means and measures, a "Who's who" honour roll of that industry's top performers. Moore has criticized institutions, industries and individuals in America for rampant racism, and vicariously lacking any motive towards achieving equity towards blacks...even telling the journalism field at large that they ought to strive for at least 5% black hiring as an initial quota...
Yet through all his years of producing "mock-u-mentaries", including cameramen, producers, key grips, writers, setbuilders - you name it - he has averaged employing black Americans at somewhat less than 3% in any capacity whatsoever...
Worse than that, Moore's primary residence is in a very exclusive community which has only 2.5% minorities of any sort - and NONE of them whatsoever are black!
MM has also ralied against union-busters everywhere he goes, trying to cast himself as a friend to the everyday working man of America
but he has not, to date, allowed the formation of a single union under his employ, has not hired a single union worker, and has threatened to fire one of two primary writers working for him on a television project when the issue of the writer's union and receiving writing credit for their work on the project came up for discussion.
On top of that, much of the potentially costly post-production work done on a majority of his projects...
...has been done with inexpensive, non-union labour, across the northern border in Canada.
So apparently he believes {personally} in outsourcing, too!
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