Posted on 11/03/2005 12:35:54 PM PST by procomone
Michael Moore owns Halliburton! New book debunks claims of celebrity activists
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: November 1, 2005 10:23 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Michael Moore
"I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed.
He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."
If you want to see Moore's own signed Schedule D declaring his capital gains and losses where his stock ownership is listed, it's emblazoned on the cover of Peter Schweizer's new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."
And it's just one of the startling revelations by Schweizer, famous for his previous works, "Reagan's War" and "The Bushes."
Other examples:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who proclaims her support for unions, yet the luxury resort, the vineyard and the restaurants she partly owns are strictly non-union. While she advocates tough new laws enforcing environmental regulations on the private sector, the exclusive country club she partly owns failed to comply with existing environmental regulations for the past eight years including a failure to protect endangered species.
Noam Chomsky has made a reputation for calling America a police state and branding the Pentagon "the most hideous institution on earth," yet his entire academic career, writes Schweizer, has been subsidized by the U.S. military.
Barbra Streisand is another proponent of environmentalism, yet she drives an SUV, lives in a mansion and has a $22,000 annual water bill. In the past, she has driven to appointments in Beverly Hills in a motor home because of her aversion to using public bathrooms.
Ralph Nader plays the role of the citizen avenger the populist uninterested in wealth and materialism, pretending to live in a modest apartment. In fact, he lives in fancy homes registered in the names of his siblings. This is not just a book of "gotcha" journalism, explains Schweizer. He says the dozens and dozens of examples of "liberal hypocrisy" he cites in his book "are of central importance in evaluating the validity and usefulness of liberal ideas."
"Using IRS records, court depositions, news reports, financial disclosures and their own statements, I sought to answer a particular question: Do these liberal leaders and activists practice what they preach?" he writes. "What I found was a stunning record of open and shameless hypocrisy. Those who champion the cause of organized labor had developed various methods to avoid paying union wages or shunned unions altogether.
"Those who believe that the rich need to pay more in taxes proved especially adept at avoiding taxes themselves. Critics of capitalism and corporate enterprise frequently invested in the very companies they denounced. Those who espouse strict environmental regulations worked vigorously to sidestep them when it came to their own businesses and properties. Those who advocate steep inheritance taxes to promote fairer income distribution hid their investments in trusts or exotic overseas locales to reduce their own tax liability. Those who are strong proponents of affirmative action rarely practiced it themselves, and some had abysmal records when it came to hiring minorities. Those who proclaim themselves champions of civil liberties when it comes to criminal or terrorist cases went to extraordinary lengths to curtail the civil liberties of others when they felt threatened or just inconvenienced. Advocates of gun control had no problem making sure that an arsenal of weapons was available to protect them from dangerous criminals."
OK, then, those are definitely points worth making. Thanks!
There's plenty of merit in spreading the word that liberals want the rest of us to live with rules they refuse to live with.
susie
Just because it's in a book sure doesn't make it true. Does he cite proof in the book? Anyone?
They'd counter the same of "us"; re-read my post, if you care to.
How many times has Rush been married now? Is it 3? Or 4?
I'd rather stick to issues.
liberal=communists
"I'm holding up my Magic Mirror! I see Bobby and Susie and Danger Duck and. . . ."
I especially like the part about how these rich liberals who love tax increases, and insist that everyone else pay them (Kennedy, Soros, Kerry, etc) have their own trusts setup to specifically avoid paying them.
to quote from the above review:
"Using IRS records, court depositions, news reports, financial disclosures and their own statements, I sought to answer a particular question: Do these liberal leaders and activists practice what they preach?" he writes.
and
If you want to see Moore's own signed Schedule D declaring his capital gains and losses where his stock ownership is listed, it's emblazoned on the cover of Peter Schweizer's new book
Most of the proof is public knowledge - most politicians post their Income Tax returns. You can look at the Clintons tax return and see where they claimed $4 for donated Bill's old underwear and $80 for pair of his old running shoes that were donated to Goodwill.
This - after both Bill and She Who Must Not Be Named claimed that they paid the highest amount of income tax that they could!
(If the Clintoons were as smart as folks think they are - they would have sold Billy's soiled underwear on eBay. The libs would have bid the price up to an astronomical figure!)
Along the same lines, I recently documented the fact that Robert Greenwald, a film producer and Michael Moore wannabe whose current work is a Walmart-bashing documentary that focuses on the allegedly low wages Walmart pays, trolls on his own web site for unpaid ["volunteer"] field producers!
http://newsbusters.org/node/2615
How many times has Rush been married now? Is it 3? Or 4?"
I don't remeber Rush ever denigrating divorced people, though. I also don't remember Rush ever endorsing legislation prohibiting divorce. See where I'm going?
Which is why he would author a book to slander rich liberals to get sued by their lawyers!
None of it surprises me. Liberals believe that the laws they make are for OTHER people.
Do you happen to know what vineyard/winery Ms. America owns? I'll have to add thier wine to my French wine list of wines to never, ever, ever, ever buy.
I reread your post to make sure I didn't miss anything, and I stand by what I said. Of course, you're free to disagree. That's what's great about America. (I'm sure we agree on that!).
susie
You see me in your magic mirror??? Oh my! 8-o
susie
Thanks for taking the time. My point is that they'd just counter with a bunch of examples of hypocrisy, such as Limbaugh's. So do we really want to argue about which "side" has the most hypocrites? Or do we want to argue about which is the better position?
I choose B.
(c8
Excellent point, Dan. Nobody's perfect, right?
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