Posted on 11/03/2005 7:54:16 AM PST by InvisibleChurch
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2005 10:20 a.m. EST Al Franken Furious; 'Do As I Say' Soars on Amazon
We have no doubt that Al Franken is furious with news today that Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" has soared to the top of Amazon's Best seller lists.
As of Thursday morning, "Do As I Say" hit Amazon's #6 rank for all books sold - climbing more than 20,000 rankings in a week and more than 200 from two days ago when NewsMax.com first featured the book as its lead story. [If you don't believe us, check out Amazon yourself - Go Here Now.]
The news will have Franken reaching for some Advil, as he is one of the main targets of "Do As I Say."
In "Do As I Say," Hoover Fellow Peter Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals. In addition to Franken, many others come under scrutiny including Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Ralph Nader.
After two years of research into liberal hypocrisy, Schweizer described his revelations as "stunning."
That may be understatement.
For example, Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are racist because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have been African-American.
It gets worse.
Ted Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and spoken out against tax shelters. But he has repeatedly benefited from an intricate web of trusts and private foundations that have shielded most of his family's fortune from the IRS.
One Kennedy family trust wasn't even set up in the U.S., but in Fiji.
Similarly, Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. But the Clintons have set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.
Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively about the right of children to make major decisions regarding their own lives, such as having an abortion without parental consent.
But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears pierced and forbade her to watch MTV or HBO.
And then there's Hollywood hypocrisy.
Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of unions to protect a "living wage." But she prefers to do her filming and postproduction work in Canada, where she can pay less than American union wages.
As for other liberals who like to offshore things, there's billionaire Bush-basher George Soros.
Soros says the wealthy should pay higher, more progressive tax rates. But he holds the bulk of his money in tax-free overseas accounts in Curacao, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Schweizer sums up his book this way: "The reality is that liberals like to preach in moral platitudes. They like to condemn ordinary Americans and Republicans for a whole host of things - racism, lack of concern for the poor, polluting the environment, and greed. But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves, liberals are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy.
"The media and the American people need to hold them accountable."
I hope he didn't forget Rob "Meathead" Reiner.
Is that picture for real?
Looks almost as stupid as Dukakis in the tank.
BUMP!
The author also destroys that simpletoin Noam Chumpsky.
Anyone remember the talk "lock up anyone with a gun" talk show host whose bodyguards applied for gun permits...
Ok - I've decided I have to get this book now. Christmas is coming!
Just placed my order on American Compass.
ONly an Idiot first class would wear white pants on any military equipment! LOL.
Liberal response:
In the name of open minded tolerance, this book should be banned!!!
Newsflash: Al Franken furious about this post.
Maybe.
Well, it is Newsmax -- even though I get some nuggets from them occasionally they are kinda self serving like WND.
FOD
that would be Butch "oh what a hypocrite I am" O'Donnell who had her kid escorted by an armed guard because she was famous..she's also the same one that came out for allowing bums the right to sleep on streets because they had nowhere else to go, but had a bum (actually a reporter dressed as one) removed from in front of her house because it didn't look good in the neighborhood..I don't remember the reporters name..
don't forget the "king" of flip-flop. JfnK
I saw the author in an interview the other night.
Al Franken was quietly sueing the author to stop it's distribution. Franken claims the chapter about him was mean. He didn't question the truth of the authors facts at all but questioned how he got his facts.
Franken has reacted by use of lawyers.
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