Also, these shots were taken by an environmental group ducumenting changes on the CA coastline. Streisand tried to sue them for invading her privacy.
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."
I do, and it's a valid point, but I predict it'll just start an "I know you are but what am I?" fest, and the actual merits/demerits of the actual issues will be lost in the mudstorm.
Dan
Apart from Jesus, right.
And so is the argument, "Which is the better position?", or "Which position's advocates have the better people?"
Ideally, the answer to each question would be the same as the answer to the other.
But that's ideally.
Dan
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I just don't think the arguement is who has the most hypocrites (we all are in some way, I suspect). To me, the point is that even THEY are not willing to live by the rules they want to impose on the rest of us.
However, I think it's important that we all have different arguements to make with liberals anyway. Otherwise it sounds like we all got our faxes in the morning!
:)
I'm just so glad to be back on FR!!
susie
Guess I need to read the book and see if the evidence is in there. I hope so and I hope to see this author on Fox often.
Sadly, that usually tends to be the case.
So I'm interested in whether they're discussing this at all over there...
Here is the link covering the lawsuit:
http://www.californiacoastline.org/images/2002/small/3850.JPG
Not me, but the Romper Room lady sees you. She sees all. :)
Are you a do-bee or a don't-bee?? ;)
susie
LOL!
The proofs are in the book. Tax records and such. I gather it is all backed up by proof.
Tee Hee.....I love that....only in an ironic way
This is so typical of these lefties, they tell everyone else how to behave while in fact doing the exact opposite of what they preach. This is not shocking nor new.
Danger Ducky.
Aren't you scared?
Mark
Buy the book, it's all documented.
Mark
Mrs. Pelosi owns the Zinfandel Lane Vineyard in St. Helena CA and the Skellenger Lane Vineyard in Napa. Her husband also owns a large block of stock on the Chalone Wine Group Ltd. Scratch those wines off your Christmas gift list!
Gone, neve to pass my lips. Thanks
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