posted on November 2, 2005 11:09:16 AM
Al Franken, Hillary, Kennedy, Caught! Al Franken, Hillary, Kennedy, Caught!
Breaking from NewsMax.com
A new book by a top investigative journalist exposes the blatant hypocrisy of liberals who loudly espouse principles they disregard in their own personal lives.
In "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,"
Hoover Fellow Peter Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals including Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Ralph Nader - among others.
"Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for liberals in their war against conservatives," Schweizer writes in the November issue of NewsMax Magazine.
"Yet for all the talk about conservative hypocrisy, there has been very little investigation into the prevalence of hypocrisy on the left."
After two years of research into liberal hypocrisy, Schweizer said, "what I discovered was just stunning."
Schweizer's well-annotated book, published by Doubleday, has just been released and its sure to turn several well-known liberals red with anger.
Among the eye-opening revelations of "Do As I Say":
Filmmaker Michael Moore insists that corporations are evil and claims he doesn't invest in the stock market due to moral principle. But Moore's IRS forms, viewed by Schweizer, show that over the past five years he has owned shares in such corporate giants as Halliburton, Merck, Pfizer, Sunoco, Tenet Healthcare, Ford, General Electric and McDonald's.
Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif Dem.) has received the Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25 million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a non-union shop.
The hypocrisy doesn't end there.
Pelosi has received more money from the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other member of Congress in recent election cycles. But the Pelosis own a large stake in an exclusive hotel in Rutherford, Calif. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a union, according to Schweizer, author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other periodicals.
The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti, which has 900 employees. The chain is - that's right, a non-union shop.
Ralph Nader is another liberal who claims that unions are essential to protect worker rights. But when an editor of one of his publications tried to form a union to ameliorate miserable working conditions, the editor was fired and the locks changed on the office door.
Self-described socialist Noam Chomsky {{who HELEN often quotes here}} has described the Pentagon as "the most vile institution on the face of the earth" and lashed out against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich. But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the last 40 years, and he used a venerable law firm to set up his irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.
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.
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.
Another family member, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., has said that it is not moral to profit from natural resources. But he receives an annual check from the family's large holdings in the oil industry.
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.
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. But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears pierced and forbid the teen from watching MTV or HBO.
Billionaire Bush-basher George 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 writes: "Liberals claim to support affirmative action but don't practice it. They support higher taxes but set up complicated tax shelters to avoid paying them. They claim to be ardent environmentalists but abandon their cause when it impinges on their own property rights.
"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."
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Peter Schweizer's blockbuster new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do)"
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"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on November 2, 2005 11:41:50 AM
Ha Ha! You're right! This is hilarious...not too true , but hilarious.
It's funny because YOU can't come up with any defense for the corruption, lies, ARRESTS, INDICTMENTS, resignations, of your muddied heroes so HAVE to dig this stuff up.....
and, as usual, how have these things , these hipocrisies KILLED THOUSANDS ??? Like the bush administration has...?
HUH!?
Still pouting because I stopped you cold on the outsourcing thread ?
[ edited by mingotree on Nov 2, 2005 11:43 AM ]
posted on November 2, 2005 11:42:11 AM
Wow, a hypocrite posting an article by a hypocrite about a hypocrite writing a book about hypocrites.
Hmmmm. Calling the kettle black, don't you think???
So Linda, do you believe everything presented in this article, or did you bother to do the research for yourself to see if this writer is telling the truth or is using numbers to mislead. Example: Al Franken... How did they come up with the less than 1% African-American hiring rate? Stating something as fact, and looking at the true story behind those numbers may paint a much different picture than you are trying to do.
posted on November 2, 2005 11:52:43 AM
Yea, rusty...I'm sure this writter will have to deal with lawsuit after lawsuit when these hypocritic liberals start suing him.
Again...the truth hurts.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on November 2, 2005 12:14:33 PM
mingo- Linda won't answer questions like that. She supports the Bush Administration just like the Gestapo supported Hitler and the Nazi regime. Blind Faith.
posted on November 2, 2005 12:57:36 PM
Linda_K, 2019 dead Americans,15,000 wounded in a War starting by a LYING CON-servatives you support. Your government got SLAPPED in the FACE YESTERDAY AND ITS ABOUT TIME.
The only thing that is a "GREAT LAUGH" is anyone that still supports this LYING FORM OF CON-SERVATIVE GOVERNMENT. A government that was given a chance and did nothing but fail the majority of Americans.
posted on November 2, 2005 01:07:17 PM
I know, shag, I know...linda has never answered any pertinent questions...her usual "out of both sides of her mouth" attitude...since she sure jumps all over anybody else who doesn't answer HER questions
posted on November 2, 2005 01:11:35 PM
rusty....the truth of the matter is I ignore 'it'. So therefore I don't answer ANY of her statements/comments/questions.
I answer all other questions put to me....that aren't from someone like YOU who continues to make up total lies about my positions on many subjects you have absolutely NO way of knowing. And because you do NOT speak for me.
You only speak for yourself, rusty...therefore are the only one being made a fool of here.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on November 2, 2005 01:21:36 PM
Rustytrombone:
I can't say I blame Linda (or anyone else) for not answering your inane questions.
The Gestapo was part and parcel of the Nazi regime. Do you know who the big supporters were in the beginning? Maybe you should do some research.
BTW Linda. excellent post.
great buffer reading for the Pinko, Bull Sh*t compilation by Al Franken.
BTW: I saw him on TV the other day, and I swear he admitted to being a Socialist. Maybe he said he was a far left Dumbocrat.
Amen,
Reverend Colin http://www.reverendcolin.com
posted on November 2, 2005 07:06:11 PM
Look, I don't like Bush or his policies. But comparing him to Hitler is just dumb.
At his worst, Bush comes nowhere close to being a Hitler. Few do in this world, fortunately.
edited to replace an "s" with an "m"
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush
[ edited by bunnicula on Nov 2, 2005 07:06 PM ]
posted on November 2, 2005 07:10:33 PM
Very true, bunni.
It's only the whining wacko liberals that keep repeating that old nonsense. They only make themselves look stupid if they want others to believe that crap.
"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years. YES!!!
posted on November 2, 2005 07:13:22 PM
No more stupid than obsessed neocons who continually bring up Clinton, who has been out of office for years and then try to convince themselves and the rest of the world that a blow job is on the same level as lying the country into war...
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush
posted on November 2, 2005 07:20:27 PM
LOL bunni - Well once again I'll just have to disagree with you.
I KNOW it bothers clinton supporters to hear about his actions and the 61 indictments and a tons of conviction HIS administration DID FACE.
But those are the FACTS....actual FACTS
AND they weren't all about any BJ either....no matter how the left keeps trying to imply that is the case. They're all on the public records. FACTS.....not BJ's.
Whereas calling this President over and over a nazi...etc. ISN'T a fact at all.....
...but rather the opinion of an ignorant person/people.
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"Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy. This is their essence." --Ann Coulter
And why the American Voters chose to RE-elect President Bush to four more years.
[ edited by Linda_K on Nov 2, 2005 07:29 PM ]
posted on November 2, 2005 10:08:16 PM
No, Big Peepa. Not remotely like Hitler. It has become common to compare anyone whom we dislike or don't agree with to Hitler and the Nazis. Simply reading history or talking to survivors shows the fallacy of that.
What Bush & Co. do call to mind is Senator Joseph McCarthy and his cronies.
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"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." -- George W. Bush
has described the Pentagon as "the most vile institution on the face of the earth" and lashed out against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich. But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the last 40 years, and he used a venerable law firm to set up his irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.
