posted on November 4, 2005 02:50:28 PM new
Moore reavealed as the hypocrite he is...
New book debunks claims of celebrity activists
"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."
posted on November 5, 2005 08:36:00 AM new
bear, I had already posted the information regarding this book in another thread when CNSNews.com reported it.
But that's probably NOT why this thread is getting no response from the liberals here. More likely it's because they just won't face what hypocrites their leaders, or those who they've cheerleaded for, really are.
Again...just a matter of the truth hurting them....so they just ignore it. Kind of like they did with all the clinton administration scandles....but boy get Libby for the possibility he lied....and it's a historical event to them.
Gotta make ya laugh.
"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 5, 2005 12:24:11 PM new
I've rarely spoken in support of MM here or anywhere, but I will say this: I think his film probably made quite a few people stop and think about the war and it's so-called justification. As I've said before regarding PETA, sometimes only the lunatic fringe is brave (or foolhardy) enough to actually speak it's mind. That's their job, to speak the thoughts that others, due to their vested interests, dare not. If MM is a hypocrite, and he may well be, it doesn't change the mounting evidence that the President lied to us about going to war. Michael Moore didn't cause the voters in a recent Zogby poll to say that they believe the President should be impeached if it can be proved that he lied to us about the war.
Like Ann Coulter on t'other side of the fence, MM is largely irrelevant, except that also like her, he's an easy target.
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posted on November 5, 2005 12:31:05 PM new
IF....IF....IF
Hasn't happened....most likely won't...or ALL the democratic leaders that spoke out IN FAVOR of the war would have to be impeached too.
Nope....just a fantasy the Bush haters hope for....no proof of what they claim....he lied ...he lied....but no proof.
He didn't lie is the fact. He, and many, many democratic leaders in Congress...made a judgement call....from the intelligence information the US and other countries had on saddam and his weapons.
It's NOT a lie....to make a judgement call on intelligence that might have been wrong. But then...might not have been. And a President can't be impeached for the intelligence he received from those responsble for giving it to him.
"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 5, 2005 04:28:06 PM newIF....IF....IF
Hasn't happened....most likely won't...or ALL the democratic leaders that spoke out IN FAVOR of the war would have to be impeached too.
Why? Many of them could have been duped just as we may have been. Or do you somehow have inside knowlege that all representatives and senators are privy to the same information the President is? If they voted on the basis of information given them by the President or his aides, He's responsible.
He didn't lie is the fact
You don't know that Linda. No matter how desperately you want it to be true, you don't know it for a fact. You hope it's true, you sure need it to be true, but until all the information surrounding the lead up to this war comes to light, you cannot logically proclaim it to be a fact, not yet anyhow.
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posted on November 5, 2005 04:37:23 PM new
Not a problem, bear....you should know that by now. They didn't go much differently when I mentioned it...a couple replied most just ignored it. They do much better when they remain in DENIAL. LOL
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Nope profe....there have been three seperate investigations into this exact issue....and NONE have said other than what I stated....there is no proof this administration lied to it's citizens. NONE....NADA....ZERO....ZILCH....if you have some proof show it to all of us.
Otherwise you're just repeating what I said first.....it's a fantasy of the dems/Bush haters.....but there's been no proof of any wrong doing. Just more wishful thinking/hoping on the part of his American enemies.
"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 5, 2005 04:42:19 PM new
Prof, you fail to acknowledge the
July 2004, the Senate Intelligence Committee that released a bipartisan 500-page report that found numerous failures of intelligence gathering and analysis. As for the Bush Administration's role, "The Committee did not find any evidence that Administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," (our emphasis).
or
The Butler Report, published by the British in July 2004, similarly found no evidence of "deliberate distortion," although it too found much to criticize in the quality of prewar intelligence.
or
The March 2005 Robb-Silberman report on WMD intelligence was equally categorical, finding "no evidence of political pressure to influence the Intelligence Community's pre-war assessments of Iraq's weapons programs. . . .analysts universally asserted that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments. We conclude that it was the paucity of intelligence and poor analytical tradecraft, rather than political pressure, that produced the inaccurate pre-war intelligence assessments."
posted on November 5, 2005 04:50:58 PM new
God bear....you are wonderful...thanks for listing WHICH groups found no proof of lying.
And when the Senate Intelligence Committee makes their report to the full Senate.....the one Reid (D) made such a fool of himself about....that report TOO will state he/they did NOT lie to us. [According to what Robert's said to the TV camera's]....and he stated that's why the dems were so pissed...they pulled what they did..shutting down the Senate....because they didn't like it that THAT report, too, showed no one was lied to.
"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 5, 2005 08:43:17 PM newand NONE have said other than what I stated
I guess it depends how you read them....
The President told us that intelligence gathered by the United States and other nations had determined--"no doubt"--that Hussein possessed WMDs, and he had declared that the Iraqi dictator was "dealing" with al Qaeda.
Richard Kerr, the leader of the official review of the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons, held a series of interviews with journalists and said that his unfinished ivestigation had so far found that the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been somewhat ambiguous, that experts at the CIA and other intelligence services had received pressure from the Bush administration, and that the CIA had not found any proof of operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime. When his investigation was finished, he did not negate these statements.
The war, and it's president are a failure, a monumental, obscenely expensive boodoggle. A flop. A majority of Americans now feel this way. You and your die hard Bushistas are in the minority, and as each day ticks by of the three years you're always reminding us he has left, your minority gets smaller and smaller. He will be remembered as the President who plunged this country into unfathomable debt by starting a war that didn't need to be fought and garnered his reelection by pandering to the fears of the populace. What a legacy.
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posted on November 6, 2005 12:50:44 PM newwhy did Scooty resign?
Scooter did the honorable thing when indicted, (unlike demoncrats that have been indicted in the past) for allegedly lying to the Fed grand Jury. He wasn't indicted for leaking any CIA info about Plame.
Prof
Pres Bush made those statements based on the info that at the time ALL believed to be factual. That info provided by clinton era CIA bureaucrats.
I gave my liberal neighbors son a book for his birthday. He went crazy trying to find where to put the batteries.
posted on November 6, 2005 12:58:33 PM new
Oh naughty, naughty bear.....pointing out anything TRUTHFUL about an administration THEY so supported.
Not only will they NOT admit the clinton administration said the same thing...other dem leaders said the same thing....BUT they refuse to recognize that HILLARY STILL voted...under THIS administration, as did kerry - the one they wish hadn't LOST - to go to war.....for exactly the same reasons this administration did - saddam being a threat
But don't speak about those FACTS now....they don't want to hear it...doesn't work well in their FANTASY land they like to live in.
"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!!!
More likely it's because they just won't face what hypocrites their leaders, or those who they've cheerleaded for, really are.
