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02.11.05, 22:45
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Michael Moore owns Halliburton!
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New book debunks claims of celebrity activists
Posted: November 1, 2005 , 10:23 p.m. Eastern
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."
