[antimedia] antimedia: While we're on the subject....

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While we're on the subject....
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   ....of [1]liberal hypocrisy look at a man whose hypocrisy is almost as
   huge as his girth.

     Filmmaker Michael Moore has made a career out of trashing
     corporations and said he doesn't own any stocks due to moral
     principle.
     How then did author Peter Schweizer uncover IRS documents showing
     that Moore's very own foundation has bought stocks in some of
     America's largest corporations â including Halliburton, other
     defense contractors and some of the same companies he has attacked?
     In his blockbuster new book "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in
     Liberal Hypocrisy," Hoover Fellow Schweizer reveals the glaring
     contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of
     prominent liberals including Al Franken, Ralph Nader, Ted Kennedy,
     Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi. [Editor's Note: NewsMax has a
     free offer for "Do As I Say" â Go Here Now.]
     But he reserves some of his sharpest barbs for Moore.
     â¦
     Privately, however, he tells the IRS a different story, Schweizer
     discloses in his book.
     The year that Moore claimed in "Stupid White Men" that he didn't
     own any stock, he told the IRS that a foundation totally controlled
     by Moore and his wife had more than $280,000 in corporate stock and
     nearly $100,000 in corporate bonds.
     Over the past five years, Moore's holdings have "included such evil
     pharmaceutical and medical companies as Pfizer, Merck, Genzyme,
     Elan PLC, Eli Lilly, Becton Dickinson and Boston Scientific,"
     writes Schweizer, whose earlier works include "The Bushes" and
     "Reagan's War."
     "Moore's supposedly nonexistent portfolio also includes big bad
     energy giants like Sunoco, Noble Energy, Schlumberger, Williams
     Companies, Transocean Sedco Forex and Anadarko, all firms that
     'deplete irreplaceable fossil fuels in the name of profit' as he
     put it in âDude, Where's My Country?'
     "And in perhaps the ultimate irony, he also has owned shares in
     Halliburton. According to IRS filings, Moore sold Halliburton for a
     15 percent profit and bought shares in Noble, Ford, General
     Electric (another defense contractor), AOL Time Warner (evil
     corporate media) and McDonald's.
     "Also on Moore's investment menu: defense contractors Honeywell,
     Boeing and Loral."
     Does Moore share the stock proceeds of his "foundation" with
     charitable causes, you might ask?
     Schweizer found that "for a man who by 2002 had a net worth in
     eight figures, he gave away a modest $36,000 through the
     foundation, much of it to his friends in the film business or tony
     cultural organizations that later provided him with venues to
     promote his books and film."
     Moore's hypocrisy doesn't end with his financial holdings.
     He has criticized the journalism industry and Hollywood for their
     lack of African-Americans in prominent positions, and in 1998 he
     said he personally wanted to hire minorities "who come from the
     working class."
     In "Stupid White Men," he proclaimed his plans to "hire only black
     people."
     But when Schweizer checked the senior credits for Moore's latest
     film "Fahrenheit 911," he found that of the movie's 14 producers,
     three editors, production manager and production coordinator, all
     19 were white. So were all three cameramen and the two people who
     did the original music.
     On "Bowling for Columbine," 13 of the 14 producers were white, as
     were the two executives in charge of production, the cameramen, the
     film editor and the music composer.
     His show "TV Nation" had 13 producers, four film editors and 10
     writers â but not a single African-American among them.
     And as for Moore's insistence on portraying himself as "working
     class" and an "average Joe," Schweizer recounts this anecdote:
     "When Moore flew to London to visit people at the BBC or promote a
     film, he took the Concorde and stayed at the Ritz. But he also
     allegedly booked a room at a cheap hotel down the street where he
     could meet with journalists and pose as a âman of humble
     circumstances.'"
     That's hypocrisy with a capital H!

   The left loves to point out the hypocrisy of people on the right.
   (William Bennett's gambling, for example), but they are completely
   silent about the hypocrisy among their own.

References

   1. http://sibbyonline.blogs.com/sibbyonline/2005/11/do_as_i_say_not.html