**UPDATED Nov 4 2005** With video clip
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A Neil Cavuto interview with the author
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“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.”
The hypocrisy aside, if you can stand it for a second: he sounds like a real Canadian liberal-leftist! No wonder he’s so concerned about how we vote here. “I don’t own a single share of stock!” …. and he says it boastfully —as a source of pride! Holding himself out as a good anti-capitalist and a socialist actually appeals to his base.
I saw the author of the book interviewed on the O’Reilly Factor last night (Fox News Channel, available to all Canadians except those on Videotron in Quebec apparently!), but got these story details from WorldNetDaily.
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.”
On O’Reilly last night he detailed even more intriguing examples. But there are lots of examples of liberal-left hypocrisy right here in Canada too! Big-shot self-serving Liberal Party elites getting medical treatment from private healthcare providers, liberal-lefties getting medical treatment in the U.S. instead of here, Liberal Prime Ministers registering assets in foreign island nations to avoid Canadian corporate tax, Liberals driving gas-guzzling BMWs while telling us to drive scooters and bicycles to work… and so many more it’d have to be a three-volume set.
“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.
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