Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock

could it be any more obvious that michael moore is a tool of the establishment...if his whitewash of 9/11 wasn't enough...

Michael Moore Owns Halliburton Stock

World Net Daily| November 2 2005

"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 â?? 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 â?? 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 â?? 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."

I agree, sort of. He's not a tool of the establishment, just a tool. I'm currently reading Downsize This! and though I agree with him that there is hypocrisy in some saying they want to end welfare, and turn around and give $170 billion in corporate welfare, but if that was only what the book was about. About a quarter of the book is him pointing out how corporate America does whatever the hell they want and that the government just lets them. The other 3/4 of the book is him spouting his personal agenda: How he's in love with Hillary Clinton; How he thinks Cubans are cowards; him making fun of Bob Dole because he carries a pen in the arm that was injured in WWII; How the Jews in Florida should kill the Germans in Florida; how OJ was innocent and then in the next chapter he says that OJ was guilty; why he thinks Steve Forbs is a space alien. With him saying stupid shit like that, it's a wonder why anyone would believe a word he says. He's a few facts surrounded by piles upon piles of bullshit.

I am going to finish the book, but only because once I start a book, I have to finish it (this philosophy has forced me to read many a shitty book).

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,NO COMMENT,too funny,can't stop laughing. And i promise dirty hippy(whos name speaks for itself) was loving this guy when his bogus movie came out.

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Originally Posted by amsterdam

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,NO COMMENT,too funny,can't stop laughing. And i promise dirty hippy(whos name speaks for itself) was loving this guy when his bogus movie came out.

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That's why I chose the name, it fits me, that's more than I can say for you.

Contrary to you promise, I've always though he was a tool. Unlike you, I have the cognitive capacity to form my own independent thoughts. Once again, you're talking about shit you know nothing about. But what else is new? Just once I would like to see you make a poignant comment. Or is the only way you can get people to pay attention to what you is by taunting them?

I used to think you were just an ordinary asshole, but now I see you are nothing but a child trying to get attention.

Your link goes to a site that has nothing to do with michael moore, update pls

Did it for You

http://entertainment.excite.com/cele...27_2005_1.html

I can see your point with Michael Moore, but some of the things you said were a stretch. I mean, we're all hypocrites in some way. How far can you go? I'm against the Iraq War yet I'm still paying taxes for it. I hate corporations but I still eat McDonalds occasionally. Many professors are very liberal and even radical, yet they work at colleges that do research for the military. The list can go on and on.

The most important thing is that at least people like Noam Chomsky are trying to do better in the world by exposing what really goes on in the US. Some politicians who are rich at least say they care about poor people, versus those who blatantly could care less.