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Gold9472
11-02-2005, 12:23 AM
Michael Moore owns Halliburton!
New book debunks claims of celebrity activists

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47174

© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Posted: November 1, 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 – 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."

PhilosophyGenius
11-02-2005, 12:54 AM
The only thing I know to be true is the Streisand story. If the rest is true, then wow!

Partridge
11-02-2005, 12:11 PM
Oh my God! Some liberals are hypocrites! The overpowering shock of it all! I need a lie down...

Gold9472
11-02-2005, 12:29 PM
One of the reasons I posted this was to show people that this board is not meant to be "partisan". Granted, the majority of the stuff that we focus on is Bush-related, but that's his fault really... for being such a lying, murderous bastard... if someone from the other side of the isle does something wrong, you can bet your ass I'll post it... like Charlie Rangel calling for a draft, etc...

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 12:42 PM
I don't get how he links his topic to making the liberal ideals themselves wrong. Thats like how liberals point out something about Reagan (like Iran-Contra) then say that proves Reaganomics wrong. It's a complete non-sequitor. Of course, those liberal ideals really are wrong, but this isn't what makes them wrong. They've been tested in real life situations and they just about always fail.

Gold9472
11-02-2005, 12:55 PM
"Liberal ideals really are wrong", and "They've been tested in real life situations and they just about always fail"

Where do you get this information?

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 01:01 PM
Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Rielly, of course. :D Where did you think, Sean Hannity? Ha!

Gold9472
11-02-2005, 01:09 PM
Yea but Rush, Bill, and Sean are Nazi sympathizers.

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 01:12 PM
Communism and Socialism are liberal ideals, and both significantly lowered the quality of life of the people living in countries governed by them. Also: see Germany. Germany has an extremely liberal government, and absolutely miserable citizens (remember this? http://www.yourbbsucks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3416&highlight=german). Remember that whole Enron thing? The reason the company failed (which gave the businessmen the oppotunity to rip off the stick market) was caused by California legislating the electricity bill costs, which ruined power company's profits. There's plenty of examples of feel-good politics fucking things up.

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 01:12 PM
Yea but Rush, Bill, and Sean are Nazi sympathizers.
Where do you get this information?

Gold9472
11-02-2005, 01:15 PM
Where do you get this information?

Well... Bush is a Nazi... the three of them support Bush... Therefore, they're Nazi sympathizers.

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 02:43 PM
Bushn isn't a nazi. Even if everything you post here is true, that makes him Nazi-esque, he's still not a nazi. That would make those three "sypathizers to a nazi-esque person", not "nazi sympathizers". On top of that, O'Rielly isn't a Bush sypathizer. He critizes Bush all the time for things like border security, Bush's lack of attention to the media's questions, and Miers. I have no idea what Limbaugh says these days (I've read a couple of his books, which I balanced with Al Franken's), though Hannity definitely is 100% pro-Bush.

ThotPolice
11-02-2005, 05:06 PM
I never liked that fat fuck, the only good thing he did was get young people into politics other than that his films were mostly heart string pulling with little fact.

In bowling for columbine when he went to that Canadian neighbor hood and started opening doors like we are this peaceful utopia, like that reflected all of Canada, we have slums like any other city.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it were true maybe he was a pawn to show the world you can’t trust a do-gooding liberal.

PhilosophyGenius
11-02-2005, 05:29 PM
Whether you think Bush is a nazi or not, one thing you can't argue with is that he's a FACIST. And that's a fact, period.

Just watch this:
http://www.bushflash.com/14.html

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 08:15 PM
I can't watch nothin' online. Censors. Sorry, pg.

Gold9472
11-02-2005, 08:18 PM
Right mouse click on this, and select "Save File As"

http://www.bushflash.com/swf/14.swf

jetsetlemming
11-02-2005, 08:19 PM
No, man, I'm on a library computer. They don't have windows media or anything like that. I can't watch video, or listen to anything either.

PhilosophyGenius
11-02-2005, 11:50 PM
About Michael Moore, he bashes companies for profiting off the war(s), but if you think abaout it, he's making money off the war too! Also, you can't blame him for buying Halliburton stocks (assuming he did), shiiiiit I want Halliburton stocks too at the profits their making *joke*. I can image Moore sitting around in an editing room thinking "man, these guys are making some serious cash, hmmmmm......."

PhilosophyGenius
11-02-2005, 11:56 PM
No, man, I'm on a library computer. They don't have windows media or anything like that. I can't watch video, or listen to anything either.

Someone posted the fourteen points which consists of making somone a facist (Bush fits in all 14 perfectly). Hopefully he will see this and post the link on this thread.