Al Franken, Hillary, Kennedy, Caught!

Jim Meyers
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2005

A new book by a top investigative journalist exposes the blatant
hypocrisy of liberals who loudly espouse principles they disregard in
their own personal lives.

In "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," Hoover
Fellow Peter Schweizer reveals the glaring contradictions between the
public stances and real-life behavior of prominent liberals including
Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Al Franken, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi
and Ralph Nader – among others.

"Hypocrisy has proved to be a wonderful weapon for liberals in their
war against conservatives," Schweizer writes in the November issue of
NewsMax Magazine.

"Yet for all the talk about conservative hypocrisy, there has been
very little investigation into the prevalence of hypocrisy on the
left."

After two years of research into liberal hypocrisy, Schweizer said,
"what I discovered was just stunning."


Schweizer's well-annotated book, published by Doubleday, has just been
released and its sure to turn several well-known liberals red with
anger.

Among the eye-opening revelations of "Do As I Say":

# Filmmaker Michael Moore insists that corporations are evil and
claims he doesn't invest in the stock market due to moral principle.
But Moore's IRS forms, viewed by Schweizer, show that over the past
five years he has owned shares in such corporate giants as
Halliburton, Merck, Pfizer, Sunoco, Tenet Healthcare, Ford, General
Electric and McDonald's.

# Staunch union supporter Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has received the
Cesar Chavez Award from the United Farmworkers Union. But the $25
million Northern California vineyard she and her husband own is a
non-union shop.

The hypocrisy doesn't end there. Pelosi has received more money from
the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union than any other
member of Congress in recent election cycles.

But the Pelosis own a large stake in an exclusive hotel in Rutherford,
Calif. It has more than 250 employees. But none of them are in a
union, according to Schweizer, author of "The Bushes: Portrait of a
Dynasty" and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal and other periodicals.

The Pelosis are also partners in a restaurant chain called Piatti,
which has 900 employees. The chain is – that's right, a non-union
shop.

# Ralph Nader is another liberal who claims that unions are essential
to protect worker rights. But when an editor of one of his
publications tried to form a union to ameliorate miserable working
conditions, the editor was fired and the locks changed on the office
door.

# Self-described socialist Noam Chomsky has described the Pentagon as
"the most vile institution on the face of the earth" and lashed out
against tax havens and trusts that benefit only the rich.

But Chomsky has been paid millions of dollars by the Pentagon over the
last 40 years, and he used a venerable law firm to set up his
irrevocable trust to shield his assets from the IRS.

# Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are racist
because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer
than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have
been African-American.

# Ted Kennedy has fought for the estate tax and spoken out against tax
shelters. But he has repeatedly benefited from an intricate web of
trusts and private foundations that have shielded most of his family's
fortune from the IRS.

One Kennedy family trust wasn't even set up in the U.S., but in Fiji.

Another family member, environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr., has said
that it is not moral to profit from natural resources. But he receives
an annual check from the family's large holdings in the oil industry.

# Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of unions to protect
a "living wage." But she prefers to do her filming and postproduction
work in Canada, where she can pay less than American union wages.

# Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and
in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it. But the Clintons have
set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the
amount of inheritance tax their estate will pay when they die.

Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively about the
right of children to make major decisions regarding their own lives.

But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears
pierced and forbid the teen from watching MTV or HBO.

# Billionaire Bush-basher George Soros says the wealthy should pay
higher, more progressive tax rates. But he holds the bulk of his money
in tax-free overseas accounts in Curacao, Bermuda and the Cayman
Islands.

Schweizer writes: "Liberals claim to support affirmative action but
don't practice it. They support higher taxes but set up complicated
tax shelters to avoid paying them. They claim to be ardent
environmentalists but abandon their cause when it impinges on their
own property rights.

"The reality is that liberals like to preach in moral platitudes. They
like to condemn ordinary Americans and Republicans for a whole host of
things - racism, lack of concern for the poor, polluting the
environment, and greed.

"But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves,
liberals are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy.

"The media and the American people need to hold them accountable."





"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner