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Flint, Mich. Paper Slams Michael Moore's Hypocrisy
Even Michael Moore’s hometown newspaper is slamming the filmmaker over revelations contained in Peter Schweizer’s blockbuster new book. In "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," Schweizer exposes Moore's "fake public persona,” the Flint Journal states in a review. Moore proudly points to his upbringing in the working-class Michigan city, a former United Auto Workers Union stronghold, and much of his movie "Roger & Me” was filmed there. But Moore does his film production in Canada to avoid paying union scale and threatened to fire half of his TV show's writing staff when they wanted to join a union, reviewer David Forsmark reports after reading Schweizer’s book.
Story Continues Below "He's a proponent of affirmative action but never has hired a black person to do anything important on one of his projects. "Moore claims he owns no stock and only puts ‘what little I can’ in ‘something the old-timers call a savings account’ - yet Schweizer writes that he owns stock in defense contractors and Halliburton. "Moore says he gives away 40 percent of his money, but Schweizer reports that his tax returns show his foundations give the minimum necessary to stay tax exempt.” Schweizer also exposes the hypocrisy of such high-profile liberals as Barbra Streisand, Ralph Nader, Nancy Pelosi, Al Franken, Noam Chomsky and Hillary Clinton, the review points out. "Could the reason Streisand, Franken and Moore advocate for affirmative action be because they know from looking at themselves that it is necessary?” reviewer Forsmark concludes.
"After all, if these bitter enemies of racism and sexism can't be trusted to hire a diverse group of people, what hope can there be for corporate America to do so? "Perhaps Moore rails against globalization because he knows first-hand about the insidious lure of cheap, foreign scab labor.”
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