What the hell is this crap?

[Nightjock]

In today's NY Post (yeah, I know. Birdcage liner) on Page 6 is an article about a new "Reich Wing" book. I know that anyone with half of a brain realizes the Post is more like the bush version of Pravda but many folks read this stuff.
(sorry if dupe. I just got home from work)

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PORCINE provocateur Michael Moore likes to portray himself as a working-class man of the people, but a new book exposes him as a "corporate criminal, environmental menace and racist union-buster."
In "Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," Peter Schweizer reveals that Moore, who has been vociferous in his criticism of defense contractor Halliburton, has bought and sold hundreds of shares of Halliburton stock — and that of other defense contractors — through his private foundation.

Moore, who has claimed he doesn't own a "single share" of stock, has also invested heavily in HMOs and pharmaceutical giants, the targets of his next movie, "Sickos."

Moore also likes to rail against what he calls rampant racism in the United States and the fact that supposedly no one hires blacks for good jobs. Schweizer points out that "out of the 134 producers, editors, cinematographers, composers, and production coordinators Moore hired, only three were black." And not one African-American lives in the ritzy Michigan enclave where Moore has a $1 million mansion.

And while publicly championing unions, Moore has been quite anti-union in his own business dealings and had several clashes with the Writers Guild.

Elsewhere in the book:

* Schweizer calls Al Franken a "habitual liar, mean-spirited partisan and racial discriminator" for his frequent fabrications to make conservatives look bad, and the fact that he hired only one black person out of 112 who worked on his various projects.

* Ted Kennedy is labeled an "environmental rapist, tax cheat and oil profiteer" for his moves to defeat environmentally friendly projects, the various Kennedy family trusts designed to dodge taxes from which he benefits, and his family's lucrative oil holdings.

* Hillary Clinton is depicted as a "corporate shill and petty tax avoider" while ultra-liberal Barbra Streisand is exposed as a "civil liberties violator, outsourcer and war profiteer."

* Liberal icon Ralph Nader is labeled a "bourgeois materialist, stock manipulator and tyrannical sweatshop boss," while left-wing deep-thinker Noam Chomsky is seen to be a "social parasite, economic protectionist amoral defense contractor." Who knew?

[5X]

1. If I wanted to read drivel, I could find it myself, thank you. n/t

[Nightjock]

4. Everything that comes from them is drivil

but when you have an honest debate with someone and they QUOTE that drivil calling it drivil will not convince them it's bullshit.

If you hand your dvd of Farenhiet 9-11 to someone to watch and they say "Oh he's a hypocrite" .....

[Burried News]

2. Same book reviewed by the Nation. The Freepers don't like

when Saint Reagun's exposed.

http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20030203&s=uhler

[Nye Bevan]

3. How to read the Post

1. Start on the back page.
2. Read the sports.
3. Discard.

[Nightjock]

5. LOL

[uppityperson]

6. Business as usual for the NYPost

what a twit paper

[Nye Bevan]

9. Well to be fair to the Post

they do come up with some pretty good sports headlines.

For example, when the Mets failed to hire Lou Piniella as their manager a few years ago and were forced to settle for Art Howe, the headline was:

LOU-SERS! AND HOWE!

[Virginian]

7. It doesn't have to be true to be published.

Read Al Franken's book Lies and the Lying liers who tell them. He debunks a lot of the conservative lies that get spread around as the real deal.

Thanks for letting me know why the NY Post is for the birds. I have never attempted to read it. Now I know why I don't want to attempt to read it.

[Bridget Burke]

8. You said it: CRAP!

The author pays his bills by producing drivel for Right Wing idiots.

[Nightjock]

10. There's that word again-"drivil"

I don't want anyone to think I give this any credence. I don't. But when you engage with a freeper who has an open mind about the pretend boy king "drivil" like this gets spouted at you.

I never heard Micheal Moore deny he owns that stock.

I'm sorry I posted this. But if we ignore thier bullshit it does not go away. Look what they did to John Kerry last year. For millions of stupid Americans his military service was "swiftboated" and they believed it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

11. Did the article

contain and proof about the Moore allegations? Wouldn't owning stock be a rather public thing? Or isn't it? I really don't know.

[Bridget Burke]

13. I think you need to buy the book....

Of course, Amazon.com has several favorable reviews for this author--in which the reviewer says he has NOT finished the book he's lauding.

Therefore, someone could post a negative review without reading the book. But that would be WRONG.

[No Exit]

12. Methinks they do protest too much

If all these people were really such transparent frauds, why would the right wingnuts have to bother to even pay attention to them?

[txaslftist]

14. See what happens when unqualified people get hold of a thesaurus?

I swear those books should be banned.

[slampoet]

15. Ritzey Michigan Enclave?

Have you ever seen Flint?

It's like Beruit puked.