Thursday, December 22, 2005

Congressional Black Caucus Hypocrisy

The Congressional Black Caucus in August chastised President Bush for the "slow" response of the federal government aid to the Katrina victims. The Black Caucus also stated that the President's response was race related in a September 2 news conference.

Well, the Congressional Black Caucus has been sitting on $700,000 collected for the victims of Katrina.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick (D-Mich.), also present at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Sept. 2 news conference, declared that she was "ashamed of America."

I'm ashamed of our government. We don't want another Iraq, where the money just goes off somewhere. This is real human need. And I'm outraged by the lack of response from our federal government," Kilpatrick said.


Well, what is the Congressional Black Caucus doing with their money, collected for the victims of Katrina?

We are collecting all the way up through the very end of the year and then our board has set aside a committee who is going to administer the funds, Patty Rice, spokeswoman for the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF), told Cybercast News Service on Wednesday.


Talk about a slow reponse! Maybe Congress Woman Kilpatrick should be ashamed of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF).

What we need is a little less politicizing of disasters such as Katrina, and a little more energy spent on helping those in needs. To the CBCF, get busy and start distributing your money, even at this late date... You seem so insensitive to the real needs of citizens of New Orleans and the surrounding area.

Conservative Canadians? Do They Exist?

Well eh, I found that hard to believe also. You know, Canadians have approved same sex marriage, sex clubs, and marijuana, eh. Well, you know, I found at least one Conservative Canadian and his name is Joel. He has a thought provoking blog with many good entries.

I highly recommend that our reading audience add Joel's Proud to Be Candian blog to your daily read. Joel's Proud to be Canadian can be found here.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Bush Bashing Michael Moore's Hypocrisy

Michael Moore Denies He Owned Halliburton


Breaking from NewsMax.com

Bush-bashing filmmaker Michael Moore is denying he ever owned stock in Halliburton Energy Services Company, the oil equipment giant once run by Vice President Dick Cheney that has become an anethma to left-wingers.

Speaking last week at the first annual Paul Wellstone Memorial Dinner in Washington, D.C., Moore claimed that the Halliburton allegation in Peter Schweizer's blocbuster new book "Do As I Say, [Not As I Do]," is "crazy."

Michael Moore own Halliburton stock?" the anti-corporate lefty asked the crowd. "See, that's like a great comedy line. I know it's not true - I mean, I've never owned a share of stock in my life."

Moore protested: "Anybody who knows me knows that, you know - who's gonna believe that? Just crazy people are going to believe it - crazy people who tune into the Fox News Channel."

And maybe crazy people who can read with their own eyes the tax return for Mr. Moore's very own foundation - as reprinted in Schweizer's book.

The bestselling author reports: "Publicly, Moore claims that he doesn't invest in the stock market out of moral principle. Privately, he tells the IRS something completely different."

Schweizer explains how the widely acclaimed anti-corporatist set up a private foundation after his first major film, "Roger & Me," started making serious money.

In 1999, "the year Moore claimed in 'Stupid White Men' that he didn't own any stock, he reported to the IRS that his foundation had more than $280,000 in corporate stock and close to $100,000 in corporate bonds."

"And in perhaps the ultimate irony," notes Schweizer, "he also has owned shares in Halliburton. According to IRS filings, Moore sold Halliburton for a 15 percent profit and bought shares in Noble, Ford, General Electric" and other allegedly evil corporations.

Moore is currently working on a documentary attacking big pharmaceuticals. But Schweizer discovered that Moore's foundation holdings have "included such evil pharmaceutical and medical companies as Pfizer, Merck, Genzyme, Elan PLC, Eli Lilly, Becton Dickinson and Boston Scientific."

Schweizer continues: "Moore's supposedly nonexistent portfolio also includes big bad energy giants like Sunoco, Noble Energy, Schlumberger, Williams Companies, Transocean Sedco Forex and Anadarko, all firms that 'deplete irreplaceable fossil fuels in the name of profit' as he put it in 'Dude, Where's My Country?'

"Also on Moore's investment menu: defense contractors Honeywell, Boeing and Loral."

Does Moore share the stock proceeds of his "foundation" with charitable causes, you might ask?

Schweizer found that "for a man who by 2002 had a net worth in eight figures, he gave away a modest $36,000 through the foundation, much of it to his friends in the film business or tony cultural organizations that later provided him with venues to promote his books and film."

Moore's hypocrisy doesn't end with his financial holdings.

He has criticized the journalism industry and Hollywood for their lack of African-Americans in prominent positions, and in 1998 he said he personally wanted to hire minorities "who come from the working class."

In "Stupid White Men," he proclaimed his plans to "hire only black people."

But when Schweizer checked the senior credits for Moore's latest film "Fahrenheit 911," he found that of the movie's 14 producers, three editors, production manager and production coordinator, all 19 were white. So were all three cameramen and the two people who did the original music.

On "Bowling for Columbine," 13 of the 14 producers were white, as were the two executives in charge of production, the cameramen, the film editor and the music composer.

His show "TV Nation" had 13 producers, four film editors and 10 writers - but not a single African-American among them.

And as for Moore's insistence on portraying himself as "working class" and an "average Joe," Schweizer recounts this anecdote: "When Moore flew to London to visit people at the BBC or promote a film, he took the Concorde and stayed at the Ritz. But he also allegedly booked a room at a cheap hotel down the street where he could meet with journalists and pose as a ?man of humble circumstances.'"

Michael Moore, that's not "crazy" -- that's hypocrisy with a capital H!

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