He once said that major defense contractor Halliburton was run by a bunch of "thugs," and suggested that for every American killed in the Iraq war, "I would like Halliburton to slay one mid-level executive."
Publicly, Moore has claimed he wants no part of these companies and won’t own stock.
In his book "Stupid White Men," he wrote: "I don’t own a single share of stock."
He repeated the claim in a 1997 letter to the online magazine Salon, saying: "I don’t own any stock."
Privately, however, he tells the IRS a different story, Schweizer discloses in his book.
The year that Moore claimed in "Stupid White Men" that he didn’t own any stock, he told the IRS that a foundation totally controlled by Moore and his wife had more than $280,000 in corporate stock and nearly $100,000 in corporate bonds.
Over the past five years, Moore’s holdings have "included such evil pharmaceutical and medical companies as Pfizer, Merck, Genzyme, Elan PLC, Eli Lilly, Becton Dickinson and Boston Scientific," writes Schweizer, whose earlier works include "The Bushes" and "Reagan’s War."
"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?’
"And in perhaps the ultimate irony, 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 (another defense contractor), AOL Time Warner (evil corporate media) and McDonald’s.
This is all over the ‘net, but I don’t recall ever seeing it on CNN.
This is the source of all the juicy stuff:
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on 30 Nov 2005 at 6:01 pm 1.Bryan Kerwick
said …
Ever wonder why the New York Times never reviews books that portray the liberal agenda and those of the liberal persuasion in any manner except if it is a glowing endorsement to the cause?
If you want to have some fun, compare the books on the best seller list versus the books actually reviewed. As hard as the Times tries to endorse and promote the liberal agenda, the public just aren’t buying it. Fox News is so hated by the left primarily due to Fox breaking the elite liberal media stranglehold monopoly on what news we hear and in what light it is portrayed.
The really good news is that corporate america is also following suit although a few steps behind the american public at large. Many of these elite liberal media outlets that have wreaked havok on american industry in their editorial pages are now feeling the pinch in the advertising revenue which is the life blood of any media outlet. The LA Times for example just fired 85 people from their newsroom for precisely this reason. I love capitolism!
Without a monopoly on the news, the Liberal agenda is in serious trouble primarily because america is primarily a conservative country. Let the Michael Moore’s and Al Frankens (1 minority hired out of 112) of the world deal with that reality and find themselves broke. Guess thats why NPR and Public Broadcasting Co. are such a big issue with the liberals. At least those outlets don’t have to answer to public demand.
on 30 Nov 2005 at 7:13 pm 2.Moonage
said …
That sounds like a true Moon project actually.