Rightlane
04-26-2006, 04:42 PM
How is Michael Moore doing? I found that he had hired 134 people since 1990 to work on his film projects, his documentaries and his books. Of those 134, a grand total of 2 were actually African-American. I should say that I found one white individual who was an African-American studies major, so maybe he counts that as well.
But the point I’m making is that Michael Moore, who likes to go on in extreme pomposity to complain how racist and bigoted we are, has an absolutely horrible record when it comes to actually hiring minorities.
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Well, Al Franken’s in the same business as Michael Moore—entertainment. Again, you can take a look at the credits. What you find with Al Franken is a very similar pattern. All the people he’s hired to work on all of his projects, with one exception, have been white. In fact, Al Franken hired 112 people and only one was African-American. Now this is particularly funny for Al Franken. He wrote a book a couple of years ago called, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Did anybody have the misfortunate of reading that book? Okay. Well, Al Franken devotes an entire chapter of the book on a very easy target for liberals, and that is this fundamentalist college in the Carolinas called Bob Jones University. Whenever liberals want to look at religious conservatives, they go to Bob Jones University. And that’s what Al Franken did and, in this chapter, he talks about how abhorrent it is that Bob Jones University has a student body population that is only 1% African-American. The irony of course is that, based on the numbers, Al Franken’s staff is whiter than Bob Jones University. It’s a stunning development, when you think about it.
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The point is that liberal principles oftentimes are bad for you. They take away your rights, they take away your freedoms, and they end up hurting your prosperity. At the end of the day, what this hypocrisy teaches us is not just about the failures of the icons of the liberal left, also something about their ideas, and that is that people on the liberal left, when it comes to the things that matter most in their own lives, do not trust those things to their own ideas.
By Peter Schweizer
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 26, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22207
But the point I’m making is that Michael Moore, who likes to go on in extreme pomposity to complain how racist and bigoted we are, has an absolutely horrible record when it comes to actually hiring minorities.
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Well, Al Franken’s in the same business as Michael Moore—entertainment. Again, you can take a look at the credits. What you find with Al Franken is a very similar pattern. All the people he’s hired to work on all of his projects, with one exception, have been white. In fact, Al Franken hired 112 people and only one was African-American. Now this is particularly funny for Al Franken. He wrote a book a couple of years ago called, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them. Did anybody have the misfortunate of reading that book? Okay. Well, Al Franken devotes an entire chapter of the book on a very easy target for liberals, and that is this fundamentalist college in the Carolinas called Bob Jones University. Whenever liberals want to look at religious conservatives, they go to Bob Jones University. And that’s what Al Franken did and, in this chapter, he talks about how abhorrent it is that Bob Jones University has a student body population that is only 1% African-American. The irony of course is that, based on the numbers, Al Franken’s staff is whiter than Bob Jones University. It’s a stunning development, when you think about it.
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The point is that liberal principles oftentimes are bad for you. They take away your rights, they take away your freedoms, and they end up hurting your prosperity. At the end of the day, what this hypocrisy teaches us is not just about the failures of the icons of the liberal left, also something about their ideas, and that is that people on the liberal left, when it comes to the things that matter most in their own lives, do not trust those things to their own ideas.
By Peter Schweizer
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 26, 2006
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22207