Any debunking of Michael Moore owning Halliburton stock?

[RadiDem]

The wingnuts are all a-twitter about some new book 'exposing' liberal hypocricy. Among such outrages as Babs Striesand's large water bill, it claims that Michael Moore owns 2000 shares of Halliburton. Has this been debunked yet?

[NYC Liberal]

1. Have they shown any corroborating sources at all?

[oregonindy]

2. was that with that little girl sleeping with bears story that libby wrote?

seriously where'd it come from?

[WestHoustonDem]

3. If it's true, that gets him into a shareholder meeting and that

could be a good thing.

[RadiDem]

6. Here....

He could get into a shareholder's meeting with one share.

Here's the tripe from World Nuts Daily:

"I don't own a single share of stock!" filmmaker Michael Moore proudly proclaimed.

He's right. He doesn't own a single share. He owns tens of thousands of shares – including nearly 2,000 shares of Boeing, nearly 1,000 of Sonoco, more than 4,000 of Best Foods, more than 3,000 of Eli Lilly, more than 8,000 of Bank One and more than 2,000 of Halliburton, the company most vilified by Moore in "Fahrenheit 9/11."

I don't buy it.

[MADem]

10. It could well be his goal, heh heh! nt

[kikiek]

4. Talk about desperate. Go after someone for their large water bill!

It is so pathetic it is funny.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. They're in glee over Charles and Camilla

C&C have been drumming up support for climate-change awareness and their jet supposedly dumps 500 gazillion tons of carbon into the air. The Fox shill who runs Junkscience.com was quite happy about the find.

--p!

[spindoctor]

7. Well, he is a lifetime NRA member :)

If he DOES own Halliburton stock, I am sure he will put it to good use;)

[wookie294]

8. He donates money to a foundation that invests in Halliburton

But Michael Moore does not own Halliburton stock.

[joefree1]

15. Thats right, man the wackos on the right are so desperate

Friends send me these type of right wing lies to debunk all the time. Lately the lies have really been out there tabloid stuff.

Next up, Clinton had an alien baby with a hot alien babe. Oh wait a minute I think that one has already been done.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

9. here's another example of liberal hypocrisy.

here's another one



this is HUGGHH!1!1!

[EC]

11. Well, as an old Republican always says to me when I say something

like "isn't it interesting that Rummie has stock in the drug company that makes Tamaflu and isn't it interesting that Halliburton got the contracts in NO...

He'll say, (with out any variation, like it was drilled into him) "Well, I guess he invested well..."

[TryingToWarnYou]

12. I dont know if its been debunked, but I would like to know

one way or the other.

If he does, he is a hypocrite.

And the others are right, he can own as little as one share and have a right to be at the meetings and other things to stay informed. Some even say he doesnt have to own anything in the company as their reports are all public information.

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. These idiots are being sold a book

The story comes from NewsMax, and refers to "his" Schedule D filing on capital gains. Whether it is "his" filing or a filing made through a company is left unclear.

However, one other instance of so-called hypocrisy may provide a clue as to where it is all heading. The same NewsMax article - referring to the same book - mentions that Noam Chomsky is constantly critiquing the Pentagon, while "his entire career" has been "subsidized" by the "Department of Defense." The what now? Oh, I see. You see, Chomsky works at MIT, which receives huge defense contracts that probably have something to do with keeping the institution afloat (as do most major research one universities, but who'se quibbling). Therefore, Chomsky's "entire career" (as a professor of linguistics at MIT!) is "subsidized" by the Pentagon! The raw stupidity of such nonsense hardly bears mention, yet this is one of the "examples" of "hypocrisy" used to sell what (on this basis) is no doubt an asinine enterprise. One can only imagine the tortured logic of the case studies that didn't make it into the NewsMax article!

So, given the almost mountainous strupidity of the Chomsky details, one has to wonder about what the real details are in the Moore argument. they are left unstated, in any case, the better to sell this imbecile book to the slobbering imbeciles of the right.

[berni_mccoy]

14. It's not up to us to debunk it, it's up to the AUTHOR TO PROVE IT!

They better show the evidence or SHUT UP.

How do you get someone ELSE's TAX RETURN without their approval ANYWAY? Certainly not through any LEGAL means...