Leftist Hypocrites and the Marxists Who Love Them
Next on Springer, he’s been called “the most honest man in America”, but don’t let that fool you. This man of allegedly humble means supposedly lives in a rooming house with a public bathroom, lives on $25,000 a year and is likely one of the most frugal men you’ll ever meet. None other than Ralph Nader is exposed, though, in the amusingly light read of Do As I Say (Not As I Do) by Peter Schweizer.
Nader is the champion of the consumer, as we currently know him. Starting with GM in the 1970’s, he has made anti-corporatism his bread and butter for more than 35 years. This self-described lover of how things used to be in the good ole’ days of the Soviet Union before glasnost and perestroika ruined it for everyone has attacked everything from cars to loud rock music to pharmaceutical companies and the military-industrial complex. The far Left sees him as their own personal demi-god and either adore him or revile him for “hurting” Al Gore and John Kerry in the last two Presidential elections with his uncompromising stand on Leftist issues. This man hates anything that might be a monopoly or that might produce “land mines, napalm...(or) weapons”.
This of course explains why he owns mutual funds that invest heavily in General Electric, IBM, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. Such companies are well known for their investing in hippy communes and flower gardens. The man who by his own admission has made over $14 million in his career has over $2.1 million in corporate stock, the same corporations he rails against.
Naturally, he has claimed he’s given most of his money to charity, a fact his income tax returns do not bear out. They show in fact that he keeps most of his cash buried in shelters in the form of charitable foundations that give out very little charity. They have his family as officers and invest in companies in which he has a vested interest, usually in attacking their competition through his “public safety” persona.
While not as land hungry as some of his other leftist friends, according to those who’ve hired him for speaking engagements, he does cost them a pretty penny to keep up in limousines, expensive hotels and the finest amenities. For such a devout union man as well, he certainly doesn't tolerate such foolishness at the organizations he founded. Such facts are well-referenced in Schweizer’s book and along with others expose the pure hypocrisy that such liberals live under.
As it notes, while conservatives like Limbaugh and Bill Bennett have been held up to immense ridicule for their short-comings, they have at least owned up to these failures and not tried to be hypocritical in their stance on them. The Left knows no such humility. Brazen hypocrisy is the order of the day and Nader is just one of the glowing examples in this work.
I might touch on one or two others as the week progresses, but I don't want to ruin the book for you.
Next on Springer, he’s been called “the most honest man in America”, but don’t let that fool you. This man of allegedly humble means supposedly lives in a rooming house with a public bathroom, lives on $25,000 a year and is likely one of the most frugal men you’ll ever meet. None other than Ralph Nader is exposed, though, in the amusingly light read of Do As I Say (Not As I Do) by Peter Schweizer.
Nader is the champion of the consumer, as we currently know him. Starting with GM in the 1970’s, he has made anti-corporatism his bread and butter for more than 35 years. This self-described lover of how things used to be in the good ole’ days of the Soviet Union before glasnost and perestroika ruined it for everyone has attacked everything from cars to loud rock music to pharmaceutical companies and the military-industrial complex. The far Left sees him as their own personal demi-god and either adore him or revile him for “hurting” Al Gore and John Kerry in the last two Presidential elections with his uncompromising stand on Leftist issues. This man hates anything that might be a monopoly or that might produce “land mines, napalm...(or) weapons”.
This of course explains why he owns mutual funds that invest heavily in General Electric, IBM, Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics. Such companies are well known for their investing in hippy communes and flower gardens. The man who by his own admission has made over $14 million in his career has over $2.1 million in corporate stock, the same corporations he rails against.
Naturally, he has claimed he’s given most of his money to charity, a fact his income tax returns do not bear out. They show in fact that he keeps most of his cash buried in shelters in the form of charitable foundations that give out very little charity. They have his family as officers and invest in companies in which he has a vested interest, usually in attacking their competition through his “public safety” persona.
While not as land hungry as some of his other leftist friends, according to those who’ve hired him for speaking engagements, he does cost them a pretty penny to keep up in limousines, expensive hotels and the finest amenities. For such a devout union man as well, he certainly doesn't tolerate such foolishness at the organizations he founded. Such facts are well-referenced in Schweizer’s book and along with others expose the pure hypocrisy that such liberals live under.
As it notes, while conservatives like Limbaugh and Bill Bennett have been held up to immense ridicule for their short-comings, they have at least owned up to these failures and not tried to be hypocritical in their stance on them. The Left knows no such humility. Brazen hypocrisy is the order of the day and Nader is just one of the glowing examples in this work.
I might touch on one or two others as the week progresses, but I don't want to ruin the book for you.
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