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People from Flint

If it's not in your bookstore yet, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" will be within days.

The expose, by investigative reporter Peter Schweizer, reveals some outrageous contradictions between the public stances and real-life behavior of America's favorite liberals: from Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Edward M. Kennedy to radio host Al Franken and filmmaker Michael Moore. Take the self-described "poor boy from Flint."

"Michael Moore claims he grew up poor in urban, blue-collar, largely black Flint, Michigan," Mr. Schweizer notes. "Actually, he grew up nearby in the largely white, middle-class town of Davison."

The author reveals that Mr. Moore's dad was not "just another working stiff," as Mr. Moore insists; rather, he put his four children through private schools, "played golf every afternoon at a private club, and retired comfortably at the age of 56."

And get this, the rotund filmmaker and defender of the little guy once owned shares of Halliburton Co. that the Internal Revenue Service says he sold for a 15 percent profit, gobbling up next some shares of McDonald's Corp.

If the author sounds familiar, his other books include "The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty" and "Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph over Communism," which was made into an award-winning documentary in 2004 — not by Mr. Moore, obviously.

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