Book Review: "Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" by Peter Schweizer (2005)

Hoover Institution fellow Peter Schweizer takes us through a delicious romp of Noam Chomsky's tax shelters, Michael Moore's stock holdings (while included Halliburton at the turn of the decade), and Gloria Steinem's eyebrow lifts. It's like a People magazine for conservatives who have long suspected that most of these champions of the working man are a bunch of phonies. If you've been paying attention (and all of this is in the public domain, as Schweizer's footnotes will attest), not much will be new to you, but a lot of the more gossipy bits are juicy (Al Franken is a mean person, Barbara Streisand hires people as cheaply as possible and Ralph Nader is a slave driver) and a hell of a lot of fun.

Bottom line is that when conservatives like Bill Bennett, Dr. Laura and the gang are exposed as hypocrites, the mainstream press is all over them, but these lefties have been let off the hook for far too long.

Pick it up for a quick read and poke fun along with Schweizer at those who want us to do as they say, not as they do.

Overall rating: 9/10