Inside the Beltway

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.

Cashing in

How eager is one side to cash in on former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s indictment?

They’re already taking orders for T-shirts with the Texas Republican’s police mug shot.

Even before Mr. DeLay — charged with violating Texas election law — was booked on the charges, the Public Campaign Action Fund was offering $15 mug-shot T-shirts for sale on its Web site (www.pcactionfund.org/tshirt/).

The PCAF is a “a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to reforming America’s campaign finance laws.” Writing in FrontPageMagazine.com, Richard Poe reports that the PCAF is heavily backed by left-wing billionaire George Soros.

The charges against Mr. DeLay involve his successful efforts to elect a Republican majority in the Texas legislature. Mr. DeLay says Ronnie Earle, the Democratic attorney general in Travis County, Texas, is pursuing a partisan vendetta by pressing charges of money laundering.

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