As Schweizer told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on November 3, 2005:
PETER SCHWEIZER: Well, Michael Moore has said at least half-a-dozen times, I don`t own a single share of stock, because he considers investing in the stock market to be dirty money.
Well, I guess he is technically correct. He doesn`t own a single share of stock. He owns tens of thousands of shares of stock. And what is interesting is, is looking at the portfolio.
Michael Moore, yes, the same Michael Moore, owns shares in defense contractors like Boeing. He owns...
JOE SCARBOROUGH: No. Well, hold -- hold on. No way. You are telling me...
SCHWEIZER: Yes.
SCARBOROUGH: ... that Mr. "Fahrenheit 9/11" profits off of the war, because Boeing profits off the war, that he despises?
SCHWEIZER: Yes, that`s exactly right. He owns shares in Honeywell.
And, believe it or not, Joe -- it`s on the back cover of the book -- he, in recent years, has owned shares in Halliburton, the Darth Vader of corporate America.
SCARBOROUGH: OK. Hold on. I got to stop you, Peter...
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SCARBOROUGH: ... because this guy said that he doesn`t invest on Wall Street. Are you telling me that he just is just lying to us?
SCHWEIZER: It`s a flat, bald-faced lie. When he says that he doesn`t own shares, I pulled IRS forms from a tax shelter of his. And he has hundreds of thousands of dollars on the stock market.
Right now, for example, he is preparing a film on pharmaceutical companies, attacking the health care industry. In recent years, he has owned shares in Tenet Healthcare, which runs HMOs, Pfizer, and Eli Lilly. He is a complete hypocrite on this front.
SCARBOROUGH: And we have got to go to a break, and I want to talk to you on the other side.
But, just before we go to the break, are you telling me again that Michael Moore has owned stock in Halliburton?
SCHWEIZER: Yes. That`s what his IRS forms -- and he signed his own IRS forms.