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Congressman Goes After "Golden Child" Glenn Beck

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Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) has taken Goldline, a precious metal dealer which advertises on Glenn Beck's radio and television shows, as well as other conservative radio programs, for "[preying] on the public's fears of inflation" and pitching their "overpriced" gold pieces as "insurance against this purported government outreach."

"Simply put, Goldline is little more than a gold peddler posing as an investment advisor, an unfortunate byproduct of the Tea Party movement," a spokesperson for the Congressman said.

Full story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20005295-503544.html
 
Goldline has been around for years. Another transparent attack on talk radio. Don't like what they're saying? Try to get them thrown off the air. Can't do that? Go after the sponsors. I wonder how much Goldman Sachs money Wiener has taken over the years?
 
Interesting to note that AM radio used to be filled with ads for second mortgages. And now? Gold.

Manipulating people using modern techniques is astonishingly easy (if the marketer has few morals). You only make it easier when you permit people and organizations that want to take advantage of you to do so by allowing them to use your good nature and your natural instincts against you. It happens every day in Washington DC, online, on TV and in your local community institutions.


http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/05/are-you-easily-manipulated.html
 
How much control does Glenn Beck have over what commercials run on his show? Probably none. Clark Howard gets calls about a debt consolidator or
a reverse mortgage company running spots on his show. Here is a consumer advocate who cautions his listeners about the aforementioned, and he has
no control over who buys spots on his show. Do you think Beck approves everyone? Only Paul Harvey did that.
 
But Beck does sponsored live reads/endorsements for Goldline doesn't he?

That's kind of different from when people call Clark Howard to complain about a local siding company that they got bad service from who advertises on the station that Clark Howard runs on.
 
Beck endorses the advertiser.

Remember, Goldline is where I buy my gold.

Honestly, if the times were so troubling and gold was a safety valve if times become too troubling, then why would I sell my gold to you? Wouldn't I be hoarding as much of it as possible rather than selling it?
 
I also never get how that works out with the "buy some gold from me now" thing, when the gold marketer would have to have a source for the gold they are selling. It doesn't seem like it would work out that well, but it works out well enough for them to mass-advertise on big radio programs.
 
Look, I'm the last guy to defend Beck and his fear-mongering, flame-throwing style...but he's not the only guy selling gold on the radio. Sure, most of the right wing hosts do it, but so does Thom Hartmann and Randi Rhodes.

Its a lot like the TV preachers trying to instill fear in you about the after life, then pointing out that if you send them money, everything will be OK.

Beck and the others can sell whatever they want, and the companies they represent can charge whatever they want. As long as no laws are broken, I'm not sure I have a problem with it. We can't really protect the listening audience from their own stupidity should they choose to follow Beck, Elmer Gantry, Howard Beale, Joe McCarthy, etc.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm heading down to my lead lined basement to check on my 25 year supply of peanut butter and freeze-dried navy beans.
 
It's not like radio can be picky about who it lets buy ad spots. Goldline, debt consolidation and "male enhancement" companies keep the business afloat. No one here should have a thing to say about it unless you're going to buy ad time yourself.

And another question. How many shopping malls are in Congressman Wiener's district? How many of them have those gold buying shops that have sprung up everywhere? How many of those shops are paying sub-standard prices and taking advantage of poor people's lack of knowledge about gold?

Perhaps the good Congressman should look in his own backyard before going after Glenn Beck. Unless of course he has an agenda and is trying to snuff opposition speech.
 
It's one thing for Rush/Beck/Hannity/Savage/Rhodes, etc,etc, to read a live spot copy vs actually personally endorsing the product. So maybe what should be looked into by the Congressman is, whether those talk hosts who DO endorse Goldline, etc, claiming they've sold gold to them, etc, actually did so. That would be wrong if the hosts make that endorsement and actually never used the product.

I seem to remember Rush saying in, I believe it was, a Carbonite spot he was reading that his assistant Dawn used the service and was happy with it. He, at least in that spot I heard, didn't claim that he used it. Whether or not Dawn uses Carbonite is anyone's guess. One would assume that Rush wouldn't use someone else's name as the endorser if it weren't true, but who knows.
 
This congressman has moved on to going after the Yankees and Mets for adding surcharges to their tickets, so my guess is this story got him the attention he wanted and he moved on to the next photo op. I wouldn't worry about Goldline too much now.
 
How about hidden surcharges on cable bills? I'm all for that. (Investigating them, that is.)
 
WABeatleC said:
If Beck is doing live reads for his sponsor, then he is an endorser and a schmuck.
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That's odd, I would have thought Weiner was the schmuck. :D ;)
 
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