Colbert: Conservative Talk And Gold, ‘Like Obama And A Hitler Mustache’
Stephen Colbert took some time last night to address the phenomenon that is the conservative media’s apparent support of gold: Glenn Beck, Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly all shill for gold as a good investment. “Conservative talk and gold” says Colbert, “go together like Obama and a Hitler mustache.” Youch!
Says Colbert by way of explanation: “We help you by frightening you, and right now we are frightening you about the declining value of the US dollar. But! Gold will never lose its value…did you know if you collect a hundred gold coins you get an extra life?”
And who is the king of fear and gold? None other than Glenn Beck! At which point Colbert treads some familiar ground pointing out that Beck’s show has a lot of gold advertisers, which is something Fox has addressed. Though apparently Colbert missed the update because he states on his show that Beck is a paid spokesman for Goldline, which he no longer is, though the amount of gold commercials running on Fox does seem a little suspect, all things considered. Meanwhile, while you ponder, enjoy the Roger Sterling spot at the end of this video.
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Maybe someone can answer; Has Colbert ever addressed the fact that he has one normal ear and one funny, pointy, devil-ear? Really.
ImNotBlue says: Look… the reason why the “conservatives” are talking about gold is because it’s a stock that’s doing really really well:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-climbs-to-fresh-highs-2009-12-01
It’s breaking records, and still climbing… so it’s a newsworthy story. The reason why the left isn’t talking about it so much is because with gold’s climb, the dollar sinks… and that makes the US and US leadership look weak.
As for the ads… Colbert should watch his own program more often, I’m sure he’ll see a gold ad now and then. The news nets get a larger portion of those ads because news viewers (I would assume) are more likely to also be investors as well. With all due respect to Comedy Central… I’m not sure how many dollars the average viewer has to spare on something other than “the munchies.”
Fear – a favorite marketing tool of the right since, well, forever.
straitshooter says: Glynnis, your typical shoddy reporting left out one obvious fact, and again, it reveals your obvious failings (as a human being and a reporter, you stupid whore).
Is it a bad thing that GOP commentators are steering their listeners toward an investment that has grown enormously in value over the last 10 years? It would be a story if all these people advertised for a product that had their listeners going broke, but of course, that’s not the case.
straitshooter says: Bil Adkins, both sides use fear. The Democrats are claiming anyone who opposes the health care bill wants to kill people.
Snipzor says: @straitshooter
It’s bad when they use their own position to drive up the price as a means of helping yourself to more money. I believe that’s called a conflict of interest. Not that I would expect you to understand what that means considering how revolting you were to Glynnis by the end of your post.
Also the GOP states that anyone who supports the bill wants to kill old people, I do quite enjoy how you’ve forgotten that so quickly. Oh yeah, when people are literally dying because of lack of health insurance, it isn’t a tactic of fear to mention that, it is an application of reality.
hkyplayer says: Hey liberals You need to be educated…. Fear is a Democrat main source of getting votes. Just a few small Examples
1. Al Gore saying the Ice Caps will melt in 5 years if we dont spend trillions
2. Obama. saying If we dont pass the stimulus bill now our unemployment will be unrecoverable and will reach 10%
3. How about the fear to blacks that all republicans are racist and dont care about them. Soon they forget the republicans started civil rights movement. You guys do know Martin Luther king was a republican.
4. How about Hollywood who make movies that make the human race or just Americans as evil people like the new movie Avatar does.
These are Just a few.
restore4u says: The conservatives have been famous for using fear to sell gold, guns, and religion. Fox could sell magic beans to it’s viewers if it decided to. Don’t conservatives realize that Glenn Beck laughs all the way to the bank on their dime!!?? IDIOTS! I love the golden calf reference. Colbert’s piece was awesome.
straitshooter says: Snipzor: Also the GOP states that anyone who supports the bill wants to kill old people, I do quite enjoy how you’ve forgotten that so quickly.”
Yes, I openly stated both sides use fear as a tactic.
Snipzor: “considering how revolting you were to Glynnis by the end of your post.”
Not revolting. I was merely stating the fact that she has sexual intercourse with strange men for money. I think that’s great. It’s an obvious career choice for a woman with no brain.
Snipzor says: @straitshooter
Which is exactly why you never mentioned the republicans use of fear tactics. Oh no, both sides are bad, vote republican. Give me a break.
straitshooter says: I plainly admitted both sides use fear tactics. That means BOTH Republicans and Democrats. How did I not mention Republicans? Are you and Glynnis in the same hooker union?
Snipzor says: You claim both sides use fear, but in the process you only mention one side explicitly with an example. I believe that is the “Both sides are bad, vote republican” argument, and you’ve pulled the obvious one. Also, if you ever want to say both sides are bad, don’t point out the flaws of one of the two, just in case you don’t want to look like an intellectually dishonest fool.
In the end, you still look like a fool for vulgar attacks on a person so it doesn’t matter.
hkyplayer wrote:
4. How about Hollywood who make movies that make the human race or just Americans as evil people like the new movie Avatar does.
Amen, bro! Check this out from the L.A. Times on May 26, 2004:
The liberal political action group MoveOn.org kicked off its efforts Monday, a few hours before “
The Day After Tomorrow’s” New York premiere at the Museum of Natural History (which was surrounded by fake snow for the event). In a neo-Gothic Universalist church a block away, 500 boisterous MoveOn members gathered for the global warming briefing-cum-pep rally.
Al Gore played both movie critic and science lecturer. He called the movie “extremely enjoyable and exciting — beyond the message.” Before launching into his humor-studded slide show about carbon dioxide and dwindling glaciers, the former vice president, who wrote the 1992 environmental tome “Earth in the Balance,” praised “the honest fiction of this movie.”
That, he said, came in contrast to the fiction of the “Bush White House story about global warming.” To loud applause, he also equated what some scientists say is a coming global warming crisis to the politics of the day. “We see the consequences of not looking ahead and planning ahead in Iraq,” Gore said.
Laurie David, who is a trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council and [was] married to TV actor and writer Larry David, took on the role of cheerleader for Hollywood. “We all know one disaster film is worth 1,000 environmental speeches,” she said. David expects the movie to be “the tipping point” in the debate over global warming and added, “I never thought I’d be uttering these words, but thank you, Fox [i.e. 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the movie].“
BTW: The Day After Tomorrow was written by Whitley Strieber — who claims to have been abducted by aliens — and Art Bell, late-night/early morning radio talkhost who delves into psychic phenomena, UFOs, and conspiracy theories. “Honest Fiction” my…
ChrisNH says: Which is worse: Beck advocating something he believes in, or Al Gore pushing a ‘Global Warming’ agenda from his cushy seat on a G-V? Colbert can’t be bothered with stuff that smells like garbage from HIS side of the aisle.
Given that gold didn’t really start taking off till maybe the end of 2005, shouldn’t these conservatives have been pushing gold before then? It doesn’t take much acumen to start telling people to buy something when the price has already risen to its highest price in forty years.
I’m not saying gold’s headed for a crash or even a decline, but I’d have far more respect for these gold pushers if they’d shown some evidence of spotting a trend before it’s obvious to everyone.
Ted says: ChrisNH – Here’s another deep thought. Which is worse, Rush Limbaugh picking his nose, or Glenn Beck eating what Rush Limbaugh picked from his nose?
By the way, Straitshooter – you are a complete asshole.
ChrisNH wrote:
Which is worse: Beck advocating something he believes in, or Al Gore pushing a ‘Global Warming’ agenda from his cushy seat on a G-V?
Here’s the evil genius of Al Gore-bbels’ scam: He’s already making enough money through his investments in Apple and Google to live as high on the hog as he wants, and when people point out his globetrotting, limo-riding, jet-flying, monster mansion pollution hypocrisy, he just says, “How dare you question my integrity. I buy carbon credits. I plant trees. Shaddup.”
If his dream of worldwide cap-and-trade and further punitive energy regulation come to fruition, he stands to make BILLIONS more. So while others around the world will lower their standard of living in order to minimize CO2 emissions, he will never lower HIS standard of living. More regulation, more “green” energy schemes, more moola for Gore, the more trees he plants, the more reason he has to say “shaddup.”
In short, Gore has set himself up to be one of George Orwell’s “animals [that] are more equal than others.”
Ted wrote:
ChrisNH – Here’s another deep thought. Which is worse, Rush Limbaugh picking his nose, or Glenn Beck eating what Rush Limbaugh picked from his nose?
By the way, Straitshooter – you are a complete asshole.
Yep, there’s that there intelligent debate that we knuckledraggin’ conservatives are incapable of.
Please, Ted, that didn’t even make it to ad hominem. Find something else to do. Isn’t there a Captain Underpants book you haven’t read yet?
Ted says: LNSmith – I’ve read all 6 volumes of Captain Underpants…and you are still a dumb ass.
straitshooter says: Ted, you’re just plain mean. I don’t see why you gotta get personal. I guess there is something chivalrous, however, in defending Glynnis’ honor, even if she would let you break it off sideways for $50 bucks and a ride across town.
Ted says: Straitshooter – I’m sure that must be an inside joke between you and LNSmithee. Enjoy.
Sage says: Really? 22 comments about who uses fear as a tool of persuasion? Really?
Dems and Reps have always used it and you look foolish when you try to call the other side out for it as if your side never does. How about we stop blindly defending our “side”? Stop hating Beck just because you think you’re supposed to. Stop attacking the “mainstream media” at every turn like they’re pure evil. Keeping us arguing over this piddly crap is what allows those in power (both sides) to maintain control over us.
J Baustian says: Three or four years ago, 75% of advertisements on the radio, and a significant percent on TV, were for mortgage brokers offering to refinance your home loan.
Did every host or anchor of every program that accepted such ads really endorse all the companies whose ads they broadcast? Of course not — there would be nothing to gain by changing lenders every month or so.
Now the big thing is gold, and I saw on Glenn Beck’s TV show that he now has, I think, three different advertisers for gold. They are paying his salary, they are paying him, he is not representing them.
Does Stephen Colbert even know what firms advertise on his Comedy Central show? Does he care? Does it matter?
Postscript: the plethora of gold advertisements is a contrary indicator. Now is a good time to sell gold, not to buy. It’s a bubble, and we all know what happens to bubbles.
ImNotBlue says: Snipzor says:
December 16, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Are you actually suggesting that by reporting on the success of the gold market currently, they’ve managed to drive up the price? How much power do you think they have?! Wow!
Vidiot says:
December 16, 2009 at 3:35 pm
And when did they start talking about gold? If you’re saying they weren’t talking about it then, you must know when they did start talking about it. Right?
straitshooter says:
December 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Ted’s tactic is to just be annoying. I don’t think he really has any political opinions… or if he does, why he believes one thing over another… just wants to be annoying… just trying to get attention. Odds are, when he’s not posting here, he’s posting over at YouTube… trying to pick fights with people to replace the love and attention he either doesn’t get now, or didn’t get as a child. Truth is, however, it’s a lot more sad than annoying.
ireenawagner says: Why is it that things like this can be said by and are accepted by one groupof people even repeated and laughed at. If those same things are said by another group, there are almost calls to war. Case in point if these products and ideas were said by a member of the fox group would you people still be laughing at the joke, I would I think it is very funny. Of course I also do not call for boycotts and bad things to happen to others who do not support or dissagree with me and my ideas.I quess you will always take lumps from those who do not get the joke!
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Fidoohki says: It’s desperation. Pure and simple. The left feels their control slipping and they need to stop
that so they are grasping at anything and everything to shut down opposing viewpoints. and
since Goldline is pretty much boycott proof they go this route.
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