Tony and Huma Weiner’s favorite site .

The DA’s office has stated that “Glenn Beck has nothing to do with our investigation.”

Rick shows he is a liar again.

I would LOVE to get a libs opinion on this:

SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure

Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.

The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from “surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.” Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot.

That argument comes despite the President saying that one of the cornerstones of the sweeping new legislation was more transparent financial markets. Indeed, in touting the new law, Obama specifically said it would “increase transparency in financial dealings.”

The SEC cited the new law Tuesday in a FOIA action brought by FOX Business Network. Steven Mintz, founding partner of law firm Mintz & Gold LLC in New York, lamented what he described as “the backroom deal that was cut between Congress and the SEC to keep the SEC’s failures secret. The only losers here are the American public.”

Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/07/28/sec-says-new-finreg-law-exempts-public-disclosure/

Are you at all bothered by how UNtransparent this admin is? Or perhaps nothing he does bothers you a bit.

I find it surprising that grown adults make word plays on someone’s name, as if we’re all fifth graders. You know, “har har his last name is Weiner. How hilarious”.

Regarding the article – well, companies that flagrantly take advantage of people are usually taken to task. Not news, but in this case, very relevant. I hope they have to pay back what they essentially stole and then some.

Some Dude, aren’t you convicting Goldline BEFORE the trial? You are taking Weiner’s word on this. Perhaps you should visit Weiner Facts, where Beck breaks down piece by piece where Weiner is wrong.

MichelleF said:
I would LOVE to get a libs opinion on this: SEC Says New FinReg Law Exempts It From Public Disclosure Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week by President Obama, exempts the SEC from disclosing records or information derived from “surveillance, risk assessments, or other regulatory and oversight activities.” Given that the SEC is a regulatory body, the provision covers almost every action by the agency, lawyers say. Congress and federal agencies can request information, but the public cannot. That argument comes despite the President saying that one of the cornerstones of the sweeping new legislation was more transparent financial markets. Indeed, in touting the new law, Obama specifically said it would “increase transparency in financial dealings.” The SEC cited the new law Tuesday in a FOIA action brought by FOX Business Network. Steven Mintz, founding partner of law firm Mintz & Gold LLC in New York, lamented what he described as “the backroom deal that was cut between Congress and the SEC to keep the SEC’s failures secret. The only losers here are the American public.” Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2010/07/28/sec-says-new-finreg-law-exempts-public-disclosure/ Are you at all bothered by how UNtransparent this admin is? Or perhaps nothing he does bothers you a bit.

Yes, I am bothered. I am bothered by each and every Administration, from Raygun to Poppy to W to President Obama which secrets information.

However, this is not the topic at hand. Might I suggest you read the topics posted, then begin Googling Rightist Rags? It just doesn’t work very well for you to Google Rightist Rags then find an inappropriate place to insert the lies you have found.

No need for thanks. I consider it a service to my fellow posters.

FOX NEWS AND BREITBART
WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

MichelleF said:
Some Dude, aren’t you convicting Goldline BEFORE the trial? You are taking Weiner’s word on this. Perhaps you should visit Weiner Facts, where Beck breaks down piece by piece where Weiner is wrong.

We all know that to be an unimpeachable source. Desperate to keep one of his few remaining sponsors, the Beckerhead would make up anything, cry about, then cry when he’s caught.

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WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

Some_Dude said:
I find it surprising that grown adults make word plays on someone’s name, as if we’re all fifth graders. You know, “har har his last name is Weiner. How hilarious”. Regarding the article – well, companies that flagrantly take advantage of people are usually taken to task. Not news, but in this case, very relevant. I hope they have to pay back what they essentially stole and then some.

Well, we all know Glen(n) is witty. About as witty as a boy in a Junior High lockerroom.

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WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

The Real Royal King said:
Regarding the article – well, companies that flagrantly take advantage of people are usually taken to task. Not news, but in this case, very relevant.

How is that relevant in this case?

That’s weird. That’s a Some_Dude quote, not a TRRK quote.

Desperate to keep one of his few remaining sponsors, the Beckerhead would make up anything, cry about, then cry when he’s caught.

You wouldn’t care to challenge any of his facts, then? I know, call him a racist now!

Pablo said:
That’s weird. That’s a Some_Dude quote, not a TRRK quote.

Operator error.

I accept your apology.

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MichelleF said:
Some Dude, aren’t you convicting Goldline BEFORE the trial? You are taking Weiner’s word on this. Perhaps you should visit Weiner Facts, where Beck breaks down piece by piece where Weiner is wrong.

I just know that they’re selling investment products at marked up rates, to people in a highly suggestible state.

Regarding Beck’s supposed facts: I won’t look to a person that is sponsored by them for information regarding the integrity of their practices. That’s like agreeing to a scientific study regarding homeopathic medicine commissioned by a company that sells homeopathic “treatments”.

I like you. A lot actually. So I will suggest that you read a book titled “The Demon Haunted World” by the late Carl Sagan. It is a brilliant collection of essays regarding skeptical thinking. I am not trying to be a smart ass, but I think you could use it.

The Real Royal King said:
Regarding the article – well, companies that flagrantly take advantage of people are usually taken to task. Not news, but in this case, very relevant.

How is that relevant in this case?

To provide for someones’s needs is called business. Because I can’t go to China to purchase products, I gladly pay Wal-Mart to do that for me. Sometimes Meijer is cheaper but I can’t hate Wal-Mart because I did not have time to do comparison shopping.

No gold . Put two thirds of your money in Weiner futures .

Regarding Beck’s supposed facts: I won’t look to a person that is sponsored by them for information regarding the integrity of their practices. That’s like agreeing to a scientific study regarding homeopathic medicine commissioned by a company that sells homeopathic “treatments”.

Dude, I’m not saying take his word for it, I’m saying read his defense and decide for yourself who’s right.

Some_Dude said:
people in a highly suggestible state.

I would say that is the state in which all Glen(n)’s viewers live.

Some_Dude said:
Regarding Beck’s supposed facts: I won’t look to a person that is sponsored by them for information regarding the integrity of their practices. That’s like agreeing to a scientific study regarding homeopathic medicine commissioned by a company that sells homeopathic “treatments”.

A very well presented point.

Some_Dude said:
So I will suggest that you read a book titled “The Demon Haunted World” by the late Carl Sagan. It is a brilliant collection of essays regarding skeptical thinking.

A good book for all of us. I am so glad you reminded me of that. It’s been years since I read it.

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WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

TRRK & some-dude

Frankly find Beck and revisionist history lessons to be quite entertaining as far as comedy goes-as a self proclaimed rodeo clown I never take a single word he says seriously-Beck unlike Limbaugh considers himself an entertainer. I used to watch his show on CNN when nobody else was and he was just a riot with all his crying and over the top conspiraciy theories. This week is awesome because he’s spending most of his time talking about the Weather underground in full blown fit of Ayers Dorn terits!!

Now about all this gold nonsense-He is not the first conservative pundit to rely on gold sale ad revenue. Gold sales have been the purview of the wingnut right since time began Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy etc all have been on the gold bandwagon without a peep so this whole line of attack on Beck is not only a waste of everybody’s time. Its clear that this is nothing more than a stunt to play gotcha games with beck because he is the pundit of the apocolypse-remeber how right when health care was passed he said it was worse than 9-11-

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/conservative-radio-host-health-care-passage-do-damage-911/

I mean where can you go after that right? The point is sane people and especially the WH should realize that Beck ultimately will be more of a threat to Republcians when he starts imprinting his litmus tests onthe GOP candidates in 2012.

Moderate said:
The Real Royal King said:Regarding the article – well, companies that flagrantly take advantage of people are usually taken to task. Not news, but in this case, very relevant. How is that relevant in this case? To provide for someones’s needs is called business. Because I can’t go to China to purchase products, I gladly pay Wal-Mart to do that for me. Sometimes Meijer is cheaper but I can’t hate Wal-Mart because I did not have time to do comparison shopping.

Actually, I never said that, Michelle-in-Utah, as note by an unimpeachable source above.

Moderate said:
To provide for someones’s needs is called business.

I’m not sure Senator Vitter is relevant in this thread.

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WHERE LYING’S AN ART!

MichelleF said:
Regarding Beck’s supposed facts: I won’t look to a person that is sponsored by them for information regarding the integrity of their practices. That’s like agreeing to a scientific study regarding homeopathic medicine commissioned by a company that sells homeopathic “treatments”.

Dude, I’m not saying take his word for it, I’m saying read his defense and decide for yourself who’s right.

Ok, I’ll give it a read. But please refer to the rest of my post. I think you’re being mislead.

The Real Royal King said:
A good book for all of us. I am so glad you reminded me of that. It’s been years since I read it.

It really should be given away for free. Regardless of beliefs, it’s a lesson in critical thinking.

Bootleghaircut said:
TRRK & some-dude Frankly find Beck and revisionist history lessons to be quite entertaining as far as comedy goes-as a self proclaimed rodeo clown I never take a single word he says seriously-Beck unlike Limbaugh considers himself an entertainer. I used to watch his show on CNN when nobody else was and he was just a riot with all his crying and over the top conspiraciy theories. This week is awesome because he’s spending most of his time talking about the Weather underground in full blown fit of Ayers Dorn terits!! Now about all this gold nonsense-He is not the first conservative pundit to rely on gold sale ad revenue. Gold sales have been the purview of the wingnut right since time began Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy etc all have been on the gold bandwagon without a peep so this whole line of attack on Beck is not only a waste of everybody’s time. Its clear that this is nothing more than a stunt to play gotcha games with beck because he is the pundit of the apocolypse-remeber how right when health care was passed he said it was worse than 9-11- http://rawstory.com/2010/03/conservative-radio-host-health-care-passage-do-damage-911/ I mean where can you go after that right? The point is sane people and especially the WH should realize that Beck ultimately will be more of a threat to Republcians when he starts imprinting his litmus tests onthe GOP candidates in 2012.

A very good post, with a sound conclusion about the Beckerhead harming Republicans. Republicans certainly think that Lard Limbaugh has harmed them (whilst at the same time helping them in some areas). If anything, I think the Beckerhead is a larger threat because his ideas come in less offensive packaging whilst being as toxic or even more toxic than Limabugh’s.

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“To provide for someones’s needs is called business.”

I guess I should have said legal needs, as in the case of John Edwards. No wait Edwards was paying her with campaign funds.

“I think the Beckerhead is a larger threat because his ideas come in less offensive packaging whilst being as toxic or even more toxic than Limabugh’s.”

Beck is a threeat to the GOP because he is a LIBERTARIAN MORMON who in the last election backed Mitt Romney.

The red meat eaters love it when he bashes Obama but they do not in anyway want libertarians running the GOP-just ask Boehner or McConnell-they’ll tell you.

I spent a LOT OF TIME at the conservative website townhall duringthe 2008 primary and I can tell you that evangelicals are just batshit mean when it comes to dissing mormons-I remember Beck being very upset when they forced Mitt Romney to give a non-speech about his religion-a speech that basically cost him every single evangelical vote and shifted the tide to Huckabee because he wouldn’t address their insane questions about the tenements of his faith. If romney is anywhere near the 2012 election I promise you it will be another bloodbath with evangeical social conservative excommunicating moderates, mormons, and mainstream thinkers who don’t care about a candidate religion but rather his capacity to get the job done.

SomeDude says:

Ok, I’ll give it a read. But please refer to the rest of my post. I think you’re being mislead.

I will read it, but you do realize you saying I’m being mislead because I am of a certain opinion, is a little condescending on your part, right? Just because you don’t happen to agree with me, doesn’t mean that I’M the one being misled. The fact that King agrees with you, would be enough to make me rethink things, if i were you. Just saying. But, you are much more pleasant to converse with.

The King is upset because no matter how much he ‘bleats and moans’, there are successful people out there who don’t share his extreme far left ideology. He’d like for such people to be silenced, but despite all his crying and sobbing, it just doesn’t seem to happen.

MichelleF said:
SomeDude says:

Ok, I’ll give it a read. But please refer to the rest of my post. I think you’re being mislead.

I will read it, but you do realize you saying I’m being mislead because I am of a certain opinion, is a little condescending on your part, right? .

No, please don’t misunderstand me. That it definitely not where I am coming from.

Some_Dude said:
I just know that they’re selling investment products at marked up rates, to people in a highly suggestible state.

Say what?!?

Weiner should investigate John F. Ketchup’s yacht tax dodge . If you don’t owe it , don’t pay it , John . … Oh , John , why the long face ?

Some_Dude said:
I just know that they’re selling investment products at marked up rates, to people in a highly suggestible state.

How do you know they are in a “highly suggestible state?”

You don’t have to buy gold through Goldline. You can buy gold through ETFs or buy gold companies through direct purchase of their stock or through mutual funds.

And guess who else hawks gold?

Ed Schultz , Randi Rhodes, and Stephanie Miller- all libs!

http://nickrizzuto.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/surprise-libtalker-randi-rhodes-advertises-gold/

Great Goldline feature from Goldline here:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/goldline-congress-grill-gold-dealer-glenn-beck-sponsor/story?id=11205624

Beck knows full well he is ripping off his older viewers at Fox.

This is really shameful. They upsell and old Fox viewers (most of the networks viewers) get duped.

Not sure how Beck sleeps at night.

Then again, no mainstream will advertise on his show.

That’s right, teabaggers, you are so far outside of the mainstream Proctor & Gamble won’t touch Beck’s lies and racism with a ten foot pole.

Wake up.

Beck is lies and fringe.

Mother Jones magazine is covering this story too. http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/07/goldline-finally-under-investigation

Beck is a liar, a hypocrite, a megalomaniac, a charlatan and a yellow propagandist.
Oh, he’s also a mean-spirited prick.

See the interview on my blog with Alex Zaitchik, author of Common Nonsense.

Weiner report: Goldline was fined by the State of Missouri.

Goldline reponse: Goldline was never fined. Goldline agreed to repurchase certain items from a customer. Goldline also agree to pay investigation costs and to contribute to an investor education fund. The total amount paid by Goldline to Missouri was less than the civil penalty imposed against Congressman Weiner for his Federal Election Commission violations.

WeinerFacts notes: Other than the previously discussed incorrect message board claims, this was the extent of the problems discussed in the Weiner report. Inaccurate information about one customer in Missouri, that Goldline rectified. The last part is worth repeating however: “The total amount paid by Goldline to Missouri was less than the civil penalty imposed against Congressman Weiner for his Federal Election Commission violations.”

Heh.

notsofast says: How do you know they are in a “highly suggestible state?”

One must assume that you have never watched The Glans Beck Show. He does everything in his awesome, persuasive power to convince his hypnotized viewers that the economic feces is about to hit the fan, and then breaks for commercial, almost always a gold commercial comes on first.

How many lies does he have to tell before the Beckerheads realize it? Moot question: they have been brainwashed repeatedly by Beck that he tells the truth, so it must be true (ever if he’s the most dishonest person on TV news.)

Goldline rips their customers off; Beck blames Weiner for pointing it out.

That makes sense (when you understand Beck). For Beck, up is down, backward is forward, lies are truth, charlatan is thinker, megalomaniac is “man of God…or maybe God.”

Monday, Beck ignored that nation’s biggest story by for to pontificate about choice…as if he believes in choice.

Earth to Glenn Beck; Wikileaks info would help you criticize the Administration honestly. Oh, honestly. That’s why he ignored that story: he prefers dishonest attacks.

Let me ask, who, besides racists, race-baits? Anyone?

GlennBeckReview said:
One must assume that you have never watched The Glans Beck Show. He does everything in his awesome, persuasive power to convince his hypnotized viewers that the economic feces is about to hit the fan, and then breaks for commercial, almost always a gold commercial comes on first

Yes, I guess everyone is as suggestive as you apparently are. We are bombarded by hundreds of ads everyday, but his is the only one that people are gullible to?

And guess who else hawks gold?

Ed Schultz , Randi Rhodes, and Stephanie Miller- all libs!

http://nickrizzuto.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/surprise-libtalker-randi-rhodes-advertises-gold/

The Real Royal King says:
July 28, 2010 at 11:17 am The Real Royal King

Well, we all know Glen(n) is witty. About as witty as a boy in a Junior High lockerroom.

What does that make you?

Did you use the names: “Raygun” and “Poppy” to describe two former Presidents?

I guess you’d put yourself in that locker-room too, right?

Some_Dude says:
July 28, 2010 at 11:24 am Some_Dude

I just know that they’re selling investment products at marked up rates, to people in a highly suggestible state.

I agree. That’s why the government needs to better monitor a whole number of business, like:

Restaurants that sell to hungry people
Supermarkets that sell to thirsty people
Gas stations that sell to people who need gas
Clothing stores who sell to people who are cold
Book stores who sell to people who like to read

And so on. All those people are in “highly suggestible states,” because of what they like and what they want… so people who provide the service or product need to be punished… I mean, monitored. That way, nobody makes a profit.

Wait, what?

Bootleghaircut says:
July 28, 2010 at 11:34 am

Now about all this gold nonsense-He is not the first conservative pundit to rely on gold sale ad revenue. Gold sales have been the purview of the wingnut right since time began Limbaugh, Hannity, Liddy etc all have been on the gold bandwagon without a peep so this whole line of attack on Beck is not only a waste of everybody’s time.

Rectify this for us: Surprise! Libtalker Randi Rhodes Advertises Gold. UPDATE: So do Ed Schultz and Stephanie Miller

Does that show:
a) You don’t know what you’re talking about
b) You’re a partisan
c) You’re a hypocrite
d) All of the above

PS- There is a correct answer.

PPS- It’s “d”

Bootleghaircut says:
July 28, 2010 at 11:48 am

Beck is a threeat to the GOP because he is a LIBERTARIAN MORMON who in the last election backed Mitt Romney.

Looks like someone is attacking a person based on his religion! WOW!

Wasn’t it you who just last night complained that people on the right do that? WOW!

Paaaaaah-thetic.

shootfromthehip says:
July 28, 2010 at 1:15 pm

Do you say the same about Schultz, Rhodes, and Miller?

Beck is a threeat to the GOP because he is a LIBERTARIAN MORMON who in the last election backed Mitt Romney.

He did? When? Quote, please.

GlennBeckReview said:
Goldline rips their customers off; Beck blames Weiner for pointing it out.

No, Beck absolutely demolished Weiner’s claims, point by point by point. Either argue the facts or just keep spewing ignorant lies. It’s your choice, but if you’d like to stop being the Biggest Loser on the Internet, I’d go with the former.

GlennBeckReview said:
Let me ask, who, besides racists, race-baits? Anyone?

Democrats, all of them. Wait, do they qualify as “beside racusts?”

Don’t go chasing Weinerfacts, stick to the hotdogs and the franks that you’re used to…

Weiners are very sensitive. Weiners should be handled with care….. (gently) embrace a Weiner near you today!

Pablo says: “No, Beck absolutely demolished Weiner’s claims, point by point by point.”

Earth calling Pablo, nothing Beck says can be believed. NOTHING, not because it’s all lies but because he synthesizes facts with fiction. (He call that “faction,” a word already in use.) He synthesized the mainstream with the extreme.

You believe him and defend him because you have no skepticism, no self-doubts, no concern with facts, just a belief that he is right, thus Weiner is wrong. Did you read the Mother Jones article I pointed to?

Why do Beck’s supporters ignored the facts and just dig their heels in deeply?
http://www.examiner.com/x-55810-Syracuse-Progressive-Examiner~y2010m7d15-Becks-lies-and-the-people-who-believe-them?

Pablo says: “Democrats, all of them.”

Now that the partisan veil has been lifted, tell us who. What Democrat has race baited? Name names and give specific examples. How has this President race-baited?

Just for openers, the company is “under investigation”; that is not tantamount to guilt. A biased or politically motivated charge is also possible here.

This has become a stunning example of circular logic. We hear the LA DA office come out with charges against Goldline, and the first defense is, “This is not about Glenn Beck!”

The next thing you hear from opponents is that, “Glenn Beck won’t answer the charges!”

Then when it is shown he makes point-by-point answer to those charges on weinerfacts.com the response is:
@SomeDude -Regarding Beck’s supposed facts: I won’t look to a person that is sponsored by them for information regarding the integrity of their practices.
@RealRoyalKing – Desperate to keep one of his few remaining sponsors, the Beckerhead would make up anything.
@GlennBeckReview – Nothing Beck says can be believed. NOTHING.

I would love to know how he is supposed to answer charges about his advertiser without defending his advertiser, or why he is demanded to respond when his response is not even listened to and disregarded outright?

Anyway, I don’t buy gold because Glenn said to, I buy it because Ed Shultz, and Randi Rhodes said I should.

GBR, your shameless, constant plugging of your blog is sad.

Really! Who cares if a bunch of rich bastards buy gold from Goldline and are taken for a ride??? What Wieners has a problem with, is not being able to figure out how to relieve someone of their money like this!!!

I’m not sure what the Left gains by focusing so much attention on this issue. Since Obama got elected, gold has gone up 60% in value. So Glenn Beck looks pretty smart for recommending that people buy gold. It’s folks like Olbermann, Maddow and Matthew that look foolish for their confidence predictions of stimulus that never stimulated anything, except the pocket books of Washington D.C. lobbyists.

The bottom line: Under Obama, you may have lost your job and your house may be underwater, but Beck’s projections about gold have been absolutely spot on. In general, you can go to a Democrat if you want help spending money, but if you are interested in making money, find a conservative. At least they understand how the economy really works.

This website is a media game. The writers/editors throw out all this red meat and you internet potatoes go feasting. The headline here. “Rich Sanchez confirms Glenn Beck’s Weinerfacts.com still going strong” was, II thought going to be a really juicy blog having to do with Beck’s weiner, and that, maybe, it was a battle about its size, but, no it was about the Goldline scam that Beck and Fox have been running. So many of you rightwing dupes have been told that gold is the only real security we have, etc. Just more fear mongering as the price of gold begins to slide. What makes you Repugs keep defending the indefensible?

“ImNotBlue”

I’ve only heard Goldline on Randi’s show. Haven’t heard their ads on Ed’s show.

But yes, I’ll say the same thing to Randi Rhodes or any other talker who let’s these ads on the air: STOP IT.

You are defrauding your elderly listeners.

So many of you rightwing dupes have been told that gold is the only real security we have, etc. Just more fear mongering as the price of gold begins to slide. What makes you Repugs keep defending the indefensible?

It’s the math. Oh, that makes it quite defensible doesn’t it?

Gold has gone nowhere but up for years. China is bulking up on gold. George Soros just doubled down on gold (while telling you to stay away from it).

The fact that you hate Glenn Beck does not pertain to the gold market. Glenn Beck does not influence the gold market. I could go on, but lots of big players are buying gold. There’s a reason for that, and it applies to small players too. It is decidedly not because they like being defrauded.

felixw said:
The bottom line: Under Obama, you may have lost your job and your house may be underwater, but Beck’s projections about gold have been absolutely spot on.

I’m going to argue with that to the extent that he hasn’t made any projections about what gold would do. His line is always “I don’t know what it will do. Might go up, might go down, will probably do both. I don’t buy it as an investment, I buy it as insurance and a hedge against inflation.”

That said, I suspect he’s still buying, and your larger point holds.

GlennBeckReview said:
How has this President race-baited?

Here you go.

That’s just one. I’ve got a million of them. But I don’t have time to link them for The Biggest Loser on the Internet. You can waste your life, my friend, but you aren’t going to waste mine.

MartiniShark said:
I would love to know how he is supposed to answer charges about his advertiser without defending his advertiser, or why he is demanded to respond when his response is not even listened to and disregarded outright?

MartiniShark, you have a call from Mr. Kafka on line one. ;)

Weiner: I defy Glenn Beck to refute the premise of the report.

Glenn Beck: *thoroughly demolishes the premise of the report, everything else in the report, its authors and the paper it’s written on.*

Blind Moonbats: It’s still all true! He’s Glenn Beck! He can’t possibly be right!

What on God’s Earth is a sitting Congressman doing using the power of his office to pursue this smear of a very reputable company because they don’t like one of their advertisers, and the company won’t quit that advertiser, despite no less than 4 Presidential advisers running boycotts against him?

Mr Abrams, do you have anyone around here with a nose for news?

GlennBeckReview says:
July 28, 2010 at 3:45 pm

Earth calling Pablo, nothing Beck says can be believed.

This is essentially the summation of everything GBR says (that and, “look at my site, help my numbers”). If Beck says it… he disagrees. It has nothing to do with facts or evidence, or reality… it’s just that GBR really really hates Beck, so everything he does it wrong.

It’s kinda sad when you think about it. So consume with hate…

ganymede says:
July 28, 2010 at 7:14 pm

So many of you rightwing dupes have been told that gold is the only real security we have, etc. Just more fear mongering as the price of gold begins to slide. What makes you Repugs keep defending the indefensible?

Ed Schultz and Rhandi Rhodes and Stephanie Miller. Either address their selling of gold… or admit it’s all about political affiliation, not about principle.

shootfromthehip says:
July 28, 2010 at 7:42 pm

I did provide you a link that shows the others, and their gold sponsorship.

Is your argument really against “gold” as a tradable item? Really?

ImNotBlue said:
Is your argument really against “gold” as a tradable item? Really?

INB, he probably believes that ObamaCare is fiscally sound policy. Because Obama said so. I wouldn’t have much in the way of sensible economic expectations when it comes to shootfromthehip.

“Is your argument really against “gold” as a tradable item? Really?”

No, Blue, my argument is that the company is clearly not reputable and they upsell and flat out sell people things they don’t need as a “side” sale.

That is borderline fraud.

Let me put it to you this way: how would you feel if someone elderly in your family, perhaps with a disease, was listening to Beck, or Rhodes, and got all paranoid and then got sweet talked by a 25-year-old sales rep in Santa Monica out of $30,000 while on the phone?

@shoot

How are these accusations held up as examples without any cases? If they are “clearly not reputable” as you charge, and we hear Weiner saying the company engages in these practices, why is there no class-action suit against them, and very few actual complaints from customers? I also have never heard a single commercial where they push for your “grandma’s life savings” scenario, instead they encourage to make gold a part of your portfolio, not to sink all your cash in one investment.

You want this to be a boiler-room scam company, but Gold Line has answered by pointing out they have an A+ Rating from the Better Business Bureau. Weiner of course has answered that by alleging – baselessly – that it is the result of corruption at the BBB. It still does nothing to prove his allegations of defrauded investors.

Weiner himself has shown his abject ignorance on this subject. In one of his charges he declares that it is wrong for coins to be sold at a price beyond the value of the gold contained in that coin. As an example, a one troy ounce coin minted in 1900 should not be priced above today’s spot gold price, regardless of its inherent value as a century old piece. So a coin from 1900 should be the same a s a coin minted this year. This is such blatant ignorance of the collectible market that it should invalidate any of his other charges.

ImNotBlue says: “This is essentially the summation of everything GBR says (that and, “look at my site, help my numbers”). If Beck says it… he disagrees.”

Absolutely not true. If you had read my work, you’d know not to write anything this ignorant.

Try reading, “Sometimes Glenn Beck is right on the mark.” http://wwww.examiner.com/x-55810-Syracuse-Progressive-Examiner~y2010m7d20-Sometimes-Beck-is-right-on-the-mark

He was on the mark…and 6 MONTHS late on his knowledge!

ImNotBlue: 1) I don’t know my blog stats. If Blogger makes them available, I haven’t found them yet.

2) Far more important: you’re criticizing ME for promoting my criticism of Beck, a yellow propagandist who is a MASTER of self-promotion.

How does one spell double standards? I-m-N-o-t-B-l-u-e

shootfromthehip said:
No, Blue, my argument is that the company is clearly not reputable

Then explain their A+ Better Business Bureau rating. That marks them as clearly being very reputable, as opposed to the unsupported allegations of a deeply partisan Congressman who’s too stupid to realize that a collectible gold coin is worth (gasp!) more than the value of the gold it was made with, and finds selling such coins despicable, but only when done by Glenn Beck sponsors.