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Gold Coin CEO Gushes To Eric Bolling ‘Fox Reporting On Occupy Wall Street Has Been Incredible!’

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This afternoon on Your World, fill-in host Eric Bolling spoke with Craig R. Smith, CEO of Swiss America, a gold coin firm, who raved about Fox News’ coverage of the Occupy Wall Street protests. “The Fox reporting on this has been incredible,” Smith enthused. “When you interviewed people down there, they cannot tell you why they are there, they can’t tell you what they want but they know they want to rage against the system and ‘the man’!”

Earlier in the segment, Bolling asked Smith about President Obama‘s speech, in which he said the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators were “giving voice to a more broad based frustration about how our financial system works.” The gold coin executive, who was not lighting cigars with a 100 dollar bill, said Obama’s speech was filled with “distortions, false promises and false choices” and chided the protestors for unfairly targeting the much-maligned fat cats on Wall Street. “They shouldn’t be mad at Wall Street, Wall Street creates jobs. It’s the president they should be mad at, he’s done everything he can to stunt job growth.”

Bolling then asked Smith what he thought when Occupy Wall Street protesters were trying to “do everything they could to crush capitalism?”

“I think it’s just a hangover from the 60′s. The people that did this in the 60′s are now selling the jobs on Wall Street making half a million a year so I find it kind of comical,” Smith chortled. Smith then applauded Fox News for their outstanding coverage showing how clueless the demonstrators were.

In this segment, Fox News can be proud to say they’re finally letting Wall Street tell their side of the story. The only thing missing from this clip is Bolling and Smith top hats, monocles and toasting champagne glasses.

Watch the interview below via Fox News:

(Update: Smith is no longer a columnist at WorldNetDaily, he left in August.)

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  • Anonymous

    It’s nice that the financial institutions have their own news organization.

  • Michelle

    And it’s nice the DNC has 99.99% of the media in their corner. 

  • Exgoper

    What must it be like to live in a carefully-constructed fantasy world where liberals are the enemy, the media hates America and only Roger Ailes tells the truth?

  • Cecelia

    Well, the WH has GE and Jeff Immelt.

  • Tedderman

    Since closing his one corrupt newspaper, how many more corrupt news outlets does Rupert Murdoch have left?  With the Wall Street Journal and New York Post alone, he’s constructed an echo machine that Fox re”lies” on daily.  Worldwide it must number in the hundreds.

  • Anonymous

    Fact: Barny Frank, Chris Dodd and Maxine Waters should be side by side with these morons since they all deserve each other. Pathetic!

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Too bad ‘The Occupiers don’t quite understand that Barack Obama sent $Trillions of American taxpayer dollars to American & European banks as well as to Wall Street. ‘The Occupiers should demand that Barack Obama return this money that could have gone to creating jobs for ‘The Occupiers.

  • Billy Sunday

    FOX NEWS likes to edit and their audience is too dumb to figure it out.

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    I’m part of the FOX News audience and know that Barack Hitler Obama pissed away $Trillions of dollars in American taxpayer money to Wall Street and ‘The Bankers and now ‘The Occupiers are jobless thanks to Obrainless. Obama took more money from Wall Street and the bankers than any other American Presidential candidate in history. Rick Santelli and The Tea Party predicted absolutely that this would happen. Read that again: Rick Santelli and The Tea Party warned Obama and he went ahead and sabotaged America. FOX is fair and balanced!

  • Anonymous

    This Yayhoo has no inkling of what the Occupy Wall Street(OWS) stands for. All he and the FOX-hole crowd want is to corner the market on Gold and Silver to strengthen their capital positions in the world! The Occupy Wall Street(OWS) showing their upset at the antics of the super-rich and Wall Street-ers who inexplicably reap benefits beyond the average man or woman. The corporate greed permeates through-out every mega firm who deals with “Derivatives” and other exclusive instruments just for banks or the super-rich! There is too much graft and under-the-table shenanigans in Washington and the corporate boardrooms!  Obama has had an uphill battle against this 112th Congress and no jobs legislation has been enacted! John Boehner must be doing drugs, because he’s forgotten the 112th Congress has done absolutely nothing to legislate jobs in America! Here he is trying to lay blame on Obama when his lame tactics scream prejudice and bigotry. The president is still governing with proposing the new Jobs act, still leading by authorizin­g the taking out of extremist like Osama Bin Ladin as well as authorizin­g assistance to the European Union to help remove Moammar Khaddafy while passing the great legislatio­n in last Congress. He’s done a magnificen­t job, especially since he has been constantly berated and criticized for everything he has done. The president authorized the number two leader of Al Qaeda, Atiyah abd al-Rahman, to be killed on August 22 in Pakistan, a senior U.S. official said. There have been 3 or 4 more high level hits authorized to cut the head off of this scourge to the Middle East! Leadership is the president’­s! Unmanned drones are used more often to exact retributio­n for the damages done to our country and service personnel!  

  • Moosenuts99

    You DO KNOw Bush bailed out the banks…

    Wait, it looks like you don’t…

  • Moosenuts99

    “I love Fox’s coverage! I love how you guys selectively edit which protestors we see on tv and leave the intelligent people off the air as proven by multiple YouTube clips!”

  • Moosenuts99

    WOW

    CHeck out the pictures coming in from PDX

    The demonstration there is HUGE

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    Moose does not understand that Bush STARTED the bailout, a very small percentage. The floodgates started under President* Barack (I’m a dumbfuck and don’t you know it!) Obama. Something to the tune of 20 $Trillion.

    *The first President to try and destroy the country and then booted to the curb like the scum that he is.

  • ASAP

    Here is a fact you don’t get on Fox, Bush bailed out the banks.  BUSH and Bernanke, who is a Republican.  Turn Fox off, and read something that is not biased, because you sound like a complete moron. 

  • Moosenuts99

    Good thing the corporations have USEFUL IDIOTS like yourself

    Corporations are not looking out for you

  • Silverado

     Joe “Nobody messes with Joe” Biden said the wall street occupation has a lot in common with the Tea Party because of their anger toward the stimulus bailouts.
     
    http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/biden-wall-street-protesters-lot-common-tea-party-174258972.html
     
     
    He’s got a point.
     
    The Tea Party movement was born out of Obama’s secretive over-spending on firms that Democrats determined were too big to fail.
     
    I, for one,  am puzzled that the media hasn’t made that detail more clear.
     
     At what point in the realm  of investigative journalism does a prime time reporter make the point  that their methodologies of protest is where their similarity ends?
     

  • Silverado

    Like the Tea Partier  at an event that was shown with a gun slung over his shoulder and used to scare people into believing the were out to kill Blacks, only it turns out that the film was edited to hide the fact that the Tea Partier was Black?

  • Anonymous

    Remember “fair and balanced”, plus free airtime and controled edits!

  • Nancillarypeloslinton

    ASAP and Moose need to get a room together and have yourselves a Merry Little Obama-Gargle-In! Heh! Stop watchin’ the Rev. Big Al “The Fat Scum” Sharpton, studies show he’ll turn somebody normal into an Obamaddict. You poor slaves! LMFAO! Heheheheheheheheheh!

  • Anonymous

    Not this again

  • Exgoper

    “The Tea Party movement was born out of Obama’s secretive over-spending on firms that Democrats determined were too big to fail.”

    If that’s true, then why the f**k did tea partiers sit on their hands for eight years while Bush put unfunded tax cuts, a massive prescription drug program and two wars on the nation’s credit card?

  • Exgoper

    How do you edit film to make a tea partier not look black? I saw that video and remember it well and it was quite clear to me the guy was black.

  • Bal

    wow!!! How old are you? 9? This has to be satire. You poor slaves? lol i love the lack of self perspective. However, partisan hacks never really had any, did they? 

  • Rounder71

    Please don’t encourage Nancillary to educate herself – the “Fair and Balanced” Foxtards continue to provide non stop free entertainment in these forums and for that I thank them!

  • Rounder71

    How did they find any one individual at that event.  Wading through a pool of endless blubber can’t be easy!

  • Anonymous

    Except for Bollings claim that the protestors are calling for the ‘crushing of capitalism’, there was not one word that I would characterize as inaccurate in this interview

  • Billy Sunday

    Thanks for proving my point!!!!  You conveniently left Bush out of the equation just like FOX does.  You couldn’t think for yourself so you repeat the same b.s. they say over and over again “fair and balanced” my ass! Hypnotism is the power of suggestion repeated over and over again.  The weak minded like you have no chance.   

  • Stevor

    Exactly. A  lot of these “protesters” are akin to a beauty queen want “peace on earth”. They get warm fuzzies at some vague thought but have no clue of what they want in the end and a way to get there (except for the “end the fed” folks, who are RIGH ON!)

  • Anonymous

    You don’t know why they are there but they do know why
    they are there.-

    When you have the number one and/or number two largest
    private held companies in America acting as a single person, as Hitler did,
    trying to make policy for the entire United States of America’s citizens to
    live by, you lost your Democracy and are entering a Dictatorship by Corporation
    Owners’. This is how Hitler got his start. Everyone who helped them was taken
    care of financially. Is this what we want?

    Profits has become like drugs, Billionaires just can’t
    seem to get enough. They are sick and getting sicker.
    When powerful numbers of mentally unstable people, intoxicated from any
    substance, whether it be money, drugs or alcohol, organize to belittle, berate,
    (as in lowering the credit rating), bring down Our Federal Government in any
    way, I find it Treasonous.
    If Wall Street and the Billionaires are only Financial Crooks that is bad news,
    if Wall Street and the Billionaires are a new group with a Master Plan to
    convert Our Democratic Government into a Communist type Industrial Government,
    (similar to what took place, when Paul Revere shouted the British are coming.),
    where some are Very Rich and the remainder are Very Poor as Communist China is,
    we will throw the bums out. The more they unveil their true feelings and
    ambitions, the quicker we will know. In my life time, I have never seen
    Industry badmouth and bully our Government so much, since many parts of our
    industry as a whole are responsible for the financial debacle we’ve
    experienced.
    Osama bin Laden, in his early days, said he will break America Financially. I
    do not condone this; I am only pointing out a threat from years ago.
    Billionaires through greed and ignoring the signs of which put us in the
    financial ditch, have come out of the ditch as the Richest people on earth, at
    the same time using their Bully Tactics on Politicians to get even richer,
    which is actually helping Osama bin Laden’s cause, even after his death. Osama
    bin Laden’s plan of breaking America by causing us to go to war, (which much of
    these expenses were never truthfully revealed and were hidden in ridicules
    categories, where much was stolen.), also think about the hyperinflation
    brought about by producing war machine products which are a total loss because
    of the war, not to mention the domestic economy which was triggered by the hype
    of the war machine. Maybe the war machine causes the real trickledown economics
    President Regan talked so much about. Profiteers in the domestic economy made
    Billions while the working class made barely enough to pay their living
    expenses and now there are under attack by the Billionaires demanding they
    compete with Foreign Slave Labor. The only way American workers can compete
    with China’s Labor is for America to form a Government like China. Is this why
    Industry want America to be a smaller Government? Is industry really Communist
    in disguise? Wow! That is scary but that is where all their actions are
    pointing. I believe I just discovered who the real Communist is in America.
    Maybe that is why they keep point and saying we liberals are heading for
    Socialism and Communism. Maybe that is why Real Business People hide behind
    others they pay big money too. That is the way it works in China. They are
    afraid the truth will come out. Well, in my mind the Truth is out. In China
    there are the very rich and the very poor. That is true Communism, and I think
    Industry is heading America in that direction. We may be too close to save
    ourselves. Industry hates Our Government; they say it is too big, they want to
    make Our Government Much Smaller, Maybe so they can take it over without much
    force. Everyone better vote for Obama or get ready to become a Communist
    Industrialist Country. Remember Industry is the one who likes the communist,
    not the Middle Class. They love them, they love doing business with them. They
    want the Middle Class at the same level as the Slave Labor of China. This is
    sad and should not be tolerated.

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