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Keith Olbermann And Rep. Anthony Weiner Go After Glenn Beck And Goldline

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New York Congressman Anthony Weiner sounded the war drums against Glenn Beck and other conservative talk radio hosts this morning by releasing a report accusing prominent advertiser Goldline of “ripping off” its customers. Beck’s reaction this morning was a reminder to his audience of two previous organized boycotts on his show and making references to McCarthyism, and tonight, Keith Olbermann invited Weiner over to respond.

Weiner described buying gold from Goldline specifically as a “bad deal,” and took ethical issues with the lack of disclosures in their advertising. “I never intended this to be a battle of wits with Glenn Beck,” he joked, adding that he didn’t think Beck had many wits to battle with. Where Beck comes in, he explained, is that “many take the rhetorical excesses of Glenn Beck… and then go to the advertisers to get ripped off.” He made an analogy to a doctor on a health program selling soda: “If you are watching a TV show dedicated to health, and someone says you should drink as much soda as you can, and then the same guy is advocating for” a soda company, he added, that would be unethical.

Asked where the “crime” is in Goldline’s advertising, as opposed to simple ethical issues, he noted that there is little Congress can do against hosts without infringing on free speech, but he would like to write legislation that forces companies to make their disclosures “much clearer.”

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  • TROLLING4LIBS

     MSNBC is not valid as a source of anything but gas, and Olbermann is a piss-stained loon standing under a flickering streetlamp spouting greasy gouts of Tourette-class idiocy as oddly-colored feces ooze down his left pantleg sully the pavement where real human beings have to walk.

  • Ninja

    So a congressman with a ton of FEC problems is calling someone unethical? Classic.

  • lonestar77

    Another example of this radical administration attempting to shut down and destroy its critics. Understandable in the sense that radical liberalism is a failed idea and the only way to stay in power is through detestable tactics such as these. That and a willing and able corrupt media standing by to destroy anyone who dares to oppose our new dictator-in-chief.

  • mproust

    Keith Olbermann And Rep. Anthony Weiner… They simply do not exist save for crap like this on Mediaite.

  • MichelleF

    This could turn embarrassing for the Whitehouse. When will they learn?

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

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    TROLLING4LIBS, you have once again shown the kind of MASTERFUL IMAGERY and FLOWING PROSE that one usually finds only on tea party posters and in the comments section of the FOX NATION!!1 Keep up the GOOD WORK – along with other fantastic new commenters here, you TRULY ARE the voice of Our Movement, and every WORD you write makes us look BETTER and BETTER!!1 Who says we are some PARANOID, UNEDUCATED fringe group?!1 We are the SILENT MAJORITY, and we will TAKE BACK our Once Proud Republic!!1

  • MediaWhore

    “This could turn embarrassing for the Whitehouse. When will they learn?”

    Yes, when will the White House and President Anthony Weiner learn? Good question MichelleF.

    In other news, Jerry McDouchejuice, the Democrat city dogcatcher of Appleton, Wisconsin was videotaped urinating in the street last night.

    MichelleF immediately sent a tweet out to all of her friends declaring that “this urination incident could turn embarrassing for the White House. When will they learn?”

  • TROLLING4LIBS

    Karl Spensen says:
    May 19, 2010 at 12:22 am

    FOOLS GOLD!!!!!!!1 KARL!!! You as usual show your lib buddies, that while their gone, no need to fear! Karl is here!

  • AmericanCowboy

    Olbermann and Weiner – what a couple of tools…lol

    Home Shoping Channel has better ratings than this nut job

  • Bania

    That’s GOLD GOLD GOLD karl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!2 GOLD 1111!!!!111!!2

  • michaledell

    If you watch a TV program dedicated to health, and someone said it was necessary to drink soda as much as possible, and then the man himself is promoting a "society of soda, he said, would be unethical.
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  • MrGlennBovineKoldys

    DARN!

    I have to agree with the sht flinging Baboon on this one.

    He has every right, a duty in a sense, to rip off his gullible legion of morons.

    The sooner the parasite Baboon eats the infirm, weak, teabaggers the better.

    CARRY ON! Baboon!

  • felixw

    In the interest of full disclosure, Keith Olbermann should mention that anyone who took Glenn Beck’s advice and bought gold has made a bundle of money since Obama got elected. And they will continue to make money on gold, since Obama seems determined to destroy the US dollar and bankrupt the country. Gold hit an all time high last week, and looks to be heading higher.

    Price of Gold when was Obama was elected = $750 per ounce
    Price of Gold now = $1210 per ounce

    Not many investments have increased in value since the Great Leader took over. But this one — whose rise is a sign of the destruction of the US economy — has been a big winner. As a result, Beck is looking a lot smarter than Olbermann right now. And the fellow who looks really clueless is sitting in the Oval Office.

  • http://none pyrope

    I believe I used to see ads for the psychic hotline on Jesse Jackson’s program that used to air on CNN. To have blamed him for the fact that his sponsor was a hoax would have been wrong. It follows then that IF–I did say IF–Goldline is doing business in an unsavory manner, it is the responsibility of the FTC and licensure authorities to go after them–not Weiner’s. So, if he’s got a case, Weiner should file an amicus brief or seek to make a citizen’s arrest, or some other such action within the parameters of the law–not running his mouth with inuendo spewing out.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    If people are stupid enough to listen to Beck they deserve everything they get.

  • Sunnyr

    Weenie-Boy and the Useful Idiot are in for a wild ride if they are going to try to take on Glenn Beck. Their Dear Leader, Comrade Obama, tried it and came out with egg all over his smarmy face. The same will happen to these two morons. Glenn Beck can buy and sell these fools several times over.

    Go Glenn Beck! We love you!

  • TylerDurden

    Anthony wiener- what a dickhead this liberal is. His mouth is shaped like the scrotums he swallows.

  • mynwworld5

    I must say very nice video, it seems really very interesting, Understandable in the sense that radical liberalism is a failed idea and the only way to stay in power is through detestable tactics such as these. I believe that this one whose rise is a sign of the destruction of the US economy has been a big winner.
    iedge

  • sarainitaly

    I highly doubt Beck is concerned with those two weiners.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chris-Van-Veen/617590041 Chris Van Veen

    LOL @ “…Keith Olbermann invited Weiner over to respond..” Well of COURSE he did! The always-enraged Olbermann doesn’t ‘invite’ anyone on his show he wouldn’t mind french-kissing.

  • TfT

    Without FNC Olbermann wouldn’t exist.; his jealousy is getting worse by the day.

    What a laugh riot – Olbermann and Weiner going after anyone. Two of the worst people in the world passing judgement on others. Too funny.

    MSNBC=meltdown.

  • MrGlennBovineKoldys

    WOW!

    Them teabaggers and sht flinging Baboon worshipers are truly ignorant.

    Felix, you cat turd. You want to see the destruction of the Dollar and the USA economy?

    Here, you dumbsht:

    http://www.kitco.com/charts/popup/au3650nyb.html

    10-year chart of gold prices.

    Now, do I need to remind you morons who was in charge from 2000 to 2008?

    But you knuckle draggers want a Democratic President to fix 8 years of GNOPIG monumental f-ups in a day…

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  • TylerDurden

    MrGlennBovineKoldys says:
    May 19, 2010 at 7:15 am

    WOW! You just made a big ass out of yourself. You just provided a chart proving what Felix said was true.

    People buy gold for insurance and wealth protection due to general uncertainty regarding the (US) economy and to protect against inflation.

    You are one stupid liberal who knows zero about investing.

    BTW, how do you type with that big scrotum in your mouth?

  • MichelleF

    sarainitaly says:
    May 19, 2010 at 5:16 am
    I highly doubt Beck is concerned with those two weiners.

    He’s not and what Frances failed to mention is that Glenn had the guy who runs goldline on his radio show yesterday to talk about it. He’s not worried at all.

  • Ninja

    MrGlennBovineKoldys…all I can say is EPIC FAIL! Ha!

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  • TCinAZ

    That low rent Weasel Weiner got his ass Handed To Him about ObamaCare by Ted Baxter on International TV,
    and Now he’s going after Beck, Dennis Miller AND Mark Levin? LOL! Well then Tony had better stock on up the KY for those Attorneys fees and on some earplugs Too, Because it’s gonna be Bumpy ****ing Ride! LOL!

  • Sue

    The Weener, oops, meant Weiner and who? Oh, Mr. Hate himself. Well, both of these guys have been lying for so long about so many things they no longer have the capacity of knowing the difference! Move along, nothing of interest here.

  • Sue

    What it is with these MSNBC types, they look so bad. Weiner looks very sick…hmmmmm

  • honeyd

    Ever notice that conservatives never go after a progressives livelihood? The small minded with no credible argument always go after your money.
    Conservatives, for example, would never go after Olbermann’s job, even though his pointless attacks drone on nightly.

    I wonder why.

  • Phocus

    Trolling4libs…brilliant.

  • drex94

    Hey–leave Beckehead alone….long live the Turd Reich

  • Fidoohki

    Pity.. I rather liked Rep. Wiener. Oh well.. another unethical liberal lying turd to be voted out in November….

  • http://none pyrope

    The ONLY thing these accusations prove is the degree of desperation–and perspiration, I might add–of the liberal whack-os. They can’t win on substance so they attack on whatever egregious bilge they can dream up.

  • Sunnyr

    Weenie-Boy has his very own website now, thanks to Glenn Beck. lol! http://www.weinerfacts.com. Check it out. You can even leave Weiner Tips if you have any Weiner News. This doofus is going to regret EVER taking on the Master, the Beckster, the GENIUS. Go Glenn! We love you.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Discruntled-Patriot/100000145860980 Discruntled Patriot

    Funny, I was doing research for my blog this morning and saw that the HuffPuff was advertising Goldline and another gold seller on their article about the weiner investigation. I got screen caps thank goodness because about 30 minutes later they took it down. I keep refreshing the page and the ads don’t come back up. I posted the screen caps at my blog at disgruntledpatriot.wordpress.com. Makes me laugh.

  • Disfuncion

    But he’s a troublemaker!

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