The Glenn Beck Report

Glenn Beck is running out of sponsors. However, he maintains, according to Keith Olbermann, 3 sponsors who hawk gold to the unwitting fools who believe that the US Government is going to collapse and the dollar will be worthless. In other words, these people are telling you to bet against your own government. Here’s an example of a gold ad. If you know anything about this you will no that this makes no sense whatsoever, unless you also believe that you should bury 50,000 rounds of ammo in the back yard and keep a sharp eye out for Obama’s black nationalist AmeriCorps:

This wouldn’t be anything remarkable, except that now Glenn Beck is not only appearing in gold ads during his own show, he’s promoting the notion that the currency is going to collapse so you better buy gold. Glenn Beck has been telling his viewers that they should “Trust GoldLine. Just TRUST them.” Holy smokes.

In the following clip he pulls a few rhetorical slights of hand that are worth mentioning. First, he riffs on Lindsey Graham’s comments about him, but he LIES about what Graham said. Graham didn’t call Beck a “pessimist”, he called him a “cynic”. Yes, there is a difference. Then Glenn goes all R, W, & B on us saying that this is the country that could do anything if we could just tame corruption. Yes, by gum, that’s the ticket, and according to Glenn Beck HE’S the guy to tell us what’s corrupt.

Then Beck goes up to the blackboard and starts comparing the demise of the USSR to what’s happening here, now. This is totally ludicrous, if you did this for a high school paper you would get an F. (Remind me to put this on the “FAIL” page, too.) So what’s going to happen, in Glenn Beck World, is that the currency is going to fail. That’s why you need to be buying GOLD, yes, lots of gold, and buy it from the Glenn Beck Show sponsors! If you see the fine trustworthy folks at GoldLine, telll ‘em GLENN BECK sent you, PERSONALLY.

So after the setup Beck brings on some meat puppet named David Buckner from Columbia U who is willing to go on national TV and tell everybody to buy gold. Buckner’s biography says he’s a graduate of Brigham Young (do I sense a MORMON theme?) and is the president of Bottom Line Training & Consulting, Inc., a firm specializing in change management, cultural integration, and strategic efficiency modeling. In other words, he’s the PERFECT guy to tell you to buy gold, he’s obviously a genius based on his website. From the looks of it, he’s managed to drop Columbia University’s name on a training/consulting firm that can spit more corporation doublespeak at you in 5 seconds than any Bullshit Bingo expert could. BTW, the last time Buckner was on Beck’s show he keeled over. Must have been an overdose of Vapo-Rub.

This is kind of long, but it’s worth the watch. At the beginning Glenn says he doesn’t pay much attention to “you Ivy League guys”. Wow.

Watch, and be amazed…

With special thanks and a tip of the hat to Keith Olbermann, Air America, and Ryan Witt of the Des Moines Examiner for excellent reporting on Beck, who wants to be the next Goldfinger. I know there are supposed to be ethics rules in reporting, such as a conflict of interest when you have 3 sponsors that sell gold on a show that’s telling you the sky is falling so buy gold. Is this also ILLEGAL? There ought to be a law; I think it would be worth a complaint to the FCC.