The Glenn Beck/Goldline Scam (large graphic)

[mookiemookie]

Says it all, really.

[August]

Good thing Beck isn't an elected official like that paradigm of ethics Charlie Rangle eh?

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by August

Good thing Beck isn't an elected official like that paradigm of ethics Charlie Rangle eh?

What's that have to do with Glenn beck helping a company fleece his viewers?

[August]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

What's that have to do with Glenn beck helping a company fleece his viewers?

Like you didn't post this thread because he's a right wing pundit. Admit it, if Beck were a left wing shill like Olberman you wouldn't have said a darn thing.

[Oberon]

Dammit, I didn't even get a chance to do an 'in before' on this one

Still, extremist left or right pundits make me puke anyway, so it's all good.

[SteamWake]

Goldline is a client of Glenn Beck therefore they are suspect right from the get go is that it?

It also makes them a target. So sure jump on the Beck boycott bandwagon !!!

The first three info boxes .. what there is untrue?

Of course Mr. Beck being the highly influential force on the world market that he is can affect and control gold pricing.

Goldline would like to set the record straight

http://www.goldline.com/goldlinenews...FUxZ2godDDXnTQ

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by August

Good thing Beck isn't an elected official like that paradigm of ethics Charlie Rangle eh?

Relevance?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

Relevance?

There both accused of questionable ethics?

[FIREWALL]

If people are stupid they, deserve to be took. Maybe they'll wish they stayed awake in school.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

If people are stupid they, deserve to be took. Maybe they'll wish they stayed awake in school.

Bullpucky. The greater sin is not that someone was gullible, naive or too trusting - the greater sin is taking advantage of people, defrauding and misleading them. That kind of blame the victim attitude is one step away from saying "she was asking to be raped because she was dressed that way."

[UnderseaLcpl]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Bullpucky. The greater sin is not that someone was gullible, naive or too trusting - the greater sin is taking advantage of people, defrauding and misleading them. That kind of blame the victim attitude is one step away from saying "she was asking to be raped because she was dressed that way."

That's a bit of a strecth, don't you think? People are often motivated to accept deals that are " too good to be true" because they are lazy, stupid, and blinded by greed. That's rather different than rape, which is completely involuntary. I hate fraud as much as you do, it's anathema to libertarians, but there's a difference between being defrauded and defrauding yourself, especially when the intent of the buyer is to defraud the seller. Watch an infomercial. Do you really believe that people who buy those products are motivated by anything other than an irrational belief that they are getting a "great deal" for only $19.99 against a product with a retail value of $99.99 or whatever number they stick up there? How can society ever be responsible for the actions of people who are just as selfish as the people who purportedly take advantage of them? Something doesn't add up there, and the missing element in the equation is self-interest. People are all too ready to blame the self-interest of others for their own misfortune, but when you flip the equation around and put the self-interest of the self-interested before the self-interest of the productive, you end up with a failed industrial or commercial sector. Even then, the self-interest doesn't stop. They demand that others make up for their shortfalls and pay their way, ridiculously, out of some other motivation than self-interest.

Even if the greater sin was to defraud or mislead people who are idiots, which itself makes a kind of social-Darwinist case, what case can you make for people with legislative power whose very existence depends upon defrauding and misleading people by virute of the system in which they are selected? You do realize that in attempting to prevent voluntary and often self-imposed fraud that you are promoting fraud of a greater and legalized nature, right?

If you'll allow me to be frank, I'll posit the idea that you have been mislead and defrauded by people who have a vested self-interest in making people believe that they have been mistreateed in the amazingly consistent goal of forcing others to give them money, through direct or indirect means.

[FIREWALL]

Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Bullpucky. The greater sin is not that someone was gullible, naive or too trusting - the greater sin is taking advantage of people, defrauding and misleading them. That kind of blame the victim attitude is one step away from saying "she was asking to be raped because she was dressed that way."

Give it a break.

And rape is a ignorant comparison. You dropped the ball on this one.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by FIREWALL

If people are stupid they, deserve to be took. Maybe they'll wish they stayed awake in school.

Exactly. If you believe in something as stupid as this, then I don't care if you have lost all your money, quite the opposite, I will laugh at your face for being so fricking stupid. Grow some brains, people!

[antikristuseke]

If all women were smart, who would sleep with us?
On a more serious note, I agree with the above two posters, while it is distasteful, it is your own damned faul if you fall for something like this.