Glenn Beck Show Opening A Thinly Veiled Gold Infomercial
Reported by Ellen - October 6, 2010 -
All that was missing from the Glenn Beck show opener yesterday (10/5/10) that would have made it a more candid sales pitch for buying gold was a banner saying, “Call now! Our agents are standing by!” on the screen. The sickening thing is that Beck stood there pretending he had nothing to gain and that I’ll bet there were plenty of viewers who bought his story that trouble is coming, with a capital T, that rhymes with G and that stands for gold.
Beck began by trying to pretend he wasn’t trying to hawk anything. “I want you to know, first of all, everything I say on this program, please do not take my word for it. Please look it up yourself.” Beck immediately suggested that you probably can’t trust what you find if you do look it up. “But please, try to go to the original sources. The progressives have controlled the history books for so long. Read their own words. Read their own diaries.” Memo to Beck: You’d be a lot more believable if you managed to get your own facts straight.
But conscience thus apparently assuaged, Beck then embarked on what was obviously a pitch for his viewers to buy gold.
First, there was a heavy sigh – just so you know how much he hates to scare you into a state of fear that could be oh, so profitable for him.
“I’ve said to you – must be hundreds of times now – I hope all of this stuff is wrong. I do. Um (pregnant pause). If I’m right, you know, things aren’t good for me, either. I have nothing to gain here.”
Nothing to gain unless you take the not-so-subtle hint to come.
"I think I have more to lose because if I’m wrong, I’ll be so wildly discredited, nobody will listen to me," Beck said self-servingly.
With even more schmaltz – the kind that often brings a tear to Beck’s eye – he said that he does, indeed have something to gain. “I have a country to pass on to my children.” He forgot to mention he’d have a fortune to pass on, too.
Beck continued,
When I say things – trouble is coming, it’s not just me. It’s the Wall Street Journal. I showed you the chart that shows how the Dow is mirroring the 1930’s. I mean, I could quote you chapter and verse how we’re doing exactly the same thing that (Woodrow) Wilson did that led to nightmares and also FDR which made it the Great Depression here… It’s kind of a complex financial thing. But five things have to happen for it to trigger. And when it does, there’s a 77% chance of a crash within the next 30 days. Well, we’ve just entered the 30-day period.Have you done anything…. Have you changed your lifetstyle? …I can tell you this, the global governments, the George Soros’ of the world, …billionaires are buying gold by the ton… I mean an actual ton. They’ve prepared. Have you ever heard the old saying, ‘The rich get richer.’ Well, why is that? Because they have access to information that you don’t have. And because they’ve prepared.
…The rich know, because they have access to the information. They know history. They know the warning signs… Some of them are controlling and manipulate it. George Soros comes to mind.
In other words, Soros knows because he’s got inside info and because he’s “manipulating it” that gold is the way to go.
