Golden Wieners

Statist government critters often personally attack people in the private sector that oppose them. Clinton, for example, famously blamed Rush Limbaugh for the Oklahoma bombing. Obama has made it his stock and trade, applying Alinsky's rules for radicals, to marginalize any opposition. The Weiner's attack here is on Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingram, Jerry Doyle to name a few. The main focus of the attack is Glenn Beck. Are there any Liberal talk show hosts that advertise gold? I know, there's very few of them because they have all been monumental failures, but I digress.

The latest of these attacks is from Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. Goldline is a company that sells precious metals in bars and coins. The Wiener is attacking specifically Radio and TV talk show hosts for advertising them, or advocating for buying gold or some such thing. The Weiner will be having press conference or something calling for all sorts of federal trade investigations, criminal investigations, and is implicating other conservative talkers as nefarious capital running dogs. His pre-press press release: "The company has formed an unholy alliance with conservative pundits to drive a false narrative and play off public fears in order to sell its products." He's calling for all sorts of congressional investigations too.

He's claiming that conservative talkers are driving up the price of gold, driving down the value of the dollar, killing the US economy etc. (Of course a massive debt build up, high unemployment, record foreclosures and all that have nothing to do with it.) Statists have never seen a successful private enterprise they've liked, unless it's somebody they can extort or who gives them money voluntarily, like lobbyists (that the Bamster was going to drive out of town but didn't). The Weiner: "...rips off consumers, uses misleading and possibly illegal sales tactics, and deliberately manipulates public fears of an impending government takeover." The Weiner to Politico.com: "This industry goes beyond Goldline, but the Goldline circle has been particularly cynical in its cultivation of these conservative commentators." "There are two industries that are intertwined here in this cynical play: the media industry and the online gold industry, and there is a lot of blame to go around."

Goldline has given an A+ rating by the Better Business Bureau. The Wiener has not addressed other gold dealers that have an "F" rating. Not a word.

The Winer has his little hot buns in a bit of a pickle as it turns out. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has him under investigation for campaign fraud, with his group "Friends of Weiner". There's $47,000.00 fine (“civil penalty”), called Matters Under Review (MUR), by the FEc because of some kind of financial shenanigans, and another MUR for a $28,000 illegal loan made by his parents to his campaign.

This guy is another corrupt politician. This is one wiener we'd like to see roasted.