Ethics

Jon Stewart Nails Beck to a Cross of Gold

By Ed Brayton

If you didn't see this brilliant takedown of Glenn Beck on the Daily Show, you have to see it. Beck has a clear conflict of interest here, being a paid spokesman for a company that makes money when the price of gold goes up while simultaneously telling his listeners to buy gold. And as is often the case, comedy tells the story far better than a media article could.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 19, 2009 (boomark / email).