Two television spots developed by a national investment firm
specializing in U.S. gold and silver coins have been rejected by major
television networks, including the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business
Network, for apparently political reasons.
The ads by Phoenix-based Swiss America Trading Corp., a WND
advertiser, feature President Obama and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke as animated characters engaging in the potentially inflationary
policy of printing paper money with abandon to stimulate the struggling
economy.
Singer Pat Boone, a spokesman for Swiss America for more than 15
years, appears in the commercials as an animated announcer who concludes
that investing in gold is a prudent strategy to diversify a portfolio
in inflationary times.