Who Watches When A Watchdog Morphs Into A Hog?
The media has been slow to catch on, but slowly, way too slowly, people are beginning to realize there is an ugliness to Consumer Watchdog.
Let us strip away the veneer immediately. Consumer Watchdog has much less to do with protecting the consumer and much more to do with enriching the corporate lawyers who make up their top management. Under the imprimatur of protecting consumers in the State of California, or being gadflies for justice, these snakes who, in some circles, have managed to be labeled butterflies, have enriched themselves to the score of millions of dollars. So let’s be clear here, Consumer Watchdog is a sham organization whose ultimate victims are the very consumers they purport to champion. And of course the organization’s founder, Harvey Rosenfield, a trial lawyer and protege of wacky Ralph Nader, has become a wealthy man while “looking out” for all of us.
Earlier this year, even the most liberal policymakers were forced to step back and repudiate the Consumer Watchdog’s actions. In an example of the kind of nastiness they purport to reject, Consumer Watchdog created a controversy from a ten-second… Read More