Heh LT,
You are correct, if anything is blowing the whisle on fiat, it is the price of commodities. But since they don't tie the currency to commodities (fiat) then it does nothing to stop them from printing more. O'Driscall is referring to not being tied in the sense of PRINTING money. He is advocating diciplining the Fed the old fashioned way - no printing more dollars unless you have the assets (commodities) to back them up.
As far as gold being 10,000 per ounce I don't think that is relevant (except for those who own gold), as long as the dollar is backed by something so that we restrain the money creators from continuing to devalue our hard earned money.
Cheers
BK