Wes Mantooth

Of course and the fallout is the same regardless, he certainly does his part to whip the crowd up to a frenzy but like I wrote earlier weather or not he believes what he actually says is irrelevant. The thing to ponder is weather or not the crowds he preaches too believe what they believe because of Glenn Beck or is Glenn Beck just giving a voice to the crowd...in other words does he really matter?

I wrote about the old timey revivalists earlier, the white tents on the edge of town and a fire and brimstone pastor dressed in a white suit going on about temperance and morality...performing faith healing and such. All that Pastor had to do was advertise his upcoming revival using his weekly radio show, show up, put on a good put on a good performance and collect the nickels at entrance, and then what? Did it matter that he jumped in his Studebaker and blew those nickles on whores and gin? He got the crowd fired up by vocalizing what they believed in and they in turn showed up because they wanted to hear somebody vocalize it. Weather or not the Pastor followed or believed in what he preached was irrelevant, he was just providing a face for an already firmly established movement.

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