Wes Mantooth

The thing to consider though is how much power he REALLY has. Its one thing to be a popular late afternoon talking head who puts on right wing rallies but how many of his listeners are willing to follow him over a cliff for the cause? I would imagine it would be a very small percentage of our overall country (lets remember roughly 50% of the voting public is on the left). Those rallies look impressive on tv but in a nation of 300 million whatever people its a drop in the bucket and lets also consider how many of those people go just because. There's a big difference between the housewife in Nebraska who's goes to see his live show and knits while he's on tv and somebody actually willing to take up his cause and do something about it (those would be the nuts I mentioned in the post above and they are scary).

I would assume (without putting words in our good friend Baraka's mouth) that a call to action would be something much bigger then a rally or protest...taking up arms maybe, responding with violence? But then what? Glenn Beck gets fired, maybe winds up in prison, nothing gets accomplished anyway and we never see or hear from him again. I doubt he could influence a major political shift in America either, the Republicans are still strongly in control of the Right and know they can't win elections with nothing more then the fringe, the Dems are never going to follow him and the moderates think he nuts. In the end whats he really going to be able to do that we Americans haven't seen before?

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