Also, I don't know how anyone can say that the media aren't capable of manipulating people. If it weren't for the media in this country, the Bush administration would never have been able to hoodwink the people in the US into supporting the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Beck is one of the people that the corporatocracy use (along with Limbaugh, O'Reilly, and a few others) to manipulate people into supporting the corporatist agenda. And they've been doing it quite successfully, while lobotomizing the American public at the same time. Propaganda works, and anyone who doesn't think so is being terribly naive.