This whole story reminds me of a dirty campaign trick from a few years back- I'm not going to figure out which campaign or which election, since that's not important to this example.
Basically what happened was that someone went around stapling up fliers all over poor/wrong color/undesirable neighborhoods exhorting them to vote- but the date on the flier was the day after the real election. When I read about this, the events in question were recent enough to make me pretty angry, and I brought it up at the break table one day. Someone said, "If a person can't figure out what day the election is on, do you really want them voting?"
Someone had the humorous idea of redirecting visitors to a violent DC neighborhood. Probably thinking, "If someone can't figure out the difference between a violent neighborhood and the lincoln memorial, do you want them rallying?" I think in Beck's case the answer would be YES, YES that is exactly who we want, so I can see this being turned into a HUGE national news story as FOX uses this for free advertising and for the sympathy angle. The other networks will pick it up as 'Beck accuses liberals of trying to trick his fans' and that the pure-as-the-driven-snow liberals are shocked- SHOCKED- that anyone would accuse them of underhanded tactics (at least tactics that aren't embarrassingly obvious and transparent from the beginning).
This situation is breaking right as I plan a vacation to europe, and that process is beginning to take on a somewhat frantic flavor...
-b