melodrama . Glenn Beck was able to respond publicly to the fictional character Zeb Colter , not to Wayne Maurice Keown , the real person and performer behind the fictional character . Beck ’ s response perfectly depicts the potential energy of professional wrestling to either disrupt or reinforce xenophobic hegemony . On one hand , Beck ’ s outrage and complete disregard for WWE as a performance can be seen as a failure of professional wrestling to produce any critical awareness against the logic of hegemony . On the other hand , however , Beck ’ s response unknowingly gives us more examples of how The Real Americans ’ gimmick successfully satirizes U . S . conservatism and hegemonic ideologies . On his radio show , Beck himself exposes the artifice of The Real Americans ’ performance . He points out that the name “ Colter ” may in fact be a parody of the popular and controversial right-wing commentator , Ann Coulter . Before playing an audio clip of a Real Americans ’ performance , Beck asks his radio listeners to note how “ stupid ” the performers sound , mimicking the early Homo sapiens ancestral lisp of Jack Swagger , one half of The Real Americans tag team . He also pays insult to Zeb Colter ’ s appearances , stating that he looks “ absolutely like Charles Manson ” ( MrCensorMe ). These insults can actually become pointed insights into the cognitive dissonance of Beck and his followers , for he does not make the connection that The Real Americans may not be dumb to their own fault , but that their “ dumbness ” mocks the exact social gestures for which Beck and his ideologies stand .
In an untelevised response to Glenn Beck , Zeb Colter breaks character halfway through a Real Americans ’ promo to address Beck directly , introducing himself as Wayne Keown . The background , on which a Gadsden flag hangs , reverts to a green screen , and the camera pans
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