Clark gets instant credibility because he is an ex-general and the crowd is part of the ignorant masses...
Bernie Kerik was over in Iraq for a long time training the police forces mainly up in the Mosul area.
"the ignorant masses"
Sounding a bit Marxian here...
I'll bet the crowd is just fine. The ignorant masses, so to speak, would not even show up at the townhall meeting, but would watch some dorky tv show instead.
If they have any brains at all they will see through Weasely.