What is Incoherent?

I was struck by rereading Wolf over the weekend that one of the main critiques of the antiglobalization protest movement (which is broadly categorized as being on the "left", though Wolf notes Pat Buchanan is also an honorary member) is the sheer range of issues the protestors bring to the table: environment, women's rights, outsourcing and the decline of American manufacturing, labor practices in the developing world, child labor, poverty, health care, greed in finance, and the like. For Wolf, this makes for incoherence, especially since he would say the concerns are wrongly directed at globalization.

The reason I was struck is because of the protests this weekend in Washington by the "9/12" movement, led in part by Glenn Beck. One of the criticisms of that movement has been... you guessed it, incoherence. The concerns of the 9/12 protestors range from corruption in Washington, to the financial bailout, to Obama's birthplace, to health care and the imminent advent of American Socialism, all wrapped up together in a protest movement that would broadly be seen as on "the right" (though there would undoubtedly be honorary members from the left as well). They may broadly be grouped together under "What is Obama doing to the U.S.A.!?!?!", but a question would for clarification be -- just like Wolf would ask of the antiglobalization types -- what is the ideology or belief system that underpins all of this?

Just to wrap it back around, from a Google search on incoherence in the antiglobalization movement, I come across the following quote about the 1999 protests in Seattle (or more specifically the puppets at Seattle), on FoxNews.com:

It reflects the utter incoherence of the protesters' world views...just like those political metaphors you hear so much about these days.

There is much to muse about here, but it may simply be worth mentioning these for the moment, for you to juxtapose and interpret yourselves. What is incoherent, and what issues are linked together?