No threads about Jon Stewart's rally?

[DarrinS]

Shit must have been epic.

[clambake]

he's a comedian.

you should stick with beck.

[George Gervin's Afro]

It sounded funny..

[Cry Havoc]

Shit must have been epic.

It wasn't a political rally, DarrinS. I know these things like "facts" truly escape you. But since you brought it up:

http://www.cbsnews.com/i/tim/2010/10/30/stewart_colbert_rally_aerial_1_620x350.JPG

http://media.al.com/wire/photo/9006838-large.jpg


http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs458.ash2/73121_707902336101_22012808_39320943_6176136_n.jpg


"WASHINGTON | Metro says preliminary figures show Metrorail moved a record number of passengers on Saturday, with many heading to the National Mall for a rally by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Metro says 825,437 Metrorail trips were taken on Saturday, compared to average Saturday ridership of about 350,000. Metro says Saturday's ridership surpassed the 1991 Desert Storm rally, when 786,358 trips were taken."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/31/colbert-stewart-rally-helps-metro-set-record/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/5129901590/

"No way. I was about 1/4 a mile from the stage and it was still shoulder to shoulder, and a guy climbed the stoplight and took a photo – packed with people, all the way to tenth street! I was there in it, and I say there’s no way it was under 300k people."

Reports were that Metro was still clogged at 3 PM with people trying to get to the rally, so there were even more people trying to get to the Mall than were actually in attendance.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/30/sanity-rally-photos-jon-s_n_776485.html#s169295

By the way, the independent group used to report crowd size gave Glenn Beck's rally 87,000 people, while they put The Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear at 215,000. Both numbers are expected to be underestimating by maybe 10 to 20,000 people. There are also thousands if not tens of thousands not pictured in these photos, as the adjacent streets to the mall were absolutely jammed with people. Traffic to downtown DC was at a complete freeze.

I was three TV monitors deep in the crowd (you can see the third huge screen on the display) and when the Rally started, I was 2/5ths of the way toward the front. So my guess is that these photos are relatively early and do not reflect the total crowd size.

Numbers aside, I know for a fact that Glenn Beck's crowd was much denser.

Now go slink back into the partisan hole you crawled out of, you worthless hack.

[clambake]

as a birther, darrin has to protest this rally.

[George Gervin's Afro]

It wasn't a political rally, DarrinS. I know these things like "facts" truly escape you. But since you brought it up:

http://www.cbsnews.com/i/tim/2010/10/30/stewart_colbert_rally_aerial_1_620x350.JPG

http://media.al.com/wire/photo/9006838-large.jpg


http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs458.ash2/73121_707902336101_22012808_39320943_6176136_n.jpg


"WASHINGTON | Metro says preliminary figures show Metrorail moved a record number of passengers on Saturday, with many heading to the National Mall for a rally by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Metro says 825,437 Metrorail trips were taken on Saturday, compared to average Saturday ridership of about 350,000. Metro says Saturday's ridership surpassed the 1991 Desert Storm rally, when 786,358 trips were taken."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/31/colbert-stewart-rally-helps-metro-set-record/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74104660@N00/5129901590/

"No way. I was about 1/4 a mile from the stage and it was still shoulder to shoulder, and a guy climbed the stoplight and took a photo – packed with people, all the way to tenth street! I was there in it, and I say there’s no way it was under 300k people."

Reports were that Metro was still clogged at 3 PM with people trying to get to the rally, so there were even more people trying to get to the Mall than were actually in attendance.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/30/sanity-rally-photos-jon-s_n_776485.html#s169295

Now go slink back into the partisan hole you crawled out of, you worthless hack.

Those aren't real Americans after all....

On a side note I read many reviews of the rally and found that, while many left leaning groups showed up, the tone of the rally was non poilitical..

That was until I got to Fox NEws and the headline read " Politics Central in Stewart/Cobert Rally"..leave it to fox news... that orgainzation is such a hoot... Drudge had a similar headline..

[Spurminator]

I don't know, the pattern seems to be that threads in this forum are reserved for inconsequential bullshit and/or YouTubes.

I thought the rally was pretty much a 3-hour episode of Daily Show and Colbert. Kind of dull for the most part. But Stewart's speech at the end was very good.

[Cry Havoc]

But Stewart's speech at the end was very good.

“I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.

But unfortunately one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen... or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.

If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate--just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker--and perhaps eczema.

And yet, with that being said, I feel good—strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month old pumpkin and one eyeball.

So, why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin assed forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course, our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is—on the brink of catastrophe—torn by polarizing hate and how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

The only place we don’t is here or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live our values and principles form the foundations that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done. Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do—often something that they do not want to do—but they do it--impossible things every day that are only made possible by the little reasonable compromises that we all make.

Look on the screen. This is where we are. This is who we are. (points to the Jumbotron screen which show traffic merging into a tunnel). These cars—that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car-a woman with two small kids who can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car, swinging, I don’t even know if you can see it—the lady’s in the NRA and she loves Oprah. There’s another car—an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car’s a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief and principles they hold dear—often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers.

And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile long 30 foot wide tunnel carved underneath a mighty river. Carved, by the way, by people who I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by conscession. You go. Then I’ll go. You go. Then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Well, that’s okay—you go and then I’ll go.

And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute, but that individual is rare and he is scorned and not hired as an analyst.

Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes it’s just New Jersey. But we do it anyway, together.

If you want to know why I’m here and want I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted.

Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine. Thank you."

[DarrinS]

Basically, this was huge concert for a comedian and some other dude name Colbert?

[Spurminator]

Basically. Are you trying to gloat or something?

[balli]

Basically, he's a stupid sack of shit who makes me think that Stewart is wrong, that our problem isn't just the media's lens, but that our country is full up of halfwits of the same moronic ilk.

[jack sommerset]

Looks like a billion people showed up.

[Cry Havoc]

Basically, this was huge concert for a comedian and some other dude name Colbert?

Yep. Lots of people out to have a good time and make a statement that we don't have to gather together under the banner of some hate-ridden us vs. them agenda.

I saw people of all age ranges and all political leanings Saturday. I was happy for anyone who wanted to join in, rock out, laugh a lot, and listen to a meaningful non-political speech at the end.

[Spurminator]

Ha ha, no threads about the Rally for Sanity! Suck it, moderates!

[Cry Havoc]

Looks like a billion people showed up.

Do you have a point, or are you just blabbing to read your own post (hear yourself speak)?

[Stringer_Bell]

Basically, this was huge concert for a comedian and some other dude name Colbert?

Stewart's end speech was a BILLION times better than anything any of those rodeo clowns at the Beck rally had to say. The point of it was so clear to everyone else that we were just cool with it and didn't see a need to politicize it with a thread. No need to argue or debate anything, the rally was what it was and people had a good time.

[jack sommerset]

Do you have a point, or are you just blabbing to read your own post (hear yourself speak)?

There looks like a billion people there, christian. Looks like a big crowd the two political comedians pulled in. God will not be pleased with this latest attempt of insulting a fellow child of his. God bless.

[Cry Havoc]

There looks like a billion people there, christian. Looks like a big crowd the two political comedians pulled in. God will not be pleased with this latest attempt of insulting a fellow child of his. God bless.

Can anyone clue me in to what this guy is saying, or are you all as equally in the dark about the comments he makes as I am?

[clambake]

Can anyone clue me in to what this guy is saying, or are you all as equally in the dark about the comments he makes as I am?

he's good for a laugh. have you ever heard him talk about the oil industry?

[George Gervin's Afro]

Can anyone clue me in to what this guy is saying, or are you all as equally in the dark about the comments he makes as I am?

he hates obama because he's a liar... but he would support anyone else even though they are liars.. so he hated liars before he would support a liar.. he has stated that obama should change his agenda because of the daily polls,,yet he doesn't believe a presisdent should govern by daily polls..

oh and he thinks that gay people choose to be gay..

[DMX7]

No threads about Jon Stewart's rally?


There is one now.

[RandomGuy]

Shit must have been epic.

What did Fox "news" tell you to think about it?

[Cry Havoc]

What did Fox "news" tell you to think about it?

5qGeYyabPvI

:lmao

:lmao

:lmao

[Oh, Gee!!]

Pretty big crowd tbh

[ChumpDumper]

Why is Darrin butthurt about this?

[TeyshaBlue]

5qGeYyabPvI

:lmao

:lmao

:lmao

*sigh* The crawler on the screen....good times.

[Winehole23]

Why is Darrin butthurt about this?Probably the lack of revelers to clown. Darrin had to create his own thread about the rally just to insult it.

[scott]

“I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.

But unfortunately one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen... or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.

If we amplify everything we hear nothing. There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats but those are titles that must be earned. You must have the resume. Not being able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers or real bigots and Juan Williams and Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people but to the racists themselves who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate--just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe not more. The press is our immune system. If we overreact to everything we actually get sicker--and perhaps eczema.

And yet, with that being said, I feel good—strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month old pumpkin and one eyeball.

So, why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin assed forehead eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course, our inability to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is—on the brink of catastrophe—torn by polarizing hate and how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done, but the truth is we do. We work together to get things done every damn day!

The only place we don’t is here or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live our values and principles form the foundations that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done. Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, liberals or conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do—often something that they do not want to do—but they do it--impossible things every day that are only made possible by the little reasonable compromises that we all make.

Look on the screen. This is where we are. This is who we are. (points to the Jumbotron screen which show traffic merging into a tunnel). These cars—that’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car-a woman with two small kids who can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car, swinging, I don’t even know if you can see it—the lady’s in the NRA and she loves Oprah. There’s another car—an investment banker, gay, also likes Oprah. Another car’s a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars that you see is filled with individuals of strong belief and principles they hold dear—often principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers.

And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile long 30 foot wide tunnel carved underneath a mighty river. Carved, by the way, by people who I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by conscession. You go. Then I’ll go. You go. Then I’ll go. You go then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Well, that’s okay—you go and then I’ll go.

And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute, but that individual is rare and he is scorned and not hired as an analyst.

Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes it’s just New Jersey. But we do it anyway, together.

If you want to know why I’m here and want I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted.

Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine. Thank you."

That's an epic speech. One no politician would ever have the balls to make. I'm sure certain people won't bother to read it.

[RandomGuy]

That's an epic speech. One no politician would ever have the balls to make. I'm sure certain people won't bother to read it.

+1

Why does it take a satirist to have an intelligent, grown-up discussion with the president and/or American people?

[fraga]

Basically, this was huge concert for a comedian and some other dude name Colbert?

It was to basically show that normal people out number dumb crazy fucks...

[DarrinS]

It was to basically show that normal people out number dumb crazy fucks...






THE RALLY TO IGNORE INSANITY
So the Rally to Restore Sanity was good, clean, hip fun.

And, probably, unnecessary.

Which is why I did something necessary after watching it for thirty minutes: I hit the gym, and worked on the quads.

They look great, btw.

And that reminded me of my past, at Rodale - a health publishing company that put out Men's Health, Prevention and Runners World. While I was an editor there, I was one of three or four conservatives, out of a company of 1300 people. The folks there were mostly young, cool and sinewy- just like the crazies I worked with while running Stuff and Maxim UK. Again, I was one of maybe, two nonlibs working and goofing off there.

My point: every single day of my life was a Jon Stewart rally. Everyone around me was pleasant, usually white, and always reveling in their reflexive assumptions about the "rest" of less hip America. Yep, they were my people when we got hammered. But because of my beliefs, I was not theirs on election day. And they'd hammer me for that.

That's why when I watch the rally, i just wondered, who needs it?

Well, maybe to show a divide between two groups: The tea party was about candidates; The sanity rally was about celebrity.

More important, the tea party was a civilian reaction to our government's sprint toward progressivism. The rally, however, was a celebrity reaction to those civilians.

The rally boiled down to: "we're cool, you're crazy."

So the real title of the event shouldn't have been "The Rally to Restore Sanity," but "The Rally to Ignore Insanity."

Because, that was the message. The teapartiers are reacting to alarming stuff: the insane spending, the bottomless deficit, weird appointments, political arrogance -it's real anxiety over real trouble for future offspring.

Stewart's rally says, "Ignore that. Check out Cat Stevens!" With a load of flashy entertainment and outsized personalities - they are the band playing on the TItanic - enjoying the applause as we see the shadow of the iceberg.

:lmao

[RandomGuy]

What did Fox "news" tell you to think about it?


THE RALLY TO IGNORE INSANITY
So the Rally to Restore Sanity was good, clean, hip fun.

And, probably, unnecessary.

Which is why I did something necessary after watching it for thirty minutes: I hit the gym, and worked on the quads.

They look great, btw.

And that reminded me of my past, at Rodale - a health publishing company that put out Men's Health, Prevention and Runners World. While I was an editor there, I was one of three or four conservatives, out of a company of 1300 people. The folks there were mostly young, cool and sinewy- just like the crazies I worked with while running Stuff and Maxim UK. Again, I was one of maybe, two nonlibs working and goofing off there.

My point: every single day of my life was a Jon Stewart rally. Everyone around me was pleasant, usually white, and always reveling in their reflexive assumptions about the "rest" of less hip America. Yep, they were my people when we got hammered. But because of my beliefs, I was not theirs on election day. And they'd hammer me for that.

That's why when I watch the rally, i just wondered, who needs it?

Well, maybe to show a divide between two groups: The tea party was about candidates; The sanity rally was about celebrity.

More important, the tea party was a civilian reaction to our government's sprint toward progressivism. The rally, however, was a celebrity reaction to those civilians.

The rally boiled down to: "we're cool, you're crazy."

So the real title of the event shouldn't have been "The Rally to Restore Sanity," but "The Rally to Ignore Insanity."

Because, that was the message. The teapartiers are reacting to alarming stuff: the insane spending, the bottomless deficit, weird appointments, political arrogance -it's real anxiety over real trouble for future offspring.

Stewart's rally says, "Ignore that. Check out Cat Stevens!" With a load of flashy entertainment and outsized personalities - they are the band playing on the TItanic - enjoying the applause as we see the shadow of the iceberg.


Thanks for letting us know what you were told to think.

Let me know about the next thing you are told to be outraged about. I'm on pins and needles just thinking about it.

[clambake]

Thanks for letting us know what you were told to think.

Let me know about the next thing you are told to be outraged about. I'm on pins and needles just thinking about it.

his boss tells him what to think. :lmao:lmao:lmao

[Cry Havoc]

"Jon Stewart thinks conservatives are crazy."

Yep. "I go, then you go" clearly means, "You're insane please stay away from me."

:rolleyes

It's amazing how reality just has no basis in your brain. The encampment it might have set up at one time has long been blown away by Hurricane Limbaugh or the Great Beck Tornado of 2002. Now, all you see is hate, and persecution, and anyone that has any kind of disagreement with you is someone to fear.

Thank you, Darrin, for so obtusely providing us with a shining example of exactly what Jon Stewart was talking about. You have jumped with all of your thought and belongings directly into the culture of fear.

I would much, much rather hitch my ride behind Jon Stewart's, "You disagree with me and that's okay" train versus Glenn Beck's, "If you don't share my views you're a facist" thought police fear manifesto which uses any and all possible methods to get you to buy Goldline stock. But if you want to spend your days in hate and fear, that is your choice. Just don't expect me to see any rational "reason" in it, because that is something you show very little of in this forum.

[clambake]

his boss tells him what to think. :lmao:lmao:lmao

who else could it be? his boss tells him what he can do with his patents! :lmao:lmao:lmao

[ChumpDumper]

If Darrin prefers never to have a civil political conversation, that's his business.


Darrin hates America.

[jack sommerset]

Can anyone clue me in to what this guy is saying, or are you all as equally in the dark about the comments he makes as I am?

It looks like a big fucking crowd you goddamn idiot. :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

It looks like a big fucking crowd you goddamn idiot. :lmaoWhat did the rest of it mean?

[Winehole23]

God will not be pleased with this latest attempt of insulting a fellow child of his. God bless.

[Winehole23]

(Crystal clear: God will avenge jack.)

[Winehole23]

(b/c we said very bad things)

[Stringer_Bell]

The Fox News clip just exemplified Stewart's point about "If we amplify everything we hear nothing". They shit on the rally as being "just a bunch of comedians that sadly lots of people think are real news anchors" - people only watch them cuz they're tired of real news anchors blowing shit out of proportion. They clearly didn't get the joke.

[ChumpDumper]

lol news anchors think people think the comedians are real news anchors

[MannyIsGod]

It pretty much just proves the point - doesn't it? Darrin does a fine job of that himself here as well. Why any intelligent person would have a problem with that speech is beyond me, but perhaps Darrin can explain it to us without posting the latest column he read and thought "YEAH! I'm thinking!".

[cheguevara]

does this mean Darrin will not be hired as an analyst?

[Duff McCartney]

I watched the whole thing and I thought it was pretty entertaining. I wish there would have been more fear though! I love Colberts satirizing of the fear mongering pundits like Beck, Hannity, Fox News, and some of the MSNBC people. It's hilarious.