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he's a comedian.
you should stick with beck.
must have been epic.
he's a comedian.
you should stick with beck.
It sounded funny..
It wasn't a political rally, DarrinS. I know these things like "facts" truly escape you. But since you brought it up:
"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/...ro-set-record/
"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/2010/1...5.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.
Last edited by Cry Havoc; 11-01-2010 at 10:10 AM.
as a birther, darrin has to protest this rally.
Those aren't real Americans after all....It wasn't a political rally, DarrinS. I know these things like "facts" truly escape you. But since you brought it up:
"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/...ro-set-record/
"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/2010/1...5.html#s169295
Now go slink back into the partisan hole you crawled out of, you worthless hack.
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..
I don't know, the pattern seems to be that threads in this forum are reserved for inconsequential bull 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.
“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 les 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 Cons ution or racists and phobes 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."
Basically, this was huge concert for a comedian and some other dude name Colbert?
Basically. Are you trying to gloat or something?
Basically, he's a stupid sack of 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.
Looks like a billion people showed up.
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.
Do you have a point, or are you just blabbing to read your own post (hear yourself speak)?
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.
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?
he's good for a laugh. have you ever heard him talk about the oil industry?
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..
There is one now.
What did Fox "news" tell you to think about it?
Pretty big crowd tbh
Why is Darrin butthurt about this?
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