Posted on 11/02/2010 7:34:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
To cleanse the palate. As Greg Gutfeld said on Twitter while the rally was going on, “Feel like I’m watching a celebrity child’s birthday party.” Stewart takes a few knocks here but Colbert — certainly the more partisan of the two — gets the brunt of it. Yet I can’t help feeling that Glenn’s missing the joke of holding a “rally to restore sanity” and inviting a guy onstage who once endorsed killing Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam. Or … was that part of the “rally to restore fear”? That makes sense, then.
A response from the intended victim via Standpoint’s Nick Cohen:
PS Just had this message from Rushdie: “I’ve always liked Stewart and Colbert but what on earth was Cat Yusuf Stevens Islam doing on that stage? If he’s a “good Muslim” like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar then I’m the Great Pumpkin. Happy Halloween.”
PPS: Just had this from my marvellous Observer colleague Andrew Anthony: “He told me in 1997, eight years after saying on TV that Rushdie should be lynched, that he was in favour of stoning women to death for adultery. He also reconfirmed his position on Rushdie. He set up the Islamia school in Brent, which is currently undergoing council-backed expansion. Its mission statement three years ago explicitly stated that its aim was to bring about the submission of the individual, the community and the world at large to Islam. For this aim it now receives state funding. Its an incubator of the most bonkers religious extremism and segregation, and is particularly strong on the public erasure of women. Why do people go to such lengths to ignore these aspects of Yusuf Islam’s character and philosophy?
Relax, buddy: I’m sure he condones the public erasure of women ironically. Exit question: Is Beck right that he and Stewart had similar “we’re better people than this” messages? Wasn’t Beck one of the people featured in Stewart’s talking-head montage of those who are allegedly preventing us from being better people because they demonize the other side? Click the image to watch.
They played only to the little red diaper doper baby neo-Marxist.
Not to worry. Most will be too stoned to vote.
I surfed past it 6 or 7 times, and was taken by the all but exclusive whiteness of the crowd.
It was about GIGGLES.
I forced myself to watch a majority of the rally for informational purposes. I was almost shocked at how incredibly hard it was to watch.
Yes, it was blatantly obvious that this was a “white guilt” crowd.
Or they figured it would be a good place to score hippy chicks or weed.
Interesting side note: Went out this morning to vote, and then to breakfast. As we were turning around from the church, we went down a side street we usually don’t go down, and we had to slow down where kids were crossing. I looked over at a home and on the storm door was a big white sign that said “No Hippies Allowed!” I laughed, and felt good. :)
Guess that was his way of keeping D canvassers from bothering him the last few weeks, lol.
I though the event was great. It took a bunch of Demmunist volunteers and had them WASTE a day the weekend before a major election.
Mission accomplished!
“I surfed past it 6 or 7 times, and was taken by the all but exclusive whiteness of the crowd.”
except for the guy on stage that wants to kill all the infidels.
I think the event was a perfect demo of exactly why liberals are unfit to lead. They may be occasionally entertaining, but taking them seriously enough to give them access to real power is the very definition of insanity. The nation learned this the hard way over the last two years.
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