All that energy for the purpose of mockery. This is how I will forever remember these idiots.
Posted on 10/30/2010 12:05:56 PM PDT by Justaham
Television comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert drew tens of thousands of people to the National Mall on Saturday, promising to skewer partisan politics three days before contentious U.S. elections.
The Comedy Central hosts' "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" started off as part slapstick comedy show and part outdoor festival concert.
Stewart opened the festivities by declaring that "10 million" people showed up, representing all ethnic groups in America.
"It is a perfect demographic sampling of the American people," said Stewart, who hosted U.S. President Barack Obama on his show on Wednesday.
"As you know, if you have too many white people at your rally, then your cause is racist, but if you have too many people of color at your rally, then you must be asking for something: special rights -- like eating in restaurants or piggy back rides -- something that we as a society are not ready to give," he added.
The rally, widely viewed as a response to "August's "Restoring Honor" rally organized by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck, blurred the lines between satire and political activism.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
I get 80-90,000 for this rally, vs. 550-650,000 for Restoring Honor. But there will likely be 10x-1000x time more garbage left behind.
Yep. But they got free sandwiches and a free bus ride, so everything's A-OK with them.
Punks, all.
Looks like NW DC out for a quick jog - not impressed....
Great comment at that blog:
“Kevin W.No Gravatar
October 30th, 2010 | 12:23 pm | #10
150,000 people that are there to be entertained, and the majority of them won’t be motivated to vote on November 2nd. Those that will vote, will vote for a Democrat. And because of this rally, those individuals aren’t back in their voting districts helping out Democrats at the phone banks, or helping them canvassing door to door.
Thank You to the Comedy Central clowns for pulling away many people that would be assisting the Democrats three days before a crucial mid term election.”
I wouldn’t be surprised to see lines when polls open bright and early Tuesday morning...
Please Ping this to Everyone,including the Dumb RNC who seems to be in La La Land! Why havent they blanket EMailed this to all of their Supporters? Is Michael Steele one of Obama’s Gay Lovers and doesn’t want to upset “HIM?”
Terrific graphic
Actually Less than a Tenth!! Far Less!! Lets be Accurate!!
This was a Rally to Continue the Insanity of Obozo Hussein and it FAILED MISERABLY!
We've joked about camping out at the polling place here. A couple of guys say they are really going to do it so they can vote first.
What rally?
All that energy for the purpose of mockery. This is how I will forever remember these idiots.
‘Patriotism is funny.’
THAT’S A winning Message for TUESDAY...
Government employees and moochers rally in the hive. They are all locals.
That was so common....why I stopped watching...years ago. Does anybody but Dems watch it these days?
And maybe Brian Lamb may be “fair and balanced” but he and his lackeys wouldn’t challenge a dem caller if he said they were aliens from Mars...
....are we going to lose to this bunch? :(:(:(
And Blacks stayed home.
How bad did the liberals trash the Mall?
There are a couple of inaccuracies with the photos provided as compared to the circles overlayed on the map.
First, the photo of the Beck rally as displayed ends with the WWII monument, but the ellipses on the map ends at the Washington monument, which proportionately increases the comparison quite a bit. The throng may well have extended that far, but the photo stops there.
Second, the Stewart rally at its crux was much larger than the photo being shown in contrast. I was there during that crux, and personally witnessed a completely congested mall - shoulder to shoulder - from the smithsonian stop (around 12th street) all the way to the congress building. That’s roughly double the size outlined in the photo.
I haven’t really put much thought to comparisons between the two events, as I consider them to be apples and oranges, but this sort of exaggerating is not helpful in establishing a position to change people’s minds about their beliefs on the matter at hand. It just fuels the bunk rhetoric.
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