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.
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“earpiece microphone” wondering what the “H” that is LOL.
I meant of course speakerphone for listening.
Agreed Emmett.
As posted on my Facebook profile: “Observations about Jon Stewart’s rally today: There is no Peace, without the Prince of Peace. There is no Sanity, without a moral compass. Playing and singing your life away only leaves us; the remnant to take care of you. And we will continue to. Get out and vote!”
A shameful showing, just like Nov. 2 will be for every Democrat who thinks socialism is somehow gonna be acceptable....
ROFL
Well, playing and singing can serve a purpose, too. Of course, what I do in that area wouldn’t work for this crowd!http://www.reverbnation.com/emmettgrayson
Stewart and his band of merry pranksters have tried to restrict filming in a public place—we’ll see how successful they were.
How big a crowd at the “Government Doesn’t Suck” rally? Where is it held?
Immense? By what standard?
Does that plane in the background have wing tanks? /sarcasm
Coke and Stonybrook Yogurt (and POM) helped to sponsor this thing. They provided snacks for the bus trip.
Lots of empty grass space there.
Or Chrissy Matthews who calls the tea parties “monochromatic”.
FWIW my guess is that it will have ZERO impact plus OR minus on either company.
Free Concert and Free Transportation = Astroturf Rally
I’ve got it saved on my DVR, guess I could take a pic and post it?
It’s at the very same venue:
Here is more:
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=government+doesn’t+suck&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Looks like about 40,000 people.
The MSM will claim 400,000 people.
The Beck Rally had 10x the crowd.
We should refer to this gathering of white hipsters as “The Seinfeldt Rally”...a coming together of ‘friends’ about absolutely nothing.
We should refer to this gathering of white hipsters as “The Seinfeldt Rally”...a coming together of ‘friends’ about absolutely nothing.
By the standards of big downtown rallies. It wasn't as big as Beck's, but perhaps bigger than that lefty One Nation event. They just turned out a lot of people, many more than I had thought they would.
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