Thousands likely to rally to Stewart/Colbert to support being a moderate
 

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FINALLY, a non-insane rally that might get the attention of the MSM. If for no other reason than it's anti-fear stance (with a liberal amount of funny thrown in).

Brilliant. I hope he manages a large turnout.

I love John Stewart. I hope this is effective as his push to get Crossfire to stop the nonsense...


of course you could always just join Colbert in his Keep Fear Alive march scheduled for the same day.

Those moderate radicals...!

I can just see the right having a conniption fit about how the "liberal threat" is mobilizing to continue their "Marxist agenda."

What I like about that is the irony behind it. I can't wait.

I'm surprised they were able to find a weekend that close to the election where the Tea Party wasn't having a protest...

So who is going? I am about 85% sure I will be there.

Speaking as a solidly centrist liberally conservative demoliberpublican, I think it's about damn time someone tried to counteract the extremism.

I think the line is going to be more like this:

So in other words the participants will be dismissed not for their politics but for being young, naive, spoiled, lazy and not truly understanding the dire consequences of the country's current course.

Well, considering that Beck's rally didn't really say anything, didn't really have a purpose, or didn't really have a call to action, I can't see how this rally can really go wrong. It was kind of intentional on Beck's part, by making it non-political. In a general sense, I guess it called to "restore traditional American values." But it was decidedly targeted at his audience, which includes many Tea Partiers. If anything, Beck's rally served to galvanize his audience. His rally was non-political (ostensibly), but it could be argued that it was a political move by Beck.

If you think about it, the underlying message of this upcoming rally is kind of the same. It's called "Restoring Sanity," but this is really about restoring honour too, because what is honour?

Wikipedia says that honour is about honesty, respect, integrity, or fairness. I think that's what Jon Stewart is getting at in the way he knows best.

The more I think about it, what I wrote will mainly be confined to internet forums and outrage radio.

I bet mainstream media won't even give much attention (not nearly as much as Beck or the Qu'ran burning guy anyway) and will merely do short, light segments at the end of the news between Dog Raises Cat! and Grandma Turns 110! stories.

Oh yeah, and October 30th is also the 36th anniversary of Nolan Ryan throwing the fastest recorded pitch in baseball history EVER! 100.9mph!

In other words, "Ohh those crazy kids...."

i think the press will devote some attention to this. it's really only left protests that get ignored altogether. things like the massive protests against the iraq war.

so the scale of press attention is:
conservatives---lots of press.
moderates---boring.
left---doesn't exist.

Well, unless anarchists break something.

talk about a marketing coup... MTV Networks will have a great production.

right. forgot about that. evil black block. nihilists running wild in the streets saying snippy things to officers of the law and injury the sacred property of corporate entities. who are these ingrates? wild-eyed leninists. fie on em.

If it's like any other MTV production it will get churned through all it's media channels and outlets.

I think it's funny that people have forgotten that it's entertainment at it's base.

Unfortunately you can say that about 80% of what being presented as "real news" too.

I don't think Colbert or Stewart are funny, especially Stewart (though his daughter is hot), so this makes no difference to me.

I see them as entertainment, no matter how bad it is, and I don't expect the rally to be any different.

ummm. isn't his daughter like 4? :orly:

yep

[...awkward.... :cringe: ]

Awesome, these guys are pretty famous so it should bring some much needed attention. Perhaps if it draws enough we can get a real national debate going about some of the extremism at some of these rallies and start drawing people away who are they because "they agree in theory".

Good stuff it should be a lot of fun.

I could have swore Kristen Stewart of Twilight fame was his daughter. Did someone give me bad information?

EDIT: After a quick and painful Wiki search of Kristen Stewart, John Stewart is her father. Sorry for the creeps I've caused.

yeah, pearl trade, but I don't think it's the same John Stewart...

Kristen Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox.

link goes to wiki wiki.

As far as this goes, I just might head up for this. I love John Stewart and Colbert, and the Tea Party makes me want to vomit so horrendously that I fear I would have my anal sphincter wrapped around my tongue.

Bad information indeed, considering Jon Stewart is a stage name, his real moniker is Jon Leibowitz!

I'm excited about the premise of the rally even though I cannot attend. :thumbsup:

*edit* I see Mr. Leibowitz changed his name officially to Stewart in 2001.

Sorry for the thread jack.

If the baby-boomer generation doesn't get the irony in this statement... that's just absolutely sad.

I'm sorry, but I don't believe you. :orly:

this creeps me out more

Why do you guys care who someone else does or does not find funny?

I just don't buy it.

So, what would be a good slogan to put on a sign if attending these rallies?

"I'm doing my part! I stopped eating vegetables!"

"Doomsday isn't coming"
"It's not the end of the world"
"(Insert Rhetoric HERE)"
"We're not here--we're Imaginary Americans"
"Jon Stewart eats babies"
"Colbert testified before Congress, and all I got is this lousy sign"

"Bush is a conservative, Obama is a liberal"
"Bush = Republican, Obama = Democrat"
"Obama was born in Hawaii"
"Obama is a Christian"

"Hitler was like Hitler"
"Socialists are socialists"
"I respectfully disagree"
"I realize you're not treading on me"
"My taxes are just fine, in fact they could be a bit higher"
"I really enjoyed I N C E P T I O N"

"Muslim American : not an oxymoron"
"U.S.-Canadian border:5525 miles, U.S.-Mexican border:1933 miles. Interesting."

"I'm in the middle!"

I think I will go with the moderate sign,

"Can't we all just get along?"

Man, this thread is moderate!

Nihilists? Fuck me. Say what you will about the tenets of national socialism, dude. At least it's an ethos.

This post really ties the thread together.

What gets me is this ...
HA! Oxymoron if I ever heard one. Since when has any rally ever been sane?
Wouldn't the more moderate action be to passively aggressively vlog about it on youtube with some unrefreshing humor sprinkled here and there? Attending a rally makes it sound like an advertisement ... almost like most politics.

Moderation requires an incredibly open mind. How does politics represent that in any dynamic?

i'm not sure that the point of the rally is to get a bunch of people to go to dc in order to stand around being all beige and moderate. i think it's more to get people who aren't of the neo-fascist persuasion to turn out. it's also by extension a challenge to infotainment outlets like faux news, which has been fundamental to creating the tea party by giving it very considerable air time. so you can see how this sort of thing builds on the image of itself. well, on that and millions upon millions of dollars courtesy of those fine kansas koch brothers and other ultra-rightwing capitalist oligarchs.

so moderate in the sense of not the ultra-right. moderate in all kinds of senses.

it's an anti-tea party action. you get that, right x-man?

I'm only here to get laid.

"I'll show you my big John Stewart, if you promise to give me a Stephen Colbert."

It should be a good time. I'll be in DC for this. :)

If you're there and you happen to own a digital camera...

so where the hell is it ? it's listed on the comcast menu as being on NOW but it's that damn doctor show...

It was on Comedy Central streaming live and it will be played again.

Be sure not to miss the last 10 minutes or so.

Jon Stewart's Closing Speech
 

Alright, just don't try to put it in my Beck or I'll Palin all over you.

I do have a great digital camera. I took over 300 pictures. :)

I am amazed that the DC Metro system doesn't know how to handle rallies and crowds by now. It is clean, but they need to redesign the ticketing process, and create 'express' trains that only go from one station to the mall. Even the parking lots filled up, and I had no idea if there was extra parking (there was a high school close by that they should have directed people to). But, it would have been even nicer if there was a high speed train that would travel from Cleveland or Cincinnati to DC.

[insert picture 1041 here]


The signs came in three flavors: sane, funny to lefties, and making fun of the right. Weird or Halloween would make up another category


I can list a few of them here

Sane:
We're From The Internet - We're Here To Help

Another American for Competence

The Fear Is Too Damn High Party

Be Excellent To Each Other

Restore Sanity

Muslims For Peace ( 2 guys from muslimsforpeace.org)

I Want My Country Forward

I Really Like Your Sign

I'm For Effective Government - And Kisses

The END is probably still a long way off - Do you want to grab and ice cream or something?

Obama Probably Not Trying To Destroy America

Keep Calm and Carry On

Don't Panic

Work Together

I Don't Have Time For This

xkcd.com/470

Things Are Pretty Okay (slogan from above website)

I'm MAD AS HELL and likely eventually going to do something about it... Maybe if I move a few around.

iHoop

I Can Handle A Difference Of Opinion

I Like Anyone Who's Nice


This Rally Was On My Bucket List

Liberal:
The Rich Need To Pay Some Taxes

1/2 the vehicles in N. Virgina are SUVs, These Office Workers are using up the World's Oil & Getting Our Troops Killed

2 Protect Children - Legalize Pot

(Guy dresses as Grim Reaper) - Death Thanks The GOP For Their Stance On Healthcare Reform, You Guys Sure Make My Job Easy

Green Is Good!

When you teach a man to HATE and FEAR his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color, or his beliefs, or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those that differ from you threaten your FREEDOM, or your JOB, or your FAMILY, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered. -RFK - 1969

Tea Leaves, Hope Stays

Freedom Isn't Free - We All Have To Pay Taxes

We Prefer Facts With Our Tea

Decaffeinate The Tea Party

You May Think That You Are Right, But You May Be Mistaken


Insane:
The Republican Contract On America:
1. Wreck The Economy
2. Blame Obama
3. Sell Nation To Highest Bidder

Mad HATEers are Running The TEA Party

(Guy dressed up as giant tea bag) I'm A Tea Bagger - Keep Fear Alive - Live Scared

(Picture of) Christine O'Donnell weights the same as a duck - (The girl holding it was dressed as a witch)

Up With Hope, Down With Dope (with picture of Obama and Beck)

Don't Drink The Tea

The Cable 'news' industry has killed investigative journalism and reduces current events to sound bites

I Masturbate to Christine O'Donnell

Millennials - You'd Better Be Nice To Us, We'll Be On our 'death panel'

Let's Compromise: You Can Practice Witchcraft if I Can Masturbate. Everybody Wins!

As an actual Communist, I Can Tell You Obama Is Not One (Guy dressed up in CCCP stuff)

Weird:
Fear The Amish

Has Anyone Seen My Car?

Where Am I?

I Made A Sine (with a sine wave on it)

Where's The Nearest Whole Foods?

Sorry if I am blocking you view

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There there was a giant Dragon float that has a small after-party going on. I'll have to post some pictures sometime. I will also need to watch the DVR because they weren't audible wher I was standing

The 100 Best Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear: Pics, Videos, Links, News

One of my favourites: "The Mad Hatter called. He wants his tea party back."

"Silly Republicans! Tea Parties Are For Little Girls."
:oogle: :lol:

http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/enhan...8640810-35.jpg

actually, I got a kick out of this one, filmed at the Jon Stewart rally:

Ok that was funny. Reminds me of Jay Leno and his "street walking."

My favorite sign was one being held by a large breasted young lady in a tight t-shirt that read "I think we can all agree boobs are AWESOME!"

I agree.

Thanks, loquitur, that was hilarious...and just a little bit sad at the same time.