Thread: Rally to Restore Sanity Today

YES!!!! Restore Sanity.....KICKTHEMALLOUT!!!!!!!!!! NOV 2, 2010!!!!!


http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/



Kathyet

Originally Posted by kathyet

YES!!!! Restore Sanity.....KICKTHEMALLOUT!!!!!!!!!! NOV 2, 2010!!!!!


http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

This rally looks a little dubious. Not sure what the focus is.




Kathyet

I love to keep an eye on the enemy. C-SPAN is supposed to cover the rally today on one of their live streams......

http://www.c-span.org/



Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear Today in Washington
Today

Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert present their satirical response to recent political rallies, the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, on the National Mall today.

The event has been promoted by the two comedian commentators as "a rally for the people who've been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) -- not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority."

Little information has been released regarding the lineup of the rally, however it will include musical performances by Jeff Tweedy, Sheryl Crow and the Roots.


Also...

The entire event will be shown live on Comedy Central as well as C-SPAN, and streamed online at RallyToRestoreSanityAndOrFear.com. http://www.rallytorestoresanityandorfear.com/ The stream will also be made available via iPhone, iPads, and mobile devices.

I think this Is more of a (keep progressives In power rally.) Stage set on National Mall for Stewart, Colbert rally Remember the guy that went to Washington and cried that we need all Illegals In our country. Colbert Is also already bashing some Tea-Party candidates with a chance to knock off old and tired Incumbents. Washington (CNN) -- Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold a rally on the National Mall Saturday, putting a satirical spin on partisan politics three days before midterm elections.

Stewart and Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" is scheduled to start at noon.

They announced the rally in September, less than three weeks after conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck hosted a much-publicized "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall, urging large crowds to "turn back to God" and return America to the values on which it was founded.
Since then, Stewart's rally has grabbed headlines -- many asking, could the man making a living off mocking politicians actually be stepping into political activism?

The comedian hasn't offered many specifics.
"This is for the people that are too busy, that have jobs and lives, and are tired of their reflection in the media as being a divided country and a country that's ideological and conflicted and fighting. This is for those people," Stewart told CNN's Larry King.

Stewart says the rally is not political, though it lands on the weekend before the midterm elections, and seems designed as the satirical reply to Beck's "Rally to Restore Honor."

"Is this going to be a fun, Saturday event with a lot of laughs that we get to replay the clips on television?" asked CNN "Reliable Sources" host Howard Kurtz. "Or is it going to be something that, while wrapped in humor, is going to make a serious political point about folks in the middle, moderates who are alienated by the extremists on both sides, or by the partisan shouting on both sides?"
If Stewart does decide to use the bully pulpit for a cause, Kurtz said, he risks becoming like the very figures he so cleverly pokes fun at on his show.

In a nonscientific online poll after the death last year of Walter Cronkite, Time magazine named Stewart "America's most trusted newscaster." Stewart captured 44 percent of that vote, with NBC's Brian Williams finishing a distant second at 29 percent.

Actual scientific polling in 2007 by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found Stewart tied for fourth place as viewers' favorite news person, ranking alongside Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams and CNN's Anderson Cooper, and just behind Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Bill O'Reilly.

Stewart began the week in Washington, hosting his show from a downtown studio. He interviewed President Obama on Wednesday, grilling him on the upcoming election and why Democrats seem to be disenchanted with the administration.

Colbert recently blasted Sean Bielat, the Republican running against Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, and Ken Buck, the Republican running in Colorado's Senate race, for their views on gays and lesbians. Buck linked being gay to alcoholism while Bielat said that gays and lesbians shouldn't serve in the military, just as short people cannot.

In his typical deadpan shtick, Colbert said, "Sean Bielat and Ken Buck can't help being politically opportunistic election year gay-baiters. They were born that way."

Restore Sanity KICKTHEMALLOUT!!!!!!!!

BYE BYE!!!!!

Kathyet

I saw two mexicans with sombreros in the front. They must be illegal GET THEM!

We were watching it and my wife said "this is stupid, turn this crap!" I didn't have any rebuttal.

was watching, lotta people there, they must be bored.

Free rock concert, of course a few thousand dead heads will show up. Most of them won't do much politically though.

To me there were 3 significant differences between Beck's rally and Stewarts:

1. Beck's rally provided substance. Stewart's rally was a longer, live version of his TV show.

2.Beck's rally drew at least 50% more attendees (based on CBS numbers and National Park personnel estimates). Personally, I believe Beck's was probably closer to 500K and Stewart's closer to 100K to 150 K people.

3. What should scare leftists, or a at least give them a reason for major concern, is that getting leftists to any kind of rally is relatively easy. As Bowman said:

Free rock concert, of course a few thousand dead heads will show up. Most of them won't do much politically though.

On the other hand, getting conservatives to a rally and getting the 'silent majority' to give voice to their convictions and concerns is something that is entirely new to all of us, especially leftist politicians and their stooges in the media. Getting from 50% more people to as many as 500% more people to a conservative rally vs a 'moderate' (lefitst) rally should have leftist politicians and strategists shaking in their (brown) boots.

P.S. The Stewart rally had plenty of major media coverage, publicity and support. Beck had to rely on Fox, his own show, and other talk show hosts.