The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally

jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"

Comments

Count me in

[jeffmeden]

If he will resort to weeping publicly over his concern for our great Republic, I will show up and offer him a kleenex. It's only decent.

Re:Count me in

[jeffmeden]

Also, in case you needed more of a reason, the proposed date is 10/10/10... Are you thinking what I'm thinking? 101010 in binary=42 in decimal. The answer is right in front of us!

Re:Count me in

[humphrm]

Yeah, Beck was the first one to think to hold a rally, and now everyone else is just mimicking Beck.

Re:Count me in

[DriedClexler]

But that's for the British convention of dd/mm/yy. What happens if you read October 10th with mm/dd/yy?

Re:Count me in

[alta]

It goes back longer than that. Jesus was pretty good at holding a rally. And before him, Moses could rally the troops and get them to march through the freakin desert for years! Damn, noah could even rally the animals!

Re:Count me in

[Wyatt Earp]

Jesus and Moses were at the National Mall?

I've never read the Book of Mormon, but I don't think the National Mall makes an appearance in it, but Jesus is here in the New World.

Re:Count me in

[Anonymous Coward]

Thus proving that 42 = 24.

Re:Count me in

[AkiraRoberts]

Only this year? Seriously neat trick.

Re:Count me in

[ePhil_One]

But that's for the British convention of dd/mm/yy. What happens if you read October 10th with mm/dd/yy?

I need my dates machine sortable. What happens if I use yy/mm/dd?

Re:Count me in

[Rakarra]

My God, it's windy in here.

Re:Count me in

[jemtallon]

Interesting. Why do you think this "left" and "right" exist? And assuming they do, why do you feel this "left" group all agree so uniformly with a couple slashdotters? Do they have a newsletter I've yet to subscribe to? I eagerly await your wisdom. Much love, Jem

Re: Count me in

[Black Parrot]

Same with the Daily Show--they'll mock conservatives for their policies

Policies, plural?

Ten years ago they had "bomb Iraq" and "cut taxes on the rich" as the twin pillars of their platform, but since 2003 they've been down to one.

Page hits, my man, page hits

[spun]

Controversy leads to page hits. Page hits lead to advertisers. Advertisers lead to income. Income leads to getting laid.

Mystery solved.

Re:Page hits, my man, page hits

[Anonymous Coward]

Income leads to getting laid.

So again, why is this on Slashdot?

Re:Page hits, my man, page hits

[Anonymous Coward]

Getting laid leads to marriage. Marriage leads to... SUFFERING.

Re:What the hell?

[MyLongNickName]

"The person who posted this image is incapable of reading directions. Feel free to publically ridicule him or her."

Consider yourself ridiculed.

Re:Most of the pople who Watch Colbert.....

[Lunix Nutcase]

Speaking from personal experience?

Think not what your country can do for you....

[Gaian-Orlanthii]

...but what you can do for your country TO GET RID OF GLENN BECK. I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.

Re:Think not what your country can do for you....

[Un pobre guey]

GET RID OF GLENN BECK

We choose to do it not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

Re:Think not what your country can do for you....

[Jesus_666]

Getting rid of Beck would be like getting rid of Hitler

You destroy everything he's built up until he commits suicide in his basement?

Well, because it's a "young woman" ...

[guanxi]

I wasn't interested in this at all, until I read that it was a young woman who made the post to Reddit. Now I'm definitely interested. Does anyone know what she looks like? I mean, being a woman implies she's old enough, and young is certainly promising, but you never know. Before I get involved in something like this, I definitely want to know what she looks like. I've been burned on more than one blind date and Internet romance. Also, of course, is she married? Is she dating anyone? How seriously? Is he socially conscious? Because I am, and that's usually my hook, because I'm not really like a jock or anything, but some girls are into that. Also, we both like Colbert, so that's something in common too. Anyway, if anyone gets her email address or some pics, please send them to me, because this seems like a really cool idea from a young woman.

Re:Most of the pople who Watch Colbert.....

[spun]

Oh, no, there are all kinds of Glenn Beck fans. For instance, there is the crazy wing: libertarian crazies, religious crazies, racist crazies. Then there is the retard wing, home-schooled retards, closeted retards, old senile retards. We also have the diabolically evil faction, Wall Street evil, coal mining evil, big oil evil, the military industrial evil complex.

Glen Beck's popularity spans all sorts of crazy, retarded and evil.

Re:Most of the pople who Watch Colbert.....

[Lunix Nutcase]

Yeah, it's hilarious to hear a Tea Bagger proclaiming that the government should "keep their hands off my Medicare".

Re:What the hell?

[oldspewey]

Nah, you're overreacting. We will still be free to use subtlety and nuance. Teabaggers are unable to detect or comprehend subtlety and nuance.

Re:Go Stephen!

[Rei]

I think the funniest thing would be the signs the Colbert supporters would be carrying. I'm picturing things like:

"You'll Pry My Teller-Ulam Configuration Thermonuclear Device From My Cold Dead Hands! / 'The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed!"

"Abortion Kills! / Also, Has Anybody Seen My Keys? I Think I Dropped Them Somewhere Around Here."

"I Have A Third-Grade Education And I VOTE!"

"Barack Obama Is An Incompetent Kenyan Socialist Buffoon Who's Carefully Engineering The Wholesale Restructuring Of Our Society For Militant Islam!"

"Don't Tread On Me / (pic) / Because I'm A Snake And Stuff!"

"I Don't Support Socialist Road Spending / I Took The Subway To The Protest!"

"Bring Back The 1950s!"

"There's A Gathering Storm Of Gays Coming For Your Kids. RUN! Run Like The Wind!"

Oh, and probably a lot of chalkboards. ;)

Re:It's the answer!!!!

[Red Flayer]

If you put in the proposed date into a binary translator, 10/10/10, you get an output of 42!!!

If you need to use a binary translator to determine that, then you're on the wrong website.

Please hand in your geek card on your way out.

Re:Ignore the Troll

[Attila Dimedici]

You obviously have never seen any of Keith Olberman's political rants.

Re:Go Stephen!

[Anonymous Coward]

So your "very significant" difference is at this time only in your expectations, since the Colbert event hasn't happened yet.

I see one difference between a normal person and you, and that is that based only on my imagination, I am quite confident you eat your nail pickings.

Re:Whoever keeps modding Wyatt Earp Flamebait,

[rwa2]

I prefer to refer to it as "passing the torch to the next generation"

*sits back and relaxes*

So, kids, run forth... and get off my lawn! (I just recently had it sprayed with volatile highly-combustible compounds)

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Re:The Genius of the People ...

[Anonymous Coward]

So you smack down the genius of the elites by citing with approval...documents written by the elites? Wow you sure showed yourself!

Two Words

[Anonymous Coward]

Bear.

Costume.

Re:Whoever keeps modding Wyatt Earp Flamebait,

[spun]

Luxury. In my day, we had to torch kids with whale oil.