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The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally

Posted by samzenpus on from the giving-truth-the-bump dept.

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.'"

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  1. Count me in by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Count me in by jeffmeden · · Score: 5, Funny

      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!

    2. Re:Count me in by humphrm · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    3. Re:Count me in by DriedClexler · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    4. Re:Count me in by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

    5. Re:Count me in by Rakarra · · Score: 5, Funny

      My God, it's windy in here.

  2. Page hits, my man, page hits by spun · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Mystery solved.

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  3. Well, because it's a "young woman" ... by guanxi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. Re:Most of the pople who Watch Colbert..... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Re:Go Stephen! by Rei · · Score: 5, Funny

    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. ;)

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  6. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

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