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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.'"
And your point is... what exactly?
His shtick is funny and has more truth in it than O'Reilly/GB's festering mouth(s) could ever dream of.
I am Jack's smirking revenge.
That is because Republicans are out doing things. Mainly crazy things that can be made fun of. Democrats are not doing much of anything. Sure they don't get made fun of- but they also aren't doing anything to run the country.
I don't know the term for the opposite of "comedian", "tragedean", maybe? Whatever the term would be, that's Beck. He openly uses lies and manipulative tragedy to get outrage among his followers. He derides everything in sight, with a double helping reserved for anyone who he thinks his followers might agree with him on.
I believe the term you're looking for is "demagogue":
"I'm waiting for the first domestic terrorist attack on a mosque..."
This is supposed to be like some kind of new thing to be worried about? Something that Beck is bringing in fresh and new? Lets not forget that Lee Harvey Oswald was a raving lunatic LEFTIST, and more recently we have the nut job who took down 32 students at Virginia Tech a few years ago, John Malvo & John Allen Muhammad, the beltway sniper duo, McVeigh & Nicols... so all these are to be blamed on Beck too? Its now like you take Beck out and all these problems are solved. So stop talking nonsense.
Python: 'And then suddenly you have a language which says "we're all stuck with whatever the whiniest coder wants".'
The reason liberals don't like Obama is because under his leadership every dollar of public good is bought with two dollars of corporate welfare.
Cf. Health Care Reform
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade