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Stewart and Colbert Plan Competing D.C. Rallies
Lev13than writes "In a direct retort to Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced competing rallies on October 30th. Stewart plans to host a 'Rally To Restore Sanity' on Oct. 30 on the National Mall in D.C. for the Americans he says are too busy living normal, rational lives to attend other political demonstrations. Colbert, meantime, will shepherd his fans in a 'March To Keep Fear Alive.' 'Damn your reasonableness!' Colbert said. 'Now is not the time to take it down a notch. Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom!' Stewart, meanwhile, has promised to provide attendees with signs featuring slogans such as 'I Disagree With You But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler' and 'I'm Afraid of Spiders.'"
"Stewart, meanwhile, has promised to provide attendees with signs"
You mean just like a union rally where the sloganeering is handled not by the people attending but the people rallying them up....
How original.
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Yeah cause the Glenn Beck rally was full of angry people throwing molotov cocktails at riot police.....
Just like a G-8 anarchist rally....
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The problem with Stewart (not so much Colbert), is that too many people get their news from him, a comedian (or is he??). Stewart isn't funny most of the time, he's just as ridiculous as those he ridicules, and most of the time unintentionally so.
Take for instance his anti rally rally. Why didn't he do this when there was a Million man march, or any of the other "rallies" that have taken place by well known left leaning organizations? Oh right, because those were "serious" rallies addressing "serious concerns", while the GB rally was .. um ... too right wing for Stewart.
Stewarts just pissed because the Tea Party (and conservative libertarians) have taking the playbook from Leftwingers .THAT is why he's having the rally, it isn't about comedy at all for him. His rally is seriousness dressed up as comedy, just like his TV show. This rally only shows how petty he really is.
Now Colbert, he's making fun of Stewart just as much as he's making fun of GB. True comic genius. I wonder if Stewart get the joke. I'd go that his rally if I lived anywhere near DC.
My prediction, Stewart's rally is filled with venom and hate, directed at GB and the TeaPartiers, while Colbert's rally is fun and entertaining, poking fun at just about everyone, including Colbert.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
They are serious too. This is a political rally as much as Glenn Beck's was except dressed up as comedy. Btw, I find it kind of sad that instead of criticizing those in power (as they did relentlessly and hilariously when Bush was in the office) the "political satirists" are now rallying on behalf of a political party in power ahead of a difficult election. These two are not about comedy anymore, like Maher, they have become blatant political activists on behalf of the Democrat party.
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
I agree. They used to be more even-handed. And on top of that, it used to be that the party in power got most of the jabs.
Their cynical attempt to cash in on the public's historic level of dissatisfaction with government is just that... a cynical attempt to cash in. These guys are trying to make money, as much as possible. Nobody should believe they have any motives other than those. And they couldn't hope to draw the same number of people as these other rallies, so that explains the opposing events.
These people take themselves far too seriously. It's just a shame that people think this qualifies as participation in the political process. Satire has a place but it's not a substitute for serious discussion or constructive contribution.
1)I'm not a (R). And if you look through my posts, you'll see that I'm not. (R) are just (D) lite. Most are spineless idiots. SO if I'm using Talking points, it is accidental.
2)Obama's Afghan policy is fair. My point wasn't about Obama's policy in Afghanistan. My point was about the code pinkers and Cyndi Sheehan types who were protesting both wars and now can't be found anywhere.
And we're able to get out of Iraq in spite of what Obama wanted to do there. We did the troop surge thing and it seems to have worked, which was exactly the opposite of what Obama wanted to do. Who knows, maybe the same result would have happened had we pulled everyone out of Iraq, we'll never know.
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- and am really looking forward to it.
I'll be in the Colbert - 'Keep Fear Alive' side.
My sign will read;
'The New American Tea-Party;
Harnessing the Power of Stupid.
Finally, A Renewable resource all republicans can agree on!'
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Which is why I said the hero worship of them is slightly less annoying than of Glenn Beck.
Truth is that the hero worship of them is slightly more annoying. The fact that people put such political value in what those two comedians says is really scary.
The only reason I find the Hero Worship of Beck more annoying in totall is that Beck is more annoying as a person and political figure.
I would like for everybody to stop worshiping all the TV and radio talking heads and start thinking for themselves.
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I've tried learning more about conservative and libertarian values, and they contrast very strongly with what the last> administration did too. The frustration I find among people goes beyond partisanship, notwithstanding what anyone may be seeing through flag / stained glass / pot - colored lenses. Both sides are big juicy targets for mockery; the real straw man is the idea that the major parties differ in matters of real import.
If Stewart and Colbert do a creditable job sending up both sides, then good on 'em. We should evaluate this stunt on that basis. If they don't, they'll simply blend in with the current phalanx of distractors and apologists for the (very bipartisan) lawlessness that proceeds apace to hollow out our Treasury.
How is it that the Party of "law and order" remains face-down in its oatmeal while:
- The Fed buys non-guaranteed securities without Congressional approval, then cites the adjacent paragraph in its charter (dealing in loans) as justification?
(see "Maiden Lane" and others)
- Banks foreclose on houses they never owned for loans they never touched, while running money to drug dealers and terrorists?
(half a dozen news stories in just the last six months!)
How is it that the Party of inclusion and fair compensation for labor:
- Creates conditions which isolate and impoverish whole neighborhoods and cultures?
( Uncontrolled welfare, Fannie/Freddie pushing housing prices out of reach, etc.)
- Works hammer and tongs to send jobs out of the country while abetting a virtual slave trade within?
( NAFTA/free trade, refusal to bust corps who hire illegals and abuse them)
You may still be dazzled by the Punch and Judy illusion, but please realize that those who operate the supposedly opposed puppets will merrily sit down to drinks with each other afterward, counting the gate money.
The real constructive thing about these rallies is that they mock the worst excesses of the media circus, and put out a plea for all of us to stop fighting among ourselves (the desired result of the "programming"!).
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I wish I had waited to post until I read this. Two of the three names on the application for the permit for this rally are political operatives from the Clinton Administration, so yeah this is really non-partisan.
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Now I substitute it with Chicago's Progressive Talk radio streamed over the net, plus MSNBC.com streams of Rachel Maddow
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Hey I did say that Beck hero worship was slightly more annoying.
But it just the hero worship in general that I find deeply offensive.
Notice the hits I am taking from those that worship the Daily Show.
And they can be funny at times but there fan base has made me stop watching them. I fear they are beginning to believe that they are more than comedians. Worse are those that get their "news" from the daily show.
I to like NPR and I am a slightly to the conservative side of centrist. I feel there bias shows at times but I also feel that is an honest failing on their part. I do think they make the effort to not be biased and to be fair. In the end that effort makes them in my opinion a good news service. After all no one is perfect but they do try.
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Really?
On a world wide scale?
Or do you mean compared to Europe?
Because just in case you didn't know Europe isn't the rest of the world.
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So when you see Brad Pitt appear on Regis And Kelly touting his latest movie, you would call him the "prime mover" in the creation of that movie, despite him being only an actor hired on relatively late in the creative process?
Sorry. Front men are called "front men" not because they are the people most interested in the activity, just the ones put up front to make it look palatable.
I find the irony of Jon Stewart fronting something called "return to sanity" simply overwhelming. Does that mean he's quitting his Comedy Central show? (Doubt it.)
I also don't doubt that were Karl Rove in any way involved, the press would be making that fact well known, while Stephanopolous is a mainstream "news" person these days and nobody says anything. And Carville appears on MSNBC as a "political commentator" while his wife appears as "Republican strategist".