Restore Sanity + one Nation = more people than any insane right wing gathering could ever hope for

Stewart Rally – 150,000

Beck Rally – 400,000

The only thing they had in common was the nearly all white crowds.

Sore loser Mod can’t face the reality that the vast majority of Americans do not want the right wing madness

Ozzy Osbourne is there to bring sanity to the rally.

ModerateMan said:
Stewart Rally – 150,000

Beck Rally – 400,000

The only thing they had in common was the nearly all white crowds.

Well, you’re right. Even Stewart said that the most important part of a rally is not the intellectual cohesiveness of the message, but the size and color of the crowd. Thanks for making his point :)

Iris said:
Sore loser Mod can’t face the reality that the vast majority of Americans do not want the right wing madness

Actually, this is about pushing all of the craziness out of the national discourse. We don’t want any madness, we want sanity.

Iris said:
Restore Sanity + one Nation = more people than any insane right wing gathering could ever hope for

iris = what happens when untreated syphilis eats your brain. fyi im not talking about your aunt Syphilis.

“CBS is estimating the crowd at 87,000. NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000…. the discrepancy begs the question: how do you lose 200,000 people?”

Easy, when you have NBC as a veritable propaganda arm of the White House!

This is the rally to prop up Stewart & Colbert.

Typical Democratic Rally – all the pretty white faces telling minorities how they need White Liberals to survive!

Thesecomments, sorry I pissed you off so much you were forced to make such lame comment, why don’t you just sit back and enjoy the show, you mighgt feel better

“This is nice. The guy who supported the assassination fatwa against Salman Rushdie is on stage singing Peace Train. Kumbaya.”

http://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/29202902750

Here’s the video of Stevens/Islam on Rushdie: http://is.gd/guDMB

http://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/29204024558

Iris said:
Thesecomments, sorry I pissed you off so much you were forced to make such lame comment, why don’t you just sit back and enjoy the show, you mighgt feel better

dont give yourself so much credit. i actually pity you, like a mongoloid.

NORBIT said:
“CBS is estimating the crowd at 87,000. NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000…. the discrepancy begs the question: how do you lose 200,000 people?”

Easy, when you have NBC as a veritable propaganda arm of the White House!

This is the rally to prop up Stewart & Colbert.

Typical Democratic Rally – all the pretty white faces telling minorities how they need White Liberals to survive!

you are not even watching are you

there have been no politics at all

Iris says:
Sore loser Mod can’t face the reality that the vast majority of Americans do not want the right wing madness

Wow, you are in denial. Let’s talk on Wednesday, unless you’re in a drucken stupor that day!

Thesecomments, you couldn’t just say retard , like using mongoloid supposed to make everybody think you’re really, really, really, really, really, really really smart

Iris says:
Thesecomments, sorry I pissed you off so much you were forced to make such lame comment, why don’t you just sit back and enjoy the show, you mighgt feel better

Hey Joy, I mean iris, how many times are you gonna use that exact same comment?

like using mongoloid supposed to make everybody think you’re really, really, really, really, really, really really smart

Of course, NO ONE ever makes that assumption about Joy, I mean Iris.

Iris said:
Thesecomments, you couldn’t just say retard , like using mongoloid supposed to make everybody think you’re really, really, really, really, really, really really smart

no iris i used “mongoloid” (instead of “person with down syndrome”) because its offensive to PC libpussies like yourself. try and wrap whats left of the mush inside your skull around that…

Stephen Hogan said:
Actually, this is about pushing all of the craziness out of the national discourse. We don’t want any madness, we want sanity.

Since you are for sanity, let me ask you, is $1.4 trillion deficits sane or insane?

Is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street sane or insane?

Is $13 trillion in debt sane or insane?

Is having to payout over $360 billion a year in interest payments to our debt owners sane or insane?

That’s what I thought. This is all nothing but a distraction – a distraction to get the heads of voters to stop looking at the realities of our circumstances and looking at a couple of entertaining morons just prior to an election.

You’re so right liberty. That’s why the Dem’s have absolutely refused to talk about the issues during this election cycle. They are hoping people will focus on studpid stuff like this and not what’s actually going on. Fortunately, the ones that are doing that are just the in the dark libs, who will vote DEM anyway. They aren’t changing any minds. The rest of the country is paying attention, finallyi!

Stephen Hogan said:
Actually, this is about pushing all of the craziness out of the national discourse. We don’t want any madness, we want sanity.

“Nationalizing industries is crazy. Passing thousand-page bills based on deliberately falsified deficit projections is crazy. Passing those bills without even reading them is crazy. Racking up a $13 trillion national debt is crazy. Accepting 10% unemployment as the “new normal” is crazy. Dropping gigantic tax increases on a recessionary economy is crazy. Fleeing Washington without even voting on those tax increases is crazy.
Paying serious attention to a rally “Oprahturfed” by billionaire entertainers and liberal activists, as if it represented some outpouring of popular support for the lunatic agenda of this President, would be completely nuts. Enjoy your afternoon on the Mall, Mr. Stewart. There will be a much bigger Rally to Restore Sanity on November 2nd.”

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/10/17/restoring-sanity/

What a great show! what a great day!
Thank you Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert for showing the world what America realy is!

Hey Iris, why didn’t you go. Your “boss” wouldn’t gvie you the time off? Didn’t you tell him you could work just as easily from there?

I urge everyone to watch this rally right now live on TV.

Reason and sanity, people!

Not insanity and lies.

Oh, and it’s also really funny.

Yuslaf Islam, talking about Salman Rushidie, said:
“He must be killed. The Qur’an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die.” http://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/29203359122

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/yusuf-islam-aka-cat-stevens-and-ozzy-osbourne-battle-at-sanity-rally/

Yuslaf Islam, talking about Salman Rushidie, said:
“He must be killed. The Qur’an makes it clear – if someone defames the prophet, then he must die.” http://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/29203359122

“Rushdie”

Hey shoot, instead of being a drive-by accuser, why not list the “lies” from the Beck rally? It used to be that if you just made the accusation, that was enough, but not anymore. Now you need to provide proof or just shut up!

More Liberty said:
Since you are for sanity, let me ask you, is $1.4 trillion deficits sane or insane?

Is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street sane or insane?

Is $13 trillion in debt sane or insane?

Is having to payout over $360 billion a year in interest payments to our debt owners sane or insane?

That’s what I thought. This is all nothing but a distraction – a distraction to get the heads of voters to stop looking at the realities of our circumstances and looking at a couple of entertaining morons just prior to an election.

You answer your own questions without waiting for a response.

The sanity I speak of is sanity in the national discourse. That way, we can reasonably and pragmatically deal with our nation’s problems. Sanity of discourse will eventually translate into sanity of policy. I dislike the deficit as much as you do, but demagoguery from either side is not going to solve it.

Seeing michellef, i guess you’re just determined to prove you really are what everyone thinks you are.
I apologized but you just can’t let it go or God forbid just sit back and enjoy a really good day and has some fun

Shoot, you’re right, best rally ever
The videos are already going viral! and that fear montage was the best~!

Good job John & Steven… Cheers!

Jon Stewart is the absolute best! and proved today he is also very wise and loves this country very much

Iris said:
Shoot, you’re right, best rally ever
The videos are already going viral! and that fear montage was the best~!

you know a lot about viral…

More Liberty said:
Since you are for sanity, let me ask you, is $1.4 trillion deficits sane or insane?

Is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street sane or insane?

Is $13 trillion in debt sane or insane?

Is having to payout over $360 billion a year in interest payments to our debt owners sane or insane?

That’s what I thought. This is all nothing but a distraction – a distraction to get the heads of voters to stop looking at the realities of our circumstances and looking at a couple of entertaining morons just prior to an election.

This guy is scary. I don’t like him very much.

More Liberty said:
Since you are for sanity, let me ask you, is $1.4 trillion deficits sane or insane?

Is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street sane or insane?

Is $13 trillion in debt sane or insane?

Is having to payout over $360 billion a year in interest payments to our debt owners sane or insane?

Problems are neither sane nor insane. Instead, they are realities that our country faces and needs to be solved.

But to think that these problems can be solved through demagoguery and division, that definitely is insane.

Rousseau

If you don’t like liberals then you must not like clean air and water standards, the 40 hour work week, Social Security, the civil rights movement, fair housing laws, rural electrification, child labor laws, the minimum wage, employee health care benefits, the freedom of information act, voting rights act, and MUCH MORE. Liberals fought conservatives for YEARS to obtain these freedoms for YOU, and YOU ARE WELCOME – rally for sanity

Vote for sensible candidates, not extremists http://youtu.be/VYnKYoiK-iw!

i remember when the old Republican party had morals and cared about CONSERVING the environment…now it is a greedy, corporate owned TOOL which cares only about money and how to get more of it for the people who bought them: the corporations and koch brothers

Reality check. NBC did not quote a Parks Services count of 300,000 people for Beck’s rally because the part stopped counting people at rallies and events 13 years ago. NBC quoted that the Parks Service said that the permit for Glenn Beck’s was for “up to 300,000 people,” not that 300,000 people actually showed up.

CBS used a non-partisan service who’s job is to fly in helicopters above crowds, take pictures then determine how many people are in the crowd. They came up with a about 87,000.

I watched the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear today and there were much more in attendance than Beck’s rally. And they only got a permit for up to 60,000 people. Sanity wins!

Did anybody else happen to listen to the calls afterwards? There seemed to have been a drastic difference in the coherency and knowledge of current events between those who called in as independents and democrats versus those who called in as Republicans, meaning the former were more informed, and most of the independents seemed to be going for democrats.

Video: Big crowd pours in for Colbert, Stewart rally http://bit.ly/aQBrfr #rally4sanity

Where are all the Black people?…sure looks mostly like a all White crowd..must mean Stewart an Colbert are racists like those Teabaggers.

The Fair Labor standards Act of 1938 created the 40 hour work week, established a minimum wage, overtime pay, and prohibited child labor. Franklin D Roosevelt was President. (DEM) many republicans opposed to the bill called it “socialist planning”. Thank you FDR for another decision that still protects us today.

I think what I love most was stewart’s thoughts on “muslims bombed us on 9/11″

Rowan said:
Reality check. NBC did not quote a Parks Services count of 300,000 people for Beck’s rally because the part stopped counting people at rallies and events 13 years ago. NBC quoted that the Parks Service said that the permit for Glenn Beck’s was for “up to 300,000 people,” not that 300,000 people actually showed up. CBS used a non-partisan service who’s job is to fly in helicopters above crowds, take pictures then determine how many people are in the crowd. They came up with a about 87,000. I watched the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear today and there were much more in attendance than Beck’s rally. And they only got a permit for up to 60,000 people. Sanity wins!

What pics are you looking at?
Side-by-side aerial comparisons of the crowd numbers show an enormous attendence margin in favor of Beck’s rally – which was or a specific cause and not some amorphous “sanity”- response rally!

HAHA, even stewart jokes about it being a mostly white crowd! Racists!!

Meanwhile, back in the real world, we are getting ready for Tuesday’s election:

Swing Voters Are Flocking to GOP

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304879604575582472322281134.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

You guys should’ve had the rally AFTER the election. That is when you are gonna need to laugh!

Norbit, don’t try to confuse them with facts.

wall street journal is owned by rubert murdoch no one takes them seriously

God forbid that those crazy republicans get into power. They have shown their true colors during the last administration and ruined the financial system and are promising to do it again! You have to be crazy or just plain dumb to vote them …in again. President Obama is doing a great job and will continue to make the changes we need if we are patient and don’t tie
his hands by electing republicans to the Senate and House. Come on and come out and vote to support our President and the Democratic party. Let us show the world we are not all crazy, mad, witches and racist and that we use the brains God gave us.

NBC did NOT report that the National Park Service estimated Beck’s crowd at 300,000. That was just another in a long and neverending series of lies and delusions.

In the REAL WORLD, the National Park Service does not provide crowd estimates at all, and NBC did not provide a number from the National Park Service. I know that reality is impossible for most people to tolerate, but reality doesn’t give a damn.

Also, in the real world, the aerial photos of the Beck rally and the expert analysis of those photos indicated that about 87,000 people was the most likely crowd size. The analysis does not rule out that the crowd could have been as low as 70,000 or as high as 100,000. It remains to be seen how large the crowd for this rally has been, although it’s certainly an immense crowd. The aerial photos will tell the story.

Rowan said:
CBS used a non-partisan service who’s job is to fly in helicopters above crowds, take pictures then determine how many people are in the crowd. They came up with a about 87,000.

Wrong. This was covered after Beck’s rally. The company does not provide “crowd estimating” services. Check their website. The do fly and take pictures, but they have no expertise in estimating crowd size

Maliheh says:
wall street journal is owned by rubert murdoch no one takes them seriously

Man, Denial is just a river in Egypt to you libs!

Martel said:
the expert analysis of those photos indicated that about 87,000 people was the most likely crowd size

and same to you

President Obama is doing a great job

HAHA, again with the denial. If that is true, why do 47% of DEMS think someone needs to challenge him in the primary?

NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000.”

Well, two things: 1. If it is from NBC, we know it’s a lie.

2. The National Park Service no longer makes estimates of crowd size because libs got mad when the PS made a smaller estimate of the Million Man March and the libs threaten them.

Since the Million Man March.

The controversy that blazed up over that event – with the Park Service estimating an attendance of 400,000 versus the organizers’ 1.2 million figure – resulted in the government simply washing its hands of the whole matter.

And if a number doesn’t come from the government, it’s not official.

It’s just PR from organizers, corporate news readers and other partisan parties.

In 1997, a House bill absolved the Park Service of head count responsibility with this language:

“The Committee has provided no funding for crowd counting activities associated with gatherings held on federal property in Washington, D.C. If event organizers wish to have an estimate on the number of people participating in their event, then those organizers should hire a private sector firm to conduct the count.”

BTW, Stewart’s crowd WAS ‘mostly white’, if skin tone is the criteria. Of course, the actual population of the country is ‘mostly white’ too. When the population is 13% African American, a representative crowd will have about 1 face out of 7 or 8 which is noticeably dark enough to discern some percentage of ‘non-white’ ancestry.

A long examination of Beck’s crowd indicated about 1 out of 85 or so with noticeable ‘non-white’ ancestry (as long as we don’t count the people protesting Beck). Of course, if you’re just looking for an excuse, it only takes one person out of a million, as long as you get that person on TV. After all, if it’s not on Fox, it’s not real, is it.

SmartAlec said:
and same to you

As I said, because it’s the actual reality as opposed to your spin, expert analysis of the aerial photos put the number at Beck’s rally at about 87,000. You know, if you weren’t spinning around so fast all the time you wouldn’t be so dizzy that you couldn’t think rationally. I’ve seen the photos. There were a lot of people there. There were also huge empty areas in the crowd and only small numbers of people under the trees at the sides of the pool. There were small straggling groups. Crowd size analysis from aerial photos is not rocket science. Within a range of 15-20% accuracy, it’s not difficult to provide a very good approximation, and that approximation for the Beck rally is 87,000. It doesn’t matter whether or not you happen to want to believe it. Your belief patterns are irrelevant since the real world just doesn’t care what you believe.

mlong said:
Where are all the Black people?…sure looks mostly like a all White crowd..must mean Stewart an Colbert are racists like those Teabaggers.

This black girl and her black friends were there! WOOT! Loved the speech. I want to say in D.C. FOREVER!!

notsofast said:
NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000.”

Well, two things: 1. If it is from NBC, we know it’s a lie.”

Since NBC didn’t report that, what do you call an organization which reports that NBC did report it? Fair and balanced, right?

Maliheh said:
Let us show the world we are not all crazy, mad, witches and racist and that we use the brains God gave us.

Look, only angry, crazed, lunatic devil worshipers can save us! God told them so! It’s in the Bible! Vote Republican!

Don’t forget to vote Democrat on November 2nd. Racist, right-wing crazy voters don’t deserve to have their votes count. Anyone that criticizes our government so vocally shouldn’t be trusted. Shut DOWN THE RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE, LIBERTARIAN VOTE!

Oh, for the love of God.

How many people were at Beck’s rally? A LOT!

How many people were at Stewart/Colbert’s rally? A LOT!

No way you can say that is false. It’s true, it’s a fact (depending on your definition of a LOT).

stoogedudes said:
Oh, for the love of God. How many people were at Beck’s rally? A LOT! How many people were at Stewart/Colbert’s rally? A LOT! No way you can say that is false. It’s true, it’s a fact (depending on your definition of a LOT).

Oh for the love of god you are trying to school a bunch of children on here. Mine is bigger NO mine is bigger. Good god!

you guys are comparing a “devotional” to a “free rock concert with celebrities” really? really?

BlackWidow said:
Oh for the love of god you are trying to school a bunch of children on here. Mine is bigger NO mine is bigger. Good god!

LOL. You’re right. But at least give me an A for effort. :)

NORBIT said:
“CBS is estimating the crowd at 87,000. NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000…. the discrepancy begs the question: how do you lose 200,000 people?”

Easy, when you have NBC as a veritable propaganda arm of the White House!

This is the rally to prop up Stewart & Colbert.

Typical Democratic Rally – all the pretty white faces telling minorities how they need White Liberals to survive!

Moron
Parks service does not do crowd estimates
It was a twitter posting
Idiot

notsofast said:
NBC quoted the National Parks service which put it at 300,000.”

Well, two things: 1. If it is from NBC, we know it’s a lie.

2. The National Park Service no longer makes estimates of crowd size because libs got mad when the PS made a smaller estimate of the Million Man March and the libs threaten them.

Since the Million Man March.

The controversy that blazed up over that event – with the Park Service estimating an attendance of 400,000 versus the organizers’ 1.2 million figure – resulted in the government simply washing its hands of the whole matter.

And if a number doesn’t come from the government, it’s not official.

It’s just PR from organizers, corporate news readers and other partisan parties.

In 1997, a House bill absolved the Park Service of head count responsibility with this language:

“The Committee has provided no funding for crowd counting activities associated with gatherings held on federal property in Washington, D.C. If event organizers wish to have an estimate on the number of people participating in their event, then those organizers should hire a private sector firm to conduct the count.”

WOW
I agree with you/me

Martel said:
that, what do you call an organization which reports that NBC did report it? Fair and balanced, right?

Mediaite.

notsofast said:
Since NBC didn’t report that, what do you call an organization which reports that NBC did report it? Fair and balanced, right?

I hate this place.
I am (not) leaving

Yusuf Islam is a islamic terrorist and Jihad supporter who said that anyone who criticizes Islam and Muhammad SHOULD BE MURDERED. Yusuf said that the writer, Salaman Rushdie, who wrote the Satanic Verses SHOULD BE KILLED…but than again Mediaite writers says “but…but…he was only joking”.

How do you joke about MURDERING someone for writing a book critical of Islam and Muhammad?

Only in a world of INSANITY would that be a “joke”.

Beck/Palin Rally –——- 400,000

Stewart/Colbert Rally – 100,000

Edie Schultz riding the bandwagon of the union thugs, peta, code pinko’s, anmderican commie party, american socialist party, prison inmates, street people, druggie junkies, etc. — 12,000 drunks & drugged up deadbeats who left 100 tons of trash and waste on the National Mall.

nutsofast said:
MoronParks service does not do crowd estimatesIt was a twitter postingIdiot

The quote was from the story write-up, to which I was responding.

I still don’t understand why Teabaggers United are intimidated by 2 COMEDiANS whose ratings are supposedly mediocre at best. The crowd photos have to be photoshopped I guess.

Iris said:
Sore loser Mod can’t face the reality that the vast majority of Americans do not want the right wing madness

Let it be said , the crowds rejected Ed Schultz’s CommieCon.

I had a friend who attended both rally’s Beck’s and Stewart’s and he said the Sanity rally had at least twice as many as Beck’s. He is a Washington native who goes to every rally to observe if not participate. He is not liberal or conservative and has no axes to grind. The pictures certainly show a larger crowd for today’s rally…

I’m not going to bother counting the number of commenters who tried to discount the NBC estimate of 300k, by suggesting that NBC is in the bag for the White House or something along those lines.

It’s just too funny.

In the original post, Frances was quoting from Glynnis’ story about the Beck rally. Initially, NBC reported that 300,000 people were there for Beck, but for some reason, it seems a whole lot of people who should be cheering that number misunderstood and are arguing that NBC overestimated the Beck crowd because somehow it served Obama…

WTF?

I’m sorry. I credited Frances for writing the OP and quoting Glynnis, when it was actually written by Colby. Naturally because I was being aholish, I made a simple mistake.

But, the premise still holds; The NBC estimate of 300k was for Beck.

Oh, and one last thing that I’d like to put somewhere, so I’m sticking it here.

The whole “who’s bigger” rally was and is a false narrative. In response to every post about the rally prior to the event, through this post and into pretty much every media report there has been post-event, there’s been a comparison to Beck’s rally.

Stewart never put size out as a measure. In fact, as someone noted above, the original permit application estimated a low number. I believe the previous commenter said 60,000, but I recall seeing 35,000 as the original number and considering that’s what they put on the paper post-Beck, then clearly having a larger crowd was never a goal.

Too funny..pictures tell the story..overhead pictures..that is…but more importantly..the crowd was mostly white..mostly young..mostly drunk…mostly just there to have a good time..when they grow up..they’ll understand why the grown-ups are concerned…remember..in the past..it has always been the young that is easily molded..remember the brown shirts of …google it..the N@zi Youth groups..there was a reason they did that.

Magister said:
Stewart never put size out as a measure.

I suppose you didn’t hear him saying that the only things that matter about rallies are color and size? this was just before they started having people count off and declare their demographic status.

Martel said:
There were a lot of people there. There were also huge empty areas in the crowd and only small numbers of people under the trees at the sides of the pool.

Nonsense. Under the trees (on 8/28) was utterly packed and the volunteers had a terribly difficult time trying to keep a pathway open. Shade was at a premium on a very sunny day and it was a lovely under the trees. I was there, under the trees.

The Stewart rally was huge too. I have no trouble believing it was 300K.

Pablo said:
I suppose you didn’t hear him saying that the only things that matter about rallies are color and size?

And, Jon’s statement couldn’t possibly have been sarcastic or facetious, what with him being a comedian and all.

He knew there would be dummies that would actually CARE about the “color and size”, dummies who would draw comparisons.

The “color and size” of the crowd seems to matter more to folks who weren’t even interested in the rally.

And now the real numbers are in…Stewart’s rally brought out about 215,000 whereas Beck’s was 87,000. My friend has been proven right with the same scientific analysis for both events.

MSNBC estimates the crowd at eight hundred million. Except for Olbermann, who is currently pissed off at Stewart.

Why is this rally being compared to Glenn Becks? It was held at a different location making it impossible to compare the size of the crowd by aerial photos.
This was an outside comedy show to win the Guiness book of records for the biggest comedy channel show ever. Probably still picking up the trash, thats why Beck told everyone not to bring any posters.

My husband and I watched the rally from home and enjoyed it immensely. It gave us a great distraction from all the angry political ads and mud slinging we’ve been subjected to over the last few weeks. We didn’t find it politically motivated – just entertaining. Times have been tough and it was nice to just be entertained!! The size of the crowd was phenomenal! Looks like the political mud slinging is alive and well in some of these posts – give it a break, whichever side you are on. In 2 days you can do your boasting or crying – whatever.
I just know that I am an American and a patriot, even if we don’t agree politically.

Pablo said:
I suppose you didn’t hear him saying that the only things that matter about rallies are color and size?

As Hugo said…

Hugo Daun said:
And, Jon’s statement couldn’t possibly have been sarcastic or facetious

The “size” and “color” joke immediately followed a more serious definition about the cohesiveness of the content to the underlying theme, or a similar wording that I feel he met. Obviously that was his goal, but the “size” and “color” measure had been thrust upon him by the media, pundit and internet commenters.

Hugo Daun said:
And, Jon’s statement couldn’t possibly have been sarcastic or facetious, what with him being a comedian and all.

No, the word you’re looking for is “ironic.”

Magister said:
The “size” and “color” joke immediately followed a more serious definition about the cohesiveness of the content to the underlying theme, or a similar wording that I feel he met. Obviously that was his goal, but the “size” and “color” measure had been thrust upon him by the media, pundit and internet commenters.

Absolutely!

Who IS Jon Stewart?

Does anybody know him, really, really know him?

NORBIT says:
“Typical Democratic Rally – all the pretty white faces telling minorities how they need White Liberals to survive!”

NORBUTT: Do the word absurd mean anything to you?

The alternative, far-right media, Fox, theBlaze, BigGov.com, etc, etc. has created an alternative perspective in millions of people that has not bearing in reality but makes the LaLaLand of reactionaries rational. To them, everything is a far left plot to “tell minorities” what to think, who to vote for, etc.

This insanity of the right–and much of what Beck says is “completely insane” is one of the prices Americans pay for having a free press. As fu@$ed up as they are, it’s better than the alternative.

Fight back against the liars at Fox. Join the FoxPAC propaganda channel.

ModerateMan said:
Stewart Rally – 150,000

Beck Rally – 400,000

The only thing they had in common was the nearly all white crowds.

I have to think this is silly satire like Carl does. It;s incredibly wrong on all three counts.

Stephen Hogan said:
Well, you’re right. Even Stewart said that the most important part of a rally is not the intellectual cohesiveness of the message, but the size and color of the crowd. Thanks for making his point :)

Actually, this is about pushing all of the craziness out of the national discourse. We don’t want any madness, we want sanity.

Of course he was joking about how it will be judged by others. It was a mix, much like America is. Considering the diversity of the crowd in age and race, I think it was pretty representative of America.

More Liberty said:
That’s what I thought. This is all nothing but a distraction – a distraction to get the heads of voters to stop looking at the realities of our circumstances and looking at a couple of entertaining morons just prior to an election.

Completely wrong. We can better solve the problems you mention with reasoned civil discourse. Jon’s main point was that a key tool that could be helping citizens understand the real issues and move toward solutions is far more interested in creating bogus controversy and focusing on the loud fringes and division.

TheseCommentsSuck said:
dont give yourself so much credit. i actually pity you, like a mongoloid.

How do mongoloids pity others, and how is that different than non mongoloid pity?

Calvin said:
“This is nice. The guy who supported the assassination fatwa against Salman Rushdie is on stage singing Peace Train. Kumbaya.”

http://twitter.com/jpodhoretz/status/29202902750

Here’s the video of Stevens/Islam on Rushdie: http://is.gd/guDMB

Calvin just stop it. I know you’re smarter than that. How does highlighting some ugly thing said 20 years ago mean anything? It doesn’t. All of you pasting this from right wing blogs are looking silly.
http://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/29204024558

Pablo said:
I suppose you didn’t hear him saying that the only things that matter about rallies are color and size? this was just before they started having people count off and declare their demographic status.

He was joking, doing his normal mocking of how things are measured superficially. The counting was obviously a joke as well. as was the 10 million number.

It was a mixed crowd, much like America.

Just how big was the Stewart/Colbert rally yesterday? Way bigger than Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor,” according to the same company commissioned by CBS to count both. There were around 215,000 people there yesterday, compared to 87,000 at Beck’s.

Can’t you just show the same aerial shots of both events, and let the readers decide. Kind of like the Joe Miller voice mail. Just listen to it, and you can draw your own conclusion.

Btw, the 87K for Beck is just silly. Clearly their mathematical assumptions were screwed up.

More Liberty said:
Since you are for sanity, let me ask you, is $1.4 trillion deficits sane or insane? Is giving billions of taxpayer dollars to Wall Street sane or insane? Is $13 trillion in debt sane or insane? Is having to payout over $360 billion a year in interest payments to our debt owners sane or insane? That’s what I thought. This is all nothing but a distraction – a distraction to get the heads of voters to stop looking at the realities of our circumstances and looking at a couple of entertaining morons just prior to an election.

Sane or Insane – Spending $600 billion to attack Iraq and providing tax cuts to pay for it.

lane said:
Can’t you just show the same aerial shots of both events, and let the readers decide. Kind of like the Joe Miller voice mail. Just listen to it, and you can draw your own conclusion. Btw, the 87K for Beck is just silly. Clearly their mathematical assumptions were screwed up.

Didn’t Beck himself estimate it a over 2 million?

Talisman says:
“Didn’t Beck himself estimate it a over 2 million?”

No. He said it was about 1/2 million. That was a vast exaggeration.

Why is everyone comparing this rally to Glenn Beck’s rally, anyway? Are all the liberals pretending that the One Nation Rally never happened? Was it such an abysmal failure what with the unions and Communist Party USA standing shoulder to shoulder and hand in hand? It’s almost as if with their silence they are willing it to disappear from history.

The first report from Tommy Christopher was him rubbing his hands together and telling us the Sanity Rally was going to be bigger than Glenn Beck’s rally.

Stewart’s rally was not a liberal rally. The one Nation rally was the liberal rally. You own it no matter how much it sucked. And Americans won’t forget the Democrat party and the Communist party rallying side by side.

Powerslave says:
“Stewart’s rally was not a liberal rally. The one Nation rally was the liberal rally. You own it no matter how much it sucked. And Americans won’t forget the Democrat party and the Communist party rallying side by side.”

You have to make up your mind. Was the One Nation a liberal rally or a radical (socialist/communist) party? Maybe next year they need to disinvite the radicals so that Glenn Beck and other reactionaries like you don’t get your panties in a bunch. Not everyone shares Beck’s/your inordinate fear of Communism.

What makes you think that there weren’t socialists and reactionaries at Stewart’s rally? There were certainly people tuned into the insanity that passes for “news” at FoxPAC.

I think the Beck estimate was 500K, but he makes MANY jokes, so he mockingly could have said higher.

I don’t think the numbers at either rally matter. Stewart continues to get good ratings, and Beck continues to get monster 5pm ratings, impressive radio #’s and of course ridiculously successful book and multimedia profits and sales. Both are good at what they do, believe in it, and the world moves on. Stewart makes good hits on the media, so I’m a fan. Ditto for Beck on the establishment politicos on both sides of the isle.

Lane, Beck lies about the establishment in order to drive the United States backward toward the 19th Century. Like him or hate him, you must understand that about Beck. He is a liar, a hypocrite and a complete charlatan laughing all the way to the bank.