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Rally For Sanity: They Also Want Their Country Back

by Rachel Sklar | 1:17 pm, October 30th, 2010

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Today is the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert “Rally For Sanity And/Or Fear” in Washington, D.C., on the Mall. It’s the place where Martin Luther King Jr. held his historic March on Washington on August 28, 1963, and where Glenn Beck, along with Sarah Palin, held their own “Restoring Honor” rally on that same day this past August, 46 years later. Now, in a sort of response, thousands and thousands and thousands of people have converged and are converging on Washington for this rally, hoping to restore something else: Sanity, yes, but also integrity, respect for facts, rationality and, yes, progress.

So let’s get one thing straight: Anyone who thinks this rally is about ironic detachment does not get it.

Who am I to make such pronouncements? Well first of all, I’m a Canadian who can’t vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want. But, I am also a close observer of politics and media in this country, and the intersection of both – and how both intersect, and overlap with, each other.

An important detour now, stay with me. Right now I’m sitting on a bus with a group from the Upright Citizen’s Brigade, the hub of New York’s comedy scene and the clubhouse where people like Lorne Michaels, Tina Fey, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert find their talent. On the wall in the UCB there’s a framed NYT article about the late Del Close, the brilliant improv teacher who taught and inspired the UCB’s founders – Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts – and for whom the UCB’s annual improv marathon is named. Close co-wrote with Charna Halperin a slim volume that is widely considered to be the improv bible. It’s called “Truth In Comedy.”

Truth in comedy. Probably the most important single ingredient – because behind every joke is the shared understanding of why it’s funny. The comedian can put the punchline out there, but it’s the audience that receives it – and has to get it. The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness – and sometimes sadness – of things we see every day.

This is what Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, along with their writers and contributors, do every day. Yes, there are goofy dick jokes – a comedy staple, and that’s a truth, too – but we all know by now that the shows succeed because they have the sharpest news and political commentary on the air, never mind exposing hypocrisy, buffoonery, obfuscation and corruption across the highest echelons of power. There’s a reason Jon Stewart keeps being called “The Most Trusted Man In America.” There’s a reason Stephen Colbert’s White House Correspondents Dinner address now stands as legendary among truth-to-power takedowns. Oh, look, there’s that word again. Truth.

I remember watching Colbert’s WHCD address in April 2006, spreading like wildfire back before YouTube went wide via painfully slow but worth-it download, wide-eyed and gasp-laughing at his shockingly blunt barbs at President Bush. It still makes me a little wide-eyed reading it, frankly – it was packed with uncomfortable truths about an administration that had been rife with hypocrisy, buffoonery, obfuscation and corruption, and they rang uncomfortably true in that ballroom of media and political insiders.

By the way, those insiders initially panned Colbert’s performance, sitting in stony silence as Colbert persevered in what’s commonly known as “bombing.” So when various commenters have wrung their hands about today’s rally, fretting that Stewart and Colbert have overreached beyond their station, I’ve rolled my eyes. They haven’t overreached themselves, they’ve reached their audience.

They’ve reached their audience, and grabbed them through their TVs and computers and maybe even a few newspapers, and spurred them to action. Thousands upon thousands of people amassing on a mall is not an act of collective indifference. It tapped into something – just as Beck’s and Palin’s rally did in August.

Back to that rally. We can debate whether (and how) Beck whipped up his viewers and the Fox News base with ominous programs about President Obama’s scary appointees (Van Jones) or scary socialist agenda (Obamacare!). We can debate whether Sarah Palin’s rhetoric that plays fast and loose with facts – when she’s not steamrolling right over them (cough “Death Panels”) – fed into the Tea Party anger and some of its nastier undertows (cough “reload”). We can debate why Fox continues to give people like Betsy McCaughey a platform (see here and here) and how the kind of disinformation she disseminates is bad for the national discourse – and I’m sure that in the comments section I’ll hear from all sorts of you on that.

But what is not debatable is who we look to, more and more, to take on the rhetoric, half-truths, fearmongering and inchoate anger that includes people angry about the government meddling in their medicare and clamoring to “take their country back.” When Betsy McCaughey came back, spewing once again her disinformation and fearmongering untruths, it was Jon Stewart who took her down, politely but ruthlessly.

It’s what Stewart and Colbert do every show – examine and expose. And, as it turns out, galvanize – because Beck and Fox’s viewers aren’t the only ones who shout at the TV screen. Turns out Stewart and Colbert, in their shared quest to unmask truthiness, have galvanized a whole lot of people who want their politicians and the constitutionally-guaranteed free press that’s supposed to police them to be just as obsessed with…the truth.

That’s where sanity comes in. Because you don’t have to be a fire-breathing, pitchfork-wielding extremist to feel passionate about what’s going on in your country. You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it. A Rally in favor of such things may not be extreme – but the passion and conviction behind it sure is.

So don’t confuse this Rally and its attendees with ironic detachment, or Stewart and Colbert with people who don’t know the difference – or care about it. They do, and so does everyone who bussed, trained, flew or otherwise trekked to show up. They want their country back, too – and they are prepared to demonstrate to do so, sanely and reasonably.

Our bus has arrived. Let the comedy – and the truth within it – commence.

This post was written and hand-coded on a Blackberry, so please excuse the lack of links. It’s filled with facts, though. Follow Rachel for more of them from the Rally For Sanity And/Or Fear at www.twitter.com/rachelsklar.

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Iris

Betsy, drudge, and fox can kiss Jon and Stephans asses
NORBIT

“Well first of all, I’m a Canadian who can’t vote, so far be it from me to speak for what Americans want.”

Hey Rach, you should have ended there, while you were still ahead of the game!

Funny, I don’t seem to remember your being on a bus headed down to the Beck rally? – or, do you think that might have swayed your preconceptions and tendentious reporting?
TfT

Rachel: Who paid for the bus you are on? Huffington or Soros?

Beck ralliers made their own way there, not so much with the group today though.
Puter Boi

“Well first of all, I’m a Canadian who can’t vote”

So….you can’t vote in Canada?…..Or that country is so boring and unproductive that you would rather come here and whine about what you find…ummmmmmm…..here. Kind of like the Canadians that can be found on any Florida beach in January….in their tiny black speedos….showing off their pasty, white, blubbery bodies, while ordering their “lessers” around.

The fact that you are Canadian does explain the 1960′s Loretta Lynn hair you have been sportin though….
http://www.abramsresearch.com/ Dan Abrams

@norbit . . please. . . no one covered the Beck rally as thoroughly as Mediaite including two reporters (in addition to columnists) there on the ground.
Harry Flashman

Oh dear Lord….

That was as lame a screed as I’ve ever read. You are right about one assertion you make, however…..

“Thousands upon thousands of people amassing on a mall is not an act of collective indifference.”

No it is not an act of collective indifference. It’s an act of children responding to the invitation, mockery, and self promotion of a poltical satirist. Take a look at the clowns pictured in another article on this site with their “Fux News’ t-shirts on. That’s certainly a level of sane discourse we should all aspire to.

Don’t get me wrong….I hope everyone there has a great time but you and other writers like you should see this for what it is – a clown’s ball that has been co-opted by the left for their own political ends.

You hold this up to some lofty level of political nirvana, a great meeting of gentle minds communicating with America while you snidely snipe at the Beck rally, or as you refer to it, the “Beck Palin” rally. You want it both ways. If it’s the left, its magic. If its the right, it’s just plain bad.

One more thing – you say this crowd wants their country back “sanely and reasonably”. Was the Beck Rally less? Did they get profane or vulgar? Did they rant against the President? No and no. And did they clean up their own mess afteward and respect the Mall? Yes and yes.

Your derision is unsupported – and undeserved. And your praise for this rally is ill conceived and premature.
Moderate

As Democrats fall in the polls they take another look at the scary socialist agenda (Obamacare!).

Martinsburg, W.V.

West Virginia governor Joe Manchin once supported Obamacare, saying days before it passed in March that he’d vote “for it” if he were in the House of Representatives. Now, in the midst of a tight Senate race with Republican John Raese, the very popular Manchin has run away from the very unpopular health care law. He’s called for for “repealing the things that are bad,” such as the individual mandate, the federal funding for abortion coverage, and the 1099 reporting requirement for businesses. But he hasn’t gone into great detail about what, exactly, he supports in the law.
NORBIT

Dan Abrams said:
@norbit . . please. . . no one covered the Beck rally as thoroughly as Mediaite including two reporters (in addition to columnists) there on the ground.

Dan, I was only speaking to Rachel’s perspective.
Actually, I’ve complimented this/your site on numerous occassions for its equitable treatment of topics, particularly when compared to other oft-referenced sites, with obvious bias.
Iris

What is it with you right wingers that you can’t stand an incredible giant crowd of Americans having a great time?
Harry Flashman

Iris…

I think I said:

“Don’t get me wrong….I hope everyone there has a great time….”
TeaBagALibby

Iris said:
What is it with you right wingers that you can’t stand an incredible giant crowd of Americans having a great time?

I guess the same can be said for you Iris.
Puter Boi

Iris said:
What is it with you right wingers that you can’t stand an incredible giant crowd of Americans having a great time?

I don’t know the answer to that question…..I suspect it is the same thing that bothered the other side when Beck had his rally. Same syndrome perhaps….
Iris

Cheryl and Kid Rock said it all!
shootfromthehip

This is the best rally ever.

Everyone needs to watch comedy central right now!
shootfromthehip

“We can have animus and not enemies.”
ROCKSTEADY

Go TONY!!!!
Iris

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

Norbit – I was in New Orleans covering the Katrina Anniversary during the Beck rally, but I watched it and insofar as Twitter coverage counts, did so that way. Steve and Glynnis had it ably covered on the ground. I think the Beck rally very much swayed my preconceptions and tendentious reporting. :)

TfT – Like I said in the first few paragraphs, I was on a bus with people from the UCB. @JPurnell organized. It costs $35 per person. Also: Geesh.

Harry Flashman – It was made very clear that this post was about why the rally was happening and would be attended, not a review of the rally itself. That was clear because I sent it in before I even got off the bus. The premise of the Beck rally – “Restoring Honor” – I found problematic at the time based on the whole ‘We want our country back’ meme that I referenced (and linked) above. In any case, it is my opinion and impression that the impetus for the Sanity Rally – and attendance thereof – was spurred by frustration with the type of debate, and the scaremongering around it, promulgated by Beck, Palin et al as mentioned above. The article was clearly not meant to be exhaustive. But I stand behind it.

TeaBagALibby – You’re charming. I’d delete that comment except I think leaving it is a good reminder that not everyone is interested in a civil debate. Also, I’m about to run out of power.
tigerprez

I’d just like to thank Rachel and all of the self-congratulatory hordes who landed in D.C. today to save us from ourselves. No doubt, you (and Kid Rock) are the ones we’ve been waiting for, and the country has, indeed, been saved. Never doubt the power of celebrities!
Harry Flashman

Rachel:

Its good you’re standing behind your article – if you can’t stand behind it, don’t write it. The very first rule of opinion articles.

BUT – your take on this rally wasn’t exactly objective. You were clapping your hands with joy at the idea of this rally and sneering at the other most of the way through your article. Hardly non-partisan reporting. Your quip about Stewart and Colbert’s search for “truthiness” told that tale.

By the way, seen the posters from the rally of Palin and Beck and several others with Hitler mustaches yet? I can just feel the love there. Didn’t see anything like that at the Beck rally, did we?

I wonder how much we’ll hear from all the objective media about that?
BarneyFranken

Can we once and for all call bullshit on this “keep government out of my medicare” line?

No one says it – or I should say, no one who isn’t mocking Tea Partiers says this.

Why don’t you say what you mean when you spew this line Rachel?

Listen close: This is what is she’s really saying:

“Tea Partiers are stupid inbred hicks…Too fucking dumb to understand medicare is government run…haha, look at those fucking idiots…”

Mock us all you want- But I’m going to vote my ass off Nov 2nd, because of people like you, against people like you.

Thanks for the motivation, and go fuck yourself.

sincerely,

The majority of the country.
Cancon2

This takes it. I am a Canadian too and this has to be the prototypical Canadian Liberal personified. You know the type, I am so hip hanging with the comedians, dropping names so that you think I am traveling with the “in gang” and above it all . Notice, it is all one direction, Beck, Palin, Death Panels. What a predictable hack peice if there ever was one. You see Rachel is a Canadain, so that apparently means something in terms of her detatchment, her clarity and plus, “she’s an astute observer”.

She gets that out there quick. The unbiased observer. What a load. Then the typical talking points come flying out. I mean really, did you even write this or was this just sausage making at Media Matters?

She sounds like someone who is still smarting from the Rob Ford election in TO this last week, but wasn’t able to vent at the usual “in” parties, when her Old Guard Liberals and Socialists were sent packing and I guess just needed to be in the US to restore, whatever.

I just love the ” we can debate” usage here. Rachal doesn’t want a debate, she wants a megaphone , then on to Bush bashing, Van Jones ( Gee, is there anybody that you won’t consider a leftist radical woman?) Throw in a little dig around Pitchforks and Christine O’Donnel and the constitution and there you have it. The glib, liberal , trudeau , Multicult, know it all elitist Canadian personified. No understanding required, just a list of bullets and a Blackberry.

You will never get it, because your programming is too entrenched. In fact you sound to me like perhaps the las person I would want next to me on a bus full of comedians. Hope that Steve and Jon can crack through your armour cased self righteousness.
More Liberty

Yawn.

This is nothing but a distraction from both sides.

Do you think $1.4 triilion deficts are sane or insane?

Do you think keeping Gitmo open is sane or insane?

Do you think $13 trillion in debt is sane or insane?

Do you think 7 year and 9 year wars are sane or insane?

Do you think spending $360 billion a year on interest payment for our debt is sane or insane?

Do you think handing over billions of tax dollars to Wall Street is sane or insane?

Do you think 9.6% unemployment is sane or insane?

The fact is, people in this country from all walks are life are not happy, and its not because of what idiot pundits like Hannity or Olbermann have said. It’s because the Democrats and Republicans, the establishment political party, do not work for the people.
bundesheer

TFT: Lol. I seem to remember the astroturf group ‘teabagger express’ providing dozens of corporate funded buses to freight people to DC.
Cancon2

And if the article itself wasn’t enough to shine a light on Dan’s sensibilities, then the fact that this person , writing this screed , it the Editor at Large for Mediaite. All you will even need to know, summed up for you. I mean , our girl Rachel bounced from the Huffington Post, to the Daily Beast to this gig, so you know, she has been exposed to many diverse acute observations in her day.
Iris

You right wingers that are hating on Rachel, why don’t you tell us when you were last published by ANYONE.
Even better why don’t you send lots and lots of critical emails to Mediaite and emails demanding that they write about your personal preferences, PLEASE DO THAT FOR ALL OUR SAKES
bundesheer

Cancon2: Objective news coverage is not about balancing out each negative point you make about one person with another. It is about simply stating all the facts and observations, without picking and choosing. What relevance to this article would bringing up someone like Barbara Boxer have brought? It isn’t relevant. It is your warped view of what objective news is meant to be that has broken your news system. I know you hate the world, but you should try some other developed countries and see how a proper news works.
Harry Flashman

Iris said:

“You right wingers that are hating on Rachel, why don’t you tell us when you were last published by ANYONE.”

About six months ago. I quit writing for now for personal reasons. I also won 2 awards for Best Regular Column, and have published about a dozen short stories and one novel along with numerous articles and hundreds of opinion pieces.

That being said, whether you’re published or not has nothing to do with expressing your opinion in an open form like this. I shouldn’t have to explain that to another adult, but…..

In case you haven’t figured this out, Harry Flashman isn’t my real name, either.

And….you? Your qualifications are to express ypur opinion are…..?
juan

Rachel Sklar wrote:

So don’t confuse this Rally and its attendees with ironic detachment, or Stewart and Colbert with people who don’t know the difference – or care about it. They do, and so does everyone who bussed, trained, flew or otherwise trekked to show up. They want their country back, too – and they are prepared to demonstrate to do so, sanely and reasonably.
_________________________________________________________________________________________

The difference is, we want our country back from Marxist Obama and Socialist Democrats!
bundesheer

I write for reuters. Have won 18 awards for fair and balanced journalism. >.>
Iris

Harry, you can say anything, I guess we all noticed that you gave no details , titles or publication names. Whereas the person you are criticizing is an actual published writer.
Harry Flashman

By the way, the Hitler pics from the rally are up at Drudge. Makes you feel warm and fuzzy all over, doesn’t it?
Harry Flashman

Iris, I don’t need to prove myself to you or anyone else. You asked who has been published, I answered. The best you can do now is to say, “Nuh-UH”. very liberal of you.
Bill Mahwer

Actually these people do have their country back and it’s a grotesque mess. That is why the people want real change.
Iris

Harry, you’re embarrassing yourself. What is it you are trying to prove?
Cancon2

Iris and Bundersheer or whatever.

Here is the deal. You are too braindead to argue with. Who are you to ask for what others have wrote. Huh, are you dense? This is the best you can do? This is a comment board. You know, where people can comment. I wasn’t aware that you were in charge of checking for publishing credentials. And if you were, who would give a shit?

The other posting was incoherent, so who cares.

I carry no hate pal, I simply called out the huge bias of this hackery. That is what do here. Keep it real.
Iris

Keep it real??
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Harry is a published writer, yeah right thats the ticket!
nutsofast

TeaBagALibby said:
Perhaps Rachel should take Stewart’s balls out of her ass before she writes her next gushing love affair.

Maybe She should get you banned you Douche

Rachel Sklar said:
Norbit – I was in New Orleans covering the Katrina Anniversary during the Beck rally, but I watched it and insofar as Twitter coverage counts, did so that way. Steve and Glynnis had it ably covered on the ground. I think the Beck rally very much swayed my preconceptions and tendentious reporting. :)

TfT – Like I said in the first few paragraphs, I was on a bus with people from the UCB. @JPurnell organized. It costs $35 per person. Also: Geesh.

Harry Flashman – It was made very clear that this post was about why the rally was happening and would be attended, not a review of the rally itself. That was clear because I sent it in before I even got off the bus. The premise of the Beck rally – “Restoring Honor” – I found problematic at the time based on the whole ‘We want our country back’ meme that I referenced (and linked) above. In any case, it is my opinion and impression that the impetus for the Sanity Rally – and attendance thereof – was spurred by frustration with the type of debate, and the scaremongering around it, promulgated by Beck, Palin et al as mentioned above. The article was clearly not meant to be exhaustive. But I stand behind it.

TeaBagALibby – You’re charming. I’d delete that comment except I think leaving it is a good reminder that not everyone is interested in a civil debate. Also, I’m about to run out of power.

You rock Rachel
Keep up the good work
bundesheer

Cancon2 said:
Iris and Bundersheer or whatever.

You are too braindead to argue with. Who are you to ask for what others have wrote. Huh, are you dense?

Irony. But I’ll let that slide.

I wasn’t asking anyone for credentials. I was merely implying how pointless it is to brag on the internet.
That doesn’t fix what you expect from news. News won’t always agree with you. What you need to look at in the article isn’t if it criticizes everyone equally. But is it true or not?

News in America always tries to be equal rather than objective. “Bush started 2 wars, and sank the economy, but Bill Clinton got a blow job”.
CommonSenz

Rachel, enjoyed your post. Excellent take Stewart/Colbert and the reasoning behind why they are so influential today. There are a so many people ticked off and frustrated with the misinformation that is regularly spouted by the ideologues. Hell, if people would just take 2 hours a week to read and find out the facts most of these whackos wouldnt have a job. Sigh, unfortunatley there are way too many sheep out there who simply want to be told what to do, who to blame and be angry at. On the flip side, this gives Stewart and Colbert tons of ammo and makes them a lot of fun to listen to! Have fun at the rally – i know several people who made the trek all the way from Seattle.
Ted-

More Liberty said:
Yawn.

This is nothing but a distraction from both sides.

Do you think $1.4 triilion deficts are sane or insane?

Do you think keeping Gitmo open is sane or insane?

Do you think $13 trillion in debt is sane or insane?

Do you think 7 year and 9 year wars are sane or insane?

Do you think spending $360 billion a year on interest payment for our debt is sane or insane?

Do you think handing over billions of tax dollars to Wall Street is sane or insane?

Do you think 9.6% unemployment is sane or insane?

The fact is, people in this country from all walks are life are not happy, and its not because of what idiot pundits like Hannity or Olbermann have said. It’s because the Democrats and Republicans, the establishment political party, do not work for the people.

I don’t know, but this much is known for sure. You and the T-baggers are without are insane.
Contessa

Right on Sister! (I remember you from the Toronto Star, Rachel.)
Alz

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

If he loved the country, he would demand that we go back to following the Constitution – like the Tea Party people want..
Latin2

Did you get any interviews with terrorist and jihad supporter Yusif Islam…you know the guy who one of your Mediaite writers wrote “joked” about murdering anyone who criticizes Islam or Muhammad?
Latin2

…and AREN’T Stewart and Colbert Comedians? So they ARE CLOWNS.

lol

;)
FairNYC

Rachel – read some of these wingnut comments -= bottomline – they’re scared.

Their little world – re Tuesday – was neatly tied up in abow, but now not so much.

They didn’t expect all of these young people to show up today and quite frankly – they’re scared, as they should be.

It ain’t over ’til it’s over and anyone who predicts what will happen on Tuesday – well – is full of crap.

Mentioning Cat Stevens is just a sign of desparate measures for despartae loons, more fear induced BS.

Guess what – all the people who showed up today, they also want their country back too – so watch out wingnuts, watch your backs.

Mention cat Stevens at your own peril…..
fenngibbon

So their idea of “sanity” is to give a platform to a man who thinks authors should be killed.

Oh-kay.
Bad Wolf

Harry Flashman said:
Iris said:

“You right wingers that are hating on Rachel, why don’t you tell us when you were last published by ANYONE.”

About six months ago. I quit writing for now for personal reasons. I also won 2 awards for Best Regular Column, and have published about a dozen short stories and one novel along with numerous articles and hundreds of opinion pieces.

That being said, whether you’re published or not has nothing to do with expressing your opinion in an open form like this. I shouldn’t have to explain that to another adult, but…..

In case you haven’t figured this out, Harry Flashman isn’t my real name, either.

And….you? Your qualifications are to express ypur opinion are…..?

Get over yourself, even Glenn Beck can claim to be an author.
Bad Wolf

Lovely article.
Why does objective analysis offend some folks?
Author pinpointed the very heart of what makes Stewart and Colbert so influential.
They reach folks with humor and truth rather than bigotry, emotional distortions and fear.

……………and that look in the mirror shows a very unflattering reflection of those parading as patriots.
Latin2

And here’s Salman Rushdie’s own take, in a 2007 letter to the Telegraph, on what Yusuf meant:

Cat Stevens wanted me dead

However much Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam may wish to rewrite his past, he was neither misunderstood nor misquoted over his views on the Khomeini fatwa against The Satanic Verses (Seven, April 29). In an article in The New York Times on May 22, 1989, Craig R Whitney reported Stevens/Islam saying on a British television programme “that rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, ‘I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing’.”

He added that “if Mr Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, ‘I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I’d try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is’.”

In a subsequent interview with The New York Times, Mr Whitney added, Stevens/Islam, who had seen a preview of the programme, said that he “stood by his comments”.

Let’s have no more rubbish about how “green” and innocent this man was.

Salman Rushdie, New York
Cecelia

“Our bus has arrived. Let the comedy – and the truth within it – commence. ”

I enjoyed Stewart and Cobert and the crowd very much.

But….ohhhhhh….brother….
Cecelia

“Steve and Glynnis had it ably covered on the ground.”

Well, when considering the coverage of both rallys, how about contrasting Glynnis’ well-documented (by HER) “take” on Glenn Beck, with your Matthewesque pre-rally tingle concerning your fellow passionate truth-seekers…
TfT

Does restoring sanity and the truth require mediaite to address the CBS reporters in AK who were caught on voice mail plotting to make up stories about Miller in an attempt to undermine his campaign?

I would think so, I look forward to reading the column on it later this afternoon, demanding the firing of these two “reporters” from CBS.
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Who do Dems get at these so-called rallies..drunk kiddies and uneducated easily manipulated voters….they continually use people..when they all grow up..and educate themselves..they will realize that the Democratic Party..is controlling them….like little brown shirts…
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Latin2

Those wacky Taiwanese animators did it again…this time lampooning Jon Stewart;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz31FDhY4qw
BarneyFranken

FairNYC said:
Mentioning Cat Stevens is just a sign of desparate measures for despartae loons, more fear induced BS. Guess what – all the people who showed up today, they also want their country back too – so watch out wingnuts, watch your backs. Mention cat Stevens at your own peril…..

LOL Please. Why would conservatives be worried about Tuesday? We can’t wait.>>!!

By the way, you can’t “take your country back” too if you already own it, dumbass.

Let me make this perfectly clear: All polling data is indicating a electoral tidal wave crashing on the Democrats on Tuesday. So there is only one side that should be full of fear of the election right now, and it aint conservatives.

Enjoy Tuesday- I know I will!

PS- Speaking of Cat Stevens, did anyone else find it interesting that they only mentioned him by his first name, Yusef, not Yusef Islam, his full name? I wonder why…
alamo2

BarneyFranken said:
Thanks for the motivation, and go fuck yourself.
sincerely,
The majority of the country.

If this is how the “majority of the country” speaks, then I feel sorry for the majority of the country. You really need to grow up.
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Rachel Sklar is a left hack…and a Canadian. Next…
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If this is how the “majority of the country” speaks, then I feel sorry for the majority of the country. You really need to grow up.

Is that what you tell Jon Stewart when he says “Go fuck yourself” on national TV?
DaTruth

It appears Sklar wrote this before actually seeing how the rally would play out.

Because IF Sklar were fair in this article, she’s stop harping on Beck and FOX and point the finger of truth at all things Stewart/Colbert did in their video montage and speeches about the media. I seem to recall seeing Olbermann and Schultz and Matthews popping up on the video, but I guess this was really all about FOX, right, Rachel?

I watched the entire rally and heard every word, including the silly mythbusters wave nonsense and the unnecessary musical acts in the beginning. I heard every word of Stewart’s impassioned plea at the rally’s conclusion. I caught all the inside references.

To Sklar: While your article may have been penned before the rally began or shortly after it started, you HAD to be disappointed in the outcome if you were hoping for some kind of GOTV effort for Democrats. Stewart/Colbert weren’t there to prop up Democrats or shed the light of “Democratic” truth to issues. Sure, they mentioned the Islamic stuff, but they also railed about knowing the difference between “real bigots” and “tea partiers”. Of course, that doesn’t comport with your meme here about apparently only the left having the moral high ground on truth.
inukshuk

Gotta love all the xenophobic right wingers that say because Rachel isn’t from the US, she shouldn’t be allowed to comments. Not being a resident of a certain country hasn’t stopped the US from meddling in, influencing, or starting wars with more countries than I can count (like Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, just to name a few).

BTW, do you morons who spout that Rachel should be quiet because she’s Canadian say the same things about Faux News darling Charles Krauthammer? Somehow, I’m doubting it. Even though he was raised in Canada.

You guys are scared, pathetic morons.
DaTruth

nyuknyuknyuk said:
Gotta love all the xenophobic right wingers that say because Rachel isn’t from the US, she shouldn’t be allowed to comments. Not being a resident of a certain country hasn’t stopped the US from meddling in, influencing, or starting wars with more countries than I can count (like Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Vietnam, just to name a few).

BTW, do you morons who spout that Rachel should be quiet because she’s Canadian say the same things about Faux News darling Charles Krauthammer? Somehow, I’m doubting it. Even though he was raised in Canada.

You guys are scared, pathetic morons.

Hey asshat, if not for the U.S., you’d be speaking German, Japanese, or Russian today. You’re welcome. Now go away and sulk and ask yourself in a mirror, “Why am I so immature?”
shootfromthehip

Rupert Murdoch is from Australia.

Does that mean Fox news should not exist or that he doesn’t deserve the right to voice his opinion like born-in-Canada Rachel has you retard Rethugs?
inukshuk

DaTruth said:
Hey asshat, if not for the U.S., you’d be speaking German, Japanese, or Russian today. You’re welcome. Now go away and sulk and ask yourself in a mirror, “Why am I so immature?”

Well said, moron. You even got the punctuation right. Good on you. Now how about answering the question? As shooting from the hip said, Murdoch isn’t American. Are you complaining about his attempts to influence American policy? Or (once again) a commentator of his like Krauthammer?

You really are the stupidest person I have had contact with today. And kind of a sissy, too.

Lastly, thanks to all the wonderful things Dubya and Darth Cheney did with the economy during their reign of terror, there’s a good chance everyone on the planet may be speaking Chinese soon. So thank you for that, too.

Imbecile…
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

“Moderate” says:
“As Democrats fall in the polls they take another look at the scary socialist agenda (Obamacare!).”

You’re not really “moderate” at all. Moderates know that there is no socialist agenda. Liberalism is not socialism.
inukshuk

Maybe Beck has succeeded in his quest to eliminate all moderates from the political landscape. I just can’t believe with all his and the Tea-Baggers’ vitriolic rhetoric that people seem to be moving towards him. Kinda like 1930′s Germany…
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