Credit where credit is due.

Not a bad speech, Stewart. Not bad at all. The fact that it was very necessary in order to maintian your bona fides as far as the purpose of the rally aside, they were good words.

Great speech by Stewart. He nailed it when speaking about how the 24/7 media noisemakers on both sides keeps us fearful, angry and outraged. It’s time for us to tune them out.

Seriously.

Yes Olby…. it’s Stewart that jumped the shark. Keep telling yourself that. You MAY convince your cat if you say it enough.

I don’t feel (I can express my feelings because I don’t work for NPR) Stewart is radical or unreasoned, but c’mon, this rally was bourne out of one thing – Beck’s Rally!

With the size of Olbermans gut he couldn’t jump a sheet of paper

I LOVED the anti-media speech at the end.

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

FUCK YEA STEWART!!!!

NORBIT said:
I don’t feel (I can express my feelings because I don’t work for NPR) Stewart is radical or unreasoned, but c’mon, this rally was bourne out of one thing – Beck’s Rally!

Yea he just schooled that rally!

Jon Stewart is my man

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

So you keep saying iris, so you keep saying.

I went to a place here in portland that showed the rally on a big screen( and a full bar) the place was FUCKIN PACKED!!! (8am on a saturday) I had to wait an hour to get a beer,…. this was one place in portland among many…. Beck aint got shit

All hail stewart and colbert!!! lol

awesome rally

So Jon doesn’t take clips out of context to push his comedy/agenda??
No UPS package jokes…..BOoooooo!
No Cat Stevens looking for Salman Rushdie jokes??

Poor hateful KO is all alone again. Naturally!

so you libs are a bunch of drunks, drinking a 8am?

just kidding

cd ohio said:
so you libs are a bunch of drunks, drinking a 8am?

What’s wrong with drinking at 8am??? :).

sorry i was just kidding i started drinking at 6 this morning so sometimes i say shit i don’t mean

“If those shouting heads on cable news stop shouting, and Americans start working together for the greater good of the nation, Stewart (and Colbert) would be out of a job in a heartbeat.”

This statement couldn’t be further from the truth. Media outlets said the same thing when Obama got elected (that Stewart and Colbert wouldn’t have anything to make fun of) and their ratings have never been higher. They’re comedians doing a comedy show – if they can’t make fun of shouting heads, they’ll write jokes about other things.

Note how Jon mentions the idiocity of equating racists and tea partiers.

Yes, you can be liberal and conservative, strongly so, even, but that doesn’t mean you have to throw insane terms around at those you disagree with and claim they are the enemy and whatnot.

nrgetick said:
I went to a place here in portland that showed the rally on a big screen( and a full bar) the place was FUCKIN PACKED!!! (8am on a saturday) I had to wait an hour to get a beer,…. this was one place in portland among many…. Beck aint got shit

All hail stewart and colbert!!! lol

awesome rally

I think Stewart was talking about YOUR sorry, pathetic ass, and it went right over your benighted head.

Perhaps Stewart should listen to his own advice….not a rally to ridicule.

This was a rally to see if he could get more people to the mall than Beck did which he essentially admitted when he said the only thing he wanted today was their “presence”.

nrgetick said:
I went to a place here in portland that showed the rally on a big screen( and a full bar) the place was FUCKIN PACKED!!! (8am on a saturday) I had to wait an hour to get a beer,…. this was one place in portland among many…. Beck aint got shit All hail stewart and colbert!!! lol awesome rally

Keep in mind Beck’s goal wasn’t to get loads of folks to go out and get wasted at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning.

“if those shouting heads on cable news stop shouting, and Americans start working together for the greater good of the nation, Stewart (and Colbert) would be out of a job in a heartbeat.”

WRONG.
Stewart will always have political gaffes and celebrity culture and to make fun.

MEDIAITE, YOU WOULD BE OUT OF A JOB IF THE PUNDITS BECAME LEVELHEADED NOT COLBERT AND STEWART!!!

I’m not a big Stewart fan, even less Colbert. But Stewart’s closing speech was touching and, I hope, palliative for a nation riven by partisans. I did not understand Beck’s rally (I rarely get his point, but then I think he has trouble making it). But I got Stewart’s point. The merging cars metaphor was brilliant. “You go then I’ll go”.

That said, what we owe to each other when we vote is a duty a bit higher than we owe to our fellow drivers. All we owe fellow drivers stuck in traffic is a bit of polite roadsharing. When we vote we owe a good bit of informed, considered judgment. The people who tune in to Beck, Rush, Maddow, Hannity or Olbermann generally are doing that. They’re paying attention to the issues.

The people who comment here on Mediaite are generally doing that, too. And though some clearly have no clue how to gently persuade those who disagree with them, at least they are passionately expressing their informed, considered judgment.

NORBIT said:
I don’t feel Stewart is radical or unreasoned, but c’mon, this rally was bourne out of one thing – Beck’s Rally!

Duh, you can’t “restore” sanity without first having the insane.

“Beck aint got shit”? that’s some nuanced political though there, nrgetick.

as notsofast points out, you are one of the people Stewart was speaking of. he wants you not to say things like “Beck aint got shit”…but that apparently went right by you.

and actually, why can’t you appreciate both Beck AND Stewart? I do.

everybody likes to talk about bipartisanship and being nice, but nobody really means it. “can’t we all just get along?” usually means “can’t you just accept my point of view?” that’s certainly what it means to Obama, who calls those who disagree with him “enemies” that can justly be “punshed” in an election.

and Stewart certaintly doesn’t really want it. as noted, he’d be out of a job if there wasn’t any friction in politics. fortunately for him, the new Republicans in the House and Senate will give him years of fun.

It’s actually fairly easy to see exactly what Jon Stewart was saying. If you can’t translate, I’ll do it for you.

Sanity = voting for Democrats. If you want to be “sane,” make sure you vote for Dems.

Moderate = anyone to the right of Mao. This would now include European socialists, everyone in the Democratic party (aside from Joe Lieberman who is as right wing as Rush Limbaugh), Castro, Chavez, and everyone in Hollywood and in the non-Fox media. Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are all far right extremists, barely allowed in civil conversation. The tea party? They’re off the charts right wing. They can’t even be placed on the spectrum. They only belong in insane asylums.

Take the Rhetoric Down a Notch: Fox News has a huge audience and influence over their viewers. This hurts Dems, so we need to tune Fox and talk radio out, and convince others to do so, as well, to save the Obama agenda. (This sort of rhetoric was completely alright when it was against Bush, after all. These are different times.)

Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together!

See? It’s not that hard to see what Jon Stewart was really saying, was it? If you’ve read Saul Alinsky, you already knew all this. Identify the enemy, isolate them as insane, ridicule them, and then eliminate them. It’s not illegal or hypocritical or underhanded to do so. But it is propaganda. Remember, the best propagandists are ultimately most successful in telling you that they’re not really political and that they’re really just common sense moderates, the sane ones in a sea of crazy people. That’s why Jon Stewart is the greatest propagandist in the world today.

tigerprez said:
Saul Alinsky

lolol

KO is so fueled by blind hate, he can’t even give credit to a reasonable, nonpartisan speech on bringing the country together. Where’s the love, KO?!

tigerprez said:
It’s actually fairly easy to see exactly what Jon Stewart was saying. If you can’t translate, I’ll do it for you. Sanity = voting for Democrats. If you want to be “sane,” make sure you vote for Dems. Moderate = anyone to the right of Mao. This would now include European socialists, everyone in the Democratic party (aside from Joe Lieberman who is as right wing as Rush Limbaugh), Castro, Chavez, and everyone in Hollywood and in the non-Fox media. Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are all far right extremists, barely allowed in civil conversation. The tea party? They’re off the charts right wing. They can’t even be placed on the spectrum. They only belong in insane asylums. Take the Rhetoric Down a Notch: Fox News has a huge audience and influence over their viewers. This hurts Dems, so we need to tune Fox and talk radio out, and convince others to do so, as well, to save the Obama agenda. (This sort of rhetoric was completely alright when it was against Bush, after all. These are different times.) Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together! See? It’s not that hard to see what Jon Stewart was really saying, was it? If you’ve read Saul Alinsky, you already knew all this. Identify the enemy, isolate them as insane, ridicule them, and then eliminate them. It’s not illegal or hypocritical or underhanded to do so. But it is propaganda. Remember, the best propagandists are ultimately most successful in telling you that they’re not really political and that they’re really just common sense moderates, the sane ones in a sea of crazy people. That’s why Jon Stewart is the greatest propagandist in the world today.

Translation: I’m not happy unless this country has no liberal viewpoint and only the conservative point of view is what is espoused from all the American people.

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.

Keith is just as bad as Rush and Beck and Schultz. Fuck him.

I, for one, have stopped watching all those hate-fests. Life is too short.

BECK out-Alinsky’d STEWART, and the Big Ed “RED” Rally MESS!

More Liberty said:
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.

But I think the point is not that we can’t disagree with whats going on and disagree with others, but we don’t need to throw around words like “Racist!” and “Communist” and “Teabagger” and “Hitler” to describe those we disagree with.

You are right, there are insane things going on in this country, but do we need to become insane ourselves to fight the insanity?

stoogedudes said:
But I think the point is not that we can’t disagree with whats going on and disagree with others, but we don’t need to throw around words like “Racist!” and “Communist” and “Teabagger” and “Hitler” to describe those we disagree with.

I , for one, will tone it down a bit.
No more “teaturd” for me!! lolol

“Jon Stewart Explains The Purpose Of The Rally To Restore Sanity”

…Remember that bit on Seinfeld when Jerry and George wrote a “sitcom about nothing”. Obviously, the lunatic-left clowns stole that idea to produce their “rally about nothing.” Seinfeld and Larry David would certainly sue if anyone but a fellow d-crat socialist did that.

juan said:
BECK out-Alinsky’d STEWART, and the Big Ed “RED” Rally MESS!

I honestly don’t believe anyone cares.It was a Great Day.Full of fun, laughter,and good music.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“Jon Stewart Explains The Purpose Of The Rally To Restore Sanity”

…Remember that bit on Seinfeld when Jerry and George wrote a “sitcom about nothing”. Obviously, the lunatic-left clowns stole that idea to produce their “rally about nothing.” Seinfeld and Larry David would certainly sue if anyone but a fellow d-crat socialist did that.

*speaking in a most sane voice*

My friend, do you know what you just wrote is certifiable? But I love you as a person and wish you nice day. :smiley face:

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Keith is just as bad as Rush and Beck and Schultz. Fuck him. I, for one, have stopped watching all those hate-fests. Life is too short.

My Gawd BFD… for once we agree. Hell has truly frozen over.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“Jon Stewart Explains The Purpose Of The Rally To Restore Sanity” …Remember that bit on Seinfeld when Jerry and George wrote a “sitcom about nothing”. Obviously, the lunatic-left clowns stole that idea to produce their “rally about nothing.” Seinfeld and Larry David would certainly sue if anyone but a fellow d-crat socialist did that.

I think if there is anyone on this site who would do well to “tone it down”, it’s teapartypatriot. I mean, honest to Christmas.

tatboy said:
What’s wrong with drinking at 8am??? :).

Seriously. Why do you think the world cup is so popular?

nrgetick said:
FUCK YEA STEWART!!!!

Thus speaketh the mind of an anti-American dolt who misrefudiates the English language.

stoogedudes said:
I think if there is anyone on this site who would do well to “tone it down”, it’s teapartypatriot. I mean, honest to Christmas.

You have to admit stooge, if we all start making a list of the worst offenders, it will be a loooooooooooong one.

tigerprez said:
It’s actually fairly easy to see exactly what Jon Stewart was saying. If you can’t translate, I’ll do it for you. Sanity = voting for Democrats. If you want to be “sane,” make sure you vote for Dems. Moderate = anyone to the right of Mao. This would now include European socialists, everyone in the Democratic party (aside from Joe Lieberman who is as right wing as Rush Limbaugh), Castro, Chavez, and everyone in Hollywood and in the non-Fox media. Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are all far right extremists, barely allowed in civil conversation. The tea party? They’re off the charts right wing. They can’t even be placed on the spectrum. They only belong in insane asylums. Take the Rhetoric Down a Notch: Fox News has a huge audience and influence over their viewers. This hurts Dems, so we need to tune Fox and talk radio out, and convince others to do so, as well, to save the Obama agenda. (This sort of rhetoric was completely alright when it was against Bush, after all. These are different times.) Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together! See? It’s not that hard to see what Jon Stewart was really saying, was it? If you’ve read Saul Alinsky, you already knew all this. Identify the enemy, isolate them as insane, ridicule them, and then eliminate them. It’s not illegal or hypocritical or underhanded to do so. But it is propaganda. Remember, the best propagandists are ultimately most successful in telling you that they’re not really political and that they’re really just common sense moderates, the sane ones in a sea of crazy people. That’s why Jon Stewart is the greatest propagandist in the world today.

You don’t even comprehend the irony of what you have said, do you? How sad.

tatboy said:
You have to admit stooge, if we all start making a list of the worst offenders, it will be a loooooooooooong one.

Truer words never spoken.

Actually I take that back. That is number 2 after “Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd is a crime against humanity.”

But I still agree 100% with you on that, tatboy.

alamo2 said:
You don’t even comprehend the irony of what you have said, do you? How sad.

You don’t even comprehend anything that I’ve just written, do you? How sad.

I’ll try to dumb it down a touch for your sake.

I’m not saying that Jon Stewart doesn’t have the right to speak or hold a rally. In fact, I watch his show every night and consider it the best comedy show on TV. What I’m saying is that Jon Stewart is not the “conscience” of the media or some objective outsider who stands above the debate as the arbiter of truth. Unfortunately, what you can’t grasp, is that Jon Stewart is as much a part of the media as O’Reilly or Beck or Olbermann. It’s beyond you that someone can be both a comedian and a pundit, on Comedy Central yet every bit as biased and nakedly political as all of the people he critiques.

The reason those words stung you so badly is because you want to believe more than anything that Stewart is different, that he’s above all those commentators that you hate. You need him to be different, because you see yourself as being different, better than all those teabaggers who watch Fox. Fact is, Jon Stewart isn’t different, and neither are you. He’s just a pundit with better jokes, and you’re just the same as a Glenn Beck fan, marching to push people back to church.

Sorry if you couldn’t grasp that. I assumed readers of this site were a little more media savvy. I was wrong.

as much as I can disagree with Jon Stewart on a lot of things, I have to admit the speech was decent enough. this country is very divided and what I saw from the rally on CSPAN is that its about uniting the people and help one another. we should not let fear run our lives and a lot of people are afraid of the uncertainty and dark times that are ahead of us. no matter how different Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart are in a lot of things, I think they are mirroring each other in basic principles that should be mutual. to unite the country, agree to disagree, to not let fear run our lives, to restore our country back to its constitutional principles, to have faith in a divine power or not, to have faith with individual people who can and want to pursue their own destinies and have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. this country needs to be united but it first must be restored and we must first restore ourselves

at first I thought this rally would be a mockery of the Restoring Honor, but after viewing it I have a different perspective. a lot of people are afraid, sick and tired of dirty politics that goes on in Washington, sick and tired of problems not getting solved in the proper way it should be, and people are sick and tired of not being listen to. I do have to agree with Jon Stewart “If we amplify everything, we hear nothing,”. he is right in that sense and a lot of messages we are hearing are amplified because we are not being heard as a united nation. we have become too diverse and lost our senses to unite as a people despite our differences. I’m trying hard not to take things out of contexts but I am piecing the messages together from the two rallies I watched (Restoring Honor, and Restoring Sanity) but the One Nation working together rally has a very different message from the other two rallies

ROCKSTEADY said:
I honestly don’t believe anyone cares.It was a Great Day.Full of fun, laughter,and good music.

Not as much FUN and CELEBRATING as Nov. 3rd will be!

The problem is, Stewart is part of the problem. Hes not above the fray, like he tries to convince hes loyal Democrat followers.

tigerprez said:
It’s actually fairly easy to see exactly what Jon Stewart was saying. If you can’t translate, I’ll do it for you.

Sanity = voting for Democrats. If you want to be “sane,” make sure you vote for Dems.

Moderate = anyone to the right of Mao. This would now include European socialists, everyone in the Democratic party (aside from Joe Lieberman who is as right wing as Rush Limbaugh), Castro, Chavez, and everyone in Hollywood and in the non-Fox media. Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are all far right extremists, barely allowed in civil conversation. The tea party? They’re off the charts right wing. They can’t even be placed on the spectrum. They only belong in insane asylums.

Take the Rhetoric Down a Notch: Fox News has a huge audience and influence over their viewers. This hurts Dems, so we need to tune Fox and talk radio out, and convince others to do so, as well, to save the Obama agenda. (This sort of rhetoric was completely alright when it was against Bush, after all. These are different times.)

Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together!

See? It’s not that hard to see what Jon Stewart was really saying, was it? If you’ve read Saul Alinsky, you already knew all this. Identify the enemy, isolate them as insane, ridicule them, and then eliminate them. It’s not illegal or hypocritical or underhanded to do so. But it is propaganda. Remember, the best propagandists are ultimately most successful in telling you that they’re not really political and that they’re really just common sense moderates, the sane ones in a sea of crazy people. That’s why Jon Stewart is the greatest propagandist in the world today.

Exactly. This guy hit the nail on the head.

tigerprez said:
It’s actually fairly easy to see exactly what Jon Stewart was saying. If you can’t translate, I’ll do it for you.

Sanity = voting for Democrats. If you want to be “sane,” make sure you vote for Dems.

Moderate = anyone to the right of Mao. This would now include European socialists, everyone in the Democratic party (aside from Joe Lieberman who is as right wing as Rush Limbaugh), Castro, Chavez, and everyone in Hollywood and in the non-Fox media. Republicans (and Joe Lieberman) are all far right extremists, barely allowed in civil conversation. The tea party? They’re off the charts right wing. They can’t even be placed on the spectrum. They only belong in insane asylums.

Take the Rhetoric Down a Notch: Fox News has a huge audience and influence over their viewers. This hurts Dems, so we need to tune Fox and talk radio out, and convince others to do so, as well, to save the Obama agenda. (This sort of rhetoric was completely alright when it was against Bush, after all. These are different times.)

Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together!

See? It’s not that hard to see what Jon Stewart was really saying, was it? If you’ve read Saul Alinsky, you already knew all this. Identify the enemy, isolate them as insane, ridicule them, and then eliminate them. It’s not illegal or hypocritical or underhanded to do so. But it is propaganda. Remember, the best propagandists are ultimately most successful in telling you that they’re not really political and that they’re really just common sense moderates, the sane ones in a sea of crazy people. That’s why Jon Stewart is the greatest propagandist in the world today.

You watch and listen to Beck every week day don’t you?

Jackie_Treehorn said:
You watch and listen to Beck every week day don’t you?

You watch Stewart every week don’t you? You see, both sides play this game. You and Stewart aren’t above it. You’re just more deluded about your part in it.

If you think “The Silence of the Lambs” was a horrible sight, wait until you see “The Screaming of the Libs”

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, the libs just could not stop their hate for one day- not for one day!

“Most of those pouring into the Mall Saturday appeared to be younger than 35, and the signs they carried showed a decidedly left-wing bent: “I hope this isn’t a trap,” “I masturbate to Christine O’Donnell,”Communism was a red herring.”

Most signs fit with the happy-go-lucky ethos of the rally, but others were crude. One sign had Hitler mustaches on pictures of Sarah Palin, Eric Cantor, Glenn Beck and John Boehner. The message said, “Afraid yet?” This is particularly insulting to Cantor, who is Jewish and in line to become House Majority Leader if Republicans win next week.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/44413.html#ixzz13t9fL9tn

“It wasn’t a big shark, but Jon jumped one when he said everyone on cable news was the same. naivete’” ~Olby

Olby is right. SOME stations on cable (like FOX) actually have VIEWERS!

Stooge says:

Translation: I’m not happy unless this country has no liberal viewpoint and only the conservative point of view is what is espoused from all the American people.

HAHA, that was a joke right?! Since Obama got into office, he’s made it crystal clear that dissent is not welcome. You either tow the line, or you shall be deemed a racist! Fortunately, a majority of American’s are already sick of it.

Well, at least politico didn’t hide the vulgar signs – doesn’t mean the media will focus on them, like they did with the few negative signs they found at the tea party rallies.

At least some media outlets are covering the grotesque signs — I’m surprised mediaite didn’t even mention them.

As Rachel might say: Gheez.

Brilliant. I’m liberal and was half hoping for a liberal based rally but this was much better. No political bias, just reminding us that not everyone’s like Glenn Beck and how we shouldn’t give in to aggressive media.

“I can’t control what people think this was. I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith, or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the Heartland, or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and that we have nothing to fear– they are, and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies. But, unfortunately, one of our tools in delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour politico-pundit-perpetual-panic-conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder.”

I’m all for sitting down with my countrymen and having a nice rational talk about the issues of the day. I can’t help but wonder if a rally co-hosted by a guy who’s entire shtick is mocking conservatives is maybe not the right way to make the two sides of the aisle sing Kumbaya on a larger scale. Stewart should have left Colbert at home. And the Yusuf Islam/Ozzy bit wasn’t nearly clever enough to justify screwing up the music.

tatboy said:
What’s wrong with drinking at 8am??? :).

If you’re going to drink all day, you’ve got to start in the morning.

BREATH.OF.FRESH.AIR.

Dronetek said:
The problem is, Stewart is part of the problem. Hes not above the fray, like he tries to convince hes loyal Democrat followers.

You’re right. Stewart is part of the problem. He thinks he’s above it, but by being so divisive, he can’t be above it.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“Jon Stewart Explains The Purpose Of The Rally To Restore Sanity”

…Remember that bit on Seinfeld when Jerry and George wrote a “sitcom about nothing”. Obviously, the lunatic-left clowns stole that idea to produce their “rally about nothing.” Seinfeld and Larry David would certainly sue if anyone but a fellow d-crat socialist did that.

I agree with this. The reason i agree with it is it’s great that these soft-liberals don’t like the uber-Leftist tactics, and it’s great that they are complaining about a few of the issues that more conservative people complain about, but unless you believe in something, there is no basis to advance.

We all have enough evidence that the liberal ideas cannot work. The notion of forcing everything to be “equal” – by tearing down and attacking success while elevating what does not work – is a failure.

That’s why Liberals can only go so far and why they utterly fail when their ideas are tried.

We all can see that Obama’s ideas are making things worse. Unemployment is a mess, the number of total jobs is down and the debt is skyrocketing.

The Jon Stewart followers see some of this but they have no where to go. They never were taught much about our system and they have been told over and over again that it sucks.

They literally have no where to go, so there is a lot of noise, but like Seinfeld, it all means nothing.

For those that are angry about the idea that it “means nothing”, then think about what you do believe in that actually works.

From my research, the ONLY thing that has worked in the US is the Constitution – learning about, understanding the history around it and demanding that the government follow it.

This is the essence of the Tea Party movement. All of the bs from the Left about the Tea Party is out of fear.

I think Jon Stewart is funny and smart, but like liberalism itself, he’s wrong.

Remember the math: smart * wrong = wrong. Learn about what the Tea Party people are about. It’s about the Constitution.

Big entertainers like the former Cat Stevens, now known as Yusif Islam, performed to cheering crowds

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/lifestyle/stewart-colbert-rally-expected-to-draw-thousands-to-dc-fans-hope-to-rekindle-activism-106365198.html

“Egged on by the hosts, Ozzy Osbourne and Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, engaged in something of a battle of the bands, the heavy-metal rocker and the folkie interrupting each other.”

Just to remind people about the ‘sanity’ of Yusif Islam;

Cat Stevens, aka Yusif Islam, CALLED FOR THE MURDER OF SALAMAN RUSHDIE for his book the Satanic Verses.

Some sanity…huh.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/667bkgnr.asp

The rally was to restore sanity? You mean a rally for more INSANITY…more government spending, and more government debt.

TeaPartyPatriot said:
“Jon Stewart Explains The Purpose Of The Rally To Restore Sanity”

…Remember that bit on Seinfeld when Jerry and George wrote a “sitcom about nothing”. Obviously, the lunatic-left clowns stole that idea to produce their “rally about nothing.” Seinfeld and Larry David would certainly sue if anyone but a fellow d-crat socialist did that.

I have yet to here someone explain when America lost its honor. Has the Statue of Liberty been sleeping with the Lincoln Monument outside of wedlock?
I am serious, what was becks rally about?? It makes no sense.

Here’s a link to our slideshow. Great crowd of funny, grown-up, well-behaved people!
http://unsoliciteddrivel.blogspot.com/2010/10/our-stewartcolbert-slide-show-is-up.html

Alz said:
I agree with this. The reason i agree with it is it’s great that these soft-liberals don’t like the uber-Leftist tactics, and it’s great that they are complaining about a few of the issues that more conservative people complain about, but unless you believe in something, there is no basis to advance.

We all have enough evidence that the liberal ideas cannot work. The notion of forcing everything to be “equal” – by tearing down and attacking success while elevating what does not work – is a failure.

That’s why Liberals can only go so far and why they utterly fail when their ideas are tried.

We all can see that Obama’s ideas are making things worse. Unemployment is a mess, the number of total jobs is down and the debt is skyrocketing.

The Jon Stewart followers see some of this but they have no where to go. They never were taught much about our system and they have been told over and over again that it sucks.

They literally have no where to go, so there is a lot of noise, but like Seinfeld, it all means nothing.

For those that are angry about the idea that it “means nothing”, then think about what you do believe in that actually works.

From my research, the ONLY thing that has worked in the US is the Constitution – learning about, understanding the history around it and demanding that the government follow it.

This is the essence of the Tea Party movement. All of the bs from the Left about the Tea Party is out of fear.

I think Jon Stewart is funny and smart, but like liberalism itself, he’s wrong.

Remember the math: smart * wrong = wrong. Learn about what the Tea Party people are about. It’s about the Constitution.

Seriously, Bush was president when the economy collapsed, or were you born yesterday? You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president. This is why the tea party is not taken seriously, because you haven’t the slightest idea what happened. We all are supportive of the Constitution, and I would really like to hear how Obama has violated the constitution, because reasonable people will agree that he has not.

joeshmoe said:
Seriously, Bush was president when the economy collapsed, or were you born yesterday? You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president. This is why the tea party is not taken seriously, because you haven’t the slightest idea what happened.

What I know is that Obama increased the federal deficit more in his first month in office than Bush did in his first term in office. That’s why I don’t take you seriously.

joeshmoe said:
Seriously, Bush was president when the economy collapsed, or were you born yesterday? You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president. This is why the tea party is not taken seriously, because you haven’t the slightest idea what happened. We all are supportive of the Constitution, and I would really like to hear how Obama has violated the constitution, because reasonable people will agree that he has not.

…and Democrats ran the House and Senate…AND chaired Banking and the Housing committees.

AnonymousFinch said:
What I know is that Obama increased the federal deficit more in his first month in office than Bush did in his first term in office. That’s why I don’t take you seriously.

Actually, I’m technically wrong here. He increased the federal DEBT–not deficit–more in his first month than Bush did in his first term.

joeshmoe said:
Seriously, Bush was president when the economy collapsed, or were you born yesterday? You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president. This is why the tea party is not taken seriously, because you haven’t the slightest idea what happened. We all are supportive of the Constitution, and I would really like to hear how Obama has violated the constitution, because reasonable people will agree that he has not.

No. What I was pointing out is the fallacy that the Left believes: that the Tea Party ignored Bush’s spending and that Tea Party people think Obama is only to blame.

As I said, the Tea Party has it’s modern roots going back to Ross Perot. The Republicans have become more and more “establishment” and less conservative. The Tea Party grew out of the dislike for Obama’s policies and ideas.

So it’s very different than you think.

As for violating the Constitution, the GM take over fits the bill and so does the Healthcare debacle. Once you understand the Constitution, you’ll find many, many laws that are unconstitutional.

As a country, we’ve been able to survive despite these issues, but it’s catching up with us as we fall into an abyss of debt.

AnonymousFinch said:
Actually, I’m technically wrong here. He increased the federal DEBT–not deficit–more in his first month than Bush did in his first term.

Yes, because Clinton left office with a surplus and was paying down the debt, it took Bush a couple of years to destroy our country, and it will take Obama a few years to fix the mess that was left behind. Look it up.

LOL!

Great rally, when Stewart has to spend half his time explaining what the rally was.
- and he’s probably going to have to explain it all over again tomorrow when his freeloading acolytes sober up!

I hope we’ll hear the outrage from the Democratic Media over the Tea-Party bashing signs.

Compare the deportment and message of Beck’s Rally to this “reaction in search of a cause”!!

joeshmoe said:
Yes, because Clinton left office with a surplus and was paying down the debt, it took Bush a couple of years to destroy our country, and it will take Obama a few years to fix the mess that was left behind. Look it up.

No, because Obama wasted 3/4 of a trillion on a “stimulus” plan that was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8%, but instead caused it to rise to 10%. Look it up.

joeshmoe said:
Yes, because Clinton left office with a surplus and was paying down the debt, it took Bush a couple of years to destroy our country, and it will take Obama a few years to fix the mess that was left behind. Look it up.

No, Clinton did NOTHING to effect the economy during his tenure!
In fact, there was a deficit under his stewardship until the GOP gained control of Congress and imposed spending constraints on Democratic profligacy.

Furthermore, legislation enacted during Clinton’s term laid the direct groundwork for both the September 11 attack, as well as the sub-prime recession…Look it up!

joeshmoe said:
You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president.

I also know that it is the Congress, not the President, who passes the budget and every appropriations bill. I also know which party controlled Congress in 2007 and 2008. Look it up.

Alz said:
As for violating the Constitution, the GM take over fits the bill

I never saw the 28th amendment, GM must be allowed to fail. You do realize that not only if he had not intervened there would not be GM. Not to mention all the sub vendors of GM that would likely have gone into bankruptcy. More jobs would be lost, who knows where the destruction of the economy would end.

Alz said:
Once you understand the Constitution, you’ll find many, many laws that are unconstitutional.

Oh do explain, which ones, tell me, and I will alert the Supreme Court. Then with all your vast knowledge, you could tell them where they went wrong. And I am really interested to here which Article/Amendment of the constitution the health care bill violates.

ROCKSTEADY said:
I honestly don’t believe anyone cares.It was a Great Day.Full of fun, laughter,and good music.

Yes ROCKS these Republicans on here make fun and called libs nasty nasty names.I wouldn’t want to spend a minute in their heads, They are always negative about everything.

joeshmoe said:
Oh do explain, which ones, tell me, and I will alert the Supreme Court. Then with all your vast knowledge, you could tell them where they went wrong. And I am really interested to here which Article/Amendment of the constitution the health care bill violates.

The Tenth Amendment. Look it up.

jbeast said:
KO is so fueled by blind hate, he can’t even give credit to a reasonable, nonpartisan speech on bringing the country together. Where’s the love, KO?!

You’re mixing up your rallies.

Beck’s rally was the one featuring multi-racial, -ethnic, and -religious speakers extolling the virtues of personal responsibility and social reform. You should try listening to some of their speeches – then compare them to the benign vacuousness of this rally.

NORBIT said:
No, Clinton did NOTHING to effect the economy during his tenure!
In fact, there was a deficit under his stewardship until the GOP gained control of Congress and imposed spending constraints on Democratic profligacy.

Furthermore, legislation enacted during Clinton’s term laid the direct groundwork for both the September 11 attack, as well as the sub-prime recession…Look it up!

So testy, so you want to bring up 9/11. You realize that even after the USS Cole in August of 2000, Bush demoted the senior Clinton’s chief counter-terrorism adviser to a sub-cabinet level position, and ignored his warnings about Bin Laden. You do know that Clinton had the military draw up plans for the invasion of Afghanistan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY

AnonymousFinch said:
The Tenth Amendment. Look it up.

Commerce clause. You do know that is the same argument used for slavery and against the civil rights act.
The Federal government regulates drugs, aviation, the automotive industry, and now the health-care industry.

joeshmoe said:
So testy, so you want to bring up 9/11. You realize that even after the USS Cole in August of 2000, Bush demoted the senior Clinton’s chief counter-terrorism adviser to a sub-cabinet level position, and ignored his warnings about Bin Laden. You do know that Clinton had the military draw up plans for the invasion of Afghanistan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2513JFJsY

It is not that of which I speak.

It’s Jamie Gorelick’s edict to establish a firewall between information previously shared by the nation’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies. This was an attempt to insulate her carpetbagger-in-chief from any culpability in nefarious fund-raising duplicity; but it wound up enabling the devastating attack of 9-11-01!

AnonymousFinch said:
I also know that it is the Congress, not the President, who passes the budget and every appropriations bill. I also know which party controlled Congress in 2007 and 2008. Look it up.

Yeah and you had the house, senate and President from 2001-2006, and the damage, was done. 2 Wars with no plan to pay for them, and no exit strategy, tax cuts, and a medicare bill that was just a corporate give-away.

A shredded regulators from the MMS have coke parties with the companies that they were supposed to be regulating, which lead to the deep-water horizons disaster.

joeshmoe said:
I never saw the 28th amendment, GM must be allowed to fail. You do realize that not only if he had not intervened there would not be GM. Not to mention all the sub vendors of GM that would likely have gone into bankruptcy. More jobs would be lost, who knows where the destruction of the economy would end.

Oh do explain, which ones, tell me, and I will alert the Supreme Court. Then with all your vast knowledge, you could tell them where they went wrong. And I am really interested to here which Article/Amendment of the constitution the health care bill violates.

There is nothing in the Constitution that says the government can force you or me to buy anything.

The problem is as time has passed, we have allowed unelected judges to make more and more law and to not throw out many laws.

This is why we don’t hear about passing Amendments any more. For example, remember when we used to hear about the Equal Rights Amendment? Where did it go? We don’t hear about it because the Left doesn’t want to bring the subject up – not “Equal Rights”, but the Amendment system itself!

Liberals have discovered that they can bypass the Constitution with judges.

This needs to stop.

Maybe you can do some research and learn what the Supreme Court and some of the lower courts are supposed to do.

Read up on the GM issue too. It was handled all wrong. GM should have gone into bankruptcy – especially in light of the lies that somehow GM has paid back the monies.

We need to go back to following the Constitution. We have a very flexible system; we just need to follow it. A lot of our fighting would go away if we started following the Constitution again.

joeshmoe said:
Yeah and you had the house, senate and President from 2001-2006, and the damage, was done. 2 Wars with no plan to pay for them, and no exit strategy, tax cuts, and a medicare bill that was just a corporate give-away.

A shredded regulators from the MMS have coke parties with the companies that they were supposed to be regulating, which lead to the deep-water horizons disaster.

This is why the Tea Party is attacking the Establishment Republicans too. Liberalism, whether practiced by Democrats or Republicans, is evil. It never works over time as we all can see.

joeshmoe said:
Commerce clause. You do know that is the same argument used for slavery and against the civil rights act.
The Federal government regulates drugs, aviation, the automotive industry, and now the health-care industry.

No, sorry, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Slavery was officially recognized by the Constitution until the passage of the 13th Amendment. The Tenth Amendment had nothing whatsoever to do with it. Likewise, the Civil RIghts Acts are authorized by Section 5 of the 14th Amendment. Again, the Tenth Amendment has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Moreover, “regulating” an industry that participates in interstate commerce is different than mandating that individuals be required to buy a product by virtue of nothing more than their citizenship. By your interpretation of the Constitution, could Congress passing a law requiring all U.S. Citizens to buy a car from GM in order to keep the company solvent?

joeshmoe said:
You do realize that not only if he had not intervened there would not be GM. Not to mention all the sub vendors of GM that would likely have gone into bankruptcy. More jobs would be lost, who knows where the destruction of the economy would end.

You do realize that America builds cars that aren’t GM and it buys them too, right?

joeshmoe said:
You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president.

No, it wasn’t. The Dem Congress didn’t pass a budget, much like they didn’t do it this year. When they finally got around to it, Obama was the President that signed it.

joeshmoe said:
Commerce clause. You do know that is the same argument used for slavery and against the civil rights act.
The Federal government regulates drugs, aviation, the automotive industry, and now the health-care industry.

Wrong is wrong.

We have a system to make changes – it’s called AMENDMENTS.

The Commerce Clause has been misused and it’s one of the main reasons we are in such a bind. If we used the Amendment system – like we should have – much of the Federal Government wouldn’t be around.

We ALL would have been forced to think about our actions instead of allowing the crooked politicians FROM BOTH PARTIES to pass thousands of laws with trillions of spending that we can’t afford.

Our Constitution is genius, we just need to follow it.

NORBIT said:
It’s Jamie Gorelick’s edict to establish a firewall between information previously shared by the nation’s domestic and foreign intelligence agencies.

Ok i’ll give you that one.

NORBIT said:
This was an attempt to insulate her carpetbagger-in-chief from any culpability in nefarious fund-raising duplicity

But, what is this about?

It boils down to this, Becks rally drew around 500k of people, both the Jon stewart Rally, and the other rally pulled in about 350k total together… Becks ralley had no signs, the other two rallys had signs posing republicans as hitler, and put people down with a difference of opinion politically. The Two rallys had buses paid for by unions, and Oprah, and the huffington post, the Glenn Beck rally, people actually paid their own way… Becks rally preached hope, and love for fellow man, from all races, all religons.. The other two rallys preached a lack of sanity, and that if you do not believe like we do, you are a racist..

Alz said:
Our Constitution is genius, we just need to follow it.

But, we have been following it. We cannot strictly adhere to it, because it was is over 200 years old, when leeches were considered health-care, and we were all farmers not reliant on corporations for survival. That is what made it genius, it lays out what the government cannot do, but also allows it be useful in the modern era.

We do need to cut back in spending, but recent history has shown Democrats to be more responsible in regard to the deficit.

joeshmoe said:
We do need to cut back in spending, but recent history has shown Democrats to be more responsible in regard to the deficit.

You are delusional.

Did anybody post this link yet?

http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/30/what-we-saw-at-the-rally-to-re

BFD said: “Keith is just as bad as Rush and Beck and Schultz. Fuck him.

I, for one, have stopped watching all those hate-fests. Life is too short.”

BFD talking good sense…..I’m blown away! (And happy) We all need to ignore hate-mongers like the ones he mentioned. I’ve never been much of a Stewart fan, but he gave a great speech.

AnonymousFinch said:
No, because Obama wasted 3/4 of a trillion on a “stimulus” plan that was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8%, but instead caused it to rise to 10%. Look it up.

No, 3/4 of a trillion wasn’t spent on the stimulus. Only 71%. or 561 million, has been spent. Look it up.
The stimulus was to do more than just keep unemployment from rising, and it has. It was to help calm the panic, and it did. The stock market has recovered much of what it lost. There isn’t an overwhelming fear of how bad things are going to get. The nose-diving economy that Bush left us has reversed course, and is slowly climbing back out of the abyss.

And the stimulus didn’t cause unemployment to rise. Yes, there was a stimulus plan, and yes, unemployment continued to rise, but the stimulus did not cause unemployment to rise. And no, trees don’t cause the wind just because they always move when the wind is blowing.

Salman Rushie, the author of the Satanic Verses, said Yusuf Islam, who was a STAR at Stewart/Colbert’s rally wrote that Yusuf Islam wanted him murdered for criticizing Islam and Muhammad;

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100061519/yusuf-islam-aka-cat-stephens-accused-of-backing-salman-rusdie-fatwah-appears-at-rally-to-restore-sanity/

It isn’t that complicated. These guys were hoping to draw a bigger crowd than Beck.

Latin2: When Cat Stevens called for Rushdie’d death, I knew then that islam was evil. I have never been proven wrong.

Big_F-ing_Deal said:
Keith is just as bad as Rush and Beck and Schultz. Fuck him.

I, for one, have stopped watching all those hate-fests. Life is too short.

well said

everybody should do the same

joeshmoe said:
But, we have been following it. We cannot strictly adhere to it, because it was is over 200 years old, when leeches were considered health-care, and we were all farmers not reliant on corporations for survival.

Wrong! We can and should follow it. But it doesn’t mean we can’t change it. That’s why there is the Amendment process.

See, if we want government healthcare, we can change the Constitution to require it. We can do whatever we want as long as we follow the process. We haven’t been following the process and things are out of hand. This started many decades ago, not under Obama.

Obama is just making things worse at a faster rate and more people have noticed.

houdini said:
No, 3/4 of a trillion wasn’t spent on the stimulus. Only 71%. or 561 million, has been spent. Look it up.
The stimulus was to do more than just keep unemployment from rising, and it has. It was to help calm the panic, and it did. The stock market has recovered much of what it lost. There isn’t an overwhelming fear of how bad things are going to get. The nose-diving economy that Bush left us has reversed course, and is slowly climbing back out of the abyss.

And the stimulus didn’t cause unemployment to rise. Yes, there was a stimulus plan, and yes, unemployment continued to rise, but the stimulus did not cause unemployment to rise. And no, trees don’t cause the wind just because they always move when the wind is blowing.

The stimulus was mostly useless. thousands of jobs keep getting lost. Watch this website very few days; it’s depressing: http://www.dailyjobcuts.com

As for the stock market, do some research on High Frequency Trading. It’s way out of hand. On some days, fully 70% of the market is these computers driving up prices.

This started years ago, but it’s way out of hand now. The so-called financial reform bill doesn’t touch this – besides not touching Fannie or Freddie either!

We are in deep trouble because now they are devaluing the dollar. Inflation will start to kick in and prices of commodities will be shooting up. Plus, we are pissing off our creditors as their investments will be worth less.

Since we are beholden to the creditors (China, etc.), we lose much of our standing in the world.

This is what happens when we have Socialists running things.

stoogedudes said:
I think if there is anyone on this site who would do well to “tone it down”, it’s teapartypatriot. I mean, honest to Christmas.

I think someone should have a talk with notsosmart also.

notsofast says:
October 30, 2010 at 7:30 pm notsofast(Quote)
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YOU are a cocksucking lib who eats shit from Obama’s toilet and shares it with his family and fellow libs.

As a firm believer in what Jon and friends were trying to get across, I was disappointed to see 9/11 truthers, anti-Beck/Fox/Republican signs, and even pictures of Republicans with Hitler mustaches. I was big into the protest scene back in my idealistic youth and I stopped when I realized that no one was taking us seriously because we looked like crazy idiots. We were preaching to the choir and alienating anyone whose minds we might want to change, much like these people who tainted the rally with their divisive crap.

For the most part, though, it was an extremely positive and inspiring day and I was proud to have been a part of it. It makes me very happy that Olbermann hated it, because he’s just as much a part of the problem as Beck and his tea party crew.

Oh, and Notsofast – you are the most loathesome, ignorant jerk I have ever come across on any website ever. Although I’m sure you wear that as a badge of honor.

BTW in the spirit of today I have to say that AnonymousFinch – you are clearly a well-educated and reasonable person who makes excellent points around here. But it does you no good to be so condescending about it.

It may not be funny or liberally correct for to Jon say but his defending the Tea Partiers as he did must have made him shutter just a bit inside. It doesn’t happen as often as it should but he actually squeaked out a little common decency there. I suspect that along the way, somehow he had time, or made time to get a synopsis of Glen Beck’s repertoire and realized that… the other side… may actually have a valid position. Pretty scary (for Jon). What will his writers say? Actually none of this is really surprising. He is a smart guy after all. If you have been avoiding watching Beck because you already know (somehow intuitively) that he’s crazy. Be careful, you may just find out what Jon finally realized. It wasn’t easy for Jon. It’s hard to find substantive material to joke about Beck if you have the whole picture. Jon’s least funny bit is him emulating Beck. It’s desperate. You can’t kid a kidder. Beck takes very serious facts and concepts and presents them like a rodeo clown. He begs the White House or his audience to please correct him if he has a fact wrong. The smart people at Comedy central probably worked very hard doing just that. The conclusion? Make fun of the way Beck acts. Kudo’s to Jon. He is a fabulous comedian, I watch and enjoy his every show. Those were beautiful concluding words Jon spoke. Truth is setting him free.

WHarropson said:
I suspect that along the way, somehow he (Jon) had time, or made time to get a synopsis of Glen Beck’s repertoire and realized that… the other side… may actually have a valid position.

It amazes me how delusional a person can be when he only sees what he wants to see.

FYI the whole rally was to rebuke people like Beck (and Keith and F&F’s and Shultz and Rush), but you go ahead and convince yourself that John had some sort of positive epiphany about him. lol

BTW, people have corrected Becks “facts” dozens of times, but your side never admits to it so no bothers anymore. Pissing in the wind. Maybe you should visit Polifact sometime and search his name.

“Less than 10 percent of Obama’s Cabinet appointees “have any experience in the private sector.”"

—–Glenn Beck lie

I’ve looked at Olbermann’s Twitter feed, off and on all day.

The dude needs to get over himself. Clearly his feelings were hurt and instead of taking the opportunity for introspection, he keeps lashing out because he’s obviously under the mistaken impression that he’s special and somehow better than everyone else.

Get over it, Keith. You’re a well-read sportscaster with a nice delivery. You’re not a god; You’re not the savior of mankind. You’re no better than Bill O’Reilly or Glenn Beck.

You’re all just folks on TV, making a living the best that you can.

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AnonymousFinch said:
You are delusional.

Is he? http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg

joeshmoe said:
But, we have been following it. We cannot strictly adhere to it, because it was is over 200 years old, when leeches were considered health-care, and we were all farmers not reliant on corporations for survival.

Were we following it when it was determined that the Commerce Clause gave the federal government the right to tell someone that they couldn’t grow wheat for their personal use?

Wickard v. Filburn

JamesA1102 said:
Is he? http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg

Yes, he is. You know who passes the budget, right? I’d suggest reviewing Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution.

During the last year or so the media, in their descriptions about the Tea Party gatherings or Beck’s Washington Mall rally, constantly commented on the “overwhelming whiteness” of the crowd. Yet I haven’t read or heard one such comment about the lack of diversity in The Rally To Restore Sanity. And it was certainly overwhelmingly white.

Derek Elliot said:
Yet I haven’t read or heard one such comment about the lack of diversity in The Rally To Restore Sanity

You don’t get around much. I have heard many references to it. On CNN, on Geraldo and on Daily Beast, to name a few.

CBS web page claims 215K at the rally yesterday and are sticking to their 87K at the Beck Rally.

Of course, CBS reporters were caught on tape (voice mail) plotting to make up stories about Joe Miller in an attempt to undermine his candidacy for Senate.

Bwahahahaha – CBS just destroys their own credibility by sticking to the 87K number for Beck.

Stewart’s goal was to beat Beck’s attendance on the mall; CBS claims he did….everyone else, well, not so much.

Funny how NYTimes got an “under the radar” number of “over 200K” for yesterday’s rally, but wouldn’t report the “under the radar” number of “over 500K for Beck’s rally.

Oh well, this is restoring sanity in America – “news” organization continuing to push the DNC propaganda.

JamesA1102 said:
Is he? http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg

That chart is completely false because the author doesn’t understand the difference between the deficit and the debt.

JamesA1102 said:
Is he? http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg

It is also wrong because it wrongly attributes the federal budget to the President instead of Congress. If you did the same chart based on who controlled Congress, you’d see that the annual deficit continued to go up when Democrats controlled Congress, but that trend reversed after Republicans took control of both Houses of Congress in 1994.

JamesA1102 said:
Is he? http://unastronaut.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/120m4471.jpg

It is also misleading because it stops in 2006, the year in which Democrats re-took both Houses of Congress. If the budgets since then were plotted on the same chart, you’d see that the deficit has exploded since then. The highest deficit shown on your chart is $596 billion. Last year’s deficit was THREE TIMES more than that!!!

Again, these are pretty obvious facts. No one can seriously believe that that chart is fair or accurate. It is a distorted piece of propaganda.

Cubby said:
BTW in the spirit of today I have to say that AnonymousFinch – you are clearly a well-educated and reasonable person who makes excellent points around here. But it does you no good to be so condescending about it.

Sorry, but I tend to mirror the tone of the people I’m responding to. When people are reasonable with me, I’m reasonable back. When people cop an attitude with me, I give it right back to them.

TfT said:
CBS web page claims 215K at the rally yesterday and are sticking to their 87K at the Beck Rally. Of course, CBS reporters were caught on tape (voice mail) plotting to make up stories about Joe Miller in an attempt to undermine his candidacy for Senate. Bwahahahaha – CBS just destroys their own credibility by sticking to the 87K number for Beck. Stewart’s goal was to beat Beck’s attendance on the mall; CBS claims he did….everyone else, well, not so much. Funny how NYTimes got an “under the radar” number of “over 200K” for yesterday’s rally, but wouldn’t report the “under the radar” number of “over 500K for Beck’s rally. Oh well, this is restoring sanity in America – “news” organization continuing to push the DNC propaganda.

CBS = Viacom.

Viacom= Comedy Central.

CBS Polling data: Unbiased? You make the call.

Alz said:
Wrong! We can and should follow it. But it doesn’t mean we can’t change it. That’s why there is the Amendment process.

See, if we want government healthcare, we can change the Constitution to require it. We can do whatever we want as long as we follow the process. We haven’t been following the process and things are out of hand. This started many decades ago, not under Obama.

Obama is just making things worse at a faster rate and more people have noticed.

The Amendment process is to change BIG things, like women voting, eliminate slavery, and presidential succession. It is a broad blueprint. If you want the government to return to strictly what is laid out in the constitution, you should know your history, especially late 1800′s. Like the Haymarket Affair, the muckrakers like Earl Sinclair, and you tell me that we were better off as a whole with 11 year old children working in factories, when people died on the job on a regular basis, and get paid sweat shop wages, which are all constitutional.

AnonymousFinch said:
No, because Obama wasted 3/4 of a trillion on a “stimulus” plan that was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8%, but instead caused it to rise to 10%. Look it up.

Caused it to raise to 10%, what are you talking about. So you are saying that everything was great, we were losing over 600,000 jobs a month from about Nov ’08 to May ’09, and a bill in March of ’09 was the reason unemployment went up? That is some fuzzy logic, if anything you are arguing that the stimulus was too small.

Pablo said:
Were we following it when it was determined that the Commerce Clause gave the federal government the right to tell someone that they couldn’t grow wheat for their personal use?

Wickard v. Filburn

Can we stick to this century, or at least post WW II.

AnonymousFinch said:
That chart is completely false because the author doesn’t understand the difference between the deficit and the debt.

AnonymousFinch said:
It is also wrong because it wrongly attributes the federal budget to the President instead of Congress. If you did the same chart based on who controlled Congress, you’d see that the annual deficit continued to go up when Democrats controlled Congress, but that trend reversed after Republicans took control of both Houses of Congress in 1994.

I just love how you spin when confronted with the truth! LOL!

AnonymousFinch said:
It is also misleading because it stops in 2006, the year in which Democrats re-took both Houses of Congress. If the budgets since then were plotted on the same chart, you’d see that the deficit has exploded since then. The highest deficit shown on your chart is $596 billion. Last year’s deficit was THREE TIMES more than that!!! Again, these are pretty obvious facts. No one can seriously believe that that chart is fair or accurate. It is a distorted piece of propaganda.

Finch, can you offer sources proving that the Democrats took control of congress in 2006?

writer said:
Finch, can you offer sources proving that the Democrats took control of congress in 2006?

I thought it was 2007 myself. And of course the 2007 fiscal year and budget would have already started.

tigerprez said:
Politicians need to work together: Republicans need to stop complaining and vote for everything Obama wants. How dare they not get in line with hope and change! We should have had universal health care, cap and trade, no wars, gay marriage, nationalization of industry, and a ban on all guns a week after Obama was sworn in. The only reason he hasn’t accomplished this is because of Repubilcan obstructionism. Politicians need to work together!

I’m not sure if this was what Jon was trying to say, but I’m glad somebody did. It’s about time someone was straight about exactly what this country needs.

ps I may not agree with you but I’m pretty sure you’re not Hitler.

joeshmoe said:
Seriously, Bush was president when the economy collapsed, or were you born yesterday? You do realize that budget that all the tea party people are so upset about was pasted in October 2008, with you know who as president. This is why the tea party is not taken seriously, because you haven’t the slightest idea what happened. We all are supportive of the Constitution, and I would really like to hear how Obama has violated the constitution, because reasonable people will agree that he has not.

Obama has violated the Constitution because technically he should only be 3/5 of a President. And before everyone starts going insano on me and saying that I didn’t get Jon’s point because I’m calling Tea Party/Republicans/Conservatives racist, chill out, it’s just a joke. LOL. His mother was white so he’d be at least 8/10 of a President.

Whenever someone has what they call a “Rally to Restore Sanity” I can’t help but to stop and wonder WHOSE version of sanity are they trying to restore, and what exactly do they consider “SANITY”?

AnonymousFinch said:
No, because Obama wasted 3/4 of a trillion on a “stimulus” plan that was supposed to keep unemployment from rising above 8%, but instead caused it to rise to 10%. Look it up.

And I’m not sure that it CAUSED unemployment to go to 10%. How does giving people money correlate to increased unemployment. At worst it only failed to stop the bleeding, but that was a big fucking wound.

joeshmoe said:
You do realize that budget

joeshmoe said:
You do realize that not only if he had not intervened there would not be GM

joeshmoe said:
You realize that even after the USS Cole in August

joeshmoe said:
You do know that is the same argument used for slavery

You do realize that you need new writers don’t you?

stehil912 said:
Becks rally drew around 500k of people

no

Cubby said:
Oh, and Notsofast – you are the most loathesome, ignorant jerk I have ever come across on any website ever. Although I’m sure you wear that as a badge of honor.

Below me, child!

So this rally was for the Guiness book of World records for the biggest comedy show ever or what?

g-ringy said:
no

yes it did, pics don’t lie.

nrgetick said:
I went to a place here in portland that showed the rally on a big screen( and a full bar) the place was FUCKIN PACKED!!! (8am on a saturday) I had to wait an hour to get a beer,…. this was one place in portland among many…. Beck aint got shit

All hail stewart and colbert!!! lol

awesome rally

Wow! There were over 1000 smaller rallies listed on the web. The one in Seattle had about 4000 people. It certainly shows how people want to return to sanity.

Derek Elliot said:
Yet I haven’t read or heard one such comment about the lack of diversity in The Rally To Restore Sanity. And it was certainly overwhelmingly white.

Have you looked up the break down of our nation? 75% white. I was at the rally and I could look around me and find people from diverse races. There was no lack of diversity.

So when the Left were screaming and yelling during for all those years they were NOT insane?

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Keith shouldn’t that upset. Didn’t Stewart pat him on the back for usually doing good work?

What a Moran, he continues to ponder Sanchez. All I could said is that he is the kind of man that you would use as a blueprint to build an idiot. But don’t get me wrong, he’s not stupid; he’s possessed by a retarded ghost.

Yes people; Hi! I’m a human being! What are you?

Inspired by the rally, I want to keep the ball roling. Please help by checking out The Movement to Restore Unity Facebook page I created. Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/twitter/#!/pages/The-Movement-to-Restore-Unity/169072223119070

On October 30, 2010, I witnessed a profound moment in the history of America. What may have started out as a joke turned into a pivotal moment in the healing of American divisions. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered on Washington in support, not so much of a couple comedians, but in support of their country. They came determined to present the best part of us despite logistical and probably financial difficulties. They came to show the side of America that still has civility and a sense of humor. They came to reconnect with other Americans who want to see things “taken down a notch” and restored to the untied country we have been and can be again.

The experience was enjoyable, enlightening, inspiring, and most of all healing. The healing will spread. It must spread. Deep down it is what all Americans truly want; a strong, united country. Our country has faced many challenges; we have always prevailed and we will again. This is what makes our country great. The sense of greatness is so pervasive in the heart of Americans that we know no other way to be. Yes, we have fallen into a crevice of confusion, frustration, and division, but this problem is an opportunity to learn about ourselves and what we are capable of. Just as we united after September 11th, and the world united around, us we can come back even stronger than before.

I walked away from The Rally to Restore Sanity not wanting it to end. I walked away feeling better, feeling inspired, and most of all feeling empowered to keep the ball rolling. The unity I felt among my fellow Americans in our countries capitol is what we all need to feel, to heal, and to get our country back on track. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert got things started. I want to do my part to keep the ball rolling. Please help me with The Movement to Restore Unity, for unity will bring us back to sanity, after all we all know, united we stand, divided we fall.

Christine Tuttle said:
I walked away from The Rally to Restore Sanity not wanting it to end. I walked away feeling better, feeling inspired, and most of all feeling empowered to keep the ball rolling. The unity I felt among my fellow Americans in our countries capitol is what we all need to feel, to heal, and to get our country back on track. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert got things started. I want to do my part to keep the ball rolling. Please help me with The Movement to Restore Unity, for unity will bring us back to sanity, after all we all know, united we stand, divided we fall.

HIPPIE!

…(just kidding, i enjoyed your post!)

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