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Jon Stewart Says His Rally Is “Not The Anti-Glenn Beck Rally” On “Burning Building” CNN

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Jon Stewart continued his pre-Restore Sanity Rally press tour, with a stop on CNN last night.

Talking to Larry King, Stewart explained why his rally is not “Anti-Glenn Beck,” took aim at NPR for banning employees from attending…and made fun of CNN.

The CNN jabs started right at the beginning. “I’m sorry, I’m just listening to the end of Parker Spitzer,” said Stewart, later poking fun at the small table filled with newspapers. “They’re just – that’s witty. That is witty.”

Later: “Can I tell you something? You made the right choice. You are leaving this place. You know what you are? You’re the last guy out of a burning building, my friend.”

King asked Stewart to describe his rally, and if it was a direct response to Glenn Beck’s 8/28 rally. “It is not the Anti-Glenn Beck rally,” he said. “It’s a very similar – what we are doing is, we are using the rally format to do the same thing we do with our shows. The message will be a very similar-type idea.”

Stewart said his books are like the Daily Show in book form – this will be Daily Show in rally form. So don’t expect it to be overtly political. Which brings us to the NPR issue – which told its employees they are not allowed to attend.

“To fight back, I have prohibited my employees from describing events in esoteric terms,” said Stewart. “Very little NPR can do to hurt a fella. Other than perhaps come and reclaim my tote bag. From now on, I’m carrying everything just in my arms like this. I will no longer use their tote bags. I find it interesting that you would forbid people to go to something that even we don’t really know what it is.”

No love lost for NPR – and likely even less so after last night.

Here’s part of the interview, from CNN:

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  • Big Eddie

    Now Juan Williams can go to this rally , but why would he want to ?

  • Big Eddie

    Big Eddie caught some of Spitzer the other day when Dana Loesch cleaned his clock . Spitzer put the O , the B and the N in obnoxious . Did not see Parker . Does she come in each night ?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    Its not a political rally, yet its been endorsed by every prominent political left wing figure and Obama himself. I guess Stewart is using the tried and true tactic of “repeating a lie till it becomes true”.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    This is a FREE comedy/music concert that will draw all kinds of non-political people. The left wants to make it look like it is in support of their socialist policies. LOL. The ONLY way they can draw a crowd is to give a FREE concert. Remember during the campaign Obama would use big name bands to go on before he would speak. The speech he gave in Germany was after a series of rock bands played. It was just a rock concert but our left-wing played it up that the crowd was there for Obama.

  • CosmosDan

    Dronetek said:
    Its not a political rally, yet its been endorsed by every prominent political left wing figure and Obama himself. I guess Stewart is using the tried and true tactic of “repeating a lie till it becomes true”.

    Oh for Fuck sake. You’d think at some point you’d get tired of just shitting on everything that isn’t right in line with your thinking.

    Jon does a successful comedy show centered around news and politics so prominent politicians and pundits have mentioned it. That doesn’t make him a liar. The idea that a comic has become the most trusted man in news is not a huge compliment to him, but rather a sad commentary on the deterioration of journalism in this country,and Jon has spoken of it several times.

    I’m sure the rally will have political content because both shows do, and I hope it has some lasting consequences as moderates both conservative and liberal find a way to express things in non hateful ways.

  • CosmosDan

    gordonbloyershow said:
    This is a FREE comedy/music concert that will draw all kinds of non-political people. The left wants to make it look like it is in support of their socialist policies. LOL. The ONLY way they can draw a crowd is to give a FREE concert. Remember during the campaign Obama would use big name bands to go on before he would speak. The speech he gave in Germany was after a series of rock bands played. It was just a rock concert but our left-wing played it up that the crowd was there for Obama.

    What a load of crap. So, conservatives don’t use music, bands, and celebrities?

    IN fact over 150,000 people were ready to go before any content was announced. I think a lot of people of all ages are fans of the shows, and sincerely tired of the bullshit coming from so called news channels and politicians. My friend and I are going because we’re fans and because the theme , Restore Sanity, is something we need in this hateful political atmosphere. The idea that American citizens might want want to have a respectful reasoned discussion with their fellow citizens without gratuitous hatefulness and ridicule, and name calling might be beyond you Gordon but thank god it’s not beyond the majority.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    CosmosDan said:
    The idea that a comic has become the most trusted man in news

    Maybe to liberals, but not to everyone. The fact people would say that a comedian is a trusted news man speaks volumes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

    CosmosDan said:
    Restore Sanity, is something we need in this hateful political atmosphere

    Stewart isn’t above the fray though. Hes part of the problem. So, how is he going to “restore sanity”? Who made him arbiter of who and what is sane?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    gordonbloyershow says:
    “This is a FREE comedy/music concert that will draw all kinds of non-political people. The left wants to make it look like it is in support of their socialist policies. LOL. ”

    Keep laughing Bloyer; the laugh is on you. “The left” is far more diverse than you believe. You have no idea what the difference is between a liberal and a socialist, do you?

    Liberals support private enterprise and open markets; socialists do not. Both are on the left.

    You also can’t stand the fact that the two most popular pols in this country are Democrats: President Clinton and President Obama (in that order).

    Also, your claim is patently false. There were over 150,000 signed up to go to the rallies (when they were separate) BEFORE any plans for a concert were revealed.

    Why, Gordon, do you always have to lie about everything? Just because Glenn Beck does this doesn’t mean that all reactionaries do. Of course, you fawn (and probably masterbait) over Ann Colter, so lying is a norm for you.

  • Calvin
  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Calvin, HotAir is not surprisingly mischaracterizing the Restoring Sanity rally.

  • NORBIT

    Will there be and Medical Marijuana at the rally?

  • Calvin

    Big Eddie said:
    Big Eddie caught some of Spitzer the other day when Dana Loesch cleaned his clock . Spitzer put the O , the B and the N in obnoxious . Did not see Parker . Does she come in each night ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWfSUAGWkHM&feature=youtube_gdata_player

  • CosmosDan

    NORBIT said:
    Will there be and Medical Marijuana at the rally?

    Depends! oh wait, those were at Beck’s rally.

  • CosmosDan

    Dronetek said:
    Maybe to liberals, but not to everyone. The fact people would say that a comedian is a trusted news man speaks volumes.

    Of course not to everyone. It was just some poll taken. The problem it points to is that as we go more to opinion than real investigative journalism, we don’t have a news media working hard to keep us really informed of the facts. It’s all ratings and superficial bullshit, with very little meaningful content. Jon doesn’t pretend to be a news man and he’d probably be the first to say that it’s crazy to see him that way. His popularity for me is that he doesn’t just tell jokes but points out the hypocrisy and nonsense in politics and the media that many people see. He points out how ridiculous and over the top so much political discourse has become, which is why the Rally to Restore Sanity, appeals to so many.

    You know what else speaks volumes, that a republican congressman is shouted down and booed by his own constituents for daring to suggest they turn off Glenn Beck.

  • CosmosDan

    Dronetek said:
    Stewart isn’t above the fray though. Hes part of the problem. So, how is he going to “restore sanity”? Who made him arbiter of who and what is sane?

    How exactly is he part of the problem? Sure, he’s a flawed human like the rest of us and isn’t above the fray, but the theme of sanity is a very simple one. It’s not about conservative ideas or liberal ideas. It’s about the vast middle class who are both, wanting to have a reasonable discussion about serious issues without the anger and insults, and all the exaggeration and hyperbole that doesn’t really help. Not everyone will get it, but we have to start somewhere.

  • Azarkhan

    Calling Stewart’s event a “Rally to Restore Sanity” should provoke contempt from those aware of the issues behind this election, rather than laughter. There is nothing sane about wild, unsustainable deficit spending, or the deliberate destruction of the health-insurance industry to further a political agenda. There is nothing sane about the spectacle of a comedian intervening to protect an incompetent, power-hungry President from judgment by voters he openly derides as stupid and uninformed.

    Pick your favorite flavor of madness, and you’ll find it displayed by this President. Obama was recently diagnosed with delusions of shovel-ready jobs. There is abundant evidence of megalomania – “I won,” the difference between grabbing control of health care in 2009 vs. 1994 is “you have me,” etc. When he asked for more stimulus money, after squandering and stealing over $800 billion, he was filling Einstein’s famous definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results.

    The President’s paranoia is evident through his repeated tendency to describe opponents, and even inconvenient citizens, as incarnations of evil. Everyone who questions him is ignorant, violent, racist, or un-American. Those who challenge him, from the health-care town halls of 2009 to today, are nothing but the tools of sinister corporate interests – defined as any special interest that doesn’t give Obama bags of campaign money.

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

  • NORBIT

    LOL!

    “…Not the Anti-Beck Rally.”

    LOL!

    Yea, and the Stimulus “saved” the nation; and today isn’t Thursday!

  • stoogedudes

    Dronetek said:
    Its not a political rally, yet its been endorsed by every prominent political left wing figure and Obama himself. I guess Stewart is using the tried and true tactic of “repeating a lie till it becomes true”.

    When did Obama endorse it? He did endorse the notion of a rally for sanity. Funny how the notion of promoting sanity is apparently a left-wing schtick. I’ve not heard a prominent liberal say that this rally will be good for liberals. It’s for anyone in the middle who enjoy the Daily Show and want to have a good time and good laughs and who want to tell the fringe on both sides of the spectrum to chill the F out!

    Dronetek said:
    Hes part of the problem. So, how is he going to “restore sanity”? Who made him arbiter of who and what is sane?

    Wow. You could say the same for Glenn Beck. If Stewart is part of the problem, you have to include Glenn Beck in there. How did Beck restore honor? Who made him the arbiter of who and what is honorable?

    I see all this talk of Fox Derangement Syndrome and Palin Derangement Syndrome and Bush Derangement Syndrome.

    Looks like we got a case here of Stewart Derangement Syndrome and Sanity Derangement Syndrome.

  • stoogedudes

    Azarkhan said:
    Calling Stewart’s event a “Rally to Restore Sanity” should provoke contempt from those aware of the issues behind this election, rather than laughter. There is nothing sane about wild, unsustainable deficit spending, or the deliberate destruction of the health-insurance industry to further a political agenda. There is nothing sane about the spectacle of a comedian intervening to protect an incompetent, power-hungry President from judgment by voters he openly derides as stupid and uninformed. Pick your favorite flavor of madness, and you’ll find it displayed by this President. Obama was recently diagnosed with delusions of shovel-ready jobs. There is abundant evidence of megalomania – “I won,” the difference between grabbing control of health care in 2009 vs. 1994 is “you have me,” etc. When he asked for more stimulus money, after squandering and stealing over $800 billion, he was filling Einstein’s famous definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting different results. The President’s paranoia is evident through his repeated tendency to describe opponents, and even inconvenient citizens, as incarnations of evil. Everyone who questions him is ignorant, violent, racist, or un-American. Those who challenge him, from the health-care town halls of 2009 to today, are nothing but the tools of sinister corporate interests – defined as any special interest that doesn’t give Obama bags of campaign money. http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2010/10/17/restoring-sanity/

    Azarkhan, if this rally turns out to be about spending more and taxing more and supporting the Obama agenda, I’ll kiss your hindquarters.

  • Azarkhan

    stoogedudes said:
    Azarkhan, if this rally turns out to be about spending more and taxing more and supporting the Obama agenda, I’ll kiss your hindquarters

    Pucker up, buttercup. Stewart is a hard core leftist who definitely supports Pres Obama. The next thing you’ll be telling me is that Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Stephen Colbert, and MTV are opposed to Obama’s agenda.

  • stoogedudes

    Wow, that is just…wow.

    If you think Stewart is a hardcore leftist, you just show how hardcore rightist you really are. You are part of the fringe this rally is against.

    Sure he supports President Obama, lots of people do, doesn’t make them hardcore leftists.

    So you’re telling me that anyone who doesn’t have Obama Derangement Syndrome like you is somehow a hardcore leftist?

  • Azarkhan

    stoogedudes said:
    If you think Stewart is a hardcore leftist, you just show how hardcore rightist you really are

    If you think he’s not, that shows what a hard core leftist you really are. Or perhaps you are not politically astute. Take your pick.

  • stoogedudes

    There’s no convincing you. Your Stewart Derangment Syndrome is incurable. Too much exposure to EIB.

  • CosmosDan

    Azarkhan said:
    Pucker up, buttercup. Stewart is a hard core leftist who definitely supports Pres Obama. The next thing you’ll be telling me is that Oprah Winfrey, Arianna Huffington, Stephen Colbert, and MTV are opposed to Obama’s agenda.

    Stewart , Colbert, and Huffington have all criticized Obama. The point of the rally is that there are other possibilities besides the extremes at either ends. We are where we are, but the solution isn’t allowing other big money interests buy off the Tea Party movement and letting business interests keep average citizens bickering while they screw us.

  • stoogedudes

    Azarkhan said:
    If you think he’s not, that shows what a hard core leftist you really are. Or perhaps you are not politically astute. Take your pick.

    Yep, I’m a hardcore leftist. I like Sarah Palin personally. I oppose the Mosque/center at Ground Zero. I happen to like Bill O’Reilly. I’m against abortion and I strongly support the second Amendment. I will probably be voting for Mark Kirk here in Illinois.

    How radically left-wing of me.

  • Azarkhan

    stoogedudes said:
    Your Stewart Derangment Syndrome is incurable

    Yes, I swing between that and Obama Derangement Syndrome. Kinda like how your ilk swing between Bush Derangement Syndrome and Palin Derangement Syndrome.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

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

    Wow that without a doubt has to be the most piss poor, foolishly written article ever posted on the internets. And I’ve been to 4chan before…

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    stoogedudes said:
    Yep, I’m a hardcore leftist. I like Sarah Palin personally. I oppose the Mosque/center at Ground Zero. I happen to like Bill O’Reilly. I’m against abortion and I strongly support the second Amendment. I will probably be voting for Mark Kirk here in Illinois.

    How radically left-wing of me.

    You don’t lick Beck’s balls so you’re a hardcore leftist.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Blair-Maury/1027829552 Blair Maury

    gordonbloyershow said:
    This is a FREE comedy/music concert that will draw all kinds of non-political people. The left wants to make it look like it is in support of their socialist policies. LOL. The ONLY way they can draw a crowd is to give a FREE concert. Remember during the campaign Obama would use big name bands to go on before he would speak. The speech he gave in Germany was after a series of rock bands played. It was just a rock concert but our left-wing played it up that the crowd was there for Obama.

    You have to trust Gordon on this. He knows how to draw people. He has almost 6,00 views of his anti-Alex Jones video he uploaded. You have to be a great broadcaster (or an LOLcat) to get people to view you on YouTube.

  • http://www.uselessbeauty.com Vidiot

    Wow, the conservatives aren’t agreeing with each other? Sounds like someone needs to check the talking points:

    Dronetek said:
    Its not a political rally, yet its been endorsed by every prominent political left wing figure and Obama himself. I guess Stewart is using the tried and true tactic of “repeating a lie till it becomes true”.

    gordonbloyershow said:
    This is a FREE comedy/music concert that will draw all kinds of non-political people. The left wants to make it look like it is in support of their socialist policies. LOL.

    So which is it, fellas? You’re both dismissing and scoffing, but from different ends.

  • betweentwoevils

    Dronetek said:
    Its not a political rally, yet its been endorsed by every prominent political left wing figure and Obama himself. I guess Stewart is using the tried and true tactic of “repeating a lie till it becomes true”.

    Likewise, the Beck rally was not political, yet the only prominent political figures there were from the extreme right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Noa-Napoleon/100000196522640 Noa Napoleon

    Come join us for a day of Beck is a Devil!

    A misguided Stewart throws a rally but doesn’t quite know how to name it?? Is that the story? Let me help you guys a little. Regardless of the theme, Stewart’s rally will be about bashing everything Beck and conservatives stand for, otherwise why invite the extreme leftists to attend? I guarantee you the attendees at Stewarts rally know what this is all about even if they don’t come right out and say it! This is how Beck says the communist radicals operate. They want to transform America but they can’t say outright that ‘we want America to be socialist’ so they disguise their mo. I still say Stewart is a bigot who is using his rally to mock conservatives otherwise his theme would’ve been more positive and more complimenting of Beck’s rally. Unfortunately this is all playing out like the clash between Christ and the angry mob of Jews. The Jews we can compare to the liberals of our time who for what ever reason can’t see the truth when it stares them in the face.

    What was it about the Jews of Christ’s day that made them accuse Christ of having a devil (John 8:52)?

    Learn this and you will never be confused by liberal propaganda again. Just prior to being accused of having a devil, Christ warns his audience that whosoever commits sin is a slave of sin, declaring in verse 36; that “if the Son shall make you free ye shall be free indeed!” The Jews, being hypocrites and no real patriots of the faith (producing nothing remotely resembling “Abraham’s works”), had wedged themselves against the truth to such a degree that they confused Christ for a devil. Beck and people like him are simply highlight the difference between true patriots of American liberty and the false patriots who like to think they are “of Abraham” etc. “He that is of God hears God’s words, ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God.” Liberals have the traditions of our fathers all confused in the same way the Jews had claimed to be patriots of Abraham but were proven to be anything but that. American liberty is being dismantled by just the sort of detractors that Christ encountered in his day….”Unto you who believe he is precious; but to the disobedient he is the stone which the builders rejected, a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, even unto them which stumble at the word, being disobedient whereunto they were appointed” (1 Peter 2:7-8). Liberals are stumbling at the promise of liberty because they do not share the faith of their fathers. They, like the Jews, prefer traditions of men above God’s commandments. This includes antinomian Christians who cower in the pews and wish only to be exported out of here! People who stumble at Beck are not of God. I’m sure the Jews who accused Christ of having a devil thought they were the only “sane” ones in all of Israel, which made killing him seem like a good thing I suppose. They were wrong about Christ, just as Stewart is wrong about Mr. Beck and conservatives! Lets hope Stewart’s disciples have the sense not take their grudge to far. This would only solidify their place in the narrative as jealous detractors. I’m not holding my breadth on this. Some things are best left alone actually. Judas, after betraying the Lord, Killed himself in the end!!

  • RTB

    Dave mathews, the roots and wanda sykes are rumored entertainment acts for this..event….sound familiar?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    betweentwoevils says:
    “Likewise, the Beck rally was not political,…”

    Except, of course, for the Republican Black Robe Regiment.

    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/09/glenn-becks-black-robe-republican.html

  • CosmosDan

    Noa Napoleon said:
    What was it about the Jews of Christ’s day that made them accuse Christ of having a devil (John 8:52)?

    Isn’t there something in there about judging others?

  • CosmosDan

    RTB said:
    Dave mathews, the roots and wanda sykes are rumored entertainment acts for this..event….sound familiar?

    Sounds like a party. YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!

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