{"id":3102,"date":"2010-10-31T01:17:45","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T08:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3102"},"modified":"2010-10-31T19:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T02:04:27","slug":"stewart-andor-colbert-restore-sanity-andor-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3102","title":{"rendered":"Stewart And\/Or Colbert Restore Sanity And\/Or Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was the day that many historians will record as the day that sanity was restored to America. And the rest of the historians will mark it as the day fear was kept alive. Then the two warring groups of historians will pelt one another with eggs. That’s just the way historians are.<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart’s long anticipated Rally to Restore Sanity<\/em>, and Stephen Colbert’s opposing March to Keep Fear Alive<\/em>, took place at the National Mall in Washington, DC. By all accounts it was a rip-snorting success. But as Stewart noted, what’s important isn’t what happened there, but how what happened there would be reported:<\/p>\n

“I think you know that the success or failure of a rally is judged by only two criteria: the intellectual coherence of the content, and its correlation to the engagement…I’m just kidding. It’s color and size. We all know it’s color and size. But I think we’re in good shape. As I look here today I can see we have over ten million people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In fact, the actual estimates were slightly lower. CBS News hired a firm to estimate attendance and they reported<\/a> the crowd to be 215,000. The same firm pegged Glenn Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor<\/em> at 87,000. Expect Beck to bitterly condemn the socialist, mathematician, elitists who deliberately skewed the estimates in order to plunge America into tyranny.<\/p>\n

Amongst the highlights of the event were Colbert’s entrance from far beneath the stage in the Fenix capsule that was used to rescue the Chilean miners. Then there was the epic battle between Yusuf Islam’s Peace Train<\/em> and Ozzy Osbourne’s Crazy Train<\/em>. That skirmish was settled by The O’Jays’ Love Train<\/em>.<\/p>\n

It’s funny how this rally, whose purpose was to lower the rhetoric and to “take it down a notch,”<\/em> has incited much of the right to blow a virtual gasket as they complain that Stewart and Colbert are hopelessly far-left and are engaged in propaganda and disinformation. They regard this event as a blatant attempt to manipulate the upcoming election. There are even some who are disturbed by the presence of Yusuf Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens), a devious Muslim<\/a> trying to infiltrate American culture and commerce. To these demented Tea Partiers and pundits everything is a conspiracy. And that really isn’t funny at all, when you think about it. <\/p>\n

In addition to the massive crowd in Washington, some satellite rallies were held around the country, including one in Los Angeles that I attended. There were approximately 2,500 people at this unofficial, spontaneously planned gathering at MacArthur Park. That’s an impressive turnout. And we were treated to some high quality entertainment that included cartoonist extraordinaire Lalo Alcarez and comic Jimmy Dore.<\/p>\n

Obviously having a good time:
\n\"Sanity<\/p>\n

Supporting Media Matters Fight Fox<\/a> campaign:
\n\"Sanity<\/p>\n

And from the DC rally…<\/p>\n

Crazy Train {hearts} Peace Train:
\n\"Sanity<\/p>\n

Eat your heart out, Glenn Beck:
\n\"Sanity<\/p>\n

A good time was had by all. Now back to the serious work of preventing the crazies from taking over congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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