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 Stewart, Colbert Announce RalliesPosted on Sep 17, 2010
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have taken parody to the next level. The comedians announced two parallel rallies to happen on the mall in Washington, D.C., just days before the midterm elections. Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” clearly are responses to Glenn Beck’s accidentally-on-Martin-Luther-King-Jr.-Day “Restoring Honor” rally. And to give props where props are due, the impetus for this idea actually came not from the shows’ producers but from a user on the site reddit.com after a dream. No joke. —JCL
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By Robespierre115, September 17, 2010 at 6:00 pm Link to this comment
This is just typical Limousine Liberal nonsense. Why not campaign specifically against the madness of the radical right-wing? One reason young people don’t even care for politics or participate in the process is because of this culture of “I don’t side with anything.” It is true that both Dems and Reps are useless, we need revolutionary options, we need real alternatives, but these guys are not offering alternatives, just apathy.
Report thisBy Wikileaks for Nobel, September 17, 2010 at 2:23 pm Link to this comment
I wish I could be at the “Fear” march with other people wearing monster masks, carrying signs and chanting: “We’re here…we’re fear…get used to it!”
Report thisBy gerard, September 17, 2010 at 11:42 am Link to this comment
The entire country is lost somewhere between laughter and tears. A time for Ralleys in the Alleys and Tweets in the Streets now that the Revolt of the Dolts is attracting major attention in the Slickipedia-media.
Report thisMore circuses without bread is a major indicator of the bad juju of our times. Where is the dough we need, the yeast of rising political expectations? Where are the “fishers of men” who could create the peaceable feast?
By ib, September 17, 2010 at 11:29 am Link to this comment
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Booking hotels today!
Report thisAs for calling them clowns - you mean like Beck and the working girl from Alaska
By tropicgirl, September 17, 2010 at 10:29 am Link to this comment
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NO MATTER HOW YOU WANT TO DEFEND THEM. Colbert and
Stewart campaigning for mediocrity is stupid. Is
there anything more counterproductive to our nation
that that stupid idea? All the reformers, whether for
slavery, voting rights, mentally ill, war, poverty,
worship, all the prophets, all the real leaders in
hard times HAD TO BE extremists.
I would have expected more from Colbert. I misjudged
Colbert’s INTELLIGENCE. Everyone knows he is a comic,
not a conservative. But to campaign for middle-road?
This is downright ridiculous. Methinks ratings are
probably lacking.
Whatever respect I ever had for both is totally gone.
Just a couple of class clowns who are too stupid to
realize that Mom is a drunk and Dad is really in
jail, not on a vacation and your teacher can’t wait
till you stop coming to school.
Losers. Elite retards. I think they are really part
Report thisof the MSNBC network of nobody cares.