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Rally To Restore Sanity
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LuciferSam
Banned
All I see is a reporter being mocked by a bunch of people having a great time.
Try to think outside the bag.
Try to think outside the bag.
walk the walk
Beach Fanatic
Did you restore your sanity Sam?(insert sarcasm)
I and millions more are going to restore our sanity on Tuesday.
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Bob
SoWal Insider
have fun voting for fear inc.
LuciferSam
Banned
Go back to your fear bunker sad sack.
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walk the walk
Beach Fanatic
Cute response with the token name calling...sWeeT!
**No bunker needed for Tuesday buddy.I cannot wait until Tuesday and millions upon millions are going to send Obama and company a clear message,a message I am sure he will ignore as usual.
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Lake View Too
SoWal Insider
John Stockman, Reagan's budget director, and the architect of the biggest tax cut in history, was on 60 Minutes and said, basically, that tax cuts are a form of insanity, that we have been in a"false economic upturn " for the last 30 years, and that the top five percent income earners in the U.S. have a net worth of 40 trillion dollars. If this tidal wave of "Republican values" includes tax cuts for the rich, it will truly be the end of this country. So much for a return to sanity...
Jdarg
SoWal Expert
The signs at the Sanity Rally were so good...enjoy!
The Funniest Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear! (PHOTOS)
The Funniest Signs At The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear! (PHOTOS)
Rita
margarita brocolia
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I'll get some photos on here soon. Stewart's closing remarks were poignant.
I am so glad we went! It was more than I had hoped for. I have never been in such a crowd before. We were where we could see a big screen and hear, luckier than many I spoke with afterwards.
What stood out to me was how polite everyone was to each other in this huge crowd of elbow to elbow people. And not just at the rally but on the metro and buses where we we packed in like sardines. People wanted to be there and they put up with the inconveniences in a manner that I doubt they usually do. There was very little grumbling about anything. There were people there just for the entertainment and others who were there there to say ?take it down a notch?, hoping for more civil discussion and others to thumb their nose at the ?shoutcasters? and the media that presents ?news? in a sensationalized and unfair/unprofessional manner to boost ratings. The video above that Shopper posted would be an example of this. Same with some of the Tea Party video interviews. If you are selective enough, you can piece together an unfair representation of just about anything. It is up to us not to perpetuate this.
We met people from NY, MA, CT, RI, VA, MD, GA, FL, PA, OH, IL, IN, MN, Wa DC, LA, CO, NM, AZ, CA, TX, ... even Canada! The older folks like us tended to come in earlier, like Thursday and the younger ones on Friday and Saturday. I was surprised at the number of families. There were two babies close to us. Our airport hotel in MD was almost all ralliers and airline pilots/attendants. Everywhere we went on Thursday locals were remarking about how abnormally busy it was. They didn?t seem to quite be prepared for the influx just yet. On Friday the clerk at a museum remarked that another section of the mall had been opened up, and that she had not seen it opened that far back for any of the other events. Some young kids climbed trees to see and all the port-a-potties had young people on top of them by the end of the rally.
Besides people coming from every corner of the USA, it was an extremely diverse group of people and Stewart made a point to note that. It reflected our country pretty well imo. I thought there might be more African Americans represented though. I do know several people who wanted to be there but couldn?t take off work, school, or couldn?t afford to go who did watch it on the internet. Again, some were just there for the fun and entertainment and others for political reasons and yet others who are very upset with the ?shoutcaster? types and the uncivil discourse.
When I read this piece by Jason Linkins, I thought it pretty much summed up how I felt about the rally.
My Day At The Rally To Restore Sanity
?... the most dedicated attendees showed up to support reasonableness. (It was only after the show was over that the "Fox News Sucks" signs seem to show up.) Everyone was very well behaved. It was one of the friendliest crowds I've ever been a part of. One attendee seemed to have it exactly right, carting a sign that read, "I'm pretty sure I'd like you if I got to know you." .....
... if I'm being honest, I have to tell you that the comedy wasn't particularly daring. That doesn't mean there wasn't some good comedy -- from a technical standpoint, Sam Waterston's performance of Stephen Colbert's poem of fear was as well-conceived a piece as you're likely to find anywhere. And everyone certainly meant well. It was a festival of good intentions! But for the most part, the comedy stayed safe.
... He did what he's always done, broadly critiquing the media as an institution that had "broken," that had shone their magnifying glass as a terrorizer of small insects. He decried small-mindedness, generalizations, and smugness. He urged the crowds to stop writing off Tea Partiers as racists, and instead see them as people with perspectives on the world that were informed by very real concerns and hurts and hopes. The real racists, Stewart reminded the crowd, worked hard, and put the time and effort into being racist.
... t was affecting, listening to Stewart described one nation, "a little bit late for something they have to do," in rush hour traffic, slowly merging down from many lanes into one, until everyone, with one shared voice, orderly allows cars to filter into the merge. The idea being: we don't know or care about the political passions of the person in the next car...we just make way for one another.
... Stewart reminded the listening crowd that many amazing things had been built by people who had their differences with one another, and that the important work of solving tough problems continues today, everywhere in America -- except, in his estimation, in Washington, DC and on cable teevee. But we didn't have to behave like that.
... So, while I wasn't too terribly impressed with the comedic content on this occasion, I was nevertheless plenty moved by Stewart's soliloquy on decency and how the overamplification of our worst impulses and arguments tend to overshadow it. ...?
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