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Rally to Restore Sanity: A Photo Essay (pg. 3)
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| idoru |
| They're blatantly chopped. |
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| Boomer187 |
Can't wait to post my pics. There were funny signs.
The crazy part was packing into the merk on the way over...sardines. |
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| Watts |
| I wish they planned this a week earlier. GOTV started on the 25th, and the rally took a lot of volunteers away from candidates who needed them to canvass, phonebank, etc. |
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| Fledz |
| Oh hey look at that, Kevin missed the entire point of something....again :stongue: |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
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lol kev, you do realise that most people there are taking the piss, right? right? :eyes: |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by WittyHandle
And to everyone here who believes in what Jon Stewart stands for yet gangs up on Kevin, you are totally missing the point, and are as much a part of the problem as anyone else. And if your defense is to say you're just kidding, it's very easy to find where the joking stops in those threads and people get fired up. |
you can't work with nutters (not kevin, but tea party crazies who he acts as TA apologist for). |
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| UWM |
| Giant facepalm. Like these non-chopped placards weren't carried there in jest. Good ing grief. |
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| enydo |
The rally wasn't about hating a particular group of people or policies. If you think it was, you missed the point entirely, and you obviously didn't actually watch the thing.
Stewart's speech at the end was particularly well done. At least I thought so.
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"And now I thought we might have a moment, however brief, for some sincerity, if that’s ok; I know there are boundaries for a comedian, pundit, talker guy, and I’m sure I’ll find out tomorrow how I have violated them.
I’m really happy you guys are here, even if none of us are really quite sure why we are here. Some of you may have seen today as a clarion call for action, or some of the hipper, more ironic cats as a clarion call for ‘action.’ Clearly, some of you just wanted to see the Air and Space Museum and got royally screwed. And I’m sure a lot of you are here to have a nice time, and I hope you did. I know that many of you made a great effort to be here today, and I want you to know that everyone involved with this project worked incredibly hard to make sure that we honor the effort that you put in and gave you the best show we could possibly do. We know your time is valuable, and we didn’t want to waste it. And we are all extremely honored to have had a chance to perform for you on this beautiful space, on The Mall in Washington, D.C.
So, uh, what exactly was this? 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 main tools is delineating the two broke. The country’s 24-hour, politico, pundit, perpetual, panic conflictanator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen. Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire, and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
There are terrorists and racists and Stalinists and theocrats, but those titles that must earned; you must have the resume. Not being able to be able to distinguish between real racists and Tea Partiers, or real bigots and Juan Williams or Rick Sanchez is an insult, not only to those people, but to the racists themselves, who have put in the exhausting effort it takes to hate. Just as the inability to distinguish terrorists from Muslims makes us less safe, not more. The press is our immune system. If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker, and perhaps eczema. And yet, with that being said, I feel good: strangely, calmly good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us through a fun-house mirror, and not the good kind that makes you look slim in the waist and maybe taller, but the kind where you have a giant forehead and an ass shaped like a month-old pumpkin with one eyeball.
So why would we work together? Why would you reach across the aisle to a pumpkin-assed, forehead, eyeball monster? If the picture of us were true, of course our inabilities to solve problems would actually be quite sane and reasonable. Why would you work with Marxists actively subverting our Constitution, or racists and homophobes who see no one’s humanity but their own? We hear every damn day about how fragile our country is, on the brink of catastrophe torn by polarizing hate. And how it’s a shame that we can’t work together to get things done. But the truth is, we do. We work together to get things done every damn day. The only place we don’t is here or on cable TV. But Americans don’t live here or on cable TV. Where we live, our values and principles form the foundation that sustains us while we get things done, not the barriers that prevent us from getting things done.
Most Americans don’t live their lives solely as Democrats, Republicans, Liberals, or Conservatives. Americans live their lives more as people that are just a little bit late for something they have to do. Often, something they do not want to do, but they do it. Impossible things every day, that are only made possible through the little reasonable compromises we all make.
Look. Look on the screen. This is where we are; this is who we are: these cars. That’s a schoolteacher who probably thinks his taxes are too high. He’s going to work. There’s another car. A woman with two small kids, can’t really think about anything else right now. There’s another car, swaying, I don’t even know if you can see it. The lady’s in the NRA and loves Oprah. There’s another car. An investment banker: gay, also likes Oprah. Another car’s a Latino carpenter. Another car a fundamentalist vacuum salesman. Atheist obstetrician. Mormon Jay-Z fan. But this is us. Every one of the cars you see is filled with individuals of strong beliefs and principles they hold dear. Often, principles and beliefs in direct opposition to their fellow travelers. And yet these millions of cars must somehow find a way to squeeze one by one into a mile-long, thirty-foot wide tunnel carved underneath a mighty river. Carved by people who by the way I’m sure had their differences. And they do it. Concession by concession. You go, then I’ll go. You go, then I’ll go. You go, then I’ll go. Oh my God, is that an NRA sticker on your car? Is that an Obama sticker on your car? Ah, well that’s okay, you go, then I’ll go. And sure, at some point there will be a selfish jerk who zips up the shoulder and cuts in at the last minute. But that individual is rare, and he is scorned not hired as an analyst.
Because we know instinctively as a people that if we are to get through the darkness and back into the light, we have to work together. And the truth is, there will always be darkness. And sometimes, the light at the end of the tunnel isn’t the promised land. Sometimes, it’s just New Jersey. But we do it anyway, together. If you want to know why I’m here and what I want from you, I can only assure you this: you have already given it to me. Your presence was what I wanted. Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. And to see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine. Thank you.”
* Jon Stewart at The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, October 30, 2010
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| idoru |
| I only managed to catch his speech, but I thought that it was fantastic. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Uh huh. A very convenient excuse. I'm sure ones of Palin, Eric Cantor, Rush, etc. with Hitler mustaches were in jest. I bet all the brown people who didn't show up did so as a parody move too. |
You cant possibly be serious. |
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| Ang ' ela_ie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
Am I the only one that thinks all of those "Brown People" signs are photoshopped? Some of them seem awfully in focus compared with the people around them. Not to mention 4 people wide in every shot, even though they're different signs. |
*WHOOSH* |
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| DaRoZa |
| quote: | Originally posted by The17sss
Uh huh. A very convenient excuse. I'm sure ones of Palin, Eric Cantor, Rush, etc. with Hitler mustaches were in jest. I bet all the brown people who didn't show up did so as a parody move too.
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ok, let me spell it out for you: the hitler moustache sign was in parody of the obama hitler posters, showing how overly hyperbolic those who make those kinds of comparisons are. you can add a hitler moustache to any politician you disagree with and it means jack .
and there are clearly a few brown people in some of those photos, but i don't see what that has to do with anything. "brown people don't attend tea party rallies. tea partiers accused of racism. sanity rally does not have brown people either. therefore, claims of racism made against tea party is negated."
i think any accusations of racism towards tea partiers have to do with what they say, and their vision of a hopelessly romanticized, culturally/religiously homogenous america...not who attends their rallies. |
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