Stewart/Colbert Rally

**BerenTebogo** · 2010-11-01 09:22

Originally Posted by Priran

oh look it's sath

I miss something? <_<

**Byrthnoth** · 2010-11-01 10:43

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-1...restore-sanity - I was looking around the entire time and saw only 3 of the signs they have pictures of. It was a massive event.

http://www.wmata.com/about_metro/new...ReleaseID=4717 - "The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced that Metro rail ridership set a record of 825,437 trips, as compared to about 350,000 on a normal Saturday"

This was likely the largest gathering in Washington DC since the Million Man March. To give an idea how dense the crowd was, I was behind the second jumbo-tron but before the third (across the street from the west building of the national gallery of art), and I was packed in so densely that I couldn't turn around without hitting the chicks behind me in the tits with my small backpack (just sandwiches in it). I ended up getting sunburned on half of my face because I couldn't rotate for 4 hours.

CBS's gallery. They tended towards showing more political or anti-Fox signs than I saw, go figure:
http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-250_162-10005388.html

**Yabby** · 2010-11-01 11:00

Those signs were great.

**Olo401** · 2010-11-01 11:43

Originally Posted by Byrthnoth

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-1...restore-sanity - I was looking around the entire time and saw only 3 of the signs they have pictures of. It was a massive event.

I didn't see any of these at all, tho there were several people who had different versions/variations of the "I'm pretty sure you're not a Nazi" one.

**Priran** · 2010-11-01 12:01

Originally Posted by SathFenrir

I miss something? <_<

***Shinzon*** · 2010-11-01 12:21

That's fucking epic.

**Ronfar** · 2010-11-02 11:24

Glad these guys made a video, people nothing like the lolbeck rally.

**Max™** · 2010-11-02 12:03

"Where do you get your news?"
'John Stewart' x10

*averages between Stewart/Colbert and assumes that is roughly accurate*

**Yabby** · 2010-11-02 12:14

Yea because any group of 200k people are all going to be articulate, and informed.

Edit: Was a funny video tho.

**Max™** · 2010-11-02 12:19

Could be worse, you've seen the Tea Party interviews, right?

Demosthenes11 · 2010-11-02 12:25

Originally Posted by Ronfar

Glad these guys made a video, people nothing like the lolbeck rally.

can't we just all agree that everyone is fucking retarded? those people are pretty embarassing

**Anton** · 2010-11-02 12:44

Hey some of them were moderately informed....

**Dimmauk** · 2010-11-02 13:02

Best signs were "Beards are Evil" and "English was good enough for Jesus"

**Pirian** · 2010-11-02 19:49

Finally got around to uploading my pictures. Was just snapping them off as I walked, so some are kinda blurry but here ya go:

Spoiler: show

**bigrougabagel** · 2010-11-02 20:04

So many of those people were complete idiots. I have trouble fathoming how you cannot know what congressional races are happening in your district. Even if you directly tried to avoid gaining any knowledge of them, it would be hard pressed not to stumble or have it forced upon you at some point.

**Kuya** · 2010-11-02 20:07

I think that if your political identification is moderate, you probably are an idiot. Or at least, extremely naïve.

**bigrougabagel** · 2010-11-02 20:17

One does not necessarily exclude the other. However, blanket statements sure are a time saver. Approved.

**Byrthnoth** · 2010-11-03 10:33

Wow, it's pretty pitiful they could find that many people who didn't know if/who was running in their district.

Still, I don't know if we should necessarily demonize moderates or the rallygoers. News TV is always explaining the newest legislation in the most dramatic terms possible. "This bill will force you to put up illegals in your basement for free." "This bill will make abortions illegal, and talking about abortion will be punishable by tongue removal." The "hyperbolic rhetoric" has gotten so extreme that it's inaccessible to moderates. Such statements reek of bullshit, and there's pretty much nowhere that's just telling the story without a slant. It ends up disenfranchizing people who are smart enough to know that there's a slant but not politically devoted enough to read the actual legislation. Also, the extreme emotions that networks like CNBC and FOX are whipping up make politics seem dangerous to more "mild" people. They don't want arguments, so they won't talk about politics. They don't want to talk about politics, it's asking a lot to require them to sift through hours of bullshit every night just to try and stay informed.

CSPAN(s) should have commentators like football games, except lawyers that have actually read the legislation instead of dried up Athletes. These lawyers would ideally know everything about the legislation and be able to interpret it from a reasonable and unbiased perspective. Ideally, they'd summarize it quickly and explain how is designed to affect the country, noting criticisms, unrelated shit that had been added to it by individuals with special interests, and providing a background that gives it some context. Then the network news channels could play the highlight reel from Congress that day on the nightly news. If the network news channels want to be dramatic, they can focus on special interest groups, try and slant the commentator's words, etc, but there would be a standard, it could be uploaded to Youtube, and it would be infinitely more accessible. We'd be asking a group of lawyers to be impartial, but what's the supreme court anyway?

Shit, send legislation out to judges for review like scientific articles every time it's approved by part of Congress. Summarize and report their responses to me on the nightly news. I want to know what's actually happening in Congress, what senators are actually doing/saying, and not who's eating babies or stomping down windmills today.

**Acturus** · 2010-11-03 10:36

That report goes out of its way to find the uninformed, the misinformed, and the just plain moronic people in every gathering/rally/protest.

I'm actually pleased to see that it did the same to this rally that they did to Glen Beck's.

**Ohemgee** · 2010-11-03 12:20

Originally Posted by Byrthnoth

Wow, it's pretty pitiful they could find that many people who didn't know if/who was running in their district.

Still, I don't know if we should necessarily demonize moderates or the rallygoers. News TV is always explaining the newest legislation in the most dramatic terms possible. "This bill will force you to put up illegals in your basement for free." "This bill will make abortions illegal, and talking about abortion will be punishable by tongue removal." The "hyperbolic rhetoric" has gotten so extreme that it's inaccessible to moderates. Such statements reek of bullshit, and there's pretty much nowhere that's just telling the story without a slant. It ends up disenfranchizing people who are smart enough to know that there's a slant but not politically devoted enough to read the actual legislation. Also, the extreme emotions that networks like CNBC and FOX are whipping up make politics seem dangerous to more "mild" people. They don't want arguments, so they won't talk about politics. They don't want to talk about politics, it's asking a lot to require them to sift through hours of bullshit every night just to try and stay informed.

CSPAN(s) should have commentators like football games, except lawyers that have actually read the legislation instead of dried up Athletes. These lawyers would ideally know everything about the legislation and be able to interpret it from a reasonable and unbiased perspective. Ideally, they'd summarize it quickly and explain how is designed to affect the country, noting criticisms, unrelated shit that had been added to it by individuals with special interests, and providing a background that gives it some context. Then the network news channels could play the highlight reel from Congress that day on the nightly news. If the network news channels want to be dramatic, they can focus on special interest groups, try and slant the commentator's words, etc, but there would be a standard, it could be uploaded to Youtube, and it would be infinitely more accessible. We'd be asking a group of lawyers to be impartial, but what's the supreme court anyway?

Shit, send legislation out to judges for review like scientific articles every time it's approved by part of Congress. Summarize and report their responses to me on the nightly news. I want to know what's actually happening in Congress, what senators are actually doing/saying, and not who's eating babies or stomping down windmills today.

C-SPAN 1 & 2?

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