Colbert, Stewart plan rallies in DC: Keep Fear Alive

Seriously, I am buying a ticket on Amtrak.


Colbert, Stewart plan rallies on National Mall
By BRETT ZONGKER (AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — TV personalities Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are taking their faux political feud to Washington and plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the November elections.

Stewart, host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," interrupted his regular fake newscast Thursday night to announce a "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Oct. 30. He said it's for people too busy with their normal lives to go to other political rallies.

"We're looking for people who think shouting is annoying ... who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones that get heard," Stewart writes in promotion for his rally. "Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement."

Nearby, Colbert is planning a "March to Keep Fear Alive." The host of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report" is encouraging participants to bring an overnight bag and five extra sets of underwear.

He wrote the United States is built on three bedrock principles: freedom, liberty and fear.

"They want to replace our fear with reason," he wrote. "But never forget 'reason' is just one letter away from 'treason.'"

The events come a few weeks after Glenn Beck's recent rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington. Stewart's website notes they chose Oct. 30 as a date "of no significance whatsoever."

Stewart and Colbert have filed a single application for a permit to host 25,000 people on the Washington Monument grounds, National Park Service spokesman Bill Line said Friday. It hasn't been approved yet.

As for whether 25,000 people would actually show up, Line said he wouldn't challenge the application from Stewart and Colbert.

"We have no reason in God's green earth to think differently," he said.

Stewart said Thursday night that his rally would be a "million moderate march." He suggested a few signs for the rally, including "I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler."

"You may be asking yourself ... but am I the right person to go to this rally?" Stewart said on his show. "The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question as opposed to just jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and pointing your car towards D.C. — that means I think you just might be right for it."

___

Online:

Rally to Restore Sanity: http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/

March to Keep Fear Alive: http://www.keepfearalive.com/

Despite what many Republicans believe, Obama is not a socialist, a Muslim, a manchurian candidate, or a Kenyan.

Yeah, I'm interested.

So far in excess of 10 people are expected to attend from this board.

Yep. Mrs. C and I have our Acela tickets and hotel reservation.

This is going to be fun!

This could be huge. Oprah plugged it.

http://twitter.com/Oprah/status/25160674966

Yup, I think attendance will explode as the date gets closer.

So there are 10 of us here I know of that are going. If anyone else is going to be there and wants to meet up with fellow Brooklynites, PM me.

this should be excellent.

....In addition to attending the rally, I can use this as yet another opportunity to bore Mrs. Whynot by re-counting some of my Arlington VA high school escapades.

ah, the glory days of hs.

I'm 90% sure I'm going down. Probably won't make the final decision until Friday. FYI, Greyhound tix are only about $30 round trip.

Schedule can be found here (link to Gawker):

http://tinyurl.com/24gy2ln

Exiting the NJ Turnpike, listening to Simon and Garfunkle's America, on the way to the Mall. Fabulous.

215,000 people

http://nationaljournal.com/politics/rally-to-restore-journalism--20101030

Regulars .......ssshhhhhhh.

Where's all the posts? I thought for sure we'd see oh, at least 20 posts on what a fabulous time was had. I want to hear all about cat stevens er yusef islam ( stewart left out his last name). Whose idea was it to invite the guy who wanted to club and burn Salmon Rushdie instead of his effigy? Is that what you call restoring sanity

eggcream wrote: Where's all the posts? I thought for sure we'd see oh, at least 20 posts on what a fabulous time was had. I want to hear all about cat stevens er yusef islam ( stewart left out his last name). Whose idea was it to invite the guy who wanted to club and burn Salmon Rushdie instead of his effigy? Is that what you call restoring sanity

Those are all on Facebook. But it was a great time.

And Yusef Islam was singing "Peace Train."

The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens later explained that he had simply been invited to endorse a letter campaign requesting the book’s publisher to withdraw support. “They ignored the plea,” he said. “Suddenly the media tried linking me to supporting the latest fatwa. The fact is I never supported the fatwa.”

Islam was extremely vocal in his condemnation of the September 11 bombings in New York and Washington, affirming his duty to make clear that such acts of “incomprehensible carnage” had nothing to do with Islamic belief. He also spoke out against other recent terrorist outrages.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article486773.ece

Sorry to disappoint eggcream. Maybe next time

eggcream wrote: Where's all the posts? I thought for sure we'd see oh, at least 20 posts on what a fabulous time was had. I want to hear all about cat stevens er yusef islam ( stewart left out his last name). Whose idea was it to invite the guy who wanted to club and burn Salmon Rushdie instead of his effigy? Is that what you call restoring sanity

Man, there's never a Glenn Beck talking point you fail to post.

I went. Drove down with 4 other brooklynites. Met up with many old friends from DC.

It was a great, positive time with everyone in a good mood. The signs were hilarious.

Boygabriel wrote: Man, there's never a Glenn Beck talking point you fail to post.

I'm starting to think he went to one of these seminars:

Carnivore wrote: [quote=eggcream]Where's all the posts? I thought for sure we'd see oh, at least 20 posts on what a fabulous time was had. I want to hear all about cat stevens er yusef islam ( stewart left out his last name). Whose idea was it to invite the guy who wanted to club and burn Salmon Rushdie instead of his effigy? Is that what you call restoring sanity

Those are all on Facebook. But it was a great time.

And Yusef Islam was singing "Peace Train."

The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens later explained that he had simply been invited to endorse a letter campaign requesting the book’s publisher to withdraw support. “They ignored the plea,” he said. “Suddenly the media tried linking me to supporting the latest fatwa. The fact is I never supported the fatwa.”

Islam was extremely vocal in his condemnation of the September 11 bombings in New York and Washington, affirming his duty to make clear that such acts of “incomprehensible carnage” had nothing to do with Islamic belief. He also spoke out against other recent terrorist outrages.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article486773.ece

Yeah, some peace train. The libs on youtube deleted the original "yusef" hate speech but you can see it here:


http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/2010/10/30/video-riding-the-peace-train/

Robertson: You don’t think that this man deserves to die?
Y. Islam: Who, Salman Rushdie?
Robertson: Yes.
Y. Islam: Yes, yes.
Robertson: And do you have a duty to be his executioner?
Y. Islam: Uh, no, not necessarily, unless we were in an Islamic state and I was ordered by a judge or by the authority to carry out such an act – perhaps, yes.
[Some minutes later, Robertson on the subject of a protest where an effigy of the author is to be burned]
Robertson: Would you be part of that protest, Yusuf Islam, would you go to a demonstration where you knew that an effigy was going to be burned?
Y. Islam: I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing

The New York Times also reports this statement from the program: [If Rushdie turned up at my doorstep looking for help] I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like. I’d try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is.[8]

Boygabriel wrote: [quote=eggcream]Where's all the posts? I thought for sure we'd see oh, at least 20 posts on what a fabulous time was had. I want to hear all about cat stevens er yusef islam ( stewart left out his last name). Whose idea was it to invite the guy who wanted to club and burn Salmon Rushdie instead of his effigy? Is that what you call restoring sanity

Man, there's never a Glenn Beck talking point you fail to post.

I went. Drove down with 4 other brooklynites. Met up with many old friends from DC.

It was a great, positive time with everyone in a good mood. The signs were hilarious.

Another insult? Course I can't respond in kind due to you deleting my posts.

You think Glenn Beck talking points are bad things? Why so defensive?

I never deleted anything. I appreciate your paranoia though. Reminds me of most Republicans I know.