From the CSMonitor:
Mark your calendars. The Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive will be held on Oct. 30 on the National Mall in
And we’re pretty sure Glenn Beck has not been invited.Last night, Comedy Central faux journalists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert each made a “big announcement.”
First up to the plate was Jon Stewart.
In response to “the loud folks,” such as the Hitler-sign making folks, Stewart asks, “Why don’t we hear from the 70-80 percenters?” – the majority of Americans who don’t have extreme political views.
Enter the Rally to Restore Sanity.
“A million moderate march…a clarion call for rationality!” Stewart exclaimed.
With the motto of “Take it down a notch for America,” Stewart is offering to provide signs with the “appropriate” level of political emotion, such as “I disagree with you, but I’m pretty sure you’re not Hitler.”
You could also go with “I am not afraid of Muslims/Tea Partiers/Socialists/Immigrants/Gun Owners/Gay…but I am scared of Spiders.”
To counter Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity and to restore “truthiness,” Stephen Colbert announced his own rally: The March the Keep Fear Alive.
Calling Stewart’s announcement “disturbing,” Colbert says he will “not take it down a notch,” saying that “Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom!”
And, “Need I point out that ‘reason’ is one letter away from ‘treason?’” Colbert asks.
Here’s the website.
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4 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.This is going to be SOOOOO EPIC!!!!
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I’d almost fly up there just to be an extra attendee in the crowd count.
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i’m getting a group together to go!
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These guys were funny during the Bush/Cheney administration. Now they are so weak it isn’t even funny. Nothing fresh. Just follow and make fun of the Faux News crew. Reminds me of the downward trend with Saturday Night Live. Since Obama took over, the political comedy waned so off the charts that Leno can only get better (if that is possible), Letterman is out of touch as usual, black comedians are either content or in jail and the best act on Comedy Central tends to be the cartoons or Tosh 2.0.
Someday someone is going to write a book or make a movie about Obama or this era and they are going to discover just how lame everyone seems to be.
Howard Stern or someone on the radio (broadcast media) needs to come forward to blast us past this malaise.
Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and even Bush made so many comedians famous. Now we have four years of comedians kissing political asses.
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