THE rallies you should attend if you live near D.C. (colbert & Stewart)

[punjabi_khota]

:hysterical::hysterical: http://www.keepfearalive.com/ http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/ Stewart, Colbert announce Washington rallies (CNN) -- Two Comedy Central funnymen are apparently entering into the partisan political fray with rallies of their own in the nation's capital. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have set October 30 as the date for their respective rallies. On Thursday night's airing of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart," the comedian announced plans for a "Rally to Restore Sanity." "See you October 30 on the National Mall to spread the timeless message, 'Take it down a notch for America,' " he said. Stewart dubbed the event a "clarion call for rationality." "A million moderate march, where we take to the streets to send a message to our leaders and our national media that says, 'We are here! We ... are only here until 6 though, because we have a sitter,'" he said. On "The Colbert Report," which airs immediately after Stewart's show, Colbert fired back with plans for his "March to Keep Fear Alive." "Now is not the time to take it down a notch. Now is the time for all good men to freak out for freedom," Colbert said. Stewart said on his Thursday show that he had reserved a spot on the National Mall. "The forms have been filled out, the checks have been written," he said. Stewart and Colbert have submitted one application for a permit for the Washington Monument grounds on October 30, National Park Service spokesman Bill Line confirmed Friday. "A permit is not finalized yet, and they are still working through a resolution as for any event," Line added. Stewart is known more for commentaries on his 30-minute show than publicity stunts. But Colbert has engaged the public several times outside his show's New York studio, filing papers to run for president in South Carolina and shaving his head while taping his show in Iraq to show support for troops. In a nonscientific online poll after the death last year of Walter Cronkite, Time magazine named Stewart "America's most trusted newscaster." Stewart captured 44 percent of that vote, with NBC's Brian Williams finishing a distant second at 29 percent. See the poll results here Actual scientific polling in 2007 by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found Stewart tied for fourth place as viewers' favorite news person, ranking alongside Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Brian Williams and CNN's Anderson Cooper, and just behind Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Bill O'Reilly. See the Pew poll results here In a separate Pew survey, 16 percent of Americans said they regularly watched "The Daily Show" or "The Colbert Report." Those numbers are comparable to some major news programs. For instance, 17 percent said they regularly watched Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," and 14 percent watched PBS' "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer" regularly. The announcements come less than three weeks after conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck hosted a much-publicized "Restoring Honor" rally on the National Mall, urging large crowds to "turn back to God" and return America to the values on which it was founded. That event drew criticism for its timing and location -- on the 47th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered in the same place. The Rev. Jesse Jackson told CNN at the time that Beck was mimicking King and "humiliating the tradition." And other civil rights activists gathered nearby with the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in a "Reclaim the Dream" rally. Stewart first publicly floated the idea of a counter-rally in a profile in the September 12 edition of New York magazine. "Maybe we would do a 'March of the Reasonable,' on a date of no particular significance," Stewart says in the article. The website logos and icons created for the Colbert and Stewart rallies mimic Beck's, using identical typography and similar stylized images. "We're looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones that get heard," the website for the "Rally to Restore Sanity" says. The "March to Keep Fear Alive" site takes a more alarmist approach: "Never forget -- 'Reason' is just one letter away from 'Treason.' Coincidence? Reasonable people would say it is, but America can't afford to take that chance."

[Ram]

Mashallah I iz gonna be there! :isalute: P.s; I have also got a ticket for being in the audience for the Colbert report for october 13...:cantstop:

[Texy]

check out the video: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/359382/september-16-2010/march-to-keep-fear-alive I will be there too! got my plane tickets already

[Clarke]

"I certainly hope that my star power can bump this hearing all the way up to C-SPAN 1," he joked. "America's farms are presently far too dependent on immigrant labor to pick our fruits and vegetables," he told the subcommittee, keeping in character with the arch-conservative he plays on television. "Now, the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables. And if you look at the recent obesity statistics, many Americans have already started." :hehe: Colbert told the panel that "we all know there is a long tradition of great nations importing foreign workers to do their farm work." "After all," he said, "it was the ancient Israelites who built the first food pyramids. But this is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian." "My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants," he declared. "He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." :hysterical: "I'll admit I started my work day with preconceived notions of migrant labor," Colbert said. "But after working with these men and women ... side by side in the unforgiving sun I have to say -- and I do mean this sincerely -- please don't make me do this again. It is really, really hard." The brief experience, he said, "gave me some small understanding why so few Americans are clamoring to begin an exciting career as seasonal migrant field workers." :two_thumbs_up: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/24/colbert.house.immigration/index.html?hpt=T2

[Sachinism]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1T75jBYeCs]YouTube - Stephen Colbert Opening Statement[/ame] :haha: How did he get there to troll them?

[Ram]

I was there! :woot: The sheer size of the crowd had to be seen to be believed. Apparently, Comedy Central had given the National mall people an estimate of 60,000 people, but the actual turnout was probably four, if not 5 times that ( I can hear Glen beck breaking down..:laugh. In fact, the crowd stretched all the way from Capitol Hill (which was where the stage was constructed), all the way to the Washington Monument. Apparently, there were such long queues for DC metro, there was a waiting time of nearly 90 mins just to get into a train. In fact some people told me that they had to wait sooo long to get into a subway, they actually got into the trains going in the opposite direction, rode all the way to the other end of the line and came back all the way, just to get a seat to sit. :omg: As expected, by and large, the crowd was young, boisterous and surprisingly, probably 95% white (take that TEA PARTY-ers..!). There was clear party atmosphere. Most of us who came in late could barely hear anything, but people still stood there for 3 hours, just to make their presence felt. There was lot of hilarious signs to boot as well. (Will post pics later) :hysterical: Stewart tried his best to make the rally as apolitical as possible (he took shots at both the left and right), but it was pretty clear whose side the crowd was on. 90% of the signs were directed either at Fox news or the republicans. Overall, it was fun experience, made only worse by the world’s most confusing city that is DC. :mad:

[punjabi_khota]

^Nice job!! I watched the whole thing live, and for me , the best part was the song "America is the greatest country.." ..:rotfl: It was the pretty hilarious..since they took so many potshots ...including one at Juan guy :bhangra:

[ravishingravi]

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[Ram]

Here are just some of the signs from the rally; Some of them were jabs are the loony tea party-ers and their wrongly spelled anti-govt signs; Others were just plainly irrelevant to the completely hiilarious; There was no shortage of Glen Beck and Fox news references; Stewart tried to keep it as apolitical as possible, but it was pretty evident whose side the crowd was on; And of course, there was the all-time favorite;

[kumble_rocks]

I fail to understand why he invited bonafide jihadi like Cat Setvens who publicly endorsed Fatwa against Rushdie. In fact , Rushdie confronted Stewart on this and apparently Stewart told him he is fine with it. Stewart lost some credibility in this matter in my humble opinion.

[flamy]

LEGALIZE!!!!!!!!!! :woot:

[yoda]

where there is mention of pot, there is flamy :giggle:

[Texy]

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