>> ^Truckchase:

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
I was there.

Me too! Did you see me?


Probably! Were you the person with the witty sign?

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

I was there.


Me too! Did you see me?

Roughly 2.5 times the number of people at this one compared to the Glenn Beck rally, but you wouldnt know that from the news. Liberal media, my ass.

*promote

>> ^ToastyBuffoon:

Anyone know the attendance numbers of this rally vs. the Glenn Beck rally?

Restoring sanity and/or fear:
A crowd size estimate commissioned by CBS News and carried out by AirPhotosLive.com estimated the crowd at 215,000 people, plus or minus 10%.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rally_to_Restore_Sanity_and/or_Fear#Crowd_size

Restoring Honor:
Anywhere from 80k - 1,6 mil (Seriously doubt that last part)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_Honor_rally#Crowd_size

"CBS News reported that AirPhotosLive estimated 87,000 attended, with a margin of error of 9,000. CBS commissioned the AirPhotosLive.com company to calculate an independent estimate, and said this was the only scientific estimate made of the number of people at the rally.[98] CNN contacted AirPhotosLive about the estimate and were told they had three experts use their own methodologies to estimate the size of the crowd.[99] AirPhotosLive had their image analysts, and Stephen Doig, a professor at Arizona State University who specializes in quantitative research methods, and crowd estimate expert, use the same images to conduct separate estimates. By laying grids over the high-resolution images and counting the density per unit of each grid cell, Doig calculated the crowd size to be 80,000, while an AirPhotosLive analyst arrived at 87,000; a statistically insignificant difference within the margin of error. CBS elected to use the higher figure.[98][79][100]"

That sounds believable - I'd even give them the benefit of the doubt and round up to 100,000.

Estimates seem to be between 200,000 to 250,00 for this one.>> ^ToastyBuffoon:

Anyone know the attendance numbers of this rally vs. the Glenn Beck rally?

(Copypasta from reddit)

In text form for those that want it in its entirety:

Speech:

"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 in 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 are 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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>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

(Clown nose on!) "Hey - don't criticize me! I'm just a comedian!"
(Clown nose off!) "Come to my rally!"
(Clown nose on!) "It's to 'restore sanity'..." (wink wink)
(Clown nose off!) "I wouldn't say it that way dude..."
Stewart's schtick gets tiresome pretty quick. He'll make like he's a serious 'satirist' and then whenever he starts having to actually take a stand for something he dives for the tall grass and whine that he's just a comedian. He can be funny. Every once in a while he put a fig leaf over his bias and take a poke at the other asile. But for the most part he's just another neolib apologist flack that likes to hide behind his clown nose.


I was going to disagree with you because you're ugly but I think you're right. I've had similar problems with the way Stewart conducts himself but I've come to the realization that I can't stop him so he can do whatever the fuck he wants. I can change the channel if I really want to...which I do when Colbert comes on cause he's just too much.

(Clown nose on!) "Hey - don't criticize me! I'm just a comedian!"
(Clown nose off!) "Come to my rally!"
(Clown nose on!) "It's to 'restore sanity'..." (wink wink)
(Clown nose off!) "I wouldn't say it that way dude..."

Stewart's schtick gets tiresome pretty quick. He'll make like he's a serious 'satirist' and then whenever he starts having to actually take a stand for something he dives for the tall grass and whine that he's just a comedian. He can be funny. Every once in a while he put a fig leaf over his bias and take a poke at the other asile. But for the most part he's just another neolib apologist flack that likes to hide behind his clown nose.

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Ha... isn't Arianna Huffington one of the crazy people the Rally to Restore Sanity is rallying against?

Can you think of a better response to the Teabagger movement begun by the marketing department of Fox News? It's corperate interest vs corperate interest, at least it's happening in front of the camera this time. And with Stewart as spokesperson, some good might come of it. >> ^dag:

I'd be happer if this wasn't run by Viacom marketing.

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>> ^dag:

I'd be happer if this wasn't run by Viacom marketing.


OK, Debbie Downer!

>> ^CircleMaker:

Can't make it, I don't think the two extremes are equally bad.


It's kinda obvious they don't either...they're just trying not to look completely biased.