‘Rally to Promote Comedy Central & Democrats Except Not Necessarily in That Order’ Open Thread; Updated
**Written by Doug Powers
Comedy Central’s coverage is underway.
Oprah and Arianna paid for hundreds of buses to ship people in, because if there’s one thing that makes a rally really hit home, it’s extra astroturf.
The AP has perhaps the most hilarious repetition of the organizers’ talking points:
WASHINGTON – People assembled by the tens of thousands Saturday on the National Mall for a “sanity” rally blending laughs, activism and a call to civility from two improbable maestros of moderation, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
Hook, line and sinker.
So far the crowd looks really diverse, and I’m sure the MSM will be pointing that out. There are also plenty of disenfranchised dems on HuffPo buses who are stuck in traffic and missing the rally — with any luck they’ll also miss the election. Some examples:
You get what you pay for. Consider your bus experience to be a preview of Obamacare.
This event is being billed as a nonpartisan gathering attended by hands-on Americans, and that’s already apparent:
I just saw President “Dude” in Philadelphia, so it’s unlikely The Big O-bowski will make it, but Obama did endorse the purely apolitical gathering.
The rally is of course to promote freedom, so naturally that means camera usage is being tightly regulated at the National Mall. Because, like all rallies that are organized in part as a show of opposition to an America controlled by large corporations, Viacom owns the copyrights.
The “Rally to Restore Irony” would have been a better title, though Treacher prefers the “Rally to Reassure Ourselves That We’re Not the Ones Who F***ed Everything Up.”
Okay, I have a garage to clean and an MSU/Iowa game to watch soon, so feel free to post your thoughts on the rally here. Or better yet, share a recipe — my wife will be at a movie and I have no idea what to make the kids for dinner.
Update: You don’t usually see “sanity” and “NAMBLA” in the same mention:
Update II: Wanting to avoid a garbage-strewn Mall like we saw after Ed Schultz-stock, Stewart reminded the crowd not to litter.
Update III: Politico features some of the “best signs from the rally,” like this one that’s a play on the Westboro Baptist Church kooks signs, except this one says “God Hates Figs”:
But if you mouse over the photo, a caption writer at Politico was still in WBC mode:
Politico’s “Best Rally Signs” video left out this kind of thing though:
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OH dear, no camera’s? Now will we get an accurate number of those there from the msm? Will all the trash left be filmed? Will the Pledge be said?
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I wish the bus drivers would somehow take a wrong turn in to Arlington. Maybe the drones would sober up enough to see the graves of those who took their country seriously rather than to be the immature dregs they are. It’s surreal we have all these people wasting all this energy to be mindless automatons.
The Rally to Promote Mindless Obedience to Authority – oops, that was the Obama campaign;
Uh, The Rally to Promote John Stewart and Stephen Colbert is just as stupid as you would expect if you’ve ever watched his idiotic show.
I was channel surfing looking for coverage of it and did not see any……until I turned on Comedy Central. In my opinion it is a invented comedy central event and they claim it is not “political”, and unless there is a riot or gunshots there is no reason for it to be news at all. I will say I was VERY disappointed to see the two guys from Mythbusters on the stage when I tuned it in. Makes me not want to waste my time ever watching their show again.
Hmmmmmm. Looking at the crowd shots I notice it seems to be made up of mostly white 20+ slackers. The lack of diversity in the crowd makes me suspect it is a racist crowd. LOL.
Hey, Obummer and Bite-me! I’ve just located irrefutible proof that your recession is still going. I’ve found a couple hundred people with no work to do so they’re loitering around Washington holding dumb signs.
WOW, I’m impressed. A few hundred white rich college kids from Georgetown. And hun, do you mean you masturbate also, in which case to is spelled too, (Parents of this bimbette get your money back from the college) or do you mean you masturbate to pictures of Christine O’Donnell, (Parents where were you when your child was growing up?)
Balsamic Chicken (Serves 4)
1/4 Cup Balsamic Vinegar
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
2 Tbsp Dijon Mustard
1 Garlic Clove, minced
4 Chicken Breasts, boneless and skinless
1. Place the first 4 ingredients in a bowl, zipper bag or pyrex dish and whisk to combine.
2. Add the chicken breasts, cover and marinade for 1 hour or overnight (I’ve done everything from marinading it for 30 minutes and up to 20 hours and it was delicious every time).
3. Preheat gas or charcoal grill to medium high heat.
4. Cook chicken breasts for 4-5 minutes on each side or until cooked through, but still moist.
5. Serve.
This is my thought on the Jon (don’t want anyone to know I’m a Jew so my middle name is now my last) Stewart and Steven (I’m riding on the coat tails of the non-Jew) Colbert….
Doug, cut up some hot dogs and put them in some mac and cheese. I loved that when I was a kid and was pretty much the only thing dad didn’t mess up when mom was out.
From Drudge:
This is like going to a movie to enjoy yourself, only to be met with a drive for donations for “Jerry’s Kids,” or going to the grocery store and being asked to donate to Breast Cancer Awareness. The ambushing of a captive audience, in public, using shame to get donations (or volunteers) is obscene. I would be Pee-Ohed!
Also, how does this not violate election laws? Isn’t there a monetary limit regarding “in kind” contributions? The clowns brought in a throng of (left-leaning) potential campaign contributors/volunteers, under false pretenses (the entertainment is a ruse) , and claim this isn’t a political event?
Not a political event? Right! Take the opposite of what a liberal says, and find the truth!
The progressives can’t do anything politically on the up and up, so yes, I do smell a skunk.
I bailed on this when my eyes started to bleed.
So, who thinks that sign is funny, anyway? Besides the gay woman holding it, I mean.
Ugly Ugly Ugly.
Wonder if NOW will care to comment.
What was it in Roman times? Bread and circuses?
Doug, kids generally like fish sticks and fires. Frankly I don’t know why, but most do with lots of ketchup for both!
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Treacher is engaging in major self abouse by live-blogging this, poor bastard. Even with the controlled camera angle, Leibowitz went to a remote in the crowd and before the cameraman could tighten the lens you could see that there was no one in the background.
FAIL.
By the way, that sign at the top of the post that says Fweedom – pwease wetuwn to Bawney Fwank.
I would call this the “Last Hurrah”
I hope they all get wasted and that there are flight delays until late Tuesday night.
Too bad the Myth Busters are there-I enjoyed watching it with my grandson and his cousin. Not anymore.
‘Mythbusters’ try giant wave at DC rally
Yes indeed they are entitled to their opinions and my opinion of them just dropped. They are Oprah and Arianna in costume.
This is absolutely the BEST recipe ever! I gave it to my daughter and she makes it all the time. Everyone I share it with gives rave reviews. AND, it is SO EASY! The only “problem” is that it is for the crock pot. You can make it on the stove, but would just need to brown the hamburger first.
Crock Pot Taco Stoup
1 lb. ground beef
1 pkg. taco seasoning mix (mild or spicy)
1 pkg. ranch dressing mix
28 oz. can diced tomatoes
1 can EACH: drained pinto beans, kidney beans, black beans, garbanzo beans
1 can corn, drained
Fritos for the top
cheddar cheese and sour cream for garnish
Break up the hamburger, but no need to brown. Throw everything (up to and including the corn), into a large crock pot. Mix. Cook on low for 5-6 hours.
I guarantee, you will write back to Happyscrapper and thank me for this recipe!
Yum! I am going to try it!
happyscrapper #19,
That does sound good and with all that’s in it, it makes a bunch. The only problem, hubby won’t eat beans except jalapeno ranch beans. I would love it, I like all beans but butter beans. I will print this out, thanks.
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There’s someone named Cheryl, crowing at this time in the ally, uh, rally
mix in 1 can of pork n’ beans, slather in ketchup and you have a gourmet meal for kidz!
I would imagine that substitutions could be made. Different beans. Or, jalapeno ranch beans…4 cans!
ALWAYS have mac and cheese on hand and hot dogs in the freezer! Grandparents pretty much know that!! Kids could eat that stuff for every meal and twice on Sunday!
I guess the positive side of this “Non-Political Rally” is that all the people that are there are not in their home towns going door to door or making phone calls or helping the campaigns of their “Non-Political Politicians” they are supporting….
So she masturbates to pictures of Christine O’Donnell. So she thinks O’Donnell is hot. I agree, though I’d say both she and O’Donnell are a bit peculiar in their sexuality.
None of my business, though. To each their own.
Why she would put it on a sign and parade it around for everyone else to see is certainly very odd.
“Hey, babe. I got some pictures of Christine up in my flat. Wanna see?”
Dad’s Pizza Special ~ PapaJohn’s.com
Enjoy!
Yes indeed and the youngest granddaughter wants Pace Picante on those MacDogs. And if that Mac and Cheese is not SpongBobSquarePants mac and cheese there is Big Trouble in River City.
Odd, I never let her father get away with that
For anyone that cares, they were just playing a montage of, I guess, extremist statements from left and right pundits. MM made a quick appearance with “radical imams” comment but it was largely the usual suspects: Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity on the right and a lot if Schultz and Olbermann from the left.
Pizza is always safe.
Although tonight I will be making fish fritters using Walleye.
Some Walleye bits, hash browns, cheese, good seasoning, deep fried….
Mmmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm!
Deep fried walleye us just about my favorite fresh fish dish in the world. Also good marinated in italian dressing and grilled.
These nutballs won’t sober up until about November 5th, so I wouldn’t worry about their wasted effort.
Never tried that, but it sounds pretty tasty.
Charro Beans are in the crock pot for later…
threw some of my husband’s brisket in there for extra YUM!
Only “kids” living off mommy and daddy have the time to waste.
She’s trolling for hook-ups.
You people cook fish?
What do you mean “you people”? I’ll f*** you up, m****f*****!
OK Doug, no matter the age of the ankle-biters, they all seem to like this one.
In a crockpot:
1.25 to 1.5# boneless stew beef
1 package of onion soup mix
enough water to cover
let cook on low for 4 hours or 2-3 hours on medium
add 1 package McCormick Stroganoff mix as you start the noodles
boil about 3/4 pound of wide egg noodles until just tender
add 8oz of sour cream to crock pot and mix well
spoon over noodles and serve
The beef almost melts in your mouth and the creamy noodles are kid pleasers. A sure winner!
Sometimes….it’s all in the seasoning.
But then, pickled Walleye, pickled Northern Pike or pickled Herring is awesome!
Sweet, the Rally to Restore Sanity is brought to us by Axe, complete w/raunchy ads about cleaning balls. Checking out the live stream. Mavis Staples is performing, who has been recently anointed hip by Jeff Tweedy, much to the relief of the NPR crowd. This has thankfully resulted in white people pretending they can dance, yet also attempting to look ironic doing it. I’m sorry, this has been a parade of epic d-baggery. At this point it is difficult to comprehend if the left is capable of being genuine.
Umm.. make that 2-3 hours on high.
Well, the “Rally to Attempt to Marginalize Concerned Americans” wasn’t at all like I expected.
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Hah! A C-Span caller named “Samir” on the Republican phone line who was reacting to the rally said he’s now switching to Democrat.
Oh, geez, now another “Republican” called in to say she’s switching parties.
Orange you glad that sanity has been restored?
For the kids:
Boil Water
Place Hot Dogs in boiling water
Boil 5-10 minutes
Put Microwaveable Mac&Cheese in Microwave
Microwave on Hi 2-3 minutes
Remove Hot Dogs from boiling water and place in buns
Remove Mac&Cheese from micro and put in bowl
Place M&C and HD’s on table
Scream “Dinner”
Tell oldest child to watch younger children while you take yourself to a nice restaurant for steak & lobster.
Thanks for the dinner ideas all — they sound great! Eventually I WILL get to all of ‘em. I’m trying to avoid just ordering a pizza.
Treacher’s live-blogging this? Oh man… the guy’s really earning his paycheck this week.
I actually enjoyed the rally. Especially the part with Yusef/Ozzy/O’Jays and their battling train songs..
I don’t think the normally funny irony and satire translated well to the venue of a large gathering. It lacked their usual zip and sizzle.
On TV, Colbert and Stewart rely heavily on critical timing and their facial expression to augment their schtick.
The rally felt flat and forced to me, and about as funny as an old guy wearing an “old fart” baseball cap.
As for the HuffPo folks stuck on a bus…road traffic into DC is almost always a bear, but with a Marine Marathon closing many streets very near the rally/event, I imagine they needed to take the Metro or hoof-it to the Mall.
Semper Fi!
Q: Do you know why grandparents and grandchildren get along so well?
A: The have a common enemy.
I love that!
Jamie and Adam are there to bust the myth that Colbert and Stewart are funny. As a bonus, they will bust the myth that Donks care about the people.
To hell with sanity. The whole lot of them need a good dose of outright terror. Like the kind of terror felt by the people on 9/11 when they watched their pilots killed or thrown out of the cockpit and found out their plane was going to be flown into a building.
Because that’s pretty much what is happening to America. The pilots have been thrown out by a group of extremists who are deliberately guiding the country to a violent destruction.
Unfortunately, brain dead sheeple will never know fear until it is far to late.
No! Say it ain’t so!
It’s like watching special effects from a bad 1950s sci-fi movie. You know, the one were they take two Edsel hubcaps, glue them together, suspend them from some fishing line (you can’t see that, can you?), and wiggle the contraption in front of a blurry painting of blue sky and clouds. Throw in a sound effect of squeaking wood against metal and it’s (warm up your best deep announcer voice) Invasion From Outer Space.
Do these libtards actually expect anyone intelligent to buy that snake oil? Really? No, really?
SpongeBob mac and cheese. Yes. That is happening.
I saw a few clips of the Comedy Central fiasco on FoxNews, what a joke.
I’m disappointed but not surprised. I’ve always assumed they were lefties. They live in San Francisco, after all.
I’ve always thought that they’re gay too.
As long as they don’t politicize the show they can do whatever they want. I don’t want to be like lefties and politicize everything.
On a serious note, voters have been trying for the past 3 elections to RESTORE FISCAL SANITY.
Review what Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats promised when they were asking for voters to give them control in the 2006 elections:
Voters weren’t happy with big government programs (like prescription drug benefits) and big budgets during the Republican years, and they believed what Pelosi was selling them in 2006.
Then, in 2008, TARP was used to paint the Republicans as fiscally irresponsible (even though the Democrats are more to blame).
In 2010, voters will once again vote for fiscal sanity… and that will mean a tidal wave that wipes out lots and lots of Democrat incumbents.
One of my favorite “meals before dying” is linguine aglio olio (pasta with oil and garlic). The sauce is literally just that with parsley and grated fresh parmesan reggiano.
Add pasta to boiling SALTED water. Slice cloves of garlic and add to several tablespoons of cold olive oil. Heat over low to moderate and make sure the garlic doesn’t burn. When it starts to get golden, about 4-5 minutes, add hot pepper flakes to taste and cook for about a minute. Then add a cup and half to two cups of the pasta water.
When the pasta is not quite al denté, add it directly to the garlic/oil/pasta water, add chopped parsley and cook on high until the water is reduced and absorbed into the pasta.
Remove and add fresh grated cheese, then serve.
Relax – this time I didn’t mean lawyers when I said “you people.” I have to admit, I’ve never had a Walleye or a Pike that I know of – unless it’s in that yummy catfood we all had to eat to make ends meet during the Carter years.
Ah, but I did have raw fish last night. Not out of choice – my Obama Solar BBQ doesn’t work as well at night.
*Hey Doug: GO Hawkeyes!!!
*Tonight is Devil’s Night, so fitting that they have the rally today; Please Lord, keep those couch sitting, donut eating, Oprah watching liberal planation fascists from getting home until, say, the morning of 11/3!
*Walleye are quite tasty any way you cook ‘em; Pike are a great fighting fish, but you’ll want to be starving before eating ‘em!
*Isn’t that one round of golf, repeat daily!
Between talk radio, letters to the editor and the blogs I believe the last Life Time Republican left the Party sometime ago
SpongeBob mac and cheese. Yes. That is happening-mandatory.
Nina Totenberg’s ‘Very Afraid’ of These Elections;
Afraid it will de-fund NPR? But Leftist enjoy being afraid; I enjoy scaring Leftist–it is good the election is so close to Halloween.
I thought Chap might’ve traveled to the Mall incognito until he turned up here.
Allapundit’s rally “Quotes of the day” are funny.
Yes, but they also want people to buy that they’re the intelligent ones.
Team playing’s for fools. Individualists unite!
Quite the oxymoron.
“Please note, taping for television or any other filming is strictly prohibited between 3rd and 7th Street without a media credential.
The thing I find very, VERY scary about the whole filming restrictions thing is that this Steve Albani clown even now likely sees nothing wrong with what he said in that e-mail.
By the way, has anyone put out a somewhat accurate crowd estimate? And are there any photos showing how clean they liberals left the mall this time?
Mediaite guessed at the number:
Macaroni noodles and canned tomato soup (my kids called this Grandma Soup since my mother would fix it for them.)
And
Grilled cheese sandwiches.
Hmmmmm, looking for crowd counts. I did notice that over at DU and HuffPo they are chattering endlessy about as they were a day or so ago. That is telling. Also, saw little on the news cable outlets other than the Comedy Central coverage. I attribute that to the fact is was a planned Colbert/Stewart event. I imagine the others said “Hey, unless they break into rioting, it’s not a story.”
Doug, I need a recipe to make ice cubes, so here’s my suggestion:
One telephone.
One phone number for Papa Johns Pizza Delivery.
Slice and serve.
I few things I noticed. From the dozens of pics I have seen I didn’t see one black face. Was this a racist event? Do these college kids actually think this was a non political event? It was a poorly veiled attempt at energizing the youth vote. Did anyone notice Islamic Radical Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens on stage?
He’s still alive??
In Seattle they asked people to clean up after the rally but They had people in yellow safety vest doing it
Speaking of “doing it” when was the last time you did the Hokey Pokey?
I’m surprised they were allowed out of their basements….
The ironic part about Adam and Jamie being lefties many of the thins they do for a living with Mythbusters, are often gun or explosion related. If they were conservative I bet the Brady bunch would have gone after them.
As for being gay, Adam has 2 kids and is currently married. Jamie has been married since 89.
He’s live-blogging your dinner plans?
Great! Post a link so we know how the kiddies fared.
Pike do fight and are fun to catch. As for eating them, only if they are caught way up north where the water is colder and cleaner….otherwise they are too gamey.
Oh, and we Walleye fishermen usually refer to them as slough sharks.
MM. How about an OT “Good Original Recipes So Surfers & MSM Will Take Your Readers Seriously” section?
James Greenidge
Queens NY
On October 30, 2010 at 05:21 pm, Dave Turson said:
They needed all the extra toilets because libs are so full of crap.
100% White crowd. Racist.
Hey Thunderhawk, I watched it a bit. at the beginning they had a rap group on stage. At that point they had more blacks on the stage than you could see in the front ranks of their 20+y.o. slacker audience.
I was even reading comments at DU where they admitted the lack of diversity, but justified it by saying that they were the right thinking kind of whites, so it did not matter. Hand to God, I swear.
Libs can say whatever they wish about numbers. There is a HUGE difference between people showing up for the Beck rally and this combo free concert/comedy show.
By the way, any reports on the mall garbage left behind this time around?
Was there some kind of rally in DC yesterday?Oh shoot I missed it.
“Fweedom?” How wevolting. It looks like those wascally wiberals are wacked out again.
Signed,
Elmer Fudd
*out*
The “NAMBLA” sign refers to a joke from Stewart’s show. Whenever he would read out long, official sounding names, he would pretend the abbreviation of those names was “NAMBLA” to make fun of that horrible organisation, not to support it or anything.
There’s a sale at Penny’s!!!
I was not aware that God hates figs. You learn something new every day.
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HI J.J.SEFTON–#60. I also like the pasta with olive oil, garlic, etc. dinner. However, you may be lonely after eating it. My wife doesn’t like kissing me for 24 hours after this meal.
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It’s impossible to brush your teeth and gargle enough to get rid of the garlic smell. It’s gone a day later.
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And if you’re looking for a good cheap tasty dinner–Chilis has a very good CHICKEN MARGARITA dinner for about $11–with black beans, Cajun rice, tortilla strips, diced tomato, etc. And for a few bucks more–you can improve it with a real Margarita or two as a “chaser”. It’s better than cooking dinner yourself.
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John Bibb
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Wasn’t there something in the bible about Jesus killing a fig tree?
Off topic…Has anyone noticed how passionate Obama is on the campaign trail and how detached he is when dealing with the real issues? Like night and day. He is a campaigner…nothing else. He hates being POTUS. It is SO obvious!
happyscrapper, I think Obammy should seek employment in 2012 as a stand-up comic with regular appearances on the Jon Stewart show. Or perhaps a preacher and understudy to the “Rev” Wright, copying his pulpit-thumping,with his righteous-finger pointing out sinners (Republicans or any hecklers in the audience). Those appear to be the two jobs he is enthused about. Saving the USA from the downward economic spiral and “man-made disasters” by radical Islam…nah.
I see this was turned into an open thread. So my last comment wasn’t off-topic. Do you see that, MM? I don’t know if you are keeping track of off-topic posts, but don’t count that one! Thanks!
Well, he really isn’t funny or witty either. He had no good come-backs to anything Stewart said and in fact, tried to get back to serious stuff, ignoring the lines Stewart was throwing to him and just plowing on. The only things the audience were laughing at were his stupid comments that everyone knew were stupid. They were laughing AT him, not WITH him. No, he is not one bit funny. Just pathetic.
Yep, he not funny at all–and narcissistic people cannot laugh at themselves when they goof–so he was shocked that the audience was laughing at him on Stewart’s show.
The hippie rally yesterday seemed sort of lame, from my brief glance at reports, just another reason to wave stupid signs,dress up in constume, and get high. I doubt it can stop the wave of folks voting on Tuesday against Dear Leader’s socialist policies.
I have not seen a photo of the hippie rally’s aftermath re: litter. I am curious to see if they managed to clean up on the National Mall.
^^^In Seattle they asked for people to clean up but The only people I saw picking up stuff were event staff, they did a good job I couldn’t get any good trash pictures after, I did get a few from before, everybody left http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwillie/5130118930/in/set-72157625150784283/
And note the “event staff” laminate
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwillie/5129519447/in/set-72157625150784283/
There’s irony in them thar photos, Gwillie.
That’s why I chose them, I meant for the first to be Ironic the second just happened all by its self.
Unfortunately I ended up being in DC to help out with an event just as the rally was breaking up. Here is my take on the observations of the crowd behavior (too long to post here):
http://stopshouting.blogspot.com/
It is absolutely unconscionable that they would co-opt the 72nd anniversary of the airing of “The War of the Worlds” to attempt to restore fear in America. There are no limits to the boundaries of shame they should be feeling for disparaging this great date in history for their petty rally to rub their political adversary’s collective faces in whatever they think they rubbed it in…
Hey, YTZ, if you’re still checking back here, I see that Treacher linked to your letter to Hillbuzz via Twitter.
Good post, by the way. It’s not often enough that an informed citizen gets the ear of those who others want to keep tone-deaf.