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Maybe you could just watch

Ramona — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:53:59 +0000

In reply to So people get that it is sort

Maybe you could just watch Stewart's closing speech. The reason for the rally is there.

It was great to watch, the

tmccarthy0 — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:47:30 +0000

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It was great to watch, the music was excellent. It made me sigh, and it really made me think of my teenaged years in the 1970's, you know that rally made me feel good.

I guess cause this was the message of the rally, we all have names, we ain't that heavy, we are all brothers (and sisters!) even when we aren't getting along. Now off to have cocktails with Bruce Campbell.

You GOT it, Genghis! I am

CVille Dem — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:30:16 +0000

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You GOT it, Genghis! I am exhausted after this day -- the train was 1 hour and 40 minutes late leaving Charlottesville, so we had a "disadvantage" as to where we could stand. But this whole thing was all about civility and toning down the rhetoric. It was brilliant!

FYI, these are the 2 hand-made signs I went with"

I WANT MY COUNTRY FORWARD!

REFUDIATE INSANITY (you betcha!)

Lots of people took my picture, but I'm too tired to check it all out. When I upload my pics and short videos I can send them here if they are any good.

Excellent. The comedy and

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:45:04 +0000

In reply to I plan to drop by the lantern

Excellent. The comedy and readings will start at 2, so I hope you make it by then.

I hadn't. Thanks.

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 22:44:19 +0000

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I hadn't. Thanks.

You've probably seen this

we are stardust — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:09:50 +0000

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You've probably seen this video, but some may not have. I just ran into it, and thought it would fit here. The Stewart Event is featured on their website:

http://www.votesanity.org/

I plan to drop by the lantern

Michael Maiello — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:36:19 +0000

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I plan to drop by the lantern with little destor in stroll. See you tomorrow, probably around 2.

As the proud owner of a

stillidealistic — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:08:56 +0000

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As the proud owner of a now-personally-autographed-in-real-live-person copy of BS, I would like to encourage everyone who can to make it to Michael's rally, if for no other reason than to meet him in person. He's even cuter than his avatar in real life, and an all 'round good guy!

Sorry to miss it, but I'm sure it will be a blast!

So people get that it is sort

we are stardust — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:21:27 +0000

In reply to Oh, come on, why so coy?

So people get that it is sort of a Daily Show Extravaganza? I guess I'd assumed it really was more...directed, somehow. Shoot; now I'll have to go read Howard Fineman's take on it. And you know how I hate that... (no seriously; he's come around on a lot of issues.)

Oh, come on, why so coy?

Michael Wolraich — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:53:00 +0000

In reply to Okay. I officially don't get

Oh, come on, why so coy? There are reasonable arguments to be made for all sorts of ideas that may be completely, devastatingly wrong--war, lower taxes, states' rights, small government, etc.

But reasonable arguments are seldom heard this days, particularly from the right. Instead, we get misresentations, conspiracy theories, bigotry, and fearmongering.

While Stewart may think that conservative ideas are wrong, demonstrating against them is not point of the rally. He's demonstrating against the way the right has been promoting its ideology.

The left is not immune to insanity either. There's a reasonable argument to be made against war, but there are also unreasonable ways to try to stop war, and Stewart evidently thinks that some anti-war protesters are unreasonable, which should not be terribly shocking.

PS Let's not forget that the rally also serves to promote the popularity of the Daily Show and the Colbert Report. Reprehensible really, organizing a rally to attract attention and promote your own work.