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    Rally to Restore Sanity - New York City Solidarity Party

    Saturday, October 30, 2010 - 12:00pm - 3:00pm
    The Village Lantern, 167 Bleecker Street (between Thompson and Sullivan)

    For New Yorkers who can't get to Washington DC for Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Stephen Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive, you can still show your solidarity for the cause at the Village Lantern in Manhattan, sponsored by dagblog.com.

    We'll show the rally on big screen televisions and supplement the speeches with local talent, including comedians Jamie Kilstein and Lee Camp and a reading by Michael Wolraich, aka Genghis, author of Blowing Smoke: Why the Right Keeps Serving Up Whack-Job Fantasies about the Plot to Euthanize Grandma, Outlaw Christmas, and Turn Junior into a Raging Homosexual.

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    I'm going to the rally!  I hope I get some camera time:  I'll be the one with the sign and the youthful appearance!


    Great! I'll look for a youthful-looking person holding a sign on television.

    PS Say hi to Jon and Stephen for me.


    No problemo!  Maybe I'll have a Genghis sign too!  That might set me apart just a bit!


    Dude, I'm afraid the president is pre-empting you as well as Jon Stewart. He's going to be in Bridgeport at 1:00, and I am going to be there.

    I don't think I can make it up to Bleeker Street by 3:00.

    =(

    Maybe I'll take my book and throw it at Obama for you, tho.

    =D

     


    That bastard is always stealing my limelight. Aim for the solar plexus.


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    We still of have Obama '08 bumper stickers too


    Sounds like BS.


    There will certainly be BS involved.


    I was just reading that Stewart finds antiwar activists er...crazy.  That true?  I haven't kept up with his show online for quite a while.  And some antiwar activists are arranging parallel events?  I'm wondering what the focus is; any help?  Or is this akin to explaining such a Big Deal event to a mentally challenged child?  I had hoped for more out of this event.  Now critics are being attacked as pissants.  And not all the criticism seems to be coming from the Idiot Beltway Punditocracy.

     


    Stewart may lean left, but he's no standard-bearer for the left wing, and I don't think that that the rally is designed to promote any particular agenda. It's just a call to restore...uh...sanity.


    Okay.  I officially don't get it.  Back to my corner....  


    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.


    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.)


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


    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.

     

     


    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!


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


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


    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 hadn't. Thanks.


    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. Laughing


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