3 Million Attend Rally To Restore Sanity

Actually, crowd estimates range anywhere from 150,000 to 6 billion. The entire Washington Mall appears to be filled. I'm watching it on C-SPAN.

Jon Stewart is giving a good, common sense speech to the throngs.

No doubt on FauxNews it will be "hundreds"... LOL!

It's been very well done. And now that he's gotten more serious, it's making the point it was meant to make.

I enjoyed it , sure seemed like a lot of people to me.

Some of the signs spotted:

A sign in Islamic script with a subtitle reading: "Relax, it just says McDonalds"

"Don't Tea on My Leg and then tell me it's raining"

"Levitate if you think Fox News is fair and balanced."

"Think outside the FOX."

"The Left is what's right; The Right is what's left"

"I already regret choosing to carry a sign around all day"

"Bipartisanship is sexy"

"Poster board is a terrible medium for complex arguments"

"Save the dinosaurs"

"In reason we trust"

"I'm not pro-abortion"

"Green Tea Party"

"Vote lawyers out"

"Beck, putting the dumb in freedom"

"Don't you hate pants?"

"Grapes are delicious."

Borowitz Report


October 30, 2010
Fox News Estimates Jon Stewart’s Crowd at Seven People
Disappointing Turnout, News Channel Says

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The Fox News Channel reported today that the turnout for Jon Stewart’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” was underwhelming at best, with Fox sources estimating the total turnout at seven people.

“Our total count includes Stewart, [Stephen] Colbert, and what appear to be a few of their friends and relatives,” said Fox anchor Shepard Smith. “This has to be a smaller crowd than they were expecting.”

But immediately after Fox broadcast what it described as “live coverage” of the rally showing a nearly-deserted National Mall, viewers began to point out irregularities in the images being shown.

First of all, one viewer noticed that the live coverage of the rally was actually being broadcast a full twelve hours before the rally began.

Second, an expert identified the supposedly “live footage” of today’s rally as file footage from a Sunday in 1997 when the Mall was completely shut down for reseeding.

Even in the face of such evidence, Fox stood by its story, with Fox host Glenn Beck pointing out that the seven people in attendance were “largely elitists.”

“I was struck by how many correctly spelled signs there were,” Mr. Beck said. “That’s not my America.”

Amazing so many people want to be politically wagged by a comedian.

Pineguy wrote:

Obviously BUSH supporters, pun intended.

residenttroll wrote: Amazing so many people want to be politically wagged by a comedian.

I know you get the irony of Stewart and Colbert. Don't play dumb.