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Colbert to Rally Against Faux Nemesis Stewart
Colbert to Rally Against Faux Nemesis Stewart
by Associated Press
Sep 18th, 2010 | 11:37 AM | Comments 14
BY: Brett Zongker
WASHINGTON – ‘The Daily Show‘ host Jon Stewart is hosting a “million moderate march” in Washington — for people who think shouting is annoying — but faux political nemesis Stephen Colbert will be nearby to keep fear alive against those “dark, optimistic forces.”
Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report,’ and his arch enemy on the network plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the November elections.
Stewart interrupted his regular fake newscast Thursday night to announce a “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Oct. 30. He said it’s for people too busy with their normal lives to go to other political rallies.
“We’re looking for people who think shouting is annoying … who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard,” Stewart writes in promotion for his rally. “Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement.”
No Adolf Hitler mustaches allowed at the Stewart rally — unless it’s drawn on a photo of the German dictator (or Charlie Chaplin). Past political rallies have featured posters with sitting presidents wearing Hitler-style mustaches, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
Nearby, Colbert also announced a “March to Keep Fear Alive” to restore “truthiness” to the nation on his show Thursday night. For those who don’t know, truthiness was a 2006 word of the year that means “truth that comes from the gut, not books.”
Colbert is encouraging “all freedom-loving patriots” to bring an overnight bag and five extra sets of underwear to challenge Stewart’s “dark, optimistic forces.” He said the nation can’t afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession.
He wrote the United States is built on three bedrock principles: freedom, liberty and fear.
“They want to replace our fear with reason,” he wrote. “But never forget ‘reason’ is just one letter away from ‘treason.’”
The events come a few weeks after Glenn Beck’s recent rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. Stewart’s website notes Oct. 30 was chosen as a date “of no significance whatsoever.”
The rallies take aim at extremists from the political fringes. Stewart said it will give voice to about 70 to 80 percent of Americans who aren’t heard in daily political discourse.
Stewart and Colbert have filed a single application for a permit to host 25,000 people on the Washington Monument grounds, National Park Service spokesman Bill Line said Friday. It hasn’t been approved yet.
Stewart said Thursday night that his rally would be a “million moderate march.” He suggested a few signs for the rally, including “I disagree with you, but I’m pretty sure you’re not Hitler.”
“You may be asking yourself … ‘but am I the right person to go to this rally?’” Stewart said on his show. “The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question as opposed to just jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and pointing your car towards D.C. — that means I think you just might be right for it.”
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
by Associated Press
Sep 18th, 2010 | 11:37 AM | Comments 14
BY: Brett Zongker
WASHINGTON – ‘The Daily Show‘ host Jon Stewart is hosting a “million moderate march” in Washington — for people who think shouting is annoying — but faux political nemesis Stephen Colbert will be nearby to keep fear alive against those “dark, optimistic forces.”
Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s ‘The Colbert Report,’ and his arch enemy on the network plan to hold opposing political rallies on the National Mall just before the November elections.
Stewart interrupted his regular fake newscast Thursday night to announce a “Rally to Restore Sanity” on Oct. 30. He said it’s for people too busy with their normal lives to go to other political rallies.
“We’re looking for people who think shouting is annoying … who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard,” Stewart writes in promotion for his rally. “Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement.”
No Adolf Hitler mustaches allowed at the Stewart rally — unless it’s drawn on a photo of the German dictator (or Charlie Chaplin). Past political rallies have featured posters with sitting presidents wearing Hitler-style mustaches, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
Nearby, Colbert also announced a “March to Keep Fear Alive” to restore “truthiness” to the nation on his show Thursday night. For those who don’t know, truthiness was a 2006 word of the year that means “truth that comes from the gut, not books.”
Colbert is encouraging “all freedom-loving patriots” to bring an overnight bag and five extra sets of underwear to challenge Stewart’s “dark, optimistic forces.” He said the nation can’t afford a rally to restore sanity in the middle of a recession.
He wrote the United States is built on three bedrock principles: freedom, liberty and fear.
“They want to replace our fear with reason,” he wrote. “But never forget ‘reason’ is just one letter away from ‘treason.’”
The events come a few weeks after Glenn Beck’s recent rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington. Stewart’s website notes Oct. 30 was chosen as a date “of no significance whatsoever.”
The rallies take aim at extremists from the political fringes. Stewart said it will give voice to about 70 to 80 percent of Americans who aren’t heard in daily political discourse.
Stewart and Colbert have filed a single application for a permit to host 25,000 people on the Washington Monument grounds, National Park Service spokesman Bill Line said Friday. It hasn’t been approved yet.
Stewart said Thursday night that his rally would be a “million moderate march.” He suggested a few signs for the rally, including “I disagree with you, but I’m pretty sure you’re not Hitler.”
“You may be asking yourself … ‘but am I the right person to go to this rally?’” Stewart said on his show. “The fact that you would even stop to ask yourself that question as opposed to just jumping up, grabbing the nearest stack of burnable holy books, strapping on a diaper and pointing your car towards D.C. — that means I think you just might be right for it.”
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
I dont usually waste my time with rallies as I am a firm believer in casting your vote, but this does sound like a good time. I just might have to make this event.
I would love to go to Jon Stewarts rally. If you want the reality of politics, Jon Stewart is the best. And you can laugh at the same time.
So here is the other side.... LOL It is funny!
'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart announced Thursday that he'll lead a rally on Washington that aims to encourage angry citizens on both sides of the aisle to take it down a notch, or in his words, "stop shouting, throwing and drawing Hitler mustaches on people other than Hitler."
The event has been dubbed the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and will be held on the National Mall on Oct. 30. "It's real," he told his maybe-thinking-he-was-joking audience. "We are gonna do this." Watch Stewart's big announcement:
In a video setting up his case that both political parties have gone overboard, Stewart mixed in pundits like "Birther Queen" Orly Taitz and the "Ragin' Cajun" James Carville. There were images from anti-war rallies and the recent rash of Tea Party events as well. He said the purpose of the rally will be to give the 80 percent of the country who usually "have s**t to do" a chance to rally ... but for sanity, not rage.
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Signs, Signs Everywhere
A man holds a sign during a tea party tax rally Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 12: An unidentified women holds up a sign that reads "Taxed Enough Already No More Debt!!" during a rally on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on September 12, 2010 in Washington, DC. Members of the Tea Party and other activists gathered at the "Remember In November" Rally to protest large government and rally for conservative principals nearly two months before US midterm elections. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Protesters hold signs during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Protesters hold signs during an anti-tax rally on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Quinna Hamby holds a sign during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Quinna Hamby holds a sign during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators hold signs in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators are reflected on the dashboard of a GMC truck in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before the start of their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators hold signs in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart announced Thursday that he'll lead a rally on Washington that aims to encourage angry citizens on both sides of the aisle to take it down a notch, or in his words, "stop shouting, throwing and drawing Hitler mustaches on people other than Hitler."
The event has been dubbed the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and will be held on the National Mall on Oct. 30. "It's real," he told his maybe-thinking-he-was-joking audience. "We are gonna do this." Watch Stewart's big announcement:
In a video setting up his case that both political parties have gone overboard, Stewart mixed in pundits like "Birther Queen" Orly Taitz and the "Ragin' Cajun" James Carville. There were images from anti-war rallies and the recent rash of Tea Party events as well. He said the purpose of the rally will be to give the 80 percent of the country who usually "have s**t to do" a chance to rally ... but for sanity, not rage.
Signs, Signs EverywhereAP101 photos A man holds a sign during a tea party tax rally Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (Note: Please disable your pop-up blocker)http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,entry&id=934217&pid=934216&uts=1284750549
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Signs, Signs Everywhere
A man holds a sign during a tea party tax rally Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
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Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 12: An unidentified women holds up a sign that reads "Taxed Enough Already No More Debt!!" during a rally on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on September 12, 2010 in Washington, DC. Members of the Tea Party and other activists gathered at the "Remember In November" Rally to protest large government and rally for conservative principals nearly two months before US midterm elections. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Protesters hold signs during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Protesters hold signs during an anti-tax rally on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Quinna Hamby holds a sign during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Quinna Hamby holds a sign during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators hold signs in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators are reflected on the dashboard of a GMC truck in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before the start of their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators hold signs in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs
Okay! When I first heard this I thought it was comedians just being funny. I guess they are serious?
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