View Full Version : Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Sasaki Kojiro
10-30-2010, 19:20
Some crappy band playing right now...tons of people though.
This is pretty dumb :/
stephen having to jump to high five kareem was hilarious though
His speech was good...but hypocritical in parts
Just got back. It was a ton of fun. The actual show wasn't as funny as I was hoping, but the atmosphere was great. An absolutely monsterous crowd composed entirely of people being nice and funny. It was worth going just for that reason alone.
What did Stewart say? Ten million people? I found it a bit hard to believe, but eh.
Sasaki Kojiro
10-30-2010, 23:21
colbert said 6 billion, they are both joking...
As to be expected. Although they were certainly thousands.
GeneralHankerchief
10-31-2010, 01:24
That was something. Woke up at 5, got there at 7 with a group of friends, so we had a really freaking good view of everything that was going on. The highlight of the show, at least from the point of view of the people on the ground, was when they brought out Ozzy so it was an Ozzy/Yusef Islam "duet". Everyone's mind was completely blown.
(I was the one waving around a fairly large pirate flag, in case that made any TV shots.)
What did Stewart say? Ten million people? I found it a bit hard to believe, but eh.
The 'real' figure that was cited at the rally was 150,000. That seems a bit low to me. It looked like the largest rally in DC since the inauguration. My personal guess would be 200k to 300k. Here's how it looked from my vantage point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OjpPkZ72nc
I must say, based on the faces they were flashing on TV from the crowd, that had to be the most do-able bunch of demonstrators in recent memory. A lot of young and attractive people of all three sexes. I imagine the hotels were very ... busy ... afterward.
Compare and contrast with Beck's walker- and scooter-mobile bunch of geriatrics (http://wonkette.com/427210/slates-timothy-noah-the-stewartcolbert-rally-is-bad-for-democracy-or-something). On hotness alone the Colbert/Stewart rally wins by a shut-out.
GeneralHankerchief
10-31-2010, 18:25
The 'real' figure that was cited at the rally was 150,000. That seems a bit low to me. It looked like the largest rally in DC since the inauguration. My personal guess would be 200k to 300k. Here's how it looked from my vantage point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OjpPkZ72nc
The official figure cited for the inauguration was 1.8 million.* Even though the crowd in that one stretched starting from the Capitol to behind the Monument (and probably farther off to the sides as well), I don't think the difference was enough to account for 1.6 million people. I'd put the crowd size at a bit north of 400k, all told.
Definitely larger than Beck's though, and I was at that one too.
*The NPS stopped doing official crowd size estimates in the 1960s, so I'm frankly not sure if any of these numbers are valid or if it's just an amalgamation of numbers from various sources that just eventually reach a consensus.
-edit- Also, my "Best Sign of the Day" award went to the guy dressed in the French Imperial Guard uniform whose sign said "Repeal the Third Amendment". Absolutely glorious.
Definitely larger than Beck's though, and I was at that one too.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/politics/blog-network/2010/10/cbs_estimate_of_215000_at_stew.html?hpid=topnews
The above is a professional estimate: 215k for Stewart/Colbert vs. 87k for Beck. The commentary in that article (saying the estimate is low) is probably accurate as well. My wife and I failed to meet up with three friends because they couldn't get close enough to hear anything and went off to a side street to drink/party with others in a similar situation.
a completely inoffensive name
11-02-2010, 09:11
I watched it. It was ok until Stewart's speech, then it was really good. That really was a great speech I have to say. "We live in harsh times, not end times." I think was my favorite part.
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