Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

**Hax** · 10-30-2010, 19:18

Anyone else watching?

**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

**TinCow** · 10-30-2010, 22:47

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.

**Hax** · 10-30-2010, 23:19

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...

**Hax** · 10-30-2010, 23:25

As to be expected. Although they were certainly thousands.

**TinCow** · 10-31-2010, 02:47

Originally Posted by Hax

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:

**Lemur** · 10-31-2010, 15:35

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. On hotness alone the Colbert/Stewart rally wins by a shut-out.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 10-31-2010, 18:25

Originally Posted by TinCow

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:

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.