National Rally To Restore Sanity

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Who among us has not wanted to open their window and shout that at the top of their lungs?

Seriously, who?
...
Because we're looking for those people. We're looking for the people who think shouting is annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't be the only ones that get heard; and who believe that the only time it's appropriate to draw a Hitler mustache on someone is when that person is actually Hitler. Or Charlie Chaplin in certain roles.

Are you one of those people? Excellent. Then we'd like you to join us in Washington, DC on October 30 -- a date of no significance whatsoever -- at the Daily Show's "Rally to Restore Sanity." Ours is a rally for the people who've been too busy to go to rallies, who actually have lives and families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) -- not so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority. If we had to sum up the political view of our participants in a single sentence... we couldn't. That's sort of the point.

Think of our event as Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement; the Million Man March, only a lot smaller, and a bit less of a sausage fest; or the Gathering of the Juggalos, but instead of throwing our feces at Tila Tequila, we'll be actively *not* throwing our feces at Tila Tequila. Join us in the shadow of the Washington Monument. And bring your indoor voice. Or don't. If you'd rather stay home, go to work, or drive your kids to soccer practice... Actually, please come anyway. Ask the sitter if she can stay a few extra hours, just this once. We'll make it worth your while.

Keep checking back for updates and rally information.
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I'm planning to go. Sounds like fun.

Same. Sounds like a good opportunity to get out of the house.

Nudity... I'm in!

I thought it would be funny to organize a counter protest with a bunch of dudes wearing suits with signs that say stuff like "No Funny Business" and "What's All This Then" but I don't know how one would go about something like that.

Qwest Wrote:
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Ours
> is a rally for the people who've been too busy to
> go to rallies, who actually have lives and
> families and jobs (or are looking for jobs) -- not
> so much the Silent Majority as the Busy Majority.
> If we had to sum up the political view of our
> participants in a single sentence... we couldn't.
> That's sort of the point.

It's funny, back when I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh, (the 90's), he'd use the same rhetoric, that conservatives don't protest because they're too busy actually making the country work. Funny how both sides use the same rhetoric when it suits their purposes.

I'm all for sanity. I'm not all for liberalism, though. I might pop down the to the mall anyway to see what's there though.

Kardinal Wrote:
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> I'm all for sanity. I'm not all for liberalism,
> though. I might pop down the to the mall anyway
> to see what's there though.

I'm sure, if nothing else, it'll be worth a laugh.

I like his suggestions for signs. LMAO.

I think my sign will say "I'm looking for somebody to shout at!" I hope there will be big screen TV's and some type of flags. Maybe I'll bring my Coca-cola flag.

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Jon Stewart was only ever funny in Half Baked.

Qwest Wrote:
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> We're
> looking for the people who think shouting is
> annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your
> throat; who feel that the loudest voices shouldn't
> be the only ones that get heard

Ah, like all the war protesters and PETA members. Like World Bank and IMF meeting protesters. Like when Ann Coulter goes to make a speech at some college and gets shouted down to the point where she has to leave. How can anyone alive for more than ten or fifteen years take a statement like that seriously? The Democrats have been the party of loud, visible, traffic-gridlock-inducing protesting for, like, ever.

One of the first things that amazed me when the shouting at "town hall meetings" by old people happened was that Democrats objected to it. They have been doing that forever, it is one of their biggest tools. I know, I have participated in many of them. Just sayin'.

Relax, it's a rally about nothing. Estimated now to be only 200,000 people on the mall. It's only going to last three hours with a couple of speakers, maybe some crowd nudity and a couple comics from the comedy channel.

I'd go, but I understand proceeds are going to Michael Moore and Moveon.org

National Rally to "Restore Sanity" is a lost cause. Most liberals are not sane and rational. They resort to emotional arguments and personal attacks when they are backed into the corner.

They also do not have any functional knowledge of economic issues.

Read Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism."

No drugs, nudity or feces throwing? What's the point?

Lost cause Wrote:
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> National Rally to "Restore Sanity" is a lost
> cause. Most liberals are not sane and rational.
> They resort to emotional arguments and personal
> attacks when they are backed into the corner.

Kardinal Wrote:
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> Funny how both sides use the same rhetoric when it suits
> their purposes.

sucks Wrote:
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> Jon Stewart was only ever funny in Half Baked.

Did you ever go to a political rally... on weeeeeeeeeeeeeed???

I'M A FIVE-STAR MAN!!

Join us in the shadow of the Washington Monument. And bring your indoor voice. Or don't... If you'd rather stay home, go to work, or drive your kids to soccer practice... Actually, please come anyway.

A little Woodstock on the mall. : )

jhey Wrote:
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> Did you ever go to a political rally... on
> weeeeeeeeeeeeeed???


Actually, yes.

The last time I was at a "rally", it was a hippie fest full of leftist loons. There was one peaceful hippie in a park, strumming his guitar and singing koombaya, but the rest were trying to crash security barriers and riot. I had about 20 police cars go flying by me, including vans full of Tactical, and before I knew it, I saw dumb bitches walking back with tears in their eyes, looking like they just got their asses handed to them. The cops tear gassed the living hell out of those dumb bumfucks, and I was glad. I've been caught in multiple scenarios like that while in D.C., and up until the Tea Party type rallies, I had never once seen a respectful, calm, or thoughtful protest.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> and before I knew it, I saw dumb bitches
> walking back with tears in their eyes, looking
> like they just got their asses handed to them. The
> cops tear gassed the living hell out of those dumb
> bumfucks, and I was glad.


I lolled!

People really think this is a serious rally for something?

It is a joke - it is to sell the new book by the writers of the Daily Show coming out in October. It is a free comedy show, not a true political thing.

But I guess the stoopid Republicans wouldn't know a joke if it bit them any more than they know the truth when it is staring them in the face. Unless someone in church tells them what to think, they don't have an opinion.

The Socialist Workers Party will be there selling copies of The Militant.
LaRouchies will be there to warn us about Queen Elizabeth's international
heroin smuggling ring and the Zionist Federal Reserve Board.
The DC Statehood Party will have to put their two cents worth in and
don't rule out an appearance by Al Sharpton. If I go it will be as an
observer/photographer on the sidelines and when its over I'll go to
the Hawk & Dove on Capitol Hill and get drunk providing I don't smell
like tear gas. (they won't let you in if you do)

Grow a sense of humor. Wrote:
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> But I guess the stoopid Republicans wouldn't know a joke if it bit them any more than they know the truth when it is staring them in the face.

I've heard of several occasions where right-wingers have believed that Colbert and his "opinions" are genuinely conservative, including the ridiculous speech he gave at the Bush roast.

I am going to the Stewart rally and taking the wife and kids. There will be four of us to be counted.

Unlike Beck ralliers, we wil not bring lawn chairs and a cooler.

I'm going to bring my wife and kids, too! Four of US to be counted at the Stewart rally. And I'm going to bring lawn chairs and coolers/ottomans and a sign that says "Stop the Sensibility!" and I'm going to wear khaki cargo shorts, navy blue dress socks and tan velcro flip flops.

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> The last time I was at a "rally", it was a hippie
> fest full of leftist loons. There was one peaceful
> hippie in a park, strumming his guitar and singing
> koombaya, but the rest were trying to crash
> security barriers and riot. I had about 20 police
> cars go flying by me, including vans full of
> Tactical, and before I knew it, I saw dumb bitches
> walking back with tears in their eyes, looking
> like they just got their asses handed to them. The
> cops tear gassed the living hell out of those dumb
> bumfucks, and I was glad. I've been caught in
> multiple scenarios like that while in D.C., and up
> until the Tea Party type rallies, I had never once
> seen a respectful, calm, or thoughtful protest.


Well I've been to a dozen or so and never once saw any major police action, nor any destruction of property more than knocking over a trash can or a newspaper box, which was generally picked up by someone who came along behind the guy knocking stuff over. By the way, the "troublemakers" at protests really can't be described as "hippies." They're "anarchists," or at least they say they are. They're generally angry white middle-class college kids really raging against the machine. In fact, I wouldn't describe very many people I've seen at rallies as "hippies," really. The hippie movement has been dead for decades. No one's out there talking about "free love, maaaaaaaaaan."

Take that as you will.

ThePackLeader Wrote:
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> I had never once seen a respectful, calm, or thoughtful protest.

One of the clips I saw from the Beck rally was some retarded redneck with an eagle on his shirt angrily ranting about muslims and that Islamic center in NYC. Hardly the kind of guy I'd consider thoughtful or respectful.

that sounds like the kind of guy that the packleader likes. just look at his retarded signature line in a transparent attempt to make himself 'sound' tough. typical. troll@aol too.

Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> ThePackLeader Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > The last time I was at a "rally", it was a
> hippie
> > fest full of leftist loons. There was one
> peaceful
> > hippie in a park, strumming his guitar and
> singing
> > koombaya, but the rest were trying to crash
> > security barriers and riot. I had about 20
> police
> > cars go flying by me, including vans full of
> > Tactical, and before I knew it, I saw dumb
> bitches
> > walking back with tears in their eyes, looking
> > like they just got their asses handed to them.
> The
> > cops tear gassed the living hell out of those
> dumb
> > bumfucks, and I was glad. I've been caught in
> > multiple scenarios like that while in D.C., and
> up
> > until the Tea Party type rallies, I had never
> once
> > seen a respectful, calm, or thoughtful protest.
>
>
> Well I've been to a dozen or so and never once saw
> any major police action, nor any destruction of
> property more than knocking over a trash can or a
> newspaper box, which was generally picked up by
> someone who came along behind the guy knocking
> stuff over. By the way, the "troublemakers" at
> protests really can't be described as "hippies."
> They're "anarchists," or at least they say they
> are. They're generally angry white middle-class
> college kids really raging against the machine. In
> fact, I wouldn't describe very many people I've
> seen at rallies as "hippies," really. The hippie
> movement has been dead for decades. No one's out
> there talking about "free love, maaaaaaaaaan."
>
> Take that as you will.

I was at the the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles and the Republican Convention in Philly in 2000 (inside, not outside), as well as a few NATO meetings in DC (again, inside with credentials). The protesters that showed up for those events just wanted to be on TV, or have proof they were there. That's it. They were, for the most part, white middle class kids, in college or out about two years, that carry video cameras to tape the upcoming police beatings that never happened.

At the DNC, they had a thousand protesters show up at the Staples Center one afternoon. The police drew a line on the parking lot and said anyone that crosses it will be arrested. A few challeged the police and were arrested. Other than that, for hours you had police on one side of the line and protesters on the other, standing around pointing video cameras at each other. It was stupid. When the police announced the delegate busses were coming and all press had to leave, the protesters turned around and walked away.

In Philly, I saw a crew of college women in a VW Cabriolet with signs that said "Hi Mom!" and "Please don't arrest me, officer." At one protest, a stoner went up to a police officer and started yelling "You hate my guts, Don't you?" over and over, while a buddy video taped the encounter. When the police officer ignored him, the freak picked up a trash can and threw it on top of a police car. Idiots on parade.

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I'm betting this rally will be much more entertaining than the Beck Rally.

I know - I love it when that happens. Just proves the point that they (well, truthfully, most everyone right and left) only hear what they want and expect to hear.