A post by Pat
“So what exactly was this?” he asked as the rally wound down. “I can’t control what people think this was, I can only tell you my intentions. This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism, or to look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and we have nothing to fear. They are and we do.”
That was Jon Stewart talking about the tragic comedy Rally for Sanity or whatever. Well here’s what I think it was. It was a liberal wake for Hope and Change. Liberals love to describe their motives in laudatory grandiose terms and they never think they’re wrong. How to cope with the massive rejection heading their way? Every defeat they suffer is an injustice, a misunderstanding or in this case, a lack of sanity. They’re passionate activism is heroic. Yours is fear based insanity. All this solemn pleading for calm and cooperation is based in their depression over not feeling loved.
Here’s Stewart’s mournful lament if you can bear it. (Why the libs are so fixated on car analogies is beyond me.)
It’s the media, i.e. Fox, that caused all this fear that brought about this sad moment. Why can’t they be objective, say like Arianna Huffington is? Here Arianna admits that she for a fleeting moment abandoned her journalistic oath to neutrality and objectivity and then asked Stewart where to put the flashlight. Sigh. Stewart gives a reply about journalistic objectivity that will drive you crazy.
I can’t help but laugh.
It served absolutely no purpose and probably was so much less than the attendees expected. What a waste. Lot’s of people got punked.
Tammy, if I happen to see you at the rally tomorrow, I’ll probably be asking why, as of this moment, there is nothing on O’Donnell’s site. Nothing in the local paper. No Tweets from Christine. Wondering how people are supposed to know you are coming here? Hoping for a decent crowd, but……..
Well, keep in mind, the Tea Party Express people have their own network, and they are an *independent* entity, separate from any candidate. Things change every day but here’s what I know about the tea party tomorrow like all the rallies I’ve been at–they’re fantastic, and I meet incredible people. I know whoever goes will have a great time 🙂
Yeppers Pat, it’s a Pity Party. The Arianna Q&A — cuckoo!
I missed the point of the speech. It was difficult to hold my attention. The one thing that stood out was where he talked about how Americans work together despite their differences. Yes, but that’s because the differences are not that relevant to the task at hand. If I believe in smaller, less powerful government, and you believe in government’s managerial responsibility for society, that has nothing to do with us being on a two-way street in our cars, and me waiting for you to cross the road if I’m making a left turn… In fact, I think the scenario makes a great argument for my POV, which is us governing ourselves!
I was confused by what Stewart said in the “press conference”, I guess I’ll call it. He confused “editorial authority” with “objectivity”, and it seemed to me he was speaking solely from his own experience on the Daily Show. I’m befuddled he said it with a straight and sincere face, because it’s apparent to me he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. I thought he was smarter than that: “You prove your credibility by taking a stand and proving yourself (correct).” That’s not objectivity. From what I’ve heard, Walter Cronkite did a fairly admirable job of striving for objectivity in his broadcast. He kept his opinions largely to himself while he anchored the CBS Evening News (and “let them fly” once he left), and felt a moral duty to stick to the facts from his own research as best he could. He wasn’t perfect in that regard, but maybe we can admire him because he tried. I don’t see that this is what Stewart was advocating at all. Rather, he was advocating that people establish their opinions based on their own life experience, and hope that that experience is rich enough to encompass the truth, which is presumed to become proven as time passes. That is as pure a justification for ideologues to keep doing what they’re doing as I’ve ever heard. He made this point recently about Fox News, that “If you are going to make yourself an arbiter, you have to take a stand.” I agree that Fox News does take a traditionalist stand in its editorial content most of the time, but that is not the same as its news reporting. It’s apparent to me that what’s getting under the craw of the left is Fox’s editorial content, not its news reporting, because most of the opinion shows have set themselves in opposition to their agenda. What really “takes the mask off” is Arianna Huffington acting so deferential to Jon Stewart. She established the Huffington Post, which President Obama recommends we all read, and yet she’s listening to Stewart opine about objectivity… Ridiculous. It’d be funny if it weren’t so depressing.
the things i thought about that stupid rally were two
!) why was it named restoring sanity/FEAR? just the name is molded after the beck rally, but what’s with the FEAR part?
and 2) what PURPOSE did it serve? was it to actually improve our country?
i’d say not
Angry, bitter and clinging to their Kama Sutras … that’s what I saw of the hoards from my vantage point, old farts and Woodstock wannabees marching to the subway with their teenage kids (because they had them late in life). There were alot of them, but the majority were college age students, just like on 8-28 when everyone in the TAM house here was readying up for that rally. But the difference was attitude. I ran a email comentary for some of the TAMs (whose email I have) but it really was the same all day as they went TO the rally and into the evening as the came BACK. College students wanting to have a fun time, old people wishing they had way back when, all coming home with their little Team Sanity signs.
Stewart really needs this gig. It’s all he could get after “Death to Smootchie”.
Tammy, please tell them where they can put their flashlight.
The crowd was virtually entirely white, clearly they are all racists.
nothing but the ‘ bad brown acid’ of self delusion… did they also leave a filthy hippie mess behind? mother earth weeps every time a jam band or white people in hemp singing “we shall overcome” appears in a public green space .
why is cat stevens allowed into the country? the bush administration deported and banned him for providing material support to hamas and other terrorist groups( his MIM charity in england heavily supported al qaeda operatives in bosnia.). is urkel bowing to even white hippies now as long as they’re mooslims?
i was having Tammy’s site come up as being under attack according to google surf safe on firefox when i tried to comment. i emailed chris about it.
with this i try safari…and see if it posts..
Why does Stewart look so angry? I thought he was the sane one and we tea partiers were the bitter clingers.