The Rally to Restore Sanity: What Did You Think?
It was titled the Rally to Restore Sanity, but it might as well have been called The Rally to Gather Together an Incredible Number of People and Bash the Heck Out of Cable News.
Indeed, in Washington D.C. on Saturday, Jon Stewart hosted an event that featured 250,000 attendees; performances by The Roots, Kid Rock and John Legend; remained entirely apolitical; and skewered the media for creating an environment of anger and intolerance.
While most of the Stewart's roll in the rally was filled with satire and clips of how the media caters to raising the fear levels of society's most ignorant, The Daily News host concluded the festivities with a heartfelt speech that included:
"What exactly was this? 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 that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animus and not be enemies.
"I feel strangely, calmly good, because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. Sanity will always be in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are, has restored mine."
Watch a snippet of Stewart's opening remarks HERE and then vote in our poll: What did you think of the Rally to Restore Sanity?
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November 2nd, 2010 1:59 PM
Jon Stewart's Back to Sanity worked for me. I stopped watching his show.
November 1st, 2010 12:47 PM
No the Media is not the one to blame, it's Obozo!!! Every time he opens his mouth he says something else to divide the USA
November 1st, 2010 8:59 AM
EVERYONE KNOWS, but you, about Obama holding campaign dinners allover Europe....google it honey, multiple sources of proof that you are looking for. The American media failed to report it...but, you can bet that the European media were all over it. They were just as curious as to why he was doing it. Also, the Saudi arms deal is all Obama, another unreported story shoved in the shadows by American media. Do your own research, it looks like you need to. As for China, the House (democrat controlled house in both administrations) actually propose all spending bills....yes, that is right, the House ( the Democrats) are the ones that have pushed through every single "loan" from China and dispersed it...all of it.....every penny of it. Don't blame your ignorance on anyone but yourself....
November 1st, 2010 6:04 AM
Null you really should attempt to find out the facts as opposed to just believing faux news, or give up making up your own!
It was the repugs that started borrowing from China to support 2 wars......it was the repugs who first introduced stimulus spending prior to leaving office......it was Bush who held hands(literally) with a Saudi Princes to secure Arab weapons sales........and the current economic crisis is a result of repug policies going back to Reagan... so your children and your grandchildren will be paying off the deficit that Bush created and at the end of his term (remember also that the repugs convienently did not factored in the cost of the 2 wars).
And please show your evidence that President Obama campaigned overseas for campaign funds.
There is one undisputed fact about Obama and that is the rest of the world love him. He is the antithesis of the Bush administration. Oh bye the way it was under the repugs that the US was loosing 700000 jobs a month, under Obama the
October 31st, 2010 11:50 AM
lolol..hannah...you say the election was stolen by foreign money, are you speaking of the foreing money that Obama campained for in Europe (yes, he was the first candidate to actually hold campaign fund raising dinners overseas!!??) or Obama selling our country to China, to help with his failing stimulus plan?? Oh wait, I bet it was the Saudi Arms deal you are speaking of...the one in which the Obama crew agreed sell them billions of dollars worth of weapons and aircraft,over the next several years. Either way, he went to the wrong people for money and then turned to the wrong people with his lined pockets. Don't kid yourself, Obama wanted to be a big baller....on your dime, and your children and grandchildren will pay dearly for his horrific laspeseseses.
October 31st, 2010 11:47 AM
It takes an enormous amount of time and energy to plan anything. Just the idea that Jon and his associates prepared an opening for
the availablilty of a forum to restore sanity was an accomplishment with itself. Whatever any of us got out of it on an individual level, I applaud the efforts of anyone when it has to do with the well meaning wishes of one citizen to another.
Politic and religion aside,there will always be differences of opinions, but the ability to accept another's views that does not inspire hatred,or fear,and the well meaning wisdom of trying to keep us all united as people of this country. In these beautiful lyrics of Lee Greenwood. I'm Proud To Be An American.
GOD BLESS THE USA!!!
October 31st, 2010 10:34 AM
Wayne,
I also disagree w/your statement. Glenn Beck has you so mesmerized I feel sorry for you. We Democrats may lose this election, but at least we can say we didn't lose it - it was stolen by foreign money. And yes, I fully supported the rally yesterday.
October 31st, 2010 4:13 AM
Wayne, Please read or watch Jon's ending speech again. You completely missed the point of the rally and what he was
trying to say. I respectfully disagree with your take. See, he inspired me :)
October 31st, 2010 3:41 AM
It may not be funny or liberally correct for to Jon say but his defending the Tea Partiers as he did must have made him shutter just a bit inside. It doesn't happen as often as it should but he actually squeeked out a little common decency there. I suspect that along the way, somehow he had time, or made time to get a synopsis of Glen Becks repetoire and realized that... the other side... may actually have a valid position. Pretty scary (for Jon). What will his writers say? Actually none of this is really surprising. He is a smart guy after all. If you have been avoiding watching Beck because you already know (somehow intuitively) that he's crazy. Be careful, you may just find out what Jon finally realised. It wasn't easy for Jon. It's hard to find substantive material to joke about Beck if you have the whole picture. Jon's least funny bit is him emulating Beck. It's desparate. You can't kid a kidder. Beck takes very serious facts and concepts and presents them like a rodeo clown. He b