ExiledInIllinois Posted October 31, 2010 Posted October 31, 2010 I heard that the rich, twenty-something, hip, slacker, still living off mommy and daddy crowd that attended was almost entirely white. So just to let everybody know, it's ok to officially label them all racists. I see your point. That crowd (above) deperately wants to wear hoods too... That dang PC'ness gets in the way nowadays. Some people need symbolism, so they cling stuff like tea bags for "bonding." What is the hip crowd clinging to? Mini Cooper w/ Thule rack and Starbucks latte.
1billsfan Posted October 31, 2010 Posted October 31, 2010 I see your point. That crowd (above) deperately wants to wear hoods too... That dang PC'ness gets in the way nowadays. Some people need symbolism, so they cling stuff like tea bags for "bonding." What is the hip crowd clinging to? Mini Cooper w/ Thule rack and Starbucks latte. Some of them had signs with Eric Cantor (who is jewish) wearing a hitler mustache. Wasn't that so nice and civil.
Chilly Posted October 31, 2010 Posted October 31, 2010 I heard that the rich, twenty-something, hip, slacker, still living off mommy and daddy crowd that attended was almost entirely white. So just to let everybody know, it's ok to officially label them all racists. And I *SAW* the crowd on TV that was full of people from all ages, genders, and races. Some of them had signs with Eric Cantor (who is jewish) wearing a hitler mustache. Wasn't that so nice and civil. lol, "some of them", as if there was more than one
Wacka Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 I hope PTR wasn't one of these intellectual giants. http://reason.com/blog/2010/10/30/what-we-saw-at-the-rally-to-re
Nanker Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 I hope PTR wasn't one of these intellectual giants. http://reason.com/bl...the-rally-to-re Ah, the tolerant intelligent and well articulated left. One can only hope that sanity is restored.
tennesseeboy Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Sanity might best be achieved if slack-jawed inbred teabagging Glenn Beck fans, and a leftist pot-smoking dog loving tree hugging Stewart fans stayed home, got a job and got on with business.
Chef Jim Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 "That makes absolutely no sense, but I think it's awesome."
MattyT Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Large collections of signs from the rally... Christine O'Donnell turned me into a newt! (and more)
Dan Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Large collections of signs from the rally... Christine O'Donnell turned me into a newt! (and more) /dev was there ??? Slide #49
Peace Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 There were some great one liners, but the whole thing was very disjointed and most of the bits seemed more like very poor improve that didn't even fit the theme. They could have done so much more with that stage. Agree that they could have done a lot. It's hard to have a rally for rationale behavior...most rallies by definition are supposed to leave you all charged up to go do extreme things. "I am Jon Stewart. Yeah, I've heard 'em all. I got Obama elected and was vital in the launch of MTV's Remote Control. But let me ask: Are you feeling reasonable? Are you willing to acknowledge that opposing points of view arent' evil? Can you have a civil discussion without stomping a head or needing to be tasered? Yeah? Then I ask you, will you now calmly disperese, go to your homes, and kindly and respectfully engage in civil discourse with your enemies? Then go forth and do it!" FREEDOM! Really. How do you fire up a base bent on reasonable behavior?
/dev/null Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 /dev was there ??? Slide #49 Everybody loves Hypnotoad
Guffalo Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Yup my son that was there, 20 something, lives at home, workas as a tree hugger.......
ExiledInIllinois Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Yup my son that was there, 20 something, lives at home, workas as a tree hugger.......
Mark Vader Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 CBS News did an aerial photo analysis and got 215,000. Beck's rally by the same method was 87,000. PTR Yeah we all now how accurate CBS was in that report.
Tcali Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 CBS News did an aerial photo analysis and got 215,000. Beck's rally by the same method was 87,000. PTR yeah thats cute-no bias there;)...uhh--i think most gave becks rally 200-350k. Look at the photos. -Altho Stewart's did have very good attendance. Agree that they could have done a lot. It's hard to have a rally for rationale behavior...most rallies by definition are supposed to leave you all charged up to go do extreme things. "I am Jon Stewart. Yeah, I've heard 'em all. I got Obama elected and was vital in the launch of MTV's Remote Control. But let me ask: Are you feeling reasonable? Are you willing to acknowledge that opposing points of view arent' evil? Can you have a civil discussion without stomping a head or needing to be tasered? Yeah? Then I ask you, will you now calmly disperese, go to your homes, and kindly and respectfully engage in civil discourse with your enemies? Then go forth and do it!" FREEDOM! Really. How do you fire up a base bent on reasonable behavior? love Jon Stewarts words. But Im not sure which base you are talking about.
Peace Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 yeah thats cute-no bias there;)...uhh--i think most gave becks rally 200-350k. Look at the photos. -Altho Stewart's did have very good attendance. love Jon Stewarts words. But Im not sure which base you are talking about. I was talking about the base of people at the rally. The critique from kegtapr was that he should have done more with the rally. My point is that when the idea is to go forth and behave like reasonable adults, you don't light a "go kick their ass" bomb under the attendees because that's not what the rally is about.
Dan Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 yeah thats cute-no bias there;)...uhh--i think most gave becks rally 200-350k. Look at the photos. -Altho Stewart's did have very good attendance. Out of curiosity and an attempt at avoiding productivity, I did. According to this site: It is impossible to compare the two [photos] since they were held in two different locations, taken from two different vantage points.
Just Jack Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 Yup my son that was there, 20 something, lives at home, workas as a tree hugger....... What was his sign?
PromoTheRobot Posted November 1, 2010 Author Posted November 1, 2010 (edited) Yeah we all now how accurate CBS was in that report. No actually I don't know how that worked out, other than Michelle Bachman saying there were a million people at Beck's rally. CBS hired a company to do a photo study. I assume they did a unbiased job, but if you don't agree with the numbers then I guess you think it is biased. FYI I just looked at the photos on that site Dan posted. Both look impressive but it's hard to compare because of the reflecting pool in the middle of the Beck rally. PTR Edited November 1, 2010 by PromoTheRobot
Dan Posted November 1, 2010 Posted November 1, 2010 No actually I don't know how that worked out, other than Michelle Bachman saying there were a million people at Beck's rally. CBS hired a company to do a photo study. I assume they did a unbiased job, but if you don't agree with the numbers then I guess you think it is biased. FYI I just looked at the photos on that site Dan posted. Both look impressive but it's hard to compare because of the reflecting pool in the middle of the Beck rally. PTR I was wondering about that looking at the photos. What's up with that? Why would you hold a rally, expecting 100's of thousands of people and make them all stand off to the side and have this big pool in the middle of the stage? I know lots of people do it, not just Beck. I'm just wondering about the rationale behind it.
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