# Stewart/Colbert Rally on the National Mall: 30 Oct 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053 "2010-09-17T05:03:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/121 "2010-09-20T02:12:15Z")
```auto Your slogan here! $50 ``` ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/122 "2010-09-20T02:41:59Z")
**extremism in the pursuit of extremism is no surprise.** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/123 "2010-09-20T02:54:01Z")
There’s a quote I’ve tried to google but no luck so far. It’s something to the effect of “it’s hard to hear the calm voice of reason over the screams of fanaticism”. Anybody know the quote or who said it? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/124 "2010-09-20T09:44:24Z")
Multiple signs: **We are all individuals!** One sign: **I’m not.** ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/125 "2010-09-20T12:37:09Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > There’s a quote I’ve tried to google but no luck so far. It’s something to the effect of “it’s hard to hear the calm voice of reason over the screams of fanaticism”. Anybody know the quote or who said it? Put that on a sign – in a small-ish font 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/126 "2010-09-20T12:58:15Z")
The crowd interview I wish I could give, inspired by this thread: Interviewer: “Excuse me, sir, can you tell us what brought you here today?” Me: “I originally came to Washington for the sanity rally but the problem with moderation is that you can only do it for so long before it stops being moderation, whereas fear is the gift that just keeps on giving. Fear is an integral part of our national identity. Was it not President Franklin Delano Roosevelt himself who once said 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - and Muslims, immigrants and bears”?" Interviewer: "Bears? Me: "Bears. This country has become remarkably complacent about the threat of wild animal attacks. This is why we must elect Sarah Palin to the White House. Do we want to fall behind Russia in the Wild Animal Containment race? Vladimir Putin has been out there for years, firing crossbows at whales and wrestling tigers. Why isn’t the President doing that? It’s a disgrace. Are we not a nation with a proud history of slaughtering animals? I mean, can you see Barack Obama shooting bears and riding around shirtless on a white stallion? Whereas I could _totally_ see Sarah Palin doing that - shooting bears and riding…around…sh… " \ “Would you excuse me? I need to go back to my hotel room for a few minutes. For something. Alone…” ---
**Author:** ![Baboonanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Baboonanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baboonanza)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/127 "2010-09-20T13:08:02Z")
I’d have: ‘EVERYTHING’S GOING TO BE OK!’ perhaps with ‘calm down’ or ‘don’t panic’ on the other side. But sadly I live on a different continent. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/128 "2010-09-20T14:00:15Z")
I Still Like Ike!! or ```auto McCain wasn't born in America and I don't care. No, seriously, he wasn't. Look it up. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/129 "2010-09-20T14:23:29Z")
**liars and taliban and bears oh my!** ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/130 "2010-09-20T14:33:08Z")
Edward R. Murrow had a standard reply to anyone who criticized him. He would send them a postcard saying: Dear Sir or Madam: You may be right. I might use that for my sign. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/131 "2010-09-20T15:47:28Z")
What would Craig Kilborn Do? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/132 "2010-09-20T16:42:35Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I like and admire the brilliance and cajones of Stephen Colbert, but I almost wish this was a Daily Show only rally. Stephen’s persona is entertaining but it detracts from the very real objectives and statements that, as I understand it, the rally is all about. I kind of agree with this. I imagine there are still a lot of people out there who don’t realize Colbert’s playing a character on his show. My Sign: **I’M SLIGHTLY MIFFED AND I’M ONLY GOING TO TAKE IT FOR A LITTLE WHILE LONGER!** ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/133 "2010-09-20T16:49:06Z")
\*\*If You Can’t Say Anything Nice About Somebody… you can at least not compare them to Hitler (unless of course they’re Hitler… and even then it’s redundant)\*\* Or in the tradition of the John 3:16 signs at football games **Matthew 5:22** or \*\* That verse for those who haven’t memorized the Bible in its entirety yet > [@](#): > > _But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before athe court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell_. and > [@](#): > > "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. Basically damns most Christian Right members to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/134 "2010-09-20T16:56:36Z")
> [@](#): > > "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. That’s Matthew 6:5 (somehow didn’t add it). (Though personally I won’t believe Jesus was the Messiah until I see his birth certificate.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/135 "2010-09-20T17:05:12Z")
For gays against hyperbole in politics there’s **FAGS HATE GODwin** And for the once powerful but so-overquoted-(and usually misquoted)by-such-Cassandra-complex-wielding-drama-queens-that-it’s-been-neutered[Martin Niemöller quote](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...) crowd: \*\*FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE COMMUNISTS— And you know damned good and well you’d have said “They’re over there…”\*\* or \*\*“Then they came for the Jews…” and you weren’t there andthere’s nothing comparable between that and raising taxes 3% on people who earn 6 figures so shut the fuck up about it because you’re insulting people it affected.\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/136 "2010-09-20T17:54:12Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Actually the CROSSFIRE appearance supplies one of the best lines for a sign: > > \*\* > STOP > HURTING > AMERICA\*\* If I get the opportunity to go, this is going to be the sign I wield. As a matter of fact, I just might have t-shirts made. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/137 "2010-09-20T19:50:30Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > ```auto > > Your slogan here! > $50 > > ``` LOL capitalist swine ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/138 "2010-09-20T19:54:01Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > For gays against hyperbole in politics there’s > > **FAGS > HATE > GODwin** > > And for the once powerful but so-overquoted-(and usually misquoted)by-such-Cassandra-complex-wielding-drama-queens-that-it’s-been-neutered[Martin Niemöller quote](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...) crowd: > > \*\*FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE COMMUNISTS— > > And you know damned good and well you’d have said “They’re over there…”\*\* > > or > > \*\*“Then they came for the Jews…” > > and you weren’t there andthere’s nothing comparable between that and raising taxes 3% on people who earn 6 figures so shut the fuck up about it because you’re insulting people it affected.\*\* You’re on a roll my brother. Even Liberals hate Godwin would be good because so many label liberals as god god haters Or First they came for the Socialists. very funny. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053/139 "2010-09-20T20:01:54Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > \*\*If You Can’t Say Anything Nice About Somebody… > > you can at least not compare them to Hitler > > (unless of course they’re Hitler… > and even then it’s redundant)\*\* > > Or in the tradition of the John 3:16 signs at football games > > **Matthew 5:22** > > or > > \*\* > That verse for those who haven’t memorized the Bible in its entirety yet > > > [@](#): > > > > _But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before athe court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell_. > > and > > > [@](#): > > > > "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. > > Basically damns most Christian Right members to hell. Consider this stolen…um…borrowed. You can have them back when I’m done. ---
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> [@cosmosdan](#): > > **Matthew 5:22** Smoldering awesomeness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stewart-colbert-rally-on-the-national-mall-30-oct-2010/554053.md?page=8)