Stewart/Colbert Rally on the National Mall: 30 Oct 2010

and another site

http://www.citizen.org/jon-stewart-sanity-rally-signs

is taking sign suggestions and printing some of the best ones to pass out.

The best ones are right here, so go submit them {before I do out of compassion for humanity}

Oh and new sign
We Upped Our Compassion! Up Yours!

Pat Paulsen would be so proud.

Some will know the Vonnegut origins of this:

**RESTORE SANITY TO POLITICS

then END FLOATING ICEBERGS**

The word restaurant/ristorante originally referred to enemas because they were believed (17th/18th centuries) to “restore” the body’s health and humors balance. I’ve tried to think of something that would work this in to restoring sanity but… way too obscure.

You may have heard. The Rally will be televised , for those not going and considering a local rally.

Speaking of which, how about a “Paulsen For President” sign.

Dead candidates have won before.

Youse guys need to submit some of your sign ideas to Sane or Not, because a lot of the sign ideas there are really stupid when they’re not snarky or nasty or otherwise Completely Missing the Point.

Man, we’re a lot smarter and funnier than a lot of people out there.

So did Colbert’s guys really screw up in getting the permit or was it planned all along to be a joint thing?

I’m quite certain it was intended to be a joint thing all along. I really doubt they would have wanted to force their attendance to split up like that.

Fox News turns the paranoia knob to 11:

And when called on that bullshit, “I mean metaphorically. God, you stupid liberals.”

I love The Onion. Wait…what? Oh shit.

Any of you DC-area Dopers attending the Daily Show tapings there?

I’ve decided I want to go to DC (last minute, I’ve been phone-banking to GOTV but need a break before the final push).

Anybody leaving from New York City have room for one more?

I promise I’ll put on a shirt.

Would you believe anyone but RWs would have any objection to the Rally to Restore Sanity? See here, here, and here.

I’m coming on the HuffPo sanity bus, which is leaving Citi Field (only time I will ever be there unless there’s a half-the-Beatles Reunion) at 6 in the ayem. Yikes.

My question is for DC-area dopers: I’ve heard that buying tix at the Metro station at RFK stadium means long lines. I’ve bought subway fares in NY and Boston so the machines don’t scare me but the lines do, I’d rather be spending an hour walking around downtown. There is a way to buy tickets online, which looks easy enough but I don’t know what it means physically to buy such a ticket. Do they give you a print-out that gets you through the gates when you get there or are you supposed to do it in advance and get it mailed out to you (in which case I totally blew it). Thanks!

I’d love to sightsee or go to the statue to meet Dopers but the HuffPo is keeping us on kinda a tight leash timewise. Next time!

Come on, guys, help me out!

I’ll even take a shower.

Come on, guys, help me out.

I’ll even use soap.

I always had a ride from posting on Craigslist but by the time I called the last seat was taken.

Someone PM or text me with info about where and when to meet up.

I’ve been perusing the media reports of the rally and wow, do they ever vary. They range from the gushing to the dismissive, with crowd estimates from “tens of thousands” to 500,000 (not counting Stewart’s “ten million” joke or the “FoxNews estimates crowd size at seven people” joke on HuffPo). The network news organs are spinning it as an attack on cable news, the cable news people are spinning it as a comedy event, and Andrew Breitbart is spinning it as “Jon Stewart’s Mock-the-People Anti-Beck Rally”.

Looks like it was good fun though.

Fox is hilarious. I read their report, and all they say is tens of thousands and that the park permit was for 60,000, which was clearly blown out of the water by the real numbers. Beck wishes he had this audience.