[stevew]

Well, yeah...but there are some black hipsters, no?

thank kanye for that.

 

[rockofullr]

You have more than one black person in the crowd, and they'll stay home charging their scooters.

True story:

Went to the supermarket for booze. As I enter I hear "excuse me".

I turned around to see a fat old lady sitting on one of those scooter things and she proceeds to ask me to plug the fatmobile in. My nice guy, normal human reactions kicked in and I plugged it in but upon walking away I really wish I hadn't. I mean, how did she get into the thing in the first place and how is she so useless that she can't even plug her own scooter in? How was she planning to get stuff off of the shelves? Is her plan really to scoot around asking everyone to get her groceries for her?

I bet she hates Obama's black a$$ and all his social programs to help those in need. Should have asked her about her political views and then plugged her in depending on her answer.

 

[Silver]

When I had a broken foot (toe actually, but that sounds bad) and I had the boot on and crutches, I couldn't go anywhere without being offered those damn scooters.

At Costco, I turned it down, and some white trash meth head walking in behind me says, "I'll take that, my ankle is sore!"

Saw the tweaker in the checkout line with a case of Bud Light. He smiled at me and showed me his tooth. God, I hate white people.

 

[MikeD]

I bet she hates Obama's black a$$ and all his social programs to help those in need. Should have asked her about her political views and then plugged her in depending on her answer.

I bet she paid full market price for the scooter...

 

[skatetokil]

Since this is a still a biking website if I'm not mistaken, how about a rally to restore sanity street ride?

I'm happy to show any RM visitors around, and may even be able to point you in the direction of a party afterwards.

Rally is over by 3, so that leaves several hours of riding before people start getting dangerously drunk and setting my city on fire.

 

[kidwoo]

Since this is a still a biking website if I'm not mistaken, how about a rally to restore sanity street ride?

I'm happy to show any RM visitors around, and may even be able to point you in the direction of a party afterwards.

Rally is over by 3, so that leaves several hours of riding before people start getting dangerously drunk and setting my city on fire.

Will you help me buy a handgun while I'm in town?

 

[goofy]

Since this is a still a biking website if I'm not mistaken, how about a rally to restore sanity street ride?

I'm happy to show any RM visitors around, and may even be able to point you in the direction of a party afterwards.

Rally is over by 3, so that leaves several hours of riding before people start getting dangerously drunk and setting my city on fire.

Already was planning on riding down. So I'll be down for a ride after.

Let's figure out a good place to meet.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Well, I'm going to a funeral instead of this. You boys have fun. Watch your cornholes.

 

[stevew]

Will you help me buy a handgun while I'm in town?

clark brothers will hook you up.

 

[skatetokil]

Or closer to town, there's a sweet little pawnshop on Lee Highway near Roslyn.

 

[skatetokil]

What time? I'm a little sketched out about leaving my bike lying around for the whole event, so I'm thinking about stashing it somewhere beforehand. Maybe dupont circle would be a good meetup spot at like 4:30?

 

[goofy]

That sounds like a plan. I'm going to try to keep my bike with me the whole time even if that means that I have to stay towards the back. Who knows if I'll be successful.

 

[dante]

10,000 show up....at the most.

I think you might've been off by a couple thousand percent...

 

[MikeD]

The Rally to Overwhelm Mass Transit was a smashing success.

And, in a self-regulating feedback reaction, prevented anyone except the first few thousand to show up from having any notion of what was happening onstage. I got bored just watching the hipsters and their signs so we came home.

 

[blue]

The Rally to Overwhelm Mass Transit was a smashing success.

And, in a self-regulating feedback reaction, prevented anyone except the first few thousand to show up from having any notion of what was happening onstage. I got bored just watching the hipsters and their signs so we came home.

I figured that was kind of what happens when several hundred thousand people show up for an event with a stage focal point in a venue that really isn't.

Stewart's final monologue was vaguely presidential.

 

[DamienC]

A fake reporter asked him if he knew what God had against M. Night Shyamalan.

I knew it!

RenegadeRick was there...

For MMike...

Mythbusters conducting a wave experiment on the crowd...

 

[stevew]

I think you might've been off by a couple thousand percent...

whoopeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[syadasti]

So far the news agencies have been pretty lazy with the sign coverage. On TV they only listed 2 or 3. NPR is a little better:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130953793&sc=fb&cc=fp

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert weren't the only funny ones at The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on the National Mall Saturday. Here are some of the signs we spied throughout the day.

God Hates Snuggies

I was told there'd be cookies.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself, and spiders.

Kitlers Against Hitler Analogies

Government Doesn't Suck

Real Patriots Drink Whiskey

Don't Tread On Anyone

That's No Moon

Hyperbole Or Instant Death

Slogans Are Crap

I Stand 4 Good Posture

I'm A Veteran. I'm An American. I Am Muslim.

I Support The Right To Arm Bears.

Calm The F*** Down America

Fear Is Illogical

Just Stop Bickering And Clean This Mess Up

THIS FONT IS BIG

Going Out Of Business Everything 70-80 Percent Off

I Am Moderately Excited For This

Stand On The Right, Walk On The Left

I Was A Teabagger Before It Was Cool

You Don't Have To Be Nice
Just Don't Be Mean

Libraries Are Socialist

Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet

I thought Neil Young was going to be playing

One Percent Sane, 98 Percent American, You Do The Math!

Olivia Munn Fan (No … Really &#8230

Fear Gives Me A Boehner

My wife is a Muslim and not a terrorist, but I'm scared of her anyway

Abide

CAPSLOCK IS NOT PERSUASIVE

Festivas For The Rest Of Us

I Heart Beck's Album Mellow Gold

It Was His Best In My Opinon

Senate Math

41 > 59

Yelling Rarely Works… I Know, I'm A Mom!

Don't Stomp On My Head, Bro

 

[Secret Squirrel]

^^^ Gold. Pure gold.

 

[the desmondo]

Was Rory Albanese there to knockout anyone who dared to ask unpopular questions?

 

[MikeD]

Yeah, I guess it'd be appropriate for the Rally to Restore Sanity to embrace the voicing of baseless, bat****-crazy tinfoil hat bull****.

 

[the desmondo]

Yeah, I guess it'd be appropriate for the Rally to Restore Sanity to embrace the voicing of baseless, bat****-crazy tinfoil hat bull****.

Your point being that it's okay to use violence against people who voice unpopular opinions? Or that there wasn't anyone at the rally who disagreed with Stewart about his mockery of the 9/11 truth movement?

 

[boostindoubles]

It would have been fun to see the event. I read that they called for people to stop slamming other people/groups because of differing opinions... What a concept?! All sides of the political mudpit could use respect as a tool for progress. This election season has shown to me what a farce much of politics has become. All sides appear to be slinging exaggerated claims or flat out lies about the opposition rather than working towards bi-partisanship. There is a holier-than-thou attitude towards it all that makes me want to puke. Reminds me of college with all the frat kids bumping chests, pounding cheap beer, and taking **** about anyone who looked remotely different.

I am also glad that this event drew such a large crowd. Maybe there is still hope for a country that works together internally and focuses on real enemies that exist outside/inside our borders. All this internal bickering is preventing us as a country from accomplishing goals to our historic ability of perseverance.

 

[stevew]

So far the news agencies have been pretty lazy with the sign coverage. On TV they only listed 2 or 3. NPR is a little better:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130953793&sc=fb&cc=fp

i saw a headline for the "i masturbate to______"(what's her name from delaware)....but they didn't follow through with a picture of it....

 

[dante]

i saw a headline for the "i masturbate to______"(what's her name from delaware)....but they didn't follow through with a picture of it....

I heard about that as well, if it's true it's a great sign.

Similar (but not from the rally):

 

[MikeD]

Your point being that it's okay to use violence against people who voice unpopular opinions? Or that there wasn't anyone at the rally who disagreed with Stewart about his mockery of the 9/11 truth movement?

Until a Google based on your post, I wasn't aware of any confrontation between a writer from the daily show and a bunch of aggressive, baiting troothers who provoked, then pushed him physically (just a nudge!) before getting punched for what they did.

I can't comment on who was right in that exchange, and honestly my guess is that neither of them were. Seems like angry assholes all around, although it was the troothers who showed up as provocateurs, and who admit to initiating the physical contact. (Not that assault requires physical contact.) I can say it had nothing to do with Jon Stewart or his rally...or his comedy show. Unless there's a conspiracy behind these morons fighting, too?

The video and the article accompanying it on Prison Planet were, however, pretty funny tinfoil fare, mostly for the desperate posturing of the troothers and their seeming implication that Jon Stewart knows that someone besides Al-Queada masterminded the attacks on 9/11 and that he, as a comedian, refuses to divulge what he knows, or investigate the issue further. (As a comedian, it's his obvious duty to look into this...and I hear Robin Williams is making progress in a numerological study of the Warren Commission...)

 

[MikeD]

I heard about that as well, if it's true it's a great sign.

Similar (but not from the rally):

I asked the girl with the "I masturbate and I vote" sign if those were simultaneous. Then I asked her if I could stand behind her at the polls.

 

[dante]

I guess it's what ya do when your messiah doesnt deliver teh Promise Land.

Hope
Change
Fail

Just like Rethuglicans to block any attempt at change, then act like not being able to get anything done should be cause for people to vote against the Democrats. Kinda like the whole "hey Hispanics, don't vote" campaign...

 

[Pesqueeb]

I asked the girl with the "I masturbate and I vote" sign if those were simultaneous. Then I asked her if I could stand behind her at the polls.

I'm hispanic and I'm voting for gridlock.

At this point gridlock is the best thing for the US.

Who the hell let you back in here?

Your point being that it's okay to use violence against people who voice unpopular opinions? Or that there wasn't anyone at the rally who disagreed with Stewart about his mockery of the 9/11 truth movement?

Hate to break it to you, but the Daily Show is hardly the only one laughing at those who support the so called 9/11 "truth" movement.

 

[syadasti]

Funniest Signs at HP with photos - 238 photos

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/30/the-funniest-signs-at-the_n_776490.html

edit - meh...lots of repeats

 

[dante]

Lol!!

 

[syadasti]

 

[jimmydean]

Quoted for awesome

Calm The F*** Down America

<edit> Haha.

 

[DamienC]

for DC locals, especially near Georgetown...

DCist.com sign gallery

 

[stevew]

winner.

 

[syadasti]

RRS beats Fox News rally attendance

Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' drew 200,000, beating estimated attendance at Glenn Beck's

Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" on Saturday started out as a spoof of Glenn Beck's "Rally to Restore Honor," but the parody proved bigger than the real thing.

CBS News reports Stewart's event drew 215,000 people to the National Mall in Washington, based on a crowd estimate from AirPhotosLive.com.

The same company, which examines aerial photos of crowds to gauge attendance, estimated between 78,000 and 96,000 people attended Beck's rally in August.

That estimate of Beck's crowd proved very controversial, as various sources reported wildly different numbers.

NBC correspondent Domenico Montanaro posted on his Twitter page that a National Parks Service official &#8211; who remained unnamed -- told him between 300,000 and 325,000 were in attendance, while Beck told his talk show listeners there were "at least 500,000" attendees.

So far, there is much less debate about the figures from "The Daily Show" host's rally, hosted in conjunction with fellow Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert's satirical "Rally to Restore Fear."

A Comedy Central representative told Entertainment Weekly that 250,000 people attended in person, while 4 million streamed the event on their computers at home.

Prior to the rallies, the network submitted an event permit which estimated that 60,000 people would attend, but it seems the crowd well exceeded expectations.

Stewart jokingly planned to have "Daily Show" correspondents count the audience one by one to avoid dispute, but ultimately told the crowd he saw "10 million people" in front of him.

"Early estimate of crowd size at Rally: 6 billion," Colbert tweeted on Saturday morning.

The National Park Service no longer provides official estimates of crowd size, after being accused of underestimating the number of attendees at the 1995 Million Man March.

But New York Times writer Brian Stelter tweeted on Saturday that off-the-record, the department guessed the crowd was "well over 200,000."

"Publicly, Parks Service doesn't estimate crowd," he wrote. "Privately, it has told Viacom there are 'well over 200,000' people at the rally, exec says."

In an article titled "Rally Attendance OBLITERATES Turnout to Glenn Beck Rally," The Huffington Post pointed to Stelter's tweet as well as the estimates from CBS and Canada's CTV to prove that Stewart and Colbert's event trounced Beck's.

Scott Baker, managing editor of Beck's website TheBlaze.com, pounced on the headline, calling it "high school silly" and criticizing the figures cited.

"If the National Parks Service 'unofficial' estimate of over 200,000 for the 'Sanity' rally was good enough for The Huffington Post, why wasn't the National Parks Service 'unofficial' estimate of 300,000 for Beck&#8217;s 'Honor' rally not a fair comparison too? Guess it might change the obliteration," Baker writes.

He points to news blog Mediaite.com, which also offers a detailed comparison of crowd estimates for the two rallies compiled from various media sources.

"The accepted rough estimate that emerged for the attendance at the Beck rally was roughly 200,000 (give or take). And I suspect the accepted rough estimate for attendance at the Jon Stewart rally will likely be the same," writes Mediaite's Colby Hall, who proposes a truce: "I suggest that we just call it a tie?"

 

[ridiculous]

"Metro officials said a new Saturday ridership record was set, with 825,437 trips taken. The average number of trips taken on a Saturday is about 350,000."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/31/AR2010103104563.html

 

[Pesqueeb]

RRS beats Fox News rally attendance

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/10/31/2010-10-31_jon_stewarts_rally_to_restore_sanity_drew_200000_beating_estimated_attendance_at.html

Thats just what the liberal media wants you to believe.

"Metro officials said a new Saturday ridership record was set, with 825,437 trips taken. The average number of trips taken on a Saturday is about 350,000."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/31/AR2010103104563.html

Sure, on socialist mass transit. Fvcking commies.

 

[jimmydean]

I want to see the crowd pictures, and not some Fox doctored ones from something unrelated.

 

[DamienC]

I want to see the crowd pictures, and not some Fox doctored ones from something unrelated.

Crowd panorama that I shot from the steps of the Air and Space Museum...

From within the crowd. Based on where I was standing near the Air and Space Museum it felt almost but not quite as crowded as Obama's inauguration.

Aerial of Rally to Restore Sanity. This photo cuts off the crowd west of the Smithsonian Castle out to the Washington Monument.

Aerial of Glenn Beck's rally.

And for what it's worth, a side by side comparison of the areas occupied by each rally.