Sanity/Fear March Predictions?
I'm about to pick up some friends who are coming into town for the Stewart/Colbert rally tomorrow. Fact is that a ton of friends and neighbors are going, and hosting people coming in from out of town as well. A friend reported that half his flight from Michigan was full of rally attendees.
I think this could be big.
The timing isn't great for liberals -- not just because Democrats could probably use these activists back home working Get Out the Vote.
But the other timing problem is today's news of another terror attempt on the United States. That whole post-ironic snark thing works less well during times like this. I hope to attend and take some pics and bring them back to you all. In the meantime, the Washington Examiner reports that the "Rally to Restore Sanity" pledges to "strictly prohibit filming" by non-credentialed press. And among the press that won't be credentialed is at least one conservative media outlet that was refused any and all press credentials for no good reason. It's a nice ironic start to an ironic march, I guess.
What else should I look out for on the Mall tomorrow?
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Jul '10
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Anyone checking out a congregation of Peters Pan should keep an eye out for Pixie Dust.
Jul '10
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Check out the Trash Left Behind.
Then we'll know if it was really just another liberal rally.
Jul '10
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Molly, you couldn't pay me to hang out with those kinds of friends. Much less pick them up at the airport.
May '10
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Look for home-made signs of spew hatred of the Tea Party folks. I'm sure the loonies will be out in full force.
Oct '10
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In addition to Jaydee's prediction on trash, here's what I put on Sajak's thread:
- It will be overfunded
- It will be underattended
- The message shall have: As much beef as a soybean burger, as much substance as a porn soundtrack, as much coherence as a 7th grader with ADHD with 4 nicotine patches, amped up on three Rockstars with a double Dexedrine chaser
Paul Mirengoff over at Power Line will be checking things out. I'm looking forward to his report, provided he isn't given the Morton Downey, Jr. treatment.
Oct '10
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It is deeply disturbing that somehow the idea of a non-credentialed person walking around this rally of (ahem) totally sane, patriotic, well-centered Americans with a video camera is some kind of a threat.
Being terrified of something your own ideological disciples might be caught saying on camera is a sure sign you are on the wrong side.
May '10
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Comedy Central is portraying this as a demonstration of reason and moderation -- because, you know, those Tea Parties are just crazy in their wildly extreme views about limited government, etc. But I'm not so sure they'll be able to keep it from going either mean or looney. Demonstrators are typically motivated by passions, and I'm not convinced that the desire to show off one's intellectual, moral, and cultural superiority will be sufficient to get the reasonable and moderate to show up.
That aside, I thought this was pretty funny (warnings: pretty gross Axe Detailer commercial as a lead-in, and of course the usual stereotyping of the right).
Edited on Oct 29, 2010 at 10:22pmOct '10
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Will there be an identifiable Oprah group, or Arianna group, do you suppose? It would be interesting to see what sort of partisan political outfits show up (and whether they are being officially led by anyone), in amongst the folks who are presumably coming for the Woodstock ambience. Are people, in fact, enjoying themselves, or taking themselves and Stewart/Colbert seriously?
If you just keep snapping pix, rather than waiting to see something that strikes you as photo worthy, you'll probably find some sort of theme developing as if on its own. If not, you'll have plenty of photos to work with after the fact. :-)
Jul '10
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Mollie Hemingway:
What else should I look out for on the Mall tomorrow? ·
Don't get beaten up for being non-credentialed. :(
Or, more likely, smugged half to death.
Oct '10
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Mollie Hemingway:
The timing isn't great for liberals -- not just because Democrats could probably use these activists back home working Get Out the Vote.
That whole post-ironic snark thing works less well during times like this.
The people I know who are going are more of the "post ironic snark" type then the "liberal activist" type.
Jun '10
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John Stewart is the gift that keeps on giving. He made the president look like a clown. Now he's going to do the same for the entire Democratic base. Booyah!
Oct '10
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People who are transitioning from being reflexively liberal after the joke/horror show that is the Obama administration and Pelosi Congress but are still too embarrassed to admit how wrong they were ... so they are comforting themselves with irony, faux knowingness, familiar pop culture and lots of other people like them, and making themselves feel better by pretending to be in the political middle and pretending to be above it all (while marching on Washington, heh).
I would like to know what a sampling of randomly selected individuals among them believe they are doing? What is their "message"? To whom is it directed? What do they want? Who do they want to do it? What do they, each, individually, believe the rally is about?
Sep '10
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Weather looks good. Occasionally there will be good jokes about us. Mostly this won't be the crazy leftoid group. Laugh. Don't be all 'wee wee-ed up'. Have a good time. And take lots of pics so that we can chuckle about our fellow citizens.
Jul '10
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Mollie,
The real money quote from the article you linked is in the e-mail by Richard Pollack to the Comedy Central folks;
However, the last I heard the First Amendment still does apply to America. It not only applies to TV hosts, show producers and to networks, but extends to the public and to events held on federal land. Yes, public lands! Although it may not make any sense to you at this moment, the National Mall is not a TV set, although it may look like one.
YES!
Aug '10
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And so it came that Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens, made a guest appearance at the party today- I wonder if they asked him about his stance on the fatwa on Salman Rushdie? Tolerance indeed:the lunatics are still trying to take over......