The Push For Colbert's "Restoring Truthiness" Rally 703
jamie writes "A grassroots campaign has begun to get Stephen Colbert to hold a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to counter Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor' event. The would-be rally has been dubbed 'Restoring Truthiness' and was inspired by a recent post on Reddit, where a young woman wondered if the only way to point out the absurdity of the Tea Party's rally would be if Colbert mirrored it with his own Colbert Nation.'"
Go Stephen! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Ignore the Troll (Score:1, Interesting)
Just like Hitler went away when Americans ignored WW1.
Re:What the hell? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Count me in (Score:3, Interesting)
It goes back longer than that. Hell, even the crowds that went to see MLK Jr weren't the first to organize a protest or march at the National Mall.
Re:Count me in (Score:2, Interesting)
I know about MLK, but I was talking about more recent, like in the lifetimes of most /.ers and myself.
Besides, I didn't want to equate Beck with MLK or with other giant marches like March on Washington
Million man, Promise Keepers are more in line with Beck's motives
Re:Count me in (Score:2, Interesting)
I think Glenn Beck is a hyper-active ex junkie who is in it to make a ton of money while spewing insanity.
I thin Glenn Beck is crazy enough to believe himself.
There was alot of shameless self-promotion in the motivation of both Louis Farrakhan and Bill McCartney, and I think both were focused on dividing rather than uniting. Same for Beck.
Re:Count me in (Score:3, Interesting)
That's scary... it would take some special kind of crazy for that to be true.
I don't think he really buys it... I think he's like a modern-day Joseph Smith... or at least wants to be.
Re:Go Stephen! (Score:1, Interesting)
And they asked people not to bring signs because they needed to legally pretend it was nonpartisan.
Re:Most of the pople who Watch Colbert..... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Count me in (Score:3, Interesting)
Does it even count on someone who has an established history of playing video clips of the nazis when talking about his political opponents?
Re:What the hell? (Score:2, Interesting)
Because if they don't blur the distinction, much of their agenda becomes entirely too easy to spot, even by idiots.
The Genius of the People ... (Score:2, Interesting)
... is never absurd.
The "genius" of the "elites" usually is.
For those US citizens who don't get the genius reference: It's our Constitution. See Federalist Papers, for starters.
Re:Ignore the Troll (Score:3, Interesting)
Neither has anyone else, because liberals don't care about that crap, which is why every attempt to make a liberal talk network has failed.
That's right, we prefer to think for ourselves rather than being spoon fed regurgitated talking points by moronic pundits.
Re:Ignore the Troll (Score:2, Interesting)
Check the ratings of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert... nearly 2 million per day (1.8 million or so) Glenn Beck is over 3 million per day. I don't think he or his viewers give a rat's ass about either of these guys.
All of the negative comments about Beck don't hold water. It's obvious that none of the people spewing have watched his show. He points out freely available information about things he disagrees with ( a lot of it coming from videos of the people in question ). There is never an attempt to correct the information if he is wrong. He only gets attacked for asking the question.
He is a bit nutty, and he'll admit that himself. He's there to entertain, and he'll admit that too. He tells his viewers, "Don't take my word for it. Investigate it for yourself and make up your mind." I don't hear Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, or Keith Olberman saying anything like that. They assume that we're all idiots and they need to tell us what to think.
Watch Beck's show for a week. Do some of your own research to see if he's telling the truth. Make up your own mind. You may be surprised.
Re:Count me in (Score:4, Interesting)
So your comparing a show on Comedy Central to a show on a cable news TV channel?
The big difference is - yes both are showmen, but Glen takes it a step further by genuinely convincing his viewers that the scary stuff he reveals on his show is in fact true (and if you don't believe me - ask one of his many followers).
I'm sorry! (Score:2, Interesting)
I'm sorry that your education system has failed so many of you so miserably.
I'm sure that someday most of you will gain enough real-world experience to understand why 0bama is a disaster and folks like Glenn Beck have to raise the alarm. In the meantime, I think we'll be OK given the way things are going into November. :-)
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. - Robert Anton Wilson
Re:It's certainly easier... (Score:3, Interesting)
Plenty of people simply wish he were doing something in some way positive, especially with the economy. Since he (and his team) clearly have no idea how the economy actually works, people are understandably eager for a sane alternative.
Funny you should pick that example, the economy is *precisely* a case where Obama is clearly running straight down the political middle. The left has been calling for stimulus. The right has been calling for deficit reduction and tax cuts. And what do you get? A watered down version of both.
Obama isn't doing the 'right' things for the economy because he's not doing what *either* side wants.
Oh, and for the record, go read Krugman's latest article on the economy. The anti-Keyensians have completely failed to predict what happened post-stimulus. They predicted rising interest rates and ballooning inflation, and the precise opposite has happened. Meanwhile, as the stimulus wound down, the economy wound down with it. But, alas, Obama will compromise with the deficit hawks and the anti-stimulus folks, and once again won't do enough to jumpstart the US economy, and the result will be prolonged agony. All because the man is too busy trying to please everyone, thus succeeding in pleasing no one, and getting nothing done in the process.
Re:Count me in (Score:3, Interesting)
Holy crap! Don't know how I missed this one:
Oh, no, there are all kinds of Glenn Beck fans. For instance, there is the crazy wing: libertarian crazies, religious crazies, racist crazies. Then there is the retard wing, home-schooled retards, closeted retards, old senile retards. We also have the diabolically evil faction, Wall Street evil, coal mining evil, big oil evil, the military industrial evil complex.
Glen Beck's popularity spans all sorts of crazy, retarded and evil.
Wow!!!! and we're the party of hate!
Re:Ignore the Troll (Score:1, Interesting)
If anything, they attempt to be "balanced" to a fault, giving voice to both sides of an issue even when one of those sides (be it conservative or liberal) is clearly insane. If I was a politician and came out tomorrow saying I thought we shouldn't set kindergardens on fire, CNN would find some nutball who thought we should to provide a counterpoint.
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