Billions attend Stewart/Colbert rally in D.C.
Oh man, I almost wish I could have been there. Darren Hutchinson of Dissenting Justice went and brought back pictures. If I still lived in D.C. I would have gone. I can handle crowds! I went to the AIDS Candlelight Vigil with Liza Minnelli!
Actually, if I’d known Cat Stevens was going to be there, I would have watched the damn thing on TV yesterday. They brought him on for a Battle of the Trains with Ozzy Osbourne:
Adorable. By the way, to anyone worried about Cat Stevens and that whole Salman Rushdie thing: here’s the deal. Cat Stevens is a wonderful musician and used to be an amazingly cute guy (still is, actually), but the boy is dumb as a stump. Really. Don’t believe me? Read his biography some time, or interviews with him. He’s well-meaning but utterly clueless. When he converted to Islam he quit playing instruments because he thought that was against the religion, and only years later was like, “oh, shit, you mean I read that part wrong? Oh, wow…” Anyway, not the brightest bulb in the Greek restaurant. But a wonderful musician.
Happy Halloween!
7 Responses to “Billions attend Stewart/Colbert rally in D.C.”
-
Gayle says:
That was cute. Ozzy sounded awful but he’s still Ozzy. They’re both getting old.
I tried watching a bit of the rally yesterday. Five minutes of watching the crowd do the wave and I was done.
I don’t know what else was on the program. Since this was specifically not a political rally I have a feeling there was a lot of filler and then some highlight performances like the one you’re featuring here. I’d rather just see the highlights, I think. Thanks!
October 31st, 2010 at 11:37 am EST -
Darren Hutchinson says:
Thanks for the link. It was fun!
-
gxm17 says:
As a DC native, I try to avoid crossing the Potomac whenever there’s a big event. It’s bad enough having to deal with the tourists while I’m trying to get to work in the morning. Luckily, I had an excuse. I had to babysit my grandson on Saturday.
My heartfelt respect for anyone brave enough to cram themselves into a Metro car and journey to the center of the mall. I’ve only done it once, for the march for Choice. And I’m not planning to do it again anytime soon. Maybe for the inauguration of the first woman president. I should be about 115 by then, and hopefully they’ll have special accommodations for centenarians.
-
Adrienne in CA says:
Ugh. First the corporate moguls behind the networks distort and destroy political discourse, alienate a huge segment of the public, and then create a faux can’t-we-all-get-along movement for those disaffected masses.
You say you want a revolution? Here’s a free concert instead.
Ugh.
*****A
-
kalmiopsis says:
Hi Violet,
C.L. Minou attended the rally on Saturday, and she has a great piece up about it here:
http://tigerbeatdown.com/2010/...../#comments
Here’s a bit of it:
“It was always a bit disingenuous–were 200,000 people supposed to be gathered together and told to be afraid, be very, very afraid?–but at the same time, there was (at least for me) a nagging incredulity at the question. It was three days before an election that could put people who have mocked, derided, and belittled the values most of the people in the crowd shared in charge of at least one house of Congress, and there seemed to be no way to stop that from happening. We stood on the eve of a Congress that threatened to continue the collapse of the American economy, continue the rollback or obstruction of gay rights, women’s rights, anybody’s rights but a narrowly-defined collection of white men living in the middle of North America.
I don’t know about you, but I’m terrified.”
-
tinfoil hattie says:
I had no interest in going to some dudebro rally where we were all invited to show how kew-ell we are for watching The Daily Show.
But then, I’m an exceptional curmudgeon.
-
DancingOpossum says:
Yeah, and I hate the Broderism of Stewart’s “we’re all the same” cool-boy message. The fact is, things in this country have truly reached a horrendous and terrifying point, and mamby-pamby paeans to “centrism” are not the solution. They don’t even begin to approach a solution.
