This was not a Rally...to suggest that times are not difficult or that we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times. And we can have animas, and not be enemies.
Stewart expressed his belief that pundits and print reactionary journalism is the greatest barrier to finding compromise.
The country's 24-hour, political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder...If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
Stewart claimed that, " The press is our immune system. " Its higher purpose is to:
..hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen"If it overreacts to everything, we actually get sicker and, perhaps, eczema.
Stewart assured the Mall crowd,
And yet...I feel good. Strangely, calmly, good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us, through a funhouse mirror.
As if to prove Jon Stewart right ,the mainstream pundit machine responded in kind and mirrored the event through its funhouse mirror. The
New York Times chose to relegate the 200k Rally report to page 24 in the Sunday Times. NPR barely gave it a cursory mention on Sunday morning talk shows. Pundits throughout Saturday on DC Metro radio and Sunday political gab fests poked holes in the Rally's Call for Action. One pundit on Washington radio called it a "marketing ploy for Stewart and Colbert." Another pundit on Halloween Sunday dismissed the Rally's call for responsible and non-reactionary press as simply a testimony to Stewart and Colbert's "star power" and nothing more.
Perhaps remarkably, the mainstream press missed the point that did not escape the hundreds of thousands of participants who traveled hours upon hours to get there. There is a strong opposition voice rising to the growing militancy and hysteria sweeping American politics and pundits. Stewart spoke of " the exhausting effort it takes to hate, " that makes us " less safe not more. "
Finally, funny man Jon Stewart spoke eloquent and serious words to the crowds who came to support his message of compromise and common concern.
Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine.
Here Here.
Thank you Jon. Thank you Stephen, Comedy Central and the Daily Show. You restored not only my sanity, but my faith in Americans to work together to move from the darkness back into the light. I and everyone else on the Mall this weekend spoke louder in action than words. For "we, the people," who share the common value of live and let live , the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear has restored hope in a new and more "reasonable" America.
It was well-worth the 27 hours it took to get there and back.
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Stewart expressed his belief that pundits and print reactionary journalism is the greatest barrier to finding compromise.
The country's 24-hour, political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder...If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.
Stewart claimed that, " The press is our immune system. " Its higher purpose is to:
Stewart assured the Mall crowd,
And yet...I feel good. Strangely, calmly, good. Because the image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false. It is us, through a funhouse mirror.
As if to prove Jon Stewart right ,the mainstream pundit machine responded in kind and mirrored the event through its funhouse mirror. The
New York Times chose to relegate the 200k Rally report to page 24 in the Sunday Times. NPR barely gave it a cursory mention on Sunday morning talk shows. Pundits throughout Saturday on DC Metro radio and Sunday political gab fests poked holes in the Rally's Call for Action. One pundit on Washington radio called it a "marketing ploy for Stewart and Colbert." Another pundit on Halloween Sunday dismissed the Rally's call for responsible and non-reactionary press as simply a testimony to Stewart and Colbert's "star power" and nothing more.
Perhaps remarkably, the mainstream press missed the point that did not escape the hundreds of thousands of participants who traveled hours upon hours to get there. There is a strong opposition voice rising to the growing militancy and hysteria sweeping American politics and pundits. Stewart spoke of " the exhausting effort it takes to hate, " that makes us " less safe not more. "
Finally, funny man Jon Stewart spoke eloquent and serious words to the crowds who came to support his message of compromise and common concern.
Sanity will always be and has always been in the eye of the beholder. To see you here today and the kind of people that you are has restored mine.
Here Here.
Thank you Jon. Thank you Stephen, Comedy Central and the Daily Show. You restored not only my sanity, but my faith in Americans to work together to move from the darkness back into the light. I and everyone else on the Mall this weekend spoke louder in action than words. For "we, the people," who share the common value of live and let live , the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear has restored hope in a new and more "reasonable" America.
It was well-worth the 27 hours it took to get there and back.
(Visit us on Facebook for more photos and discussion.)
2010 All Rights Reserved
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