Topic: Beck Proclaims The Rally to Restore Sanity a Failure
MiddleEarthling's photo
Wed 10/27/10 03:52 PM
Funny, the rally is this Saturday...hummm.

I know that Jon Stewart is insisting this rally is not a Jon V. Beck event but Beck won't leave it alone sooo....

"Jon Stewart might draw a million people to his rally, but it is a given that the attendance figures for the Rally To Restore Sanity will blow away Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor. Even though the Stewart/Colbert event is not a political rally, it will hopefully put to rest the myth that the far right wing of American politics represents a majority of the country."



"On his radio show today, Glenn Beck continued his attack on Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity. Beck claimed that that unless Stewart draws a million people, the rally is a failure. Beck said, “If there’s not a million people at the mall…There should be 300 million people on the mall or they are absolutely the most powerless people on the planet.”

Beck said, “I love this. Barack Obama is going on The Daily Show. If there’s not a million people at the mall. They have Oprah. They have Barack Obama. They have The Huffington Post, all paying for these trips. There should be 300 million people on the mall, or they are absolutely the most powerless people on the planet.”

In Beckian Logic, Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show on the week of the rally means that the only way the rally is successful is if millions of people show up, because apparently this is now all about the power of Obama to draw people to a rally that isn’t political, and that he won’t be attending. In Beck’s mind if Barack Obama does not inspire a million people to attend Jon Stewart’s rally, then Obama is powerless, and the rally is a failure.

Just to make it clear, Obama is not going to be at the Rally to Restore Sanity. He is going on The Daily Show the week of the rally. Oprah Winfrey is not going to be at the rally. When Beck said “they have”, he implied that these people are going to be there. They aren’t, because the Rally to Restore Sanity is not a political rally. Beck regularly compares himself to Jon Stewart, and claims that he boosts Stewart’s ratings. Never mind the reality that Stewart’s Comedy Central has more averages more viewers than Beck on Fox News.

What Beck also doesn’t mention is that all of his rallies have been promoted by Fox News and corporate special interest front groups like Freedom Works and Americans for Prosperity. These groups have always paid to bus people in to his rallies. Beck wants to pretend that his rallies are organic gatherings, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is laughable that Beck is proclaiming that it is a million people or bust for Stewart/Colbert, when his own Rally to Restore Honor was a total bomb that could only draw roughly 100,000 people.

Beck knows that the 10/30 rally is going to not only humiliate him, but also expose his weakness of his movement. This is why Beck has spent weeks attacking or trying to frame attendance expectations for Stewart’s rally. Last month, Beck labeled the Stewart/Colbert a progressive plot. Since that didn’t catch on Beck is now trying to lay the groundwork for labeling the rally a failure.

The Rally to Restore Sanity presents a huge threat to Glenn Beck and every other millionaire right wing media star that has made their fortune by engaging in extremism and fear. Needless to say, sanity is bad for Beck’s business. Glenn needs to keep the narrative alive that the country is in peril, and he is our savior. When hundreds of thousands of people show up in support of a message of reasonableness and sanity, it will be a direct repudiation of Glenn Beck.

Jon Stewart might draw a million people to his rally, but it is a given that the attendance figures for the Rally To Restore Sanity will blow away Beck’s Rally to Restore Honor. Even though the Stewart/Colbert event is not a political rally, it will hopefully put to rest the myth that the far right wing of American politics represents a majority of the country. On October 30, we are going to see the “real America,” not a small gathering of die hard conservative extremists who still haven’t gotten over the fact that they lost the 2008 election."

http://www.politicususa.com/en/beck-stewart-rally-million


USmale47374's photo
Wed 10/27/10 04:12 PM
The far right doesn't represent me, nor will it ever. Restore sanity!

willing2's photo
Thu 10/28/10 06:09 PM
Edited by willing2 on Thu 10/28/10 06:10 PM
OOOOOPS!!
Looks like H will be a no-show at Stewart's Rally.laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

With a Charlie Sheen type twirl of the finger.laugh laugh
Moment of Zen - Obama Will Not Be at the Rally
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/moment-of-zen---obama-will-not-be-at-the-rally

MiddleEarthling's photo
Thu 10/28/10 06:41 PM

OOOOOPS!!
Looks like H will be a no-show at Stewart's Rally.laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

With a Charlie Sheen type twirl of the finger.laugh laugh
Moment of Zen - Obama Will Not Be at the Rally
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/moment-of-zen---obama-will-not-be-at-the-rally


No one (except Herr Beck) said he was attending...pfft.

InvictusV's photo
Fri 10/29/10 11:57 AM
there is nothing sane about the left wings ideology.

this should be called...

"rally to keep left wing insanity alive because we have been exposed as the frauds we are and if this continues no one is going to believe our ridiculous conspiracy theories or support our fundamental transformation of America"...



msharmony's photo
Fri 10/29/10 12:00 PM


OOOOOPS!!
Looks like H will be a no-show at Stewart's Rally.laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

With a Charlie Sheen type twirl of the finger.laugh laugh
Moment of Zen - Obama Will Not Be at the Rally
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/moment-of-zen---obama-will-not-be-at-the-rally


No one (except Herr Beck) said he was attending...pfft.




was 'H' at any of the other satirical 'rallies',,,,,doubt it

Lpdon's photo
Fri 10/29/10 03:41 PM

OOOOOPS!!
Looks like H will be a no-show at Stewart's Rally.laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

With a Charlie Sheen type twirl of the finger.laugh laugh
Moment of Zen - Obama Will Not Be at the Rally
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-27-2010/moment-of-zen---obama-will-not-be-at-the-rally


I bet Sean Penn will be front row and center! laugh

Bestinshow's photo
Sun 10/31/10 06:23 AM

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Email Comments 5,000 The Rally to Restore Sanity has come to a close, and crowd estimates are beginning to trickle in. It is clear that a huge number of people attended the event (see photos from the rally here), but the calculations vary among sources.

According to CBS News, 215,000 people showed up for the rally on Saturday. By comparison, CBS estimated that 87,000 -- just 40% of the Sanity Rally estimation -- attended Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August.

Canada's CTV, meanwhile, wrote that 250,000 people were estimated to have partaken in the Rally to Restore Sanity.

Earlier on Saturday, Brian Stelter tweeted that the Parks Service approximated that "well over 200,000" attended Saturday's rally.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/30/rally-to-restore-sanity-attendance_n_776547.html

s1owhand's photo
Sun 10/31/10 07:17 AM
I heard it was all created by Pixar with a green screen backdrop.

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Sun 10/31/10 01:48 PM

I heard it was all created by Pixar with a green screen backdrop.

laugh laugh laugh laugh