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IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 10:06 AM

It's starting out with some songs by The Roots.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 10:12 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

John Legend joins The Roots. Which make sense - they recently collaborated on an album (and Legend has appeared on Colbert several times, including in the Colbert Christmas special. I still love his song about Nutmeg).

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 10:43 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 30 2010 08:12 PM

After about a 40 minute set by Legend and The Roots, the Mythbusters guys took the stage. They have the crowd doing The Wave on The Mall, which is actually pretty impressive to see on TV.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 10:56 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Jon Stewart takes the stage at 12:55.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 10:59 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

4Troops performs a nice rendition of the National Anthem.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:05 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Colbert appears for the first time on the Jumbotron from his Fear Bunker at 1:05.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:08 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Colbert then appears on stage (as if he's being brought up from the Fear Bunker by a Chilean miner-esque capsule) a couple of minutes later.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:13 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Father Guido Sarducci delivers the rally's benediction.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:21 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Sam Waterston appears to read a poem about fear written by Colbert

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:26 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Cat Stevens/Yusef is there, and in good voice for Peace Train!

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:31 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Cat Stevens is followed by Ozzy Osbourne. And then the two of them play their songs over each other. Only on Comedy Central can any of this make sense.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:33 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Continuing the train theme, the O'Jays are now performing Love Train.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:39 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Steven Slater (the JetBlue flight attendant) and Teresa Giudice (a Real Housewife, or something like that) apologize for publicly losing their cool and advocate reasonable actions rather than meltdowns.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:45 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Jon Stewart awards a Medal of Reasonableness to Armando Galarraga (who accepts via videotape) for his reasonableness in light of Jim Joyce's call that took away his perfect game. Not to be outdone, Colbert awards a Medal of Fear to the news organizations that barred its employees from attending the rally. In their stead, the award is accepted by someone less fearful than they are - a 7-year-old girl.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:48 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy sing for the crowd.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:54 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

The second Medal of Reasonableness is awarded to Velma Hart, who asked several toughquestions of President Obama on CNN a few months ago. She made her points, but with respect. The second Medal of Fear goes to Anderson Cooper, and is accepted by Cooper's tight black t-shirt.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 11:56 AM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Tim Meadows, as P. K. Winsome (a character he performs regularly on The Colbert Report), urges the crowd to buy souvenirs of the event.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:12 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

The third Medal of Reasonableness goes to wrestler Mick Foley, for exemplifying reasonableness everywhere except in his day job. The third Medal of Fear is awarded to Mark Zuckerberg, for violating the privacy of Facebook's users. Colbert accepts the medal in lieu of Zuckerberg, and promises to post a picture of himself wearing it on his Facebook page. The final award, the fourth Medal of Reasonableness, goes to Jacob Isom, who physically prevented a preacher from burning a Koran a couple of months ago. This was followed up by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow (and a taped cameo T.I.) performing a new song. Kid and Crow follow that up with another song. BTW, this entire 3-hour rally has been aired without any commercial interruption.

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:22 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

This being televised somewhere? I'm woefully out of the loop.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:23 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

It's on Comedy Central, as well as comedycentral.com.

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:25 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

themetfairy wrote: It's on Comedy Central, as well as comedycentral.com. I realize it was a stupid question. where else would it be?

metirish Oct 30 2010 12:27 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Jeez, JS and SC have jumped the shark huh?

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:28 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

That got a little too trekkie for me.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:29 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

I'm a librarian - there's no such thing as a stupid question ;) Stewart and Colbert are debating Reason vs. Fear. This is the whole nut of the event, IMO. I disagree irish. They have been nailing it on their shows. I wouldn't judge them by today's live performance.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:30 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has come onstage as an example of a reasonable Muslim.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:31 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

And R2D2, as a reasonable robot....

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:32 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

themetfairy wrote: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has come onstage as an example of a reasonable Muslim. and R2D2 as a reasonable robot.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:32 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Ceetar wrote: themetfairy wrote: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has come onstage as an example of a reasonable Muslim. and R2D2 as a reasonable robot. LOL for GMTA

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:41 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

metirish wrote: Jeez, JS and SC have jumped the shark huh? I think the very fact that there seem to be roughly 6-gazillion people there means they haven't.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:46 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

The estimate is more like 150,000, but yeah. Stewart is now addressing the crowd seriously, pleading for reason in our public discourse. That we can't solve our problems if we focus on polarization rather than our common goals.

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:48 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

I tuned in late, but it certainly appears to be overflowing the space.

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 12:48 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

150k..that's what, half a season for the Nationals?

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:51 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

LOL

MFS62 Oct 30 2010 12:52 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

There's another political event going on today closer to home. President Obama is speaking in Bridgeport. Wifey went. I'll post her comments. Later

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:56 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

MFS62 wrote: There's another political event going on today closer to home. President Obama is speaking in Bridgeport. Wifey went. I'll post her comments. Later Why don't you do that in a different thread. ======================= After Stewart's remarks, which were both intelligent and entertaining, Tony Bennett appears to sing America the Beautiful.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 12:58 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Stewart makes his closing remarks, thanking everyone. The rally ends with everyone who appeared at the rally coming up on stage to sing, "I'll Take You There" (Mavis Staples singing lead).

Ceetar Oct 30 2010 01:04 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

And right into Hot Fuzz. Sweeet. (I need to see Paul) Rally seemed cool, wish I'd caught the first two hours.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 01:12 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

I'm sure it will be repeated. Or at least an edited version will be. I'm also guessing that the video will be available online at some point (sooner rather than later).

G-Fafif Oct 30 2010 03:59 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Huffington Post chartered buses -- and look from where.

Frayed Knot Oct 30 2010 05:24 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Cat Stevens/Yusef is there, and in good voice for Peace Train! I wonder how the 'Peace Train' thing jives with the Salman Rushdie death sentence thing which Steven/Cat/Yusef Islam refused to denounce?

Ashie62 Oct 30 2010 05:31 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Stewart says its ok if the light of the tunnel sometimes is just New Jersey. F U Stewart.

themetfairy Oct 30 2010 05:59 PM Re: IRT - The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

Ashie62 wrote: Stewart says its ok if the light of the tunnel sometimes is just New Jersey. F U Stewart. It's not like he isn't from here....

Diamond Dad Oct 30 2010 07:29 PM Was there. Was great

It was overflowing. The Metro trains from the outlying stations had 30-45 minute lines just to buy tickets. People were still arriving by subway at 2:00. Crowd was overlowed into the side streets on both sides of the mall. Amazingly, everyone was really nice, polite, and . . . well . . . sane. There really are nice people in this country!