Who Cares how many people attended the rally to restore Sanity?

Because it is difficult to train and articulate intelligent thought, in General, but an event that blurs the lines between sincerity, irony, comedy and politics, a large part of the conversation about Jon Stewart specifically and rally of Stephen Colbert Sanity restoration or fear revolves around how many people have. Literally the Associated Press reported the number of Facebook RSVP. Anyone who has ever used internet knows which is absurd. This is the racing horses and his followers hungry at their worst, is boring and more importantly, it is empty. ?
Legitimacy is not internet buzz or numbers, but ideas and belief and accompanying any (Malcolm Gladwell). Glenn Beck says 500,000 people attended the rally "Restore honor", it is extended. When CBS says it is more like phone, still doesn't really matter. Jon Stewart said on stage this afternoon that 10 million people were at the chillout.This is an evening blague.Ce tomorrow and the next day, when estimates of the "real"-Comedy Central, CBS, Fox News, Glenn Beck - which will be a joke, too.

It will be a joke because the number varies greatly. (One devinée: 50 000 and 200 000)It also will not prove something, except how relatively well offshore, (mostly) blank did not much remains to be done on the Saturday before Halloween and could make Washington D.C. perhaps it shows also that The Daily Show and Colbert Report were faithful viewers, even beyond their ratings. (Hello, Internet).

But every body press speculation and each body press will present different results. Why? Because everyone is .c ' is a simple and integrated story after Beck bragging.Rally already resulted in at least five themes Twitter trends. Do you know what else is a trend? # yeaulookgoodbut.

What is not to say that a mass of people who believe in facts, rationality and communication by comedy event are empty of meaning or lose their Sklar of the mediaite temps.Rachel has done a good job to justify Why questions gathering. She writes: "anyone who thinks that this gathering is ironic detachment did gets not it".In addition:

They have reached their audience and grabbed them from their televisions, computers and possibly even a few newspapers and spur action.Thousands of people gather on a shopping mall is not an act of collective indifference.He caught in something - anything like Beck and the Palin rally made in the month of August.

But quibble statistics rest empty of meaning.The need for numbers comes from a shallow, competitive place in our collective psyche of American policy and accomplishes little or rien.FileSystemWatcher Daily Show, democratic voter or blogger, you feel the need to justify yourself in comparison with the Tea Party movement?Do not.

Certainly, in a sad season for Democrats a display of solidarity is somewhat réconfortant.Mais remember photos of crowds are misleading .c 'is all u.s. angles' there is a way of quantifying energy, enthusiasm and loyalty, which could be utile.OH wait, there might be - it is called voter.Question figures on November 2.

Instead of hand-wringing, guessing, supporting and context on how many people attended two varieties, shows organized by television host, why do simply get us Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck on stage and that they fall hole? then we can remove only the leaders.

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