Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie.

What, you didn't know that? You must have missed the rightblogger coverage. You probably also missed that the rally was a huge failure and not funny. Well, that's what you get for relying on the Lame Stream Media, sheeples.

You probably recall that Cat Stevens some years ago converted to Islam, took the name Yusef Islam, and backed the Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on author Salman Rushdie.

Stevens/Islam now claims he was kidding, so maybe it was his sense of humor that got the planners to invite Stevens to the stage. Or maybe it was the idea of him doing "Peace Train" with Ozzie Osbourne doing "Crazy Train" and the O'Jays doing "Love Train" that they found exciting.

Or maybe Colbert and Stewart just wanted to do their bit for militant Islamic jihad.

"It's worth remembering the insanity that this man has endorsed," said the American Spectator. "Remember when Jon Stewart was against those who use threats of violence to suppress freedom of speech?" asked Patterico's Pontifications. "A Fatwa at the Sanity Rally," said Solomonia. "Jon Stewart likes to lecture about political extremes," huffed Say Anything. "Is there anything more extreme than wanting someone to die because of something they wrote?"

"Are [Stewart and Colbert] such shallow middle-aged men that they have the need to tell adults they think it would be cool if America were destroyed, so that they feel as if they have street cred?" cried The Infidel Bloggers Alliance. "They are telling us they are cool with Muslims destroying the First Amendment."

Nick Cohen claimed to have heard from Rushdie himself regarding the rally: "If [Cat Stevens'] a 'good Muslim' like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar then I'm the Great Pumpkin." Well, it sounds like Rushdie, anyway.

?"Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert," asked Roger L. Simon, "Are They Pro-Islamofascist or Just Stupid?... why not invite Khalid Sheik Mohammed to perform? He actually took the head off Daniel Pearl. He didn't just talk the talk. He walked the walk." After many insults, Simon finally decided Stewart and Colbert were stupid, and that the Democratic Party, dragged into it at the last moment for some reason, was both stupid and evil.

"The irony is, that the organizer of this insane wankfest, Jon Stewart, is a Jew," said Winds of Jihad. "For him to suck up to Islamofascist ex-pop idol Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam... is the ultimate irony. Sanity is hard to come by in a madhouse. Among these loons, drug addled Ozzy Osbourne is probably the sanest of them all." Oh, well, at least they liked Ozzie.

Those rightbloggers who noticed anything else about the rally hit a few basic themes. For one: That there weren't many black people there. For the most part, this was a joke, because liberals are always making fun of the whiteness of conservative events, and turnabout is fair play -- though some of the brethren seemed not to be kidding.

Instapundit wrote, "AN OVERWHELMINGLY WHITE CROWD at the Stewart/Colbert rally. Well, Stewart and Colbert are Stuff White People Like." "Just look at the predominantly white crowd at their rally," said The Scratching Post. "If that doesn't make them racist, nothing does." "At right a rare shot of the only African American within 10 miles of the Mall yesterday," said Phil Butler, who also said the attendees were "stoned." "WHERE ALL THE BLACK FOLKS AT?" asked Angry White Dude. (If only these guys had been around for the Million Man March! We bet they would have loved it.)

Freedom's Lighthouse found video evidence of "Racism & Hate At 'Restoring Sanity' Rally" -- a guy who said that in America "we're lynching niggers," and that U.S. soldiers called Arabs "sand niggers." The fellow seems to be going for irony, but that's never a safe bet with rightbloggers, and the thing went viral. Now your grandmother will send you an email informing you that liberals don't like those people, either.

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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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