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By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 31st, 2010 at 08:00 AM  | 

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It’s from Americans for Prosperity, and it shows some of the signs at the Stewart/Colbert thing on Saturday.

Please remember three things about these people:

  1. Not even close to all Democrats are twerps, but every single twerp in this video is a Democrat.
  2. Said twerps hate you, and want you to die in a fire.
  3. If you vote on Tuesday, they’ll hate you even more.

Moe Lane

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  • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

    I don’t want to torture myself. But here is an anecdote.

    Last night I was at a party, there were lots of people from different walks of life, There were several people there from minority groups, and the conversation turned to the elections.

    EVERYONE there, announced that they were pulling heavy for the republicans because Obama and Pelosi were such screw ups. One latina lady was particularly incensed because she said she had been fooled by him two years ago.

    That made me feel good. (of course this is Texas, so your own experience may vary)

  • EagleWatcher

    Did you attend the Stewart/Colbert rally?

    A. Yes. It was orgasmic.
    B. No. I had to go to the butcher shop to pick up my Lady Gaga costume for Halloween.
    C. No. When I saw the price of plane tickets, I decide to stay home and buy crack instead.
    D. Huh?

  • kissthestick

    boring comedy, great signs

  • Christine (Trelaina)

    I especially liked the “I see sane people” sign followed by several shots of what they define as sane.

  • chbroussard

    and was disgusted. Cat Stevens? Are you kidding me? If there were any sane people watching this and had any doubt about how they were going to vote on Nov. 2, hopefully this fiasco helped make up their mind. If anyone has any question about why our country is in the mess we’re in, I think this video pretty much tells us why. Looked to me like a lot of the people there believed that the legalization of pot in California had already passed.

  • partyof1

    Photobucket

  • outbackjon

    Look on the bright side. At least those folks weren’t out campaigning for their chosen candidates, or attending rallies on the weekend before the election.

  • http://lheal.amplify.com Socrates

    They experienced the Ann Coulter Problem. It’s easy to attack with humor, but very hard to make a positive case with it.

    Ann Coulter (whom I love) often runs into trouble because she builds a fine case for her position, then when it comes to the close she diverts to a punch line.

    So when Colbert sings about how great the country is, but throws in lines like how many trees are destroyed to make our toilet paper, he defeats his own case for a punch line.

    The rally didn’t show liberal patriotism, defined as loyalty to country, but loyaltly to liberalsim.

    But I only saw a few minutes of it. Maybe they had fireworks after, or something. Snide, ironic fireworks with carbon setasides and approved talking points displayed on a big screen for the Grand Finale.

  • timchgo9

    reminded me of a group of non-sensical people, who decided to gather to see if they could get on camera.

    Political leanings? These people would vote for the Sta-Puffed Marshmallow man as a write in, and then chuckle to their friends about it while they were sitting around playing GTA on someone’s X-Box.

    I would be willing to bet that better than 1/2 of the people who showed up at Stewart’s rally won’t even be at the polls on Tuesday, and probably haven’t cast a vote in years, unless it was for their favorite “Maxim” girl. I have some neighbors who are like this… likeable people who just don’t care. Period. They are they types of people that grew up mocking everything they saw, and never took anything seriously. Of course, they never grew up either. Judging by the signs, this was on big “mock fest” and frankly, they were mocking both sides. They all try to come off as super-cool-intelligent, as if they were above all of the political fray of the last eighteen months., because they are the “sane” the “go with the flow” types who make snarky comments at serious subjects, laugh when they pass a car accident, and don’t really care about much, except where their next beer is coming from, and what is on Pay-Per-View.

    People like this are not “anti” anything, they are “non” everything. In other words, they are non-political, non-religious, non-caring, non-understanding. Ignorant would be a good word for them. Like I said, I have neighbors like this… likable people with good kids, who could probably use some growing up. They don’t grasp the seriousness of this election, because they don’t want to. It’s too much work, and it forces them to think beyond “Family Guy” and “The Bachelor” and that is just too hard for them. Stupid? No, intellectually lazy is more like it. Morally relaxed, and absolutely positively complacent about everything.

    The attendees of the “Restoring Sanity” rally were there to have a good time, be obnoxious, and maybe get on television. These were the same people, that as high schoolers, held “Anti-proms” and “anti-homecoming” dances, and smoked pot behind “B” Building, cut class, and snarked their way through life. For all of their attitude, my neighbors are college educated, and have decent jobs, from which they take as much time off as possible, .. they just don’t care about much beyond what affects them personally, and at home.

    I know for a fact, my neighbors are not voting on Tuesday…How do I know?.. I told them that I was an election judge on Tuesday, and the husband said “Why the (expletive deleted) would you want to do that?” While the wife laughed, and proclaimed it a “waste of time”. She then went on to say that she couldn’t remember the last time she went to a polling place.

    So, no, these people in my opinion don’t “hate” me… they just don’t care what my views are, because, well they just want to play “Panda Toss” on their iPhone, that to them is more interesting. Actually, they don’t care about anyone’s views, because they have non themselves. Because having a view about anything is too much work, and actually requires thinking……

  • Return to Revolution

    for making their own signs – for the first time this cycle.

    Problem is, every signle sign – and I know Moe is getting at this – is a condescending, mocking, holier-than-thou snark.

    Teaparty rallies, for the most part, addressed the actual issues and politicians pushing them. This was basically a great big “NAH-UHHH” rally.

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Maybe the RNC ought to be running it as an informercial this afternoon… know your enemy

  • http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/ reaganiterepublicanresistance

    Back when he still had a shred of dignity lol

  • chipbennett

    What was it the alphaets were moaning about at the 9/12 Rally and the Beck Rally? Something about the lily-white composition of the attendees? I sure did notice a lack of distribution of melanin in that video…

  • izoneguy

    Watch the last interview…..priceless.

  • pamela1631

    To the asylum.

    Please tell me they were all rounded up and returned to their rooms.

    Then personnel should speak with the key holders on why they were let loose in the first place.

  • IJB
  • treeofliberty

    I have no idea what these people are considered hilarious and I am in the under 30 crowd myself. I just don’t see what’s so “hip” and “cool” about a couple of (rather lame) 50 year old comedians introducing tired old has beens like Cat Stevens and Ozzy Ozborne…but then again I never thought South Park was funny either so I guess I don’t fit the type of young person these people were looking for.

  • rbdwiggins

    Undoubtedly.

    However, as you can clearly see from this Reuters photo of the “Restore Whatever Rally”…

    Restoring Whatever

    They’re overwhelmingly outnumbered.

  • Jack_Savage

    The best description yet. It is simply to uncomfortable for these people to actually believe in anything, or do anything, because it would require some intellectual or physical effort.

    At least they have a shred of decency by not voting.

  • johnt

    Of course, lets all get along, compromise, sure. Why don’t those Repubs & Tea Party folks just cave to everything Democrats want, isn’t that compromise?
    Loved the comparison J S made at the end about driving in traffic, why wouldn’t you let a car with a bumper sticker you disagree with in ahead of you in a jam? Profound. Why not allow the government to strip you of the coverage you want and control all health care?
    Surely one follows from another.

  • throwback59

    1. Wasn’t this billed as “non-partisan”?
    2. Strange that the MSM didn’t show any of these signs, unlike, say the rare
    impolite sign at a Tea Party Rally.
    3. They can take these signs and shove them … into the trash cans.

  • america1st

    Better the chorus from “Elanor Rigby” – “Ah, all the lonely people . . . .”

  • pamela1631

    Went to the rally.

    Told me she couldn’t believe what a hottie Cat Stevens still was.

    *I’m going to go throw up now*

  • izoneguy

    http://www.yusufislam.com/

  • timchgo9

    that many people at the “Deploring Conformity” Rally, or what ever it was called? Or is that photos of another rally?

  • timchgo9

    Is who Rush had in mind when he came up with the “maggot infested FM type” perjorative a bunch of years ago.

  • chbroussard
  • blooch

    The head count. That’s all they’ve got, and it’s not much. Poor fools.

  • pamela1631

    http://www.craveonline.com/entertainment/music/article/metal-meets-folk-meets-soul-at-the-rally-to-restore-sanity-115631

    Along with Ozzie Osbourne and assorted others

    I think their definition of sanity has been twisted into a pictorial on the style of M. C. Escher.

  • SteveLA

    I thought Tony Bennet’s America the Beautiful was pretty good.

    Ozzie, way too many brain cells gone.

  • rbdwiggins

    It’s one of many reasons conservatives are so adamant about its wholesale rejection.

    Yes, there’s more pictures of the Restore Whatever Rally, and in my estimation, they show the attendance to be about one-fifth the size of Beck’s Restoring Honor.

    Again from Reuters, as viewed from the opposite direction:

    Restore Whatever Rally

  • rohanpatel

    “Said twerps hate you, and want you to die in a fire.” —- You’re inadvertently proving Mr. Colbert’s and Mr. Stewart’s point about the lack of sanity in political discourse.

  • 1stRichard

    Populism, this egalitarianism has been used throughout history and it is directly connected to the likes of Stalin, Hitler and Zedong resulting in genocidal atrocities of over a hundred million. Not a laughing mater if true

  • burntcreek

    It was about respect. It was about meeting in the middle, working things through, getting things done. It was about compromise. It was about getting along.

    We were Democrats, Republicans, Green Partiers, Libertarians, Independents. I stood by a young couple from Kansas. Behind me was a group from Wasilla, Alaska. In front of me were folks from Minnesota.

    We were brown, black, white. We were Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, atheist. The messages on the signs we carried were primarily humorous, rather than mean, hateful, and hurtful. (Sorry about the rest, but, hey, isn’t the pot calling the kettle black?)

    One of the signs read, “If you don’t like my sign, please don’t stomp on my head.”

    Another said, “Real Americans don’t use the term ‘Real Americans.’” Good thing that’s not true, because if it were, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and a good many more people would suddenly find themselves out of the loop.

    We incited no one to riot, we did not advocate overthrow, and there was no Ann Coulter or Glenn Beck style “take our country back” rhetoric.

    After all, back from whom? Fellow Americans? In 2008, a clear majority voted for the president and congress we have now: Is the democratic process only valid when a particular party wins?

    I know there is controversy over how many people attended the 8-28 Glenn Beck rally/revival, with Beck claiming half a million and more. The same independent agency, AirPhotosLive.com, which estimated the Beck rally at 87,000, estimated the Rally to Restore Sanity at 215,000.

    The latter figure may not, unfortunately, include all the people around the periphery for whom there simply was no room within the designated rally site; they lined the sidewalks and streets, they filled the steps of buildings, they perched in the trees.

    And the count quite certainly does not include the prospective rally goers who, when they discovered there was no longer room in the designated area where they would have been able to see the jumbotrons–which was impossible from the street–used the day to tour the memorials or the Smithsonian instead.

    Disagree if you wish, which you do. Please allow others the same courtesy.

  • grout

    1. Assumes facts not in evidence
    2. False
    3. Misses the point entirely by assuming that “hate” is the relevant emotion

  • grout

    “I would be willing to bet that better than 1/2 of the people who showed up at Stewart?s rally won?t even be at the polls on Tuesday, and probably haven?t cast a vote in years”

    If only there were a way to actually verify the results, I would take that bet. Rallygoers tend to actually care. (Sure, many of the signs are cynical. Scratch a cynic, find an idealist.)

    A similar bet about the sit-at-home audience of TDS or TCR, however … well, I’d have to think about it.

  • IJB
  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens
  • jb13

    The only thing truly funny about Jon Stewart, et. al., is that they only believe the time has arrived for “everybody to get along” or for “everyone to just calm down and think rationally” when THEIR side is about to be voted out of power. But when it’s THEIR side riding a wave of vitriol and emotion, there is no such thing as a zeal too great.

    THAT is what’s funny about all this.

    But I forget: Facts have a liberal bias. And conservatism is a mental illness. And Bush and Cheney were tyrants and despots who wanted to burn the Constitution. And all Republicans are insane, racist, homophobic bigots who believe only rich white Christians are “true Americans.” Or am I just misremembering that always reasonable and egalitarian rhetoric from their side?

  • http://www.redstate.com/tnjim TNJim

    Where?

  • grout

    Motto: “We don’t have regular meetings, but we do like pizza.”

  • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

    Remember when you accused Moe of batting .000?

    Well I’m batting 1.000 on these.

  • fifa3601

    You know things are going to be epic when even Politico is writing things like this.

  • burntcreek

    Here’s soundbite B: “We the people” elected this president

    And C: Real Americans don’t use the term “real Americans”

    That said, 87,000 real Americans gathered on 8/28/10 to hear talk radio host, Glenn Beck, and 215,000 just-as-real Americans gathered on 10/30/10 to hear Jon Stewart.

    The crowd was the message.

  • izoneguy

    http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3551

    What “Cat” ought to have done was apologise to Rushdie and commit himself to the right to criticise power in whatever form it takes, but he has not and American leftists have yet to learn that they cannot be a little bit liberal. They can’t denounce the idiocy of Fox and ignore the idiocies of religion. Maybe they will never learn.

  • timchgo9

    Of the Glenn Beck rally show the entire mall area full of people, and you are going to go with the 87,000 number? Please. Look up the photos, the facts in evidence show that there were far more than 87,000 people in attendance. 215,000 at “Restoring Sanity”? Fine, I’ll let you have that number, the mall is obviously crowded in the photos taken there… Look up the aerial photos of 8/28, and tell me that that crowd was only 87,000.

    Why do you come here, assuming we hate? I hate no one… I don’t spew vitriol, and I don’t stomp heads. Do you even understand what it is to be conservative? Furthermore, you indicate that there were people there from all walks of life…. guess what, conservatives come from the same place. We are also Jews, Christians, black, white, Hispanic, etc. etc. Because you felt the need to state that, you are assuming that all of us here are lily white, and that everyone at the 8/28 rally was white too…. Where does that come from? Conservatism DOES NOT equal racism.

    We also do not incite riots… When was the last time you saw a riot at a conservative rally? The folks that incite violence and hate are those on the left. How many leftist protests have resulted in violence and destruction? Quite a few, if you look even through the last couple of years. All of the protests at the World economic summits. If you think the folks there are conservative, you are not thinking clearly.

    I love your remark “Take it back from who, fellow Americans?” Yes, in fact, that is the case, especially when those fellow Americans wish to impose a restrictive, socialist society on us, take away, and reduce our freedoms. It’s happening, and if you can’t see it, then, you must not be thinking. Paranoid? No… It’s clear, and obvious what is going on. The economy is in a shambles. True, it happened under Bush, but it has been continued under Obama. When does the economy become Obama’s fault? He has perpetuated the mess, with his failed stumulus. Yes, it has failed, he said that his Health Care Reform, would produce 800,000 jobs, half of them almost immediately, the stimulus was supposed to create 2,000,000 jobs. Where are they? Just by the fact that none of these numbers have been fulfilled, and not even close says “FAIL” in big letters .

    Around here, us conservatives believe in a few things, and here is the list:

    - We believe in the Constitution, the rights of the people as spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

    -We believe in the right of EVERY American to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

    - We believe the Federal Governement is too large, and is encroaching on the rights of Citizens.

    - We believe in the sovereignty of our nation. Mexico imprisons people who enter their country illegally, but we are not supposed to have immigration laws? Or, enforce them?

    - Many of us believe in God.

    - We believe in the sanctity of life, It begins at conception.

    - We believe that Americans of all races should have equal opportunity.

    - We believe in a free market, that allows anyone who wishes to start a business, can do so, free of restrictive regulation, taxes, and stifling government oversight.

    Your post earlier was condescending, and reeked of the fact that you feel yourself to be superior. Don’t talk down to us, many of us, in fact, all of us are more intelligent that you would like to believe. We are practical people, who love this country, it’s people, and it’s history.

    If you want to lecture anyone about hate,. Go to the Daily Kos, or Moveon.org, and speak to them. Perhaps Joy Behar, and the N.O.W could use it too.

  • texasgalt

    What lies do you have in the can for the election results?

  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    Better today than tomorrow night, of course.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack
  • uselogic

    I wasn’t looking for that. Just like I wasn’t looking for it at the 9/12 and 8/28 rallies. I could never be in the MSM…. too color-blind.

  • Joshua Persons
  • BA Cyclone

    You might have trumped Moe’s OP video! Ha!

  • Doc Holliday

    1- I am pretty sure close to most (not a precise calculation) of Democrats are twerps.

    2- I thought the “My arms are tired” sign was funny, pointless as the rally, but funny.