Jon Stewart's Speech at Rally to Restore Sanity

[ThirdChoice]

Run time: 12:02 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXmbzLI3pnk   Posted on YouTube: October 30, 2010 By YouTube Member: ivolsky Views on YouTube: 350   Posted on DU: October 30, 2010 By DU Member: ThirdChoice Views on DU: 2846

 
The crowd was HUUUUGE, easily hundreds of thousands, they spilled off the sidewalks into the streets, and half the crowd couldn't even get near the stage!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Thanks. Was looking for a link to this so I could send it to many, many people

[lovuian]

2. Awesome

It really says America wants some Sanity to US Government

Let us get out of these WARS!!!!

[Faygo Kid]

3. I was there. I would say 500,000. But then there were the streets in DC.

Tens of thousands clogging every intersection in DC.

I am still processing. I am overwhelmed, and I was there for anti-war rallies in DC in the 70s.

[Xipe Totec]

4. K&R!

[bluerum]

5. well ok. That was uplifting. Thanks for posting.

[Richard D]

6. Jon Stewart 2016

Just want to be the first to say it.

[bluestateboomer]

7. Missed it live

I had to go out this morning and set my Tivo to record the rally, but it seemed to end at 9:30 am PST. Then Comedy Central went to Scrubs. Thanks for posting it from C-span and youtube.

[alp227]

8. Actually the rally was noon-3 Eastern n/t

[AspenRose]

9. I have never seen the Metro that crowded!

I would put the estimate at 450K, but I'm sure the media will lie about it.

[The Traveler]

10. One of the most moving and elevating speeches

of the last 50 years. Jon Stewart for Pres? Nah. But the man definitely gets it. He gets what America is at its core, and he loves it.

Hey ... we could do worse ... and have!

Trav

[PatrynXX]

25. That has me choked up now actually.

Yes he gets it. Jon for Pres... he'll never run. But I'd vote for him. George Washington did not want to run. But he became the first President.

There's usually two types of humor. Low Brow Humor courtesy of the fart burp crowd (some of Jack Black's stuff. Not all of it) Then there's High Brow humor done with people who have brains. George Carlin was one of the greats. He played with words.
And anyone playing in the comedy skit movie The Aristocrats. Which is only about 1 skit. By many comedians. Bill Maher high brow humor. Rush will never get these because he's more into the low brow humor crowd. (can't imagine he still likes Lady Gaga still)

Steven Colbert. High brow humor. Humor with brains. One got elected in Minnesota. How I have no idea. :)

Don't need Andrew Dice Clay as.. er where is he?? nevermind

Seeing Jon up there saying what he's saying, clearly brings people off the floor. Left or Right. Nevermind the tea party folk. They aren't right wing. They have no wing.

The way the press covers the immigration stuff you would think it's a new argument. It isn't. It's the basis for the campy but cool movie in the early 80's for Blue Thunder. The basis for a helecopter to do crowd control for illegal immigrants. Immigrants are against illegal immigrants in how they are getting in. They aren't against the actual people.

Having grown up Lutheran I understand why Republicans would want to tear us apart. Because the anti christ is supposed to bring us together. Okay but that is set in stone. No matter what the Republicans do to tear people apart that will happen. So they are going against their god. I'm following mine and he and his son told me to love thy neighbor. As clearly one Church did with a Muslim church who's been vandalized. Clearly someone read their bible. I once had a Pastor (forget his real title) who ran the Religion side of things at Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato MN. Closed minded college. But he said one thing that always interested me. Braveheart was a great movie he said. I mention the nude scene. "It doesn't count, you don't know her, she doesn't know you. It says in the book don't covet thy neighbors wife" Although indeed I did find one attractive in that very city whoops... in the movies or in porn do you know that person. Porn can be healthy as long as you don't become addicted. And thats easy. Even ones that are married like Nikki Sims or Luba Hegre (and Nikki really doesn't do nude. she's a tease. idiots want her to do nude because they are sick. never force a woman to do what she doesn't want to do)

I am of a mind that Rick Sanchez, Juan Williams, and Don Imus should have a nice get together with Jon Stewart and have a good laugh. I don't think any of them should have been fired for it. Well Juan broke a contract. But it was handled poorly. I like them all because I can see their points. Bill O used to have a brain, but then he went fruit. Thanks to him mentioning some show called Countdown and threatening to have someone arrested. I watch Keith now instead. If it weren't for Bill I wouldn't have started going to Daily Kos (which eventually led me here) , media matters or Think Progress. Thats all thanks to Bill O Nuts. Because I watched him for almost 5 years. Stopped around 2005 I do think that if Keith wanted to have fun with Mrs McMahon , he should try to interview the woman that was forced to bark like a dog. If that woman has a problem she should sue. If not, there was always the Fear Factor and eating the worst shit and making male or female look like a moron for what $10,000? They had a choice to sign on the line. They also have a choice to reneg and sue.

[Loudmxr]

11. Eloquent. That is all I have to say.

[ixion]

12. "we work together to get things done every damn day"

"the only place that doesn't happen is HERE... and on cable tv."

Outstanding. :applause:

[Red Knight]

13. I love Jon but.....

His speech was a bit Pollyanish and wishful more than reality based.

Yes--he got a large crowd and that's great.

But money still rules in Washington--it did before the rally and did after. Propaganda will still rule the airwaves--working as a hand for that money to direct people in the direction it chooses. And until representatives represent US---no matter what your political view---this country is broken.

We can't get together on the most important threat to our Democracy through all the other noise--and that's a bought and paid for congress and White House. Both sides.

If a politician spends more time fundraising than anything else--we have a problem.

I wish Stewart would have touched on something like public financing--about how we SHOULD be angry about the money grip on our system of government and the threat that represents--and how we--no matter our differences--should be demanding that this change first. Afterward, we can sort out our differences---but until they truly represent US----it's pointless becauase behind the curtains is that faceless money machine directing what will get done.

Glen Beck will go away when money decides he's no longer valuable. These "grassroots" tea parties will go away, when money finds it pointless to fund them and direct them.

THAT'S when America will step away from the abyss.

Good luck, Jon--talking to that fired up tea partier, or abortion activest, or NRA fanatic. You may be fine talking to them about sports or a good retaurant, or anything that doesn't involve the way they are programmed by big money. But when you step over that line--you're in trouble.

So, the sentiment is nice.

But until we decide that MONEY is our enemy in this game--we're fighting a losing battle. You have to rip out the cause of the disease. Then you can regain your health.

[Enthusiast]

16. My thanks.

Yes, there are tangible issues like the cascade of corporate political money since Citizens United, as if it wasn't perfectly bad enough before. I don't see what it would hurt to address this head-on.

[chervilant]

22. Bravo!

The only part of your post with which I disagree is "faceless money machine..." We can, and must, identify the pathetically small handful of corporate hedonists worldwide who are holding the puppet strings of the vast majority of the world's politicians.

Less than 400 people worldwide own and control better than 45% of this planet's resources. If you cannot grasp the horror of that reality, please reread that sentence until it sinks into your very soul. We can and we must find out who are these Corporate Megalomaniacs. We can and we must defeat them.

[nolabear]

24. So what do you propose?

Be specific and show your work.

[underpants]

14. Great speech

[AllyCat]

15. volume too quiet to hear until kids go to bed. Bookmarking...

[WillyT]

17. Big K & R !!!

:applause::applause::applause:

:kick:

[fascisthunter]

18. That was righteous

[DemocraticPilgrim]

19. I love that description ofracism "people who only see their own humanity," so true.

[DemocraticPilgrim]

20. I love that description of racism "people who only see their own humanity," so true.

[chervilant]

21. ThankFully,

we still have voices of sanity in our nation:

"We live now in hard times, not end times..."

[bluescribbler]

23. That was a great speech!

If William Safire were alive today, he would include it in the next edition of this book.

[ooglymoogly]

26. Powerful....Looking at all these wonderful smiling faces, searching for a way forward;

one has to realize that the good old days, the best of times, of any generation was and is formed by these same folks throwout our history.

The ugliness, the bad memories and the worst of times, always formed by the Becks, the Limbaugs, the Falwells et al and those like minds throughout history for whom greed is a religion, trying to force their fascicle beliefs on others by codifying them into law, making life as miserable as possible for everyone in a march toward fascism.

All you have to do to realize and understand this profundity, is to look into the faces in each crowd and their body language and what they are saying.

Beck et al, and Jon et al, gave us a chance to see this clear picture; this juxtaposition, to see where the best of times and the worst of times exist.

Like all worst of times in our history we have stood up and fought the battle that needed to be fought.

Now is that time.