this guy gets dumber by the post

10/30/2010 2:08:56 PM

well over 150k at the rally

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10/30/2010 2:10:03 PM

The perfect analogue to what's going on this election cycle...lol

Could anyone who is there please take/post pictures of after the event?

10/30/2010 2:10:59 PM

well that was pretty fucking great

10/30/2010 2:59:58 PM

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"well over 150k at the rally"

if glenn beck says his rally had 500K, then this rally has 10 million

10/30/2010 3:01:43 PM

I took some good pics from the Jumbotron

Upload them when I get back tomorrow

Some dude fainted near me and watching the paramedics try and get to him was nuts


Somebody was smoking pot.

10/30/2010 4:42:16 PM

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"Somebody was smoking pot."

what?!?!?!

you lie!!!

10/30/2010 4:45:41 PM

Omg, Sam is in town?!

10/30/2010 4:47:30 PM

FYI, driving was the way to go. Little traffic and plenty of parking a few blocks away. Getting in and out was no problem at all.

The metro is barely tolerable on weekends because it is so slow. I can't imagine how soul-killing it would have been to use it today. L'Enfant Plaza was shut down.

There are so few people in DC on the weekend, driving anywhere is fine.

10/30/2010 5:50:56 PM

10/30/2010 8:14:35 PM

My friend lives up the street from a green line station and it was mobbed. We walked half of the way and then took a bus closer

10/30/2010 8:59:05 PM

Beck had double the people - fact.

10/30/2010 9:35:48 PM

oh, that must mean he is right

10/30/2010 9:57:36 PM

Didn't get to go (sadly), but watched the thing live. The crowd looked impressive and I thought that for the most part the event was great.

10/30/2010 10:01:20 PM

Oh lawd at the pic.

10/31/2010 1:13:59 AM

10/31/2010 11:10:55 AM

Soooooo wanted to go

Those pics are hilar

10/31/2010 12:58:13 PM

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"if glenn beck says his rally had 500K, then this rally has 10 million"

did that mean you went to both and can make a good comparison, or are 20 times more extreme than Glenn Beck and can spout whatever you want?

or are you just pulling a number out of your butt, similar to how CBS did?

10/31/2010 2:08:27 PM

obtw...anyone have an post-party pics when all of the people have left?

10/31/2010 2:15:06 PM

Dude go back to TSB, nobody wants to read your nonsense in chit chat

10/31/2010 2:23:27 PM

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""So what exactly was this? This was not a rally to ridicule people of faith or people of activism, or look down our noses at the heartland or passionate argument, or to suggest that times are not difficult and we have nothing to fear. They are and we do. But we live now in hard times, not end times and we can have animus and not be enemies. But unfortunately, one of our main tools in delineating the two broke. The country's 24-hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictionator did not cause our problems, but its existence makes solving them that much harder.... If we amplify everything, we hear nothing.""

10/31/2010 2:23:40 PM

I'm guessing Jon Stewart said that, and I'm sure the people who were holding anti-glenn beck/anti-palin/anti-bush/anti-gop/anti-tea-party posters were so changed by what he said that they turned their posters into plowshares, or something.

10/31/2010 2:28:36 PM

aha posters into plowshares

10/31/2010 2:29:34 PM

Stewart/Colbert '12?

10/31/2010 2:54:53 PM

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"My rent is marginally high, but acceptable."

10/31/2010 2:56:29 PM

got there pretty early and pretty much got a spot as close as you could get without being a VIP. They had a giant screen and a media tent in front of the stage so you had to watch the screen instead of what was actually happening on stage, pretty stupid. had a great time though, just wish we brought beer, they wernt checking bags or coolers to get in

10/31/2010 6:42:01 PM

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10/31/2010 8:08:59 PM

guy i am friends with on facebook

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"The Colbert/Stewart Rally is a mockery of Religion and the American way of life...Cant wait to watch Beck on Monday"

10/31/2010 9:15:00 PM

10/31/2010 9:20:21 PM

^ LOL! Religion is the American way of life. Oh yeah. I hate the theocracy in the middle east.

10/31/2010 9:24:13 PM

^^^ for some reason I see the person who said that quote doing something comical after saying that... It made me chuckle a little bit.

10/31/2010 9:42:09 PM

Saw some good ones of the Huffington Post:

10/31/2010 10:12:53 PM

So glad I'm not in that generation.

11/1/2010 4:20:08 AM

We saw a sign that said, "The rent is too damn proportional to the demand." We lol'd.

11/1/2010 9:21:21 AM

i'll try to get my pictures up today...sooooooo many

11/1/2010 9:28:02 AM

^^ hahaha

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11/1/2010 9:28:58 AM

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"^^^ for some reason I see the person who said that quote doing something comical after saying that... It made me chuckle a little bit."

nope, guy is a pretty strong gop guy. i just think the status was humorous

11/1/2010 9:44:57 AM

My post from the Lounge thread.

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"The entire DC metro system was effectively shut down for about 6 hours. If you didn't get on a train at the first stop, you got screwed."

We stayed at a hotel in Fairax and then took the Vienna/GMU Metro. The Vienna metro is the last stop so the train was empty before we boarded.

By the time we left the station, the Metro was packed to capacity. People had signs they put up in the windows that said "Sorry, Metro is Full" to let the people know in other Metro stations that there was no way we could fit any more people on.

Well, of course people tried to get on. Then those people got pushed off by the people "guarding" the door. There was one woman who came up between the legs of one of the "door guards" and knocked his mother over. The guy went off on the lady screaming "THIS IS WHY I TOLD YOU TO NOT GET ON THE GOD DAMN TRAIN".

I sat next to this guy who was from Maryland and they had driven to the Courthouse Metro to try and get on the train. The trains were packed of course so they actually took the Metro to Vienna and stayed on the train after it emptied.

We got off the Metro at L'Enfant Plaza. At the Smithsonian station, there was a mass exodus so it was nice to actually get some breathing room on the Metro even if just for one more stop.

Trying to get the to the Rally once off the Metro was also interesting. People were running in every direction trying to get out of the Station. Trying to run up the down escalator. Pushing, shoving etc.



We were about 4 blocks back from the actual stage. Right in front of the food vendors. I think they thought that where the food vendors were would be the back-end of the event. But it extended far beyond that point.

At first the crowd was very hostile and rude. Pushing and shoving to try and get closer to the Jumbotron. When we first got there, I was pushed up against one of the Food Vendor tables. After a while, we were able to make our way away from the Food Vendors. Away from the noisy generator and ice machine. The crowd calmed down a bit when they realized that pushing and shoving wasn't going to get them anywhere. Where they were standing was probably was good as it was going to get.

There were some really dumb people (mostly young teenagers) that left their "prime spot" to come and get food and then had trouble/no luck getting back.

Cell phone service was completly shut down. Nobody had cell phone reception. Which I didn't think would be a problem until a guy near us fainted. Everybody whipped out their cell phone to call 911 but nobody had reception. So we had to yell "MAN DOWN" until somebody from the First Aid tent came over. They called the Paramedics and they responded pretty quickly. They had a little trouble making it through the crowd but for the most part, people moved out of the way when they saw them. And everybody in our crowd moved as far as we could away from the guy so the paramedics could work on him. Also yelling "MAN DOWN" brought like 5 doctors that were at the Rally. Still not sure what happened to the guy. We think it was dehydration. He didn't fall hard on the ground. He kind of slowly fell backwards and pulled a lady's pantleg on the way down.
Everybody around offered him water. One of the doctors started giving him Powerade.

The Metro was pretty much packed solid for the rest of the day following the Rally. My husband and I stayed around D.C. for much of the day, just sightseeing. We were trying to stay in D.C. long enough to avoid the Metro craziness. But even going back to Vienna at 8pm was crazy.

I had a friend that was there but apparently she left like 1/2 way through b/c she got frustrated that she couldn't see the screen. I couldn't see the screen for the most part of the Rally but I never had a problem hearing it. If I had a choice, I'm much happier to hear the Rally then see the screen. I still got some shots of the Jumbotron thanks to the Iphone's zoom feature

11/1/2010 10:04:01 AM

there were 815,000 metro trips that day - record setting.

SO GLAD i didn't have to go anywhere on the train that day it was pretty busy the next morning for the marine corp marathon too

11/1/2010 10:05:20 AM

Wish I could have gone but at the same time am glad I didn't have to deal with those crowds.

11/1/2010 10:06:59 AM

It was the 17th highest Metro ridership day, but the highest ever for a Saturday. The highest ever was 1.1 million on Obama's inauguration day.

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"The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority counted 825,437 passenger trips on October 30, the date of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, compared to 510,020 on August 28, the date of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally."

Yes, but of course conservatives don't believe in public mass transit, so surely they wouldn't use the system.

11/1/2010 10:13:07 AM

Jamie Kilstein on twitter: "All of these people could be marching against the war and death of millions. That would have been dumb huh?"

11/1/2010 10:19:16 AM

What was the purpose of this rally, other than getting a bunch of ignorant college pricks together to make fun of patriotism and religion?

11/1/2010 10:37:55 AM

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"So glad I'm not in that generation."

11/1/2010 10:39:07 AM

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"Jamie Kilstein on twitter: "All of these people could be marching against the war and death of millions. That would have been dumb huh?" "

Jamie Kilstein could organize that rally.

11/1/2010 10:41:10 AM

The point of the rally was to get a bunch of ignorant college pricks together to make fun of patriotism and religion.

11/1/2010 10:48:06 AM

I fear for our country if Glenn Beck is considered the poster child of patriotism and religion

11/1/2010 10:50:07 AM

I rode the bus downtown and it was crowded but nothing like the Metro trains.

We stayed at the rally for like an hour or two, but it was too crowded and we couldn't see/hear anything, so then we gave up and went to a bar (Hamilton's). We got there just in time too b/c 10 minutes after we got there, the place was packed.

We had a good time though. Great people-watching. And we got those pictures I posted above.

11/1/2010 11:02:17 AM

^^feel free to leave then, you can go find a socialist country in Europe somewhere to hang out with others that think like you

11/1/2010 11:23:26 AM

lol

11/1/2010 11:28:19 AM