Simultaneous in seattle: rally with jon stewart, oct. 30

Can't make it to the National Mall on October 30, to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's dueling rallies?

Not to worry, you can raise your voice of reason, and express your radical ambiguity simultaneously in Seattle in the Westlake Mall.

Twenty-somethings, over 30's, moderates, progressives, vegetarians, Democrats, Gen-FloMaxers, Dave Ross listeners, and Latinos will bring down their cool, hard irony; profound ambivalence; their "I Disagree With You, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler" signs; and no funny hats, please.

It'll also be an opportunity to visit the downtown library.

Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and Colbert's March to Keep Fear Alive™ are promoting the notions of Extreme Moderation, and Fear-Foot Forward, but most of all, they're saying to America: Glenn Beck is flatulent, extreme, humorless, and self-indulgent. And that his logical processes have a fat neck, a double chin, and rides around in a limo.

That should bring America (and him) to their senses.

The DC rally is three days before the crucial midterm elections, and might even be able to draw, on short notice, a crowd like Beck’s. The Facebook page has nearly 100,000 people who say they'll attend, and an additional 50,000 who are still agonizing about it.

The Seattle rally is gaining steam, having gained about 400 Facers who say they're coming, even though the page has only been up since Friday.

 With customary aloofitude, Politico writes:

At a moment when cool, hard irony - a reaction to the heat of the tea party movement - appears to have replaced the hope that buoyed Comedy Central’s young viewers during the 2008 presidential campaign, the rally will be the Democrats’ last best chance to convince a crucial demographic to focus on the midterm elections – and to vote Nov. 2nd.

Comments

[Sailish Sea]

Sorry, but my boycott of Seattle is still on. But it will be interesting to read the hate signs the progressives bring to rallies.

[Pete]

But it will be interesting to read the hate signs the progressives bring to rallies.

Which only goes to show you didn't even bother to follow the link to find out what Stewart's rally is about. Or perhaps it just doesn't make sense to you. It's a specific, nonpartisan disavowal of hate rhetoric.

I'm there. Sounds like a blast.

[bob bobertson]

So they're "against hate" huh?

Wow... impressive, isn't it? Imagine the moral courage required to throw down the gauntlet, and to declare oneself "against hate!"

Dunno... pretty risky. Too controversial for me.

[KIRO Insider]

BREAKING

RIP Phil Vandervort 1998-2010

[Norman]

Bye-bye Phil. Story at 11. End of an era.

So many libraries, Starbucks and other hot spots...so little time... ;)

[Andrew]

Isn't he just being re-assigned to David Boze/KTTH?

[sparky]

Thanks...now I know what to write on my sign!

[KS]

A pointless demonstration by the progressivists - but hey go ahead, knock your socks off.

[Louis Vuitton Outlet]

what would be nice to see along with the tickets sold is the allotment each school was supposed to sell. For instance I see that Minnesota sold 3,000 tickets for last year's Insight Bowl, but how many were they required to sell? Did they meat their allotment or how short were they?