Hey Jon Stewart, WTF? "Your march is seriously dumb, and I'm laughing at you."

[Better Believe It]

Hey Jon Stewart, WTF? How Can You Compare Crazy, Lying Right-Wingers to Progressives?
Jon Stewart's Million Moderate March draws a false equivalence between right-wing propagandists, and people on the left who rightly lashed out against Bush.
AlterNet / By Daniel Denvir
September 23, 2010

Jon Stewart is calling for a "Million Moderate March" on Washington this October 30. Unfortunately, his prescription for political change is that we all just "take it down a notch."

When he announced the rally, Jon Stewart made a concerted effort to appear politically unaligned, screening clips that imply an equivalence between the wacky right and the wacky left. As Jon Stewart has it, the problem is "loud folks" and a tone of political debate that has become untempered: too many crazies yelling and screaming, comparing people they don't like to Hitler.

The Tea Party far right leans on made-up things, also known as lies -- "ground zero" Mosque, illegal immigrants purposely causing highway accidents, death panels killing grandma -- to win political power. The left has a different problem. We could have used a little more hysteria in recent years, as Wall Street robbed Main Street and the most powerful military on earth invaded multiple countries. Instead, a real anti-war movement never materialized to challenge one of this nation's most violent presidencies. The people "who have shit to do" that you cited as your fan base, Jon Stewart, should have been out in the streets protesting and putting our 1960s radical parents to shame. But we've got "shit to do." On the Internet, I suppose.

Ironically, the Rally to Restore Sanity repeats the liberal establishment's greatest error: when Republicans go on attack -- either at home with lies or abroad with bombs -- hunker down somewhere in the middle and plead for civility. This young century's great problems are a government abetting ruthless misadventure at Wall Street and the Pentagon, not rudeness and rank partisanship. Jon Stewart, you are funny as hell. I laugh with you most weekday nights. But your march is seriously dumb, and I'm laughing at you. One of those sad, what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-the-world laughs that so define our political moment.

Please read the full article at:

http://www.alternet.org/media/148254/hey_jon_stewart,_wtf_how_can_you_compare_crazy,_lying_right-wingers_to_progressives?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternettop_stories

Stewart and Colbert should announce their support to the October 2nd March on Washington and urging their supporters to attend.

Or they could just urge their supporters to be on the mall on that date and indicate they will speak to their followers on that day.

I'm sure the march organizers would love to have them both address the rally.

BBI

[backscatter712]

1. I think I'm rooting for Stephen Colbert's march. KEEP FEAR ALIVE!!!

:evilgrin:

[Beartracks]

2. Would love to hear them publicize the Oct 2 rally.

Of course, Colbert's persona would mention it derisively -- lol -- but that, too, would serve the purpose of getting people out there.

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[Better Believe It]

3. Exactly! And Colbert could say he'll be present to protest the October 2nd rally and urge his

supporters to join him!

He could later say he demanded the right to address the "liberal rally" and they caved in to his damand!

[Hannah Bell]

12. but they won't. until after the fact if it goes big. that should give people a clue about how far

stewart's hipness goes.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Satire is sometimes dificult to undrestand. n/t

[SidDithers]

5. +1...nt

Sid

[madrchsod]

6. goes right over their heads.......

[CrawlingChaos]

7. Do you understand satire?

The Colbert rally is satire.

I guarantee you that the vast majority of people attending the Stewart rally are taking it quite literally. "Simmer down", "take it down a notch", "use your indoor voice"... they will take home the desired message of this corporate media event, which is don't step out of line or be labeled a wacky extremist.

I guess Glenn Greenwald doesn't get satire either:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/19/stewart

[Ozymanithrax]

9. I think most of the people recognize Stewert's Satire for what it is.

Yes, Glenn Greewald probably isn't sharp enough to get the Satire, or his agenda is getting in the way.

[pansypoo53219]

10. i just want sanchez to go

and get tazed!

[EstimatedProphet]

20. Clearly so, and there is a sarcasm-impaired crowd on DU

[annm4peace]

8. I love to watch Stewart and Colbert but very disappointed in them.

[Hannah Bell]

11. +100.

[greyl]

13. By "Wacky Left", Jon Stewart does not mean "people on the left who rightly lashed out against Bush".

He's talking about the wacky ones. The ones who are so far Left, they can see the Right rearing its head into the airspace.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. "Wacky left?" Like who?

The Maoists? The Leninists? The Trotskyites?

[eShirl]

15. LaRouche-ians

[greyl]

19. Yes, and the Alex Jones, Ron Paul, unreasonable conspiracy theorist crowd. nt

[JonLP24]

16. Good post

I can't get the clip to load for me--http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-16-2010/rally-to-restore-sanity probably because I don't have the system requirements. I can watch YouTube though.

I was curious about this-But just what the hell is wrong with a Katrina survivor telling Dick Cheney, "go fuck yourself?" Why include that clip in your pastiche of political insanity?

I was trying to see if that was in the clip I was trying to load above.

I may be very satire challenged but the general message I'm getting from this rally is "tone it down". I can tell what the jokes are in describing the event but the message is clear IMO. "Tone it down".

[lame54]

17. We're definitely going - can't wait

[Better Believe It]

18. Kick