Obama gives Stewart's rally a boost

[nmbluesky]

Speaking to families in Richmond, Va., Obama scolded the media for rewarding commentators who espouse extreme beliefs on the right and the left.
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"I was amused – Jon Stewart, you know, the host of The Daily Show, apparently he's going to host a rally," Obama said. Not quite getting the name right – he called it "Americans in Favor of a Return to Sanity, or something like that” – Obama said, "70 percent of the folks are just like you.”
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“If I'm going out there and calling Obama this name or that name and saying Obama was born in this country, that will get me attention,” Obama said, imitating commentators. “They get rewarded in the way our media's set up right now. ... So part of the challenge is figuring out how to create a space for people saying, you know, 'We're all Americans, and we're going to try and solve our problems.' ”

http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0910/plea_for_sanity_4def9ab8-7a8d-4d90-aaf3-2d55ac9d743a.html

[rubberducky]

1. How I wish that Obama would show up for the rally!

[Whisp]

2. wouldn't that be great. omg never thought of that.

but of course the dour and ultra serious will find major fault with that.

I can hear the ear splitting buzzing right now.

hahaha. rubberducky.

[JNelson6563]

3. That would be AMAZING!

:toast:

[nmbluesky]

5. Who Knows

If Obama surprises to show up at the rally...

[Clio the Leo]

6. I keep having these day dream sequences where he does. :) nt

[awoke_in_2003]

9. if he did...

I would eat my hat, and be happy to do it.

[monmouth]

4. He lives right down the street, bet he does show up at the end....n/t

[Historic NY]

7. i'm thinking of going its a trip and I have to be there on the 14th..too.

[AspenRose]

8. "They get rewarded in the way our media's set up right now."

That needs to change, Mr. President. The way our media is set up. I don't know how, but it needs to change.