The "Rally To Restore Sanity/Or Fear" crowd totals vary from 90,000 to over 250,000 with few estimates using a scientific method for their numbers.
CBS News commissioned a professional group, AirPhotosLive.com, that used aerial photos to estimate the Stewart/Colbert Rally at 215,000.
CBS News also commissioned AirPhotosLive.com to do a crowd estimate of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August. The Rodeo Clown was estimated to have attracted 87,000 people
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I happen to like both of these guys! I never thought of it as a 'political' rally! It was intended to be just 'political satire'! George Carlin did this his entire career. Not in this kind of venue...but none the less.....he did the same thing!
Actually, stewart pretty much slammed all media outlets! And to his point, all media outlets are now reporting anywhere from 10,000 to hundreds of thousands spectators......depending on what media outlet you read or watch!! They are just validating stewarts 'media slam' statement!!
I think it was just great political satire! They picked up where Carlin left off and they are great!! IMHO
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
maybe CBS used the same "sources" for this story that they did for Dan Rather's story about George W. Bush --- you know the story that Dan Rather got fired for making up.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
Stewart pretty much blamed ALL the media outlets for the condition and divide of the country today. They all over sensitize and dramatize EVERYTHING!
Can't wait until this election is OVER!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The only redeeming item of this event on the Mall was the appearance of Yusuf Islam (the musical artist formerly known as Cat Stevens).
It would be cool to get Yusuf Islam to perform in this area.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
The only redeeming item of this event on the Mall was the appearance of Yusuf Islam (the musical artist formerly known as Cat Stevens).
It would be cool to get Yusuf Islam to perform in this area.
He supports Muslim terror through his financial contributions to Hamas and Hezbollah. I would prefer to see him in a dungeon with a few hundred thousand more of those war criminals and terrorists, eating bread, water and pork rinds to survive, with no daylight ever again for the rest of their lives.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Cat Stevens was one of my favorite singers during the 1970's ... and I have heard some of his more recent work ... and unlike many other singers --- he has only gotten better with age.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
he should be singing at Guantanamo Bay to his fellow cell mates.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Apparently, several of you missed the part where Ozzy Osborne walked out on stage, and started singing "Crazy Train", in the middle of Yusef's? Cat''s? or whatever his name is this week's, rendition of "Peace Train".
Comedy Central is alot more intelligent than most people give them credit for, and they knew what they were doing.
"PEACE train", you're kidding, right? When your religion dictates that it is your duty to kill everyone that doesn't subscribe to your particular brand of nonsense, "peace" is not the word I would use to describe it. "Crazy Train", was apt, and pretty much the point of the rally.
Yup, the numbers are in. John Stewart - 215,000 Glenn Beck -87,000.
The Ozzie Osbourne appearance was planned. Yusuf Islam knew Ozzie was going to come out and enjoyed it.
As for the allegations that Yusuf Islam funds terrorists that is just a bunch of baseless rumors.
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"For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground." Lyndon Baines Johnson
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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CBS news? lol-About as authoritative as the rag Gazetto. Beck drew over 400,000. The two buffoons from Comedy Central couldn't draw flies. 
