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09-17-2010, 01:28 PM
|  | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | Stewart/Colbert Rally/March
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Thoughts? Anyone going? |
09-17-2010, 01:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Iowa | | | saw that last nite.
i can't go, i have a gig.
sanity may be overrated anyways...
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09-17-2010, 01:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Chicago | | | I would go, and I actually have been wanting to take a trip to DC, but I unfortunately can't right now...
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09-17-2010, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Switzerland | | | My wife and I are talking about it.
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09-17-2010, 02:05 PM
| | The only winning move is not to play. | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Gainesville/Ft. Lauderdale, FL | | | I would love to go, but I'm a poor graduate student. A trip to DC isn't in the cards for me.
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09-17-2010, 02:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fairfax, Virginia | | | I'll be there for sure. Gonna be awesome haha
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09-17-2010, 02:45 PM
|  | Deteriorating faster than I can lower my standards | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Frederick MD USA | | | Hmmm, I'd love to go, but I have a gig out in Brunswick that night, and I never take a carload of musical equipment into DC unless I have a gig there.
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09-17-2010, 02:59 PM
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Wish I could be there. |
09-17-2010, 04:22 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | Would love to, but ironically, the stated audience for this rally (reasonable people) like myself (  ), can't afford to drop a grand on plane tickets and accommodations to fly across country to go to a pro-reasonable rally, because doing so would be unreasonable for our budgets. 
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09-17-2010, 04:26 PM
| | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | I'd love to go myself but I'm too reasonable to attend a rally or march. Other than the inherent irony of the participants present for the rally, this whole thing is pure win. |
09-17-2010, 04:51 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | I stopped watching television in March '08.
Mr. Stewart's and Mr. Colbert's perspectives are the only offerings I miss. |
09-17-2010, 05:08 PM
| | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | ^ I feel like joining you sometimes. The internet too. |
09-17-2010, 05:18 PM
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Danger! Danger! Politics!
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09-17-2010, 05:30 PM
| | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | ^ Hopefully not. Hasn't been mentioned yet... |
09-17-2010, 05:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by colcifer  ^ Hopefully not. Hasn't been mentioned yet... | The rally is mostly self-promotion, but there's an unmistakably strong dose of politics evident.
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Originally Posted by referring to the bassist from King Diamond He is 100 times the musician that Jerko was | |
09-17-2010, 06:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fairfax, Virginia | | | Its like humor politics, if any. at least for Colbert. Its over the top enough to not be politics and just be entertainment.
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09-17-2010, 06:10 PM
| | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | Yep. Satire is not politics even when political. |
09-17-2010, 06:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | Yeah, but the satire here has a definite political angle, and then there are the serious interviews that Stewart does quite frequently.
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09-17-2010, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by colcifer Yep. Satire is not politics even when political. |  |
09-17-2010, 06:47 PM
| | Esteemed Nitpicker | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A Galaxy Far, Far Away | | | Not worded best, I'll give you that, but surely you get my point.
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