Do you see us? Two lesbians under the pink arrow waving! (Photo from CBS, arrow added by IT)
IT at The Friends of Jake posted an eye-witness account from the Stewart/Colbert Rally To Restore Sanity.
We started to realize it would be a Big Thing on the plane, when about 1/3 of the passengers raised their hands when asked who was going to the rally. One woman behind us said friends of hers from New York were on the train and said everyone else on their train was also going. We got to our hotel (in Crystal City, where BP lived about 25 years ago) by 8pm and had a reasonably early night, since we wanted to get to the Mall early in the AM for some sightseeing before the rally. I'll blog later about that.
The same company that estimated 87,000 for the Glenn Beck rally estimated 215,000 for this one.
How wonderful to see sane people in the US highlighted, which almost never happens. For the most part, the BIG Media did not at all understand why the sane amongst us should receive attention. Hey, guys, here it is again from Jon Stewart's closing speech:
"The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen," he said. "Or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire. And then, perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected, dangerous ant-fire epidemic."
Jon's first statement is what you are to be about if you do your job properly.
Yes.
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