skippy the bush kangaroo: rally 'round the comics, boys

Saturday, October 30, 2010

rally 'round the comics, boys

the washpost sez plenty of people have shown up early to enjoy the rally to restore sanity and/or fear:

the megaphones, handed out with tea towels from the swag bags of volunteers, mixed with backpacks and folding chairs. earnest signs read "i'm not afraid of muslims, tea parties, gays." irreverent ones read "support the right to arm bears." obama inauguration gear made it back out of the closet. on many posters reading "hope," the visage of stewart, not obama, stared out.

the city's infrastructure appeared to have a hard time coping with the influx. green and yellow line metrorail trains were so packed as to be unboardable, and many rally-goers chose to walk to the mall. some attendees chose a more unusual mode of transportation: a 70-foot-long, 30-foot-tall copper-colored dragon on wheels. the vehicle, favored by anti-nuclear-weapon activists from the counterculture festival burning man, echoed down irving street. along 14th street nw, people held signs reading, "free the gays," "the sky is falling" and "i am holding a sign." scores of people dressed in wigs and costumes. one man dressed as abe lincoln. another as a tea party activist (tea bags dangled from his hat's brim).

of course, the beltway pundits are looking down their noses @ stewart & colbert's enterprise today, as if it meant something other than a big comedy show that celebrates being in america.

jill of brilliant at breakfast gives us her thoughts:

something happened along the way. journalists were invited into the corridors of power and decided they liked it there. sally quinn, who married washington post editor ben bradlee, held parties that were the toast of washington, and she decided early on that the clintons weren't her kind of people, so the press did her bidding. david gregory danced with karl rove at a washington dinner and later on became the moderator of the once-venerable meet the press. but it wasn't just wapo or television networks owned by defense contractors, or even rupert murdoch's news corp. the new york times ran a story about how the clintons lost money in a land deal, and next thing you know, the paper is at the forefront of what will go down in history as the biggest partisan witch hunt ever perpetrated on a president. judith miller schmoozed with scooter libby, and soon the front page of the new york times was carrying the bush administration's water on the false claims of weapons of mass destruction in iraq. howard dean dares to run for president, and times reporter jodi wilgoren makes it her business to bring him down.

if journalism hadn't completely blown its credibility on stories like whitewater and gary condit and shark attacks, while carrying the bush junta's water on iraq, a bunch of people in bathrobes making use of this new technology called the internet couldn't have replaced the increasing triviality and utter horseshit dished up by so-called news outlets.

here's a live feed of the rally

and of course, the right wing heads are a'splodin'

posted by skippy at 9:30 AM |

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