Colbert idea spreading...
mediaite.com/tv/the-internet-really-wants-ste...Posted Aug 31, 2010, 7:49 PM UTC
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ugh i wasn't familiar with mediaite.com. The comments are atrocious.
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my comment on the author's fb wall a few hours ago: "early impressions: many of your commenters are bitter partisan hacks. i think that is a good sign. "
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Hahaha he thinks it'd have less attendees than beck's. Not a chance.
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Stephen Colbert regularly loses in the the ratings to reruns of cartoons on Adult Swim. There’s no chance in hell his tired act could attract a half million people to DC.
The problem is, people actually believe 500,000 went to Beck's.
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You don't need to beleive in anything in particular to get bodies to show up.
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"FREE HAT"
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Free?! I LOVE FREE!
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Sorry, we didn't make enough hats for all of you. We have enough for 12.
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Eh, unless it's a TF2 hat...
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Colbert the entertainer (who is a devout Christian in real life)
WTF??!?!?
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A Catholic, no less
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He teaches at a Sunday school as well.
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He claims his parents taught him to question his faith, as opposed to accepting it blindly. If you watch his show, the only time he ever says something against an individual espousing religion tends to be if they are crossing that line.
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I suspect that Colbert (I also suspect this of Obama) is an atheist/agnostic despite having had a religious upbringing.
edit for the reactionary: i view this as a plus.
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I doubt it. He still teaches sunday school at his church. You know, there are plenty of smart people out there who still believe in God.
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I can't speak for Colbert obviously, but many Catholics (including me) remain in the church because we think it is a good force for helping the downtrodden, disenfranchised, and the community as a whole. Many I know, and myself included, do not believe in God.
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Strange, I thought it's all about fucking young boys.
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I knew some Xaverian brothers at my high school who had moved from theism to atheism over the course of their lives. So I'd say that the sunday school thing is not necessarily telling, although I take your point. I guess it's just impossible to tell what people really believe unless you actually are that person, and even then...
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I taught Sunday school when I was considering leaving Mormonism...
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I'll bring acid.
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Must be nice to have a job where you read reddit, write articles about reddit threads, and get them posted to reddit. It's like getting paid to circle jerk.
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Nice reddit-fu, sir. I've got absolutely nothing to do with mediaite, but the author of that article is the former Colbert staffer mentioned in my post on the original Colbert rally thread, also a former co-worker of mine. I brought the thread to his attention, he wrote an article about it, and I reddited the subsequent article. If anything, I'm more of a reach-arounder rather than a simple circle-jerker. The only benefit I might derive from this is having the idea gain attention and then participating in its fruition, if indeed it is successful. Pretty much same as you.
Confused? I'm drunk. I'll try to diagram. Me-->Reddit-->Me-->Jon Berhsad (mediaite)-->Me-->Reddit-->Me.
I'm basically trying to enhance my e-cool and IRL cool by connecting social and media trends. Hardly a crime.
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Nicely done.
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Just get a big music act that 100,000 of people would show up for.
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This is actually one of the better ideas I've heard. As long as the musician didn't get paid for it, which I think would be easy to do, considering the cause.
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I'm sure there are plenty that would do it for free.
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I beg to differ! We could get plenty of acid.
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gathering a massive amount of people to listen to speeches in Washington DC will always be a political move...
Who would Colbert’s fellow speakers be?
I don't know, but I bet there will be a lot of great bands, and a good time will be had by all.
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The problem is that people have to be angry in order to band together like that. Liberals aren't very pissed off right now. Remember the Iraq war protests? Hundreds of thousands of people protested in Washington and all over the world.
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Somebody should also send this news to Gawker and other media sources. The more buzz there is about it, the better chance that Colbert and his team will take it seriously.
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Sure it would be funny, but would it accomplish anything?
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It would show another presence besides the Tea Partiers. Right now, it seems that the they are the only ones willing to gather, and show themselves as a majority.
If a group of us showed up, it would show that we aren't just some internet dwelling minority. We can show up and spew garbage too.
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How about a real rally? This would just be a massive circle-jerk, everyone gets to feel clever and make fun of how dumb the tea partiers are.
Of course, it could work. It'd be like that time when MLK held the satirical march where everyone showed up in Klan robes and shouted racist slurs. That really turned the tide in the civil rights movement.
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The comments make me sad.
People! Have faith!
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reads comments on article, considers suicide.
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Reddit - the cutting edge of the internet.
Ignoring 4chan, of course.
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All we need to do is get someone with a big gun to ask him to.
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If he got Oprah, we'd spill out to other states.
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Um, the point of the article is the author thinks it's unlikely to happen.
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Just because beck shit himself in public, doesn't mean colbert should.
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the idea just seems hollow.
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Inaugurations don't count?
I was also going to suggest that Obama had no trouble drawing a crowd likely 10x the size of Beck's, but then I'm not so sure he's a "Liberal" given the numerous corporate handjobs he's given out since taking office so maybe O'Reilly is right, at least insofar as the past is concerned... :o
As far as Bill-O is concerned... Barack is a liberal extremist.
Also, Barack isn't the only president who had an inauguration.
A lot of things are nothing like O'Reilly sees them. The attempt to portray Obama as an extremely left-wing socialist, Marxist, Muslim illegal alien or what have you is right-wing rhetoric that's so far off the crazy charts that objective outside observers cannot help but laugh. It's opinion that isn't worth of consideration in any way, shape or form because it's demonstrably wrong.
If you take the original claim within the context of O'Reilly's opinions, then you're right. If you detach political affiliation (i.e. Democrat <> Liberal) from the equation and look at it objectively, I don't know that I can think of a real liberal who has ever drawn as big a crowd. Not in America, at any rate.
With regards to the inauguration, you're right. I was jumping to conclusions there, although I'd guess that Obama's inauguration was perhaps the most-attended in recent history.
Well, there was MLK of course . Over 200,000 people came.
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Thanks for the well thought out reply.
in the words of the immortal Snoop Dogg: "Man, fuck Bill O'Reilly"
Socialist don't count as Liberals !
GUFFAW!
Glenn Becks not a liberal he's a moron.
You misspelled mormon.
Oh wait; did I get this joke backwards?
Your username makes my grammar nazi-ism(?) go OCD.