And the concern trolls are crapping all over it...
Slate columnist Timothy Noah bemoaned that "The spectacle of affluent 18-to-34-year-olds blanketing the Mall to snicker at jokes about wingnut ignoramuses and Bible thumpers will, I fear, have the effect of a red cape waved before a bull."
The Washington Post's Carlos Lozada addresses Stewart and says that "this "Rally to Restore Sanity" feels just a little too . . . what's the word . . . earnest for you."
"I'm fairly certain that your rally won't change the face of American politics or alter the fate of the republic. But I worry that it will change you -- or our perceptions of you," Lozada writes.
Time television critic James Poniewozik said that the rally makes it seem like Stewart's "taking himself too seriously or becoming some sort of messiah figure or a partisan telling people, you know, go forth, my mighty people, and vote XYZ and pursue such and such policies."
I don't remember this simulation of concern for what Beck's rally would do to his image or what Ed Schultz' rally would do to his image.
All I expect is that the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear will actually be funny.
But thanks for the concern, trolls.
There is a "creative class" in this country--full of warm, funny ironic people--and they just do not line up on the Right. The signs at the Restore Sanity rally were funny, creative and the spelling on them was correct.
ReplyDelete"Humor" on the Right seems mostly concerned with drawings of Obama being lynched, dire warnings underscored by firearms, or jokes about liberals having their heads stomped or kicked apart.
It is a real and telling contrast.