Stewart Rally Helps Metro Set Ridership Record

[Secretariat]

I was there, and it was just a fantastic event. Hope you were there.


http://wjz.com/wireapnewsva/Colbert.Stewart.rally.2.1988855.html

Oct 31, 2010 5:02 pm US/Eastern Stewart Rally Helps Metro Set Ridership RecordWASHINGTON (AP) ― Metro says preliminary figures show Metrorail moved a record number of passengers on Saturday, with many heading to the National Mall for a rally by comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Metro says 825,437 Metrorail trips were taken on Saturday, compared to average Saturday ridership of about 350,000. Metro says Saturday's ridership surpassed the 1991 Desert Storm rally, when 786,358 trips were taken.

On an average weekday, Metro says a combined 1.2 million rail and bus trips are taken.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html

An estimated 215,000 people attended a rally organized by Comedy Central talk show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert Saturday in Washington, according to a crowd estimate commissioned by CBS News.

The company AirPhotosLive.com based the attendance at the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" on aerial pictures it took over the rally, which took place on the Mall in Washington. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 10 percent. (See some of the pictures used to create the estimate here.)

CBS News also commissioned AirPhotosLive.com to do a crowd estimate of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in August. That rally was estimated to have attracted 87,000 people. Amid criticism from conservatives that the estimate was low, CBS News detailed the methodology behind it here.

TBD reported that because of the high turnout many would-be rally attendees retreated to bars to watch the event.

The National Park Service does not estimate crowds. The New York Times' Brian Stelter wrote on Twitter during the event that the Park Service privately told Viacom there were "well over 200,000" people at the rally, according to an executive.

[PaceAdvantage]

How come we never got any Metrorail reports on any other rallies this year?

[Secretariat]

How come we never got any Metrorail reports on any other rallies this year?

Because they didn't break any records?

[Tom]

Did you see Salmon Rushdie there?


http://hotair.com/archives/2010/10/30/fatwa-endorsing-singer-featured-
at-restoring-sanity-rally/


Maybe a stoning after the rally was planned?
I guess this guy's philosophy is restoring sanity?





The musician known as Cat Stevens said in a British television program to be broadcast next week that rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, ”I would have hoped that it’d be the real thing.”

The singer, who adopted the name Yusuf Islam when he converted to Islam, made the remark during a panel discussion of British reactions to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s call for Mr. Rushdie to be killed for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his best-selling novel ”The Satanic Verses.” He also said that if Mr. Rushdie turned up at his doorstep looking for help, ”I might ring somebody who might do more damage to him than he would like.”

”I’d try to phone the Ayatollah Khomeini and tell him exactly where this man is,” said Mr. Islam, who watched a preview of the program today and said in an interview that he stood by his comments.

[Tom]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/51942/228425

John Legend gets political...."We're still at war, while politicians in Washington make all the decisions and our young men and women go and fight."

That would be Obama and the Dems, of course.

Yusuf Islam plays along. In the funniest musical moment of the rally, Yusuf Islam performed the first verse of his 1971 hit "Peace Train" before being interrupted (with an assist from Colbert) by Ozzy Osbourne and his own locomotive-themed track, "Crazy Train."

Of course, a little humor can forgive sins, like wanting to burn a man alive, or turn him over to Iran for execution, as Cat Steven - the miserable POS murdering mad-dog wants to do. But, hey it was funny.


Sick-o's....sec. sick-o's.

[Tom]

http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/10/31/if-this-is-sanity-ill-stay-unrestored-thank-you.php

Oh, and the Salman Rushdie incident wasn't the only time Yusuf Islam has dabbled with extremism. He attended a fundraiser for one of Hamas' Canadian front organizations, (http://www.jihadwatch.org/2004/09/cat-stevens-was-guest-of-canadian-hamas-front.html) recorded a song for another Hamas fundraiser, (http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32560_Cat_Stevens_Records_Song_for_Hamas) and has been tied to numerous radical Islamist terrorists. (http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/185328.php) Essentially, he portrays himself as the civilized "face" of Islam, raising money to further the ambitions of the more openly radical. And remember, he didn't just show up. He was invited there by the organizers and put front and center as an exemplar of "sanity." (Counterbalanced by a certified expert on crazy, Ozzy Osbourne.)

"Rally to restore sanity?" If this is sanity, I'll stay "crazy," thank you. Their vision of sanity requires a bit too much denial -- if not actively rewriting -- of reality.



Compared to dabbling in witchcraft in school, this is pretty anti-
American, sec. Do you suppose he celebrated the towers coming down. I do.

Do you suppose he has given money to those who have killed innocent people? I do.


Remember, this guys was INVITED.

Oh, btw, no, I did not go.

[PaceAdvantage]

Because they didn't break any records?But when you subtract the total number of rides from the average, then divide by two, you get pretty close to the CBS news estimate. Thus, Metrorail info might have been very useful in estimating other crowd sizes.

Unless of course the info is useless. That would be the other side of the coin, and may be the reason why we have never seen these numbers released before.

Breaking a record or not kind of misses the whole point.

[Ocala Mike]

Not surprised that Metro set a record for this rally as opposed to the rally over the summer.

No self-respecting Tea Party type would get caught dead taking any form of multi-passenger surface transportation. Reeks of Socialism, don't you know?

I did notice that the Stewart/Colbert rally was every bit as white as the Beck rally, albeit a much younger crowd.

All in all, much ado about nothing.


Ocala Mike
Drive-By Poster

[ArlJim78]

What was the event about? what was the takeaway message? it seemed like it was merely a big show to mock those with whom they disagree.
from all the videos and signs I've seen the main motivation was a hatred of Beck, Palin and Fox news. very very odd.

I'm dying to know what costume sec was wearing, and what his sign said.

[boxcar]

Because they didn't break any records?

That's an argument from silence, unless you have the figures to back it up.

Boxcar
P.S. Long time no see, Sec. I was beginning to think that BO tossed you under some bus. :D

[boxcar]

Not surprised that Metro set a record for this rally as opposed to the rally over the summer.

No self-respecting Tea Party type would get caught dead taking any form of multi-passenger surface transportation. Reeks of Socialism, don't you know?

I did notice that the Stewart/Colbert rally was every bit as white as the Beck rally, albeit a much younger crowd.

All in all, much ado about nothing.


Ocala Mike
Drive-By Poster

Yeah...well many conservatives rightfully balk at being stuffed into rail cars like sheeple. Conservatives, generally, tend to be more independent-minded and self-sufficient. ;)

[delayjf]

According to NBC the National Park Service estimated Becks rally at 300k. The NPS was the same source for CBS's 212K for Stewarts rally.

[Native Texan III]

According to NBC the National Park Service estimated Becks rally at 300k. The NPS was the same source for CBS's 212K for Stewarts rally.

Amazing - nearly 1% of the population bothered - 99% did not.
Who cares about either rally?

[JustRalph]

The Beck rally was warned to not take the metro.....just so you know.

The inside scoop was that the left was planning some things for riders on the metro at the Beck rally. So they avoided it.

This Stewart thing was a derivative clown show. not surprised one bit that Sec was there. Get back on the Train Sec and keep right on riding........

[mostpost]

According to NBC the National Park Service estimated Becks rally at 300k. The NPS was the same source for CBS's 212K for Stewarts rally.
The National Park Service no longer does crowd estimates. They stopped after they were criticized for supposedly underestimating the crowd at the Million Man March.
The story posted by Sec clearly says the estimate for the Stewart Rally was made by Air Photos Live. That is the same outfit that made the estimate for the Beck Rally. That estimate was 87,000. If you wish to live in continuous denial go ahead. Doesn't change the facts.

[jballscalls]

the purpose of the rally was actually one i think conservatives and democrats can get behind. "Restoring the Sanity" was mostly about journalism, discourse and the sham that political journalism and discourse has become. We can no longer have civilized debates in this country anymore because everyone gets so irrational and worried about their side being correct, that they don't even bother to even for the tiniest little bit, take the other side into consideration. they are wrong before they even speak.

They also talked about how news is no longer reported without bias. Because it's not. Look at MSNBC and Fox. both are so clearly part of their side's agenda it's laughable. Yet the Dem's will support MSNBC and the repubs will support Fox. and they'll do it blindly. they have blinders on, cause they are so obsessed with being right.

Unfortunately there are too many democrats and too many republicans these days, and not enough Americans

[serp]

The "point" of each rally was to try to energize voters (republicans for Beck and democrats for Stewart) as well as to boost the ego of each entertainment host.

Any other meaning was just hand waving to the crowds.

[jballscalls]

The "point" of each rally was to try to energize voters (republicans for Beck and democrats for Stewart) as well as to boost the ego of each entertainment host.

Any other meaning was just hand waving to the crowds.

Jon Leibowitz's rally wasn't about energizing voters, even though i'm sure more dems attended, it wasn't a partisan event. clearly you didn't watch it

[delayjf]

That is the same outfit that made the estimate for the Beck Rally. That estimate was 87,000. If you wish to live in continuous denial go ahead. Doesn't change the facts.

Who's changing the facts. Look at the comparison and judge for yourself. Does it look like Beck's rally is less than half the size of Stuarts rally? I think not.

[jballscalls]

http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=&stc=1

Look at the comparison and judge for yourself. Does it look like Beck's rally is less than half the size of Stuarts rally? I think not.

Becks crowd looks longer and skinnier, Stewarts looks shorter but thicker, probably about the same based on that picture. i mean beck's has a huge lake in it, so thats a lot of square footage with no folks.

i dont know why people are so obsessed with crowd size, each event was fun for the people that attended, thats all that matters

[delayjf]

probably about the same based on that picture

I tend to agree, personally I'm not obsessed with the number, its the Demwits attempt to distort the truth for their gain that I find annoying.

[bigmack]

Clearly this gathering was of a more sophisticated, higher-brow thinking than any other rally. They 'get it' when it comes to the issues and the media bias. :rolleyes:

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[Ocala Mike]

Yeah...well many conservatives rightfully balk at being stuffed into rail cars like sheeple. Conservatives, generally, tend to be more independent-minded and self-sufficient. ;)

I guess all those well-dressed Wall Street types that ride the IRT into and out of downtown Manhattan every day are closet liberals. :rolleyes:


Ocala Mike

[toetoe]

I hope you all remembered to recycle your pamphlets. (:Wagging finger.)

[toetoe]

No self-respecting Tea Party type would get caught dead taking any form of multi-passenger surface transportation. Reeks of Socialism, don't you know?




Ocala Mike
Drive-By Poster



Thanks for being too kind to mention the main reason --- the company of colored people and their advancers.

You are a gentleman, Ocala, and I thank you for being one. :ThmbUp: .

[JustRalph]

This is great........what fools.........

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[PaceAdvantage]

Didn't somebody once start a thread on how stupid the Tea Party folks are...bunch of hayseeds and all that jack....

All I can say is...wow...

Tomorrow can't come soon enough...

[delayjf]

I'm laughing at the "superior" liberal intellect.

[mostpost]

This is great........what fools.........

_23Nt5XumaU
If the same question had been asked at the Glenn Beck rally you would not have heard people defending the fact that Obama was born in the United States. You would have heard people saying he was born in Kenya. In other words they would not know that Keynesian is an economic system either.
In fact, I am sure that most of them would not know who John Keynes was.
To be non partisan, I am also sure that most of them would not know who Milton Friedmann was either.

There was at least one person who did know that a Keynesian was one who advocated the politcal theories of John Keynes. Another point is that people hear what they expect to hear; although that does not explain the sign.

[JustRalph]

Considering Beck has covered Keynes on his show several times... I would beg to differ with you....... you are a Moran............ :lol:

[bigmack]

If the same question had been asked at the Glenn Beck rally you would not have heard people defending the fact that Obama was born in the United States. You would have heard people saying he was born in Kenya. In other words they would not know that Keynesian is an economic system either.
In fact, I am sure that most of them would not know who John Keynes was.

Wow. You drink down that Kool-Aid so deep it's a good thing you weren't in 'The Bay Area' and rolled down to Guyana. You would have been what is known as "a push over."

Glub, glub.

http://joeljamescomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jim_jones.jpg

[Tom]

I am sure that most of them would not know who John Keynes was.

Of course everyone knows the "Duke!" Duh. :bang:

[delayjf]

Not to mention the drag queen dressed as Hitler.

[Tom]

Pelosi????

[ArlJim78]

more of the dim bulbs from the sanity rally. some choice statements in this one.



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[Secretariat]

Who's changing the facts. Look at the comparison and judge for yourself. Does it look like Beck's rally is less than half the size of Stuarts rally? I think not.

The distance from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument is 4241 feet. The Beck rally only appears to go to the WW II memorial which is about half that distance or about 2100 feet, and excludes a lot of the area due to the reflecting pool.

The distance of the mall from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial is about two miles or (5280x2) or 10560 feet. This means the distance from the Capitol to the Washington monument is about 10560-4241 or 6319 feet. I can tell you from being at the Stewart Rally that the beginning of the Stewart rally was maybe 500-600 feet from the Capitol steps and ran within maybe 100 feet of the Washington Monument. So 6319-700=5619 feet as the length of the Stewart rally with no reflecting pool in between.

So almost 2.5 times the size fo the Beck rally and with no reflecting pool which seem to match the CBS figures. I can tell you that it was almsot impossible to get close to the Stewart rally at least four hours prior to the rally.

[bigmack]

I can tell you that it was almsot impossible to get close to the Stewart rally at least four hours prior to the rally.
Cumulative IQ of the rally estimated @ 523. 510 if you count Colbert.

[toetoe]

Wow. You drink down that Kool-Aid so deep it's a good thing you weren't in 'The Bay Area' and rolled down to Guyana. You would have been what is known as "a push over."

Glub, glub.

http://joeljamescomedy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jim_jones.jpg



Can I be Loudmouth Lime ... puh-leez ?

[toetoe]

The distance from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument is 4241 feet. The Beck rally only appears to go to the WW II memorial which is about half that distance or about 2100 feet, and excludes a lot of the area due to the reflecting pool.

The distance of the mall from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial is about two miles or (5280x2) or 10560 feet. This means the distance from the Capitol to the Washington monument is about 10560-4241 or 6319 feet. I can tell you from being at the Stewart Rally that the beginning of the Stewart rally was maybe 500-600 feet from the Capitol steps and ran within maybe 100 feet of the Washington Monument. So 6319-700=5619 feet as the length of the Stewart rally with no reflecting pool in between.

So almost 2.5 times the size fo the Beck rally and with no reflecting pool which seem to match the CBS figures. I can tell you that it was almsot impossible to get close to the Stewart rally at least four hours prior to the rally.




Whew ! I used to tell chicks I was a Mathematics major, just to impress 'em. I'm so blown away by your impartial disquisition; by your disinterested soliloquy; by your Einsteinian diatribe --- I dare not resort to such puffery ever again.

I guess those that can't, try to teach or coach. Those that can indeed, follow Leibowitz and Col'beer, and network with the Wonderful Ones.

Green with envy, I am
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