Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert Rally

Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000

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. Stewart joked during the rally that there were ten million people present and, in reference to the difficulty of making crowd estimates, solemnly promised to "count them all." Comedy Central's permit for the event said it was expecting 60,000 people, though, as the Wall Street Journal notes, it ordered enough port-a-potties for 150,000.

On a side note: Glenn Beck's rally attendance guestimated around 75-85,000.

I've heard from first-hand sources that there were tens of thousands of people who couldn't even make it to the venue because traffic/parking were so bad. Also, after the fact, every restaurant in sight had a humongous wait because of the crowds.

I'm happy to see it was successful as far as turnout goes. I hope its message is successful.



Good closing speech IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3HbU__x9c in case the embed doesn't work.



This is completely unrelated but pretty cool. Zach Galifianakis lit up a joint on Bill Maher's show last night and tried passing it around. The chick works for Fox News, I believe, and she's a conservative. The guy in the middle is a teabagger. I was cracking up so hard.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b5J-FBpcPc

LOL. He's the man! And that Jon Stewart speech was awesome. It's sad that we take our comedians more seriously than our news anchors. That turnout is just monumental. I just love when the "media's" stereotype and false perpetuation can be proven wrong. Thank you Jon Stewart.

My buddy Noah left Thursday so he could make it to this. I tried to find him in those pics, but, meh.

Find some parking lot pictures, and look for his ark.

Find some parking lot pictures, and look for his ark.

Rofl.

What? Oh! I get it... <_<'

He got back home, today. He had some pictures. He seriously found Waldo, while he was there. Out of a good 250,000 (or whatever), he fucking found Waldo.

He got back home, today. He had some pictures. He seriously found Waldo, while he was there. Out of a good 250,000 (or whatever), he fucking found Waldo.

I saw at least a couple of "Waldos" in pictures from the rally. One of them had a big sign saying "I'm right here!"

Also, you say that like finding Waldo would be hard IRL. The only reason finding Waldo is even remotely hard in the "Where's Waldo" pictures is because there are loads of other things that are striped like him. IRL he would stick out like a sore thumb.

rofl.

Fuck you.

Only one Waldo in this pic is the real one. It's the fifth one in the third tow.

This makes me want to try to get a girl to dress up as Waldo for me just to see if I can. Waldo fetish.

Waldo fetish huh? i'm sure there's waldo porn already out there.

This makes me want to try to get a girl to dress up as Waldo for me just to see if I can. Waldo fetish.

D:
That's weird, even for me...

It's all about the glasses.

You've given me the inspiration to attempt really creepy conversations with girls now during parties.

"I like my girl to dress up like Waldo and hide in my dirty clothes."

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