Crowd Does 'The Wave' at Restoring Sanity Rally – 150,000 in Attendance (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 30, 2010, 11:10 AM
These Kool-Aid drinkers have no idea why they’re there or what they stand for.
They’re so pliable they even did the wave for 5 minutes for their leaders on stage at the Restoring Sanity Rally in Washington DC.
…When you don’t have a job, what else are you going to do?
The comedians on stage announced that 150,000 people were in attendance.
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Valerie commented:
And….they tried to keep PJTV out.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/rally-to-resore-sanity-pledges-to-strictly-prohibit-filming-at-national-mall-106355893.html
This is a public rally on federal land, and they think they can prohibit specific members of the press?!
Oh, my.
jim m commented:
Fascinating. They put on a rally and have nothing, I mean they really have nothing to say. The only conclusion is that they wanted an event that they could drape their narrative upon. It doesn’t matter to them that there was nothing of significance said. It doesn’t matter that the people in attendance have no clue as to why they are there other than for a comedy show.
This is just an empty vessel so they can pour their propaganda into it. No wonder they wanted to ban outside video.
Redwine commented:
Jim Hoft – Why do you keep reporting their numbers? The leftist media kept lying about 87,000 – or even less. We have head-counters too.
Melody commented:
All those HuPo bussed in and free lunches did the trick.. oh and the free Kool-aid too.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Democrat Kool Aid/Ties to Jim Jones
DEMOCRAT KOOL-AID
Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Georgetown, Guyana. You may think you’ve never heard of this place but you have.
The former British Guiana (one of the three Guianas – the other two being former Dutch Guiana, now Surinam, and French Guiana, all on the northeast shoulder of South America) – is these days visited by folks into eco-tourism. This place has one of the most untouched rainforests on earth with an astonishing variety of bird and wildlife.
But Guyana doesn’t ring a bell with you because of harpy eagles and howler monkeys. How about Jim Jones and Jonestown? Yes, that Guyana, where, on November 18, 1978, over 900 Americans committed mass suicide on orders of their cult leader.
It remains one of the most bizarre events of modern times – from which the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid” originates, meaning blind unthinking acceptance of a suicidally idiotic set of beliefs.
Yet almost no one knows just what, exactly, were the beliefs of the “Peoples Temple” cult created by Jim Jones. Some sort of weird religion, right?
Nope. Jim Jones calling his Peoples Temple a “church” was a tax-avoidance scam as it was purely secular. He admitted in a taped interview, “I’m an atheist.” He was not a religious leader. He was a Stalin-admiring far left San Francisco Democrat.
Born in Indiana in 1931, Jones joined the Communist Party USA at age 21, then formed his Peoples Temple Church preaching “apostolic socialism,” which he claimed was the only path to salvation from “capitalist America, racist America, fascist America.” He denounced Christianity as “the white man’s oppression of women and people of color.” Jones was white, Welsh-Irish. Most all of his followers were black.
In 1975, Jones established the headquarters of the Peoples Temple in San Francisco, where his followers were instrumental (as in voting multiple times) in electing Dem George Moscone Mayor. Moscone often took Jones with him to meetings with Governor Jerry Brown and Vice-President Walter Mondale. Board of Supervisors member Harvey Milk often delivered speeches at the Temple and wrote a letter to President Jimmy Carter praising Jones as “a man of the highest character.”
(The 2008 movie Milk, in which Sean Penn won a Best Actor Oscar for portraying Harvey Milk as a homosexual hero, makes no mention whatever of Jones and Jonestown, even though Milk and Moscone were killed just 9 days after the Jonestown Massacre.)
In 1976, after newspaper interviews of defectors from Jones’ Temple describing Jones’ bisexual abuses of his followers, Jones established Jonestown on 3,000 acres in remote northern Guyana as a “benevolent communist community,” and ordered 1,000 of his followers to move there. Once living in Jonestown, his followers were not allowed to leave. Any attempt to do so was prevented by Jones’ armed “Red Brigade” security guard.
Guyana had been ruled since independence from Britain in 1966 by a Marxist dictator, Forbes Burnham, who established strong relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union (upon his death in 1985, his body was mummified by the laboratory of the Lenin Mausoleum in Moscow). The Soviet Embassy in Georgetown provided aid to the community. The only films followers were allowed to watch were Soviet propaganda movies. Jones declared that “the Soviet Union is our spiritual motherland.”
Horror stories from defectors and escapees from Jonestown aroused the concern of California Congressman Leo Ryan, who flew with a press entourage to Georgetown and on to the Jonestown dirt airstrip to bring back those who wanted to leave. They arrived on November 18, 1978. Several Temple members asked for asylum. Returning to airstrip, as they were boarding the plane, a truckload of Red Brigade guards appeared and gunned them down. Ryan, along with five others, was killed, the first and only murder of a US Congressman in the line of duty in US history.
After the murders which he had ordered, Jones declared that US forces would arrive to “convert the children to Fascism,” and that the only acceptable alternative was “revolutionary suicide.” He had a vat prepared of Kool-Aid and another similar powdered drink mix Flavor Aid, heavily laced with potassium cyanide.
908 Temple followers drank the Kool-Aid, the mothers squirting the poison in their infant babies’ mouths. Jones blew his brains out after they were all dead.
The entire suicide episode was audio-taped. You can hear Jones telling his followers that “as socialistic Communists… we must die with dignity.” You can hear the crowd cheering and clapping, and the babies screaming and crying. Near the end, a woman says it is a “loving thing” they are doing, that she is glad to “give my life for Socialism, Communism,” and she thanks “Dad” (what they called Jones) for enabling her to do so.
Here is the FBI transcript of the tape.
All of this, including the transcript, is a matter of public record. Have you ever, in 32 years, heard that Jim Jones was a fanatic of the Left, ever heard the Left taking any responsibility for Jonestown in any way? Of course not.
And you never will – because the Left today, the Democrat Party, the liberal media, blogosphere, and academia – has become itself a cult of revolutionary suicide. They’ve all drunk the Kool-Aid. Which means the aftermath of November 2nd is likely to get violently ugly.
Particularly so in Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Vermont – 26 states in all.
What do they have in common? A Democrat Secretary of State, the state’s chief elections officer responsible for certifying the results of state elections. Let me tell you about one, Nevada’s Ross Miller.
He’s a stooge of Harry Reid. Last January, Reid put up a huckster named Scott Ashjian to register a political party named Tea Party of Nevada (TPN), and under it register as a candidate for the US Senate. Nevada law states that for a party’s candidates to get on the ballot, a petition must be filed with the Secretary of State with a minimum of 9,000 signatures. The filing deadline is June and Ashjian never filed any petition at all, much less one with the requisite signatures.
Miller then ruled that somehow the law did not apply to this fictional Tea Party as it did for others such as the Libertarian or Green parties. The Angle campaign sued, as it was an obvious underhanded Reid ploy to fool voters who would otherwise vote for Angle. Miller ruled that the suit was filed too late as it was past the June deadline!
Then the Dem majority Nevada Supreme Court upheld Miller’s ruling.
The ballot identifies each candidate’s party by abbreviation such as DEM or REP. Ashjian demanded his make-believe party’s abbreviation be changed from TPN to TEA. The ballot printing office said it was too late to do that. So last week, Miller ordered that all polling booths in the state must prominently place a notice saying that TPN stands for Tea Party of Nevada. No notice is required for any other party, just Ashjian’s fraud.
So, if the Angle-Reid vote is close and Angle wins by less than 1%, how high do you think the odds are that Miller will Franken-ize the election, with serial counts and recounts until Reid wins? High as Everest.
This may happen in every tight Congressional and Senate race in all the 26 states above. Gore v. Bush 2000 on steroids. Dems will cheat wherever possible – preventing soldiers overseas from getting their ballots, rigging absentee and “provisional” votes, rigging vote machines, cemetery and multiple votes on election day – then challenge the results wherever they barely lose and do serial recounts. It doesn’t matter how they win – the ends justify the means, the basis of Marxist morality – just so they do.
Dems have to win – or they don’t eat. If Republicans lose, they go back to their regular lives and careers. Living off the government is the career of Dems, and they starve if they can’t.
The particular flavor of Kool-Aid all the Dems – again, the entire Left, from Dem politicians to the leftie media, blogosphere, and academia – are drinking right now is their conviction that all those who vote Republican are racist haters who hate Zero because he’s black. The only reason that the racist haters will defeat Dems on November 2nd is the foreign money illegally pouring in to Rep campaigns.
Point out to them that Rep-supporting outfits like the US Chamber of Commerce must by law (and do) disclose their foreign donations (which turn out to be miniscule), while Leftie outfits like MoveOn and SEIU do not (and don’t), and they do the schoolyard act: put their fingers in their ears and yell, “I can’t hear you!”
You can see the Lefties going deranged everywhere. Look at the Leftie Internet media such as YouTube, which is now filled with videos smearing Republican candidates as rapists, wife-beaters, criminals, total wackos, etc.
This is going to explode into an absolute apoplexy of Leftie derangement after November 2nd. A myth entrenched in Leftie brains is that Bush cheated Gore out of the presidency in 2000. After November 2nd, they will convince themselves that Republican racist haters cheated Dems out of their House Majority and will look upon the Reps who “won” just as illegitimate as Bush. They will no more accept a Republican House Majority (and possibly in the Senate) as legit than they did W.
This is real Jim Jones Kool-Aid they are drinking. They would rather the entire country and the entire economy commit revolutionary suicide than they be out of power. There is a two-part solution to this.
First, any violence they commit, such as by SEIU thugs, should be dealt with by a hammer. Zero tolerance by Republican governors, who should call out the National Guard in their states if necessary. States stupid enough to have a Dem governor will just have to suck it up. If “inner cities” get torched, that’s their problem – just don’t ask taxpayers to pay to rebuild what taxtakers burned down.
Second is a be-my-guest policy. No more Leftie whining. Shut up or kill yourselves. We don’t care any more. We are going to make America prosperous and free again, and if you don’t like it, too bad. Either deal with it, come to your senses, and become Americans again – or go away. Move to some jungle someplace and drink your Kool-Aid by yourselves and leave us and our country which you hate alone. Goodbye.
Folks, one week from today, November 2nd, begins the demolition of the Left in America. It begins with zero tolerance of their cheating and their threats. We do that, and it’s morning in America once more.
Amazed commented:
Oh good grief. All these people showed up for the free concert on a nice sunny day. So far, they’ve sent up just about everyone from Glenn Beck to Al Sharpton….. lighten up. Dont’ you recognize sarcasm on a grand scale when you see it?
Jim commented:
I would like to see the aerial shots similar to the ones of the Beck rally! Probably won’t though as doing so, with their head count , would make conservatives/Beck look even better!
Kevin W. commented:
150,000 people that are there to be entertained, and the majority of them won’t be motivated to vote on November 2nd. Those that will vote, will vote for a Democrat. And because of this rally, those individuals aren’t back in their voting districts helping out Democrats at the phone banks, or helping them canvassing door to door.
Thank You to the Comedy Central clowns for pulling away many people that would be assisting the Democrats three days before a crucial mid term election.
daryl commented:
Colbert and Stewart to Obama.
“Put us in coach. We’re both from “Centerfield”.
YouTube – John Fogerty – Centerfield
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04KQydlJ-qc&feature=player_embedded
OxyCon commented:
What a coincidence the Mythbuster guys are at the rally and also Obama is going to be on their show too!
Ginger commented:
It’s ok they had a lot of dummies standing around to fill the Mall! hahahahahaha
Tres commented:
Sorry guys, I was at both the Beck and the Stewart rallies. Sanity’s crowd dwarfs the Honor rally crowd — not even close. When the aerial shots come in, you guys are going to cry. Ours is way bigger.
Proving Jon Right commented:
Most of your negative comments proving that civil discourse is what is needed to move forward. And proving proof that this rally was necessary
Have a nice day and be good to each other.
And Jon Stewart is not Jim jones
Stop the hyperbole…
Ginger commented:
I doubt it but….the difference between the rallies is….Becks rally was about love of country, love of God. Your rally was about Mockery of others.
donh commented:
Doing the wave for the Dear Leader???….This is what they do in North Korea with all their low rank comrad slaves. Mass them in a stadium and perform human jumbotron tricks in honor of their supreme leader…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBWOEdy_-qM
Valerie commented:
So where are the aerial photos? They got ‘em for the Beck rally….
demscansuckit commented:
I am really dissapointed that Ozzy and the Mythbuster men would associate themselves with this cr#p! Thought they had more going on in their heads…
Tres commented:
Don’t worry, kids — the aerial photos will come. There was more than one helicopter doing sweeps the entire time. I’m sure one was taking photos.
Stewart’s crowd will exceed Beck’s by at least two-fold. It doesn’t even matter how you estimate numbers from photos — the photos will portray the stark difference. Beck’s Crowd was 6 blocks long. Stewart’s was 11 blocks long and much wider. People were crowded up on museum steps because there was no additional space on the mall itself. In addition, Beck spoke in front of the reflecting pool, which takes away about a 3rd or 4th of the area that people could potentially stand in.
No comparison at all. Rally for Sanity: bigger, longer, thicker.
NorthernX commented:
Heh. How does this exericse in pointlessness change the fact that the Dems are STILL going to get slaughtered at the polls come Tuesday?
The Goat commented:
Tres non — I’ve seen the shots; you’re full of it…just like Dear Leader!
Tres commented:
Goatie. If you had seen the shots, you would have posted a link. Go right ahead — please share with all of us…
The Goat commented:
Tres non — I’m sure these at GP don’t count, right?
The Goat commented:
And as for me anyway, the real numbers game comes this Tuesday. Epic Fail for Dear Leader.
AuntieMadder commented:
We should be ashamed of ourselves for letting leftards dupe us into comparing Comedy Central’s outdoor entertainment show to Beck’s political and/or American patriotism rally.
Comedy Central organized and advertised the hell out of a comedy and music concert. To use the taxpayer funded space, the event organizers simply had to include the name “America” in the name of the concert. Admission to the concert was free of charge because there is no rental charge for the taxpayer funded venue, as opposed to concerts held in football stadiums and sports arenas, etc., and the event’s minor celebrity and/or has-been entertainers were more than willing to work for little or nothing more than the free and much-wanted publicity.
Comedy Central organized a well advertised, admission-free and, for many attendants, free transportation included, comedy concert, not a political rally. That Comedy Central strictly prohibited filming at the event only further confirms that this was a comedy show held at a taxpayer-funded venue and not a political rally. The – ahem – entertainment at today’s comedy concert is the property of Comedy Central, hence Comedy Central’s right to prohibit filming. Comedy Central owns the distribution rights to any and all portions of today’s comedy concert. Filming and distribution of recordings of the speeches given and songs sung at political rallies are not prohibited; they are not the property of any entity(s).
Tres commented:
Right, the video at the top of this page shows that the crowds stretches across 14th street as far as 15th street, which is the street in front of the Washington Monument. Crowd tapers off on the grounds of the Monument itself, just the crowd at Beck’s rally did.
So 3rd street (where the stage was) to say, 14th street, just to give a conservative estimate — no pun intended. Beck’s crowd was from 17th to 23rd. Obviously, Stewart’s rally had around twice as many attending — and maybe more.
bigL commented:
Mythbusters- the myth is that those two have a brain.
Count me out as and occasional viewer. I’ll not watch again. Fools!
Tres commented:
AuntieMadder, you have to be aware that a large number of liberals get their news from the Daily Show. It’s an entertainment show — not a hard news show — and yet it shapes the political opinions of millions of people.
I wouldn’t call what Beck does hard news either — he has an opinion show. That said, it doesn’t matter what grabs the hearts and minds of people: opining or satire. All that matters is that it motivates people to be politically active.
This rally — which had at least double the attendance of Beck’s rally — is motivating liberal voters. Call it a concert, call it what you will — only a fool wouldn’t see this as great news for progressives.
~Maureen commented:
Aww, dude! Man, those lefties got the wave…that’s sooo cool!! I don’t see any conservatives doin’ the wave. Dude! I’m gunna vote for the WAVE party now. So, like, is there some list of WAVE candidates, so, like, dude, I can vote cooler? (takin’ a deep hit)
Tres commented:
What does everyone have against the wave? Everyone reading this blog has done the wave before. I think it’s grasping at straws, because we all know this was a really good news day for liberals.
I mean, if the worst you can say about someone is that they did the wave, really — how bad is that?
Peterson commented:
They need time to properly photoshop the aerial pics to make the crowd look bigger than the 40k Astroturf crowd that actually attended.
MD commented:
I was there today and came across this site while looking for crowd photos. It’s interesting to see how many people completely don’t understand that “civility” and “standing for nothing” are not the same thing, but it explains a lot about American politics today. Today’s rally was about being reasonable and polite and not fearmongering. The crowd was *enormous*. I have lived near DC all my life and attended many events and I have never seen a crowd anywhere near that size.
The fact that Stewart and Colbert could draw out this many people on a platform of being reasonable and rational should be a point of shame to those on the far right. Personally, I’m a moderate. Sometimes I vote Democratic and other times I vote Republican. I have a liberal view of some issues and a conservative view of others. I’m a churchgoing Presbyterian. Nothing alienates me from my right-leaning views more than seeing people mock the president of our country like a bunch of schoolchildren, or to ridicule people like myself as “drinking the kool-aid” because we support the idea of being more civil in the national discourse. I have trouble understanding why some people are so opposed to that.
And for what it’s worth, Glenn Beck called himself an “entertainer”:
http://www.examiner.com/political-buzz-in-national/video-glenn-beck-claims-he-is-only-an-entertainer-not-interested-the-political-process
So I’m not entirely sure who’s drinking the kool-aid here: the people who get their news from Comedy Central, or the people who get theirs from an entertainer on a bona fide news channel and believe what they’re getting is credible content. Glenn Beck is making an enormous amount of money off those people, and is happy to donate 10% of it to the Mormon Church, so those fans of his can rest comfortably knowing the empires they are helping to build.
Tres commented:
Peterson — well, there is a video that GP posted, right at the top of the page. Do you think that’s altered? You can clearly see how big the crowd is based on the landmarks within. Get on Google map and reconstruct it for yourself.
MD commented:
“40K Astroturf crowd”? Hilarious. Once I finally wedged my way through the crowd and got off the National Mall, the steps of the National Archives were packed from top to bottom and all along the sides. For *three blocks* up the street and then *three blocks* over to Metro it was almost as full as the Mall. All the streets were closed down over there because cars simply could not get through the crowds. Then I got into the Archives/Navy Memorial Metro station and took a photo of the platform from the top of the escalator. It was 2 PM, the rally had already been underway for two hours and was still going on, and the platform was PACKED with people coming off the Metro to come up to the rally. You could not see a single square of tile on the floor. And those are the people who actually made it onto Metro. I got texts from two friends who said the line just to get into the station parking lots wrapped around the block and so they had to turn around and go home. 40K people– LOL. Per block, maybe.
Tres commented:
MD — exactly. The people on this comment thread who use name-calling as a substitute for making a factually-based argument are acting completely childish. That goes for author of this post as well. I know this is just a blog, but can’t we have some standards?
Peterson commented:
How many busloads of people were brought in by HuffPo?
By the SEIU?
By Oprah?
Like I said, Astroturf.
Not name calling, just stating facts.
MD commented:
Peterson– are you suggesting those people were paid to be there, or that they had nothing else to do with their time, or that they were just mindless automatons who got on the buses like zombies and wandered the streets? Because quite honestly, you could give me a free plane ticket to see Glenn Beck right now and I would say no thank you. That place was so cramjammed that you wouldn’t have WANTED to be there unless you had the motive to support what was going on. I mean, all the free Smithsonian museums are all around the immediate perimeter of the National Mall grounds. If those people were just there for the free bus ride or plane ticket, why didn’t they go into the National Gallery or American History museum? Because I could have used the elbow room, seriously.
And Tres– yes, and I think that’s the problem with not realizing what kind of an audience you have on the internet. The kind of mockery I’ve read here is divisive and petty, and in my opinion it doesn’t represent that side very well at all. I will be the first to admit that liberal extremists are every bit as bad as conservative ones and they drive me just as batty. I think people on both sides should just be civil. I can’t imagine Thomas Jefferson saying “shut up or kill yourselves,” but it’s the kind of thing I remember when I’m standing at the voting table trying to decide between blue and red.
NamerHere commented:
I’m betting that 2/3 of the attendees today were there because of Ozzy.
NamerHere commented:
@ Tres: what’s “childish” is you trying to position yourself as some sort of mature, grand-visionary while your hyperbole describing today’s event as “bigger, thicker, longer” pretty well reveals you to be an ordinary immature (and huffing) fool.
NamerHere commented:
“The fact that Stewart and Colbert could draw out this many people on a platform of being reasonable and rational should be a point of shame to those on the far right.”
Ridiculous! Most of who attended would not have done so had they been required to manage their transportation and other requirements themselves. They attended because of Ozzie Osbourne, at least a large number of them did. And that they were nannied-to-the-event. That does not indicate a crowd of “reasonable…rational” people, it just indicates a younger crowd or a dependent older crowd (whichever, both) who took advantage of a trendy event PROVIDED TO them (no personal effort required except riding a bus that was arranged for them by someone else). The entertainment value involved also reveals that the event wasn’t to make some statement (as do the various signs and costumes displayed at the event) but to “enjoy” the entertainment. Entertainment. As in, being entertained, not making any “reason” beyond a passive enjoyment of a radical rocknroller.
Peterson commented:
This “rally” was basically a concert, with bussed in attendee’s.
I’ll say it again: Astroturf.
slipstrike commented:
We know why we were there.
We were there because we aren’t manipulated endlessly by cornball fearmongering like the “Warning” ad come-on posted at the top of your page.
No, I didn’t click on that ad, any more than I’d click on a 419 scam in my email spam file.
You might say I’m over it.
Honestly, don’t you ever get tired of it, either?
MD commented:
Ozzy– and all the other celebrity appearances beyond Colbert and Stewart– were surprise appearances. Nobody was expecting them or knew they would be there. But it’s a comforting idea, if it were correct.
And the whole idea that the majority of those people made no “personal effort” to be there would be hysterically funny to anyone who rode Metro today. But what do I know, I was only actually *there*.
Rose commented:
Well, if the comedians on stage said so…
I mean, if anyone ought to know…
SO LOL!
Rose commented:
Ozzy and MythBusters on the same stage with – Ozzy doin’ battle of the bands with The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens, the radical muslim convert…
ugh – how can you take a bath that cleanses deeply enough to get that kinda scum off ya…
ugh! And the bed bugs and sand mites and lice outta yer hair!
Rose commented:
#35 Tres —
You don’t get it – it is that The Wave is the only GOOD thing anyone has to say about it.
If that’s all there is, then “Let’s keep dancing…”
Certainly nothing to inspire a vote over.
Otherwise, there would be Basketball and Football candidates in all 57 states!
bg commented:
++
LOL!!
if ever there was proof this JS rally photo was
not photoshopped, the above film clip is it!!
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Adirondack Patriot commented:
Four days before Election Day and these liberal knuckleheads are watching comedians in D.C. rather than ringing doorbells and campaigning, which is what Tea Party members are doing?
I love it.