Bill Maher on The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

New Rule: If you're going to have a rally where hundreds of thousands of people show up, you might as well go ahead and make it about something.

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[Wintermute01001]

It's been about a year since the Rally to Restore Sanity and Maher's been proven right. The Rally failed to "restore" anything. Left and right are as polarized as ever. Meanwhile, Occupy Wall St has stopped new bank fees, taken away thousands of big bank customers, and started a worldwide movement. And the Tea Party, "insane" as they are, WON the 2010 election. Results don't come from Stewart's Kumbaya philosophy. It comes from people on the fringe getting angry and making noise.

[pg33na33]

@falcondriver100 Im sorry but if you feel Orielly, beck, Limbaugh, hannity, or any of the fox news females are more intelligent and rational then Colbert, Stewart, and Maher then you are a dumb ass. Conservative media bashes gays, uses no logic, justifies everything with religion, think global warming is a hoax, who is more ignorant. Conservative media like you is the pinnacle of stupidity. I laugh because the young generation will legalize gay marriage, weed, and watch you old conservatives rot

[ShalloeThought]

...but he still supports antivax ?

[swift13bjeluz]

I wonder if Maher knows that Jon Stewart was kind of joking. He just wanted a rally to show people that there are people out there who are liberal or just not crazy and extreme who do care about this country. A lot of the time you just see the crazy fox news guys. I respect Jon much more then maher, in fact I'm not capitalizing his name. Jon doesn't have to be rude or fight with the republicans to prove his point too. Bill can be quite rude.

[Bean77]

Maher is wrong. You don't have to pick one set of doctrine or the other, and people who HAVE picked a doctorine are not your enemy. That was Stewart's point, from my perspective, and Maher seems to have missed it.

[SeoulSon51]

@Wintermute01001 I don't know if Stewart's speech was given to bring about change or produce results. I feel as if it was more of a rallying cry to let moderates(on both sides) within the electorate know, you're not alone and you don't have to play by their rules. You can disagree but you can coexist without any real contempt or disrespect for each other. Both sides seem to be crabs in a barrel and a lot of us don't want to dive in with them. Should've been "remain sane" not "restore sanity"

[krank34]

hahahaha lol gay men just haven't met the right women. LOL man.

[dantey01]

@Wintermute01001 But don't you think, that that was the idea of the whole rally in the first place. Stewart at his end speech talked about how America is not the government or media, but t is the people who live in it. And he talked about how different people can achieve shared goals. I am sure, that both the Tea Party and Occupy Wall St. movements have different people in them with different views, but they still have a common goal.

[holydiver1130]

i dont get why people like him. he is just an asshole. stewart and colbert for life.

[perreira831]

I say that people just watch too much tv. You know after Obama I think its safe to say tht its all bullshit. Either people have a serious revelution. Like Syria. Where people are fucken dying. The gov is kidnapping from your hospital bed. Your getting gunned down while marching. Really voting is b.s. either go all balls out. Or...... Fuck it. Shut off the t.v play with your kids. Never ever give $ to a politician. Pick up a hobby, hell maybe smoke some grade a pot. But you know I found out.

[RedneckRapper10]

@gabrieleprotopapa Don't worry I'm not a radical republican. I don't really consider myself a republican at all. However, a lot of liberals are convinced that conservatives are just a bunch of religious nuts. That mindset is JUST AS HARMFUL to the country as the whole "democrats are socialists" mindset of the far right. Liberals have become far too arrogant and maybe that's the right wing nuts' fault but everybody, including liberals, needs to listen more and stop yelling and judging.

[gabrieleprotopapa]

@RedneckRapper10 One may be as radical as you want, but I sure haven't seen anything as tragic and ridiculous as all those right-wing religious nuts who are running to represent the - still - most powerful country in the world, without having a clue of what rationality means or - even worse - deliberately fakin it to get redneck votes, backed up by that hate-spilling, fact-distorting bullshit factory that right-wing journalism is. You may want to reconsider your position.