RallyToRestoreSanityAndOrFear
  Abbreviated coverage of the “Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear”.
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  All times Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

12PM

Usher performed, I think.

Adam Savage, Jamie Heineman from MythBusters do experiments...in real-time.
 Crowd waves, two seismic graphing of the crowd jumping at once.
 ‘More than a minor car crash,’ said Adam.

1PM — Stephen Colbert enters in an Captain America/Evel costume via “Chilean miner elevator”.

Yusif Islam (formerly known as Cat Stevens) is introduced by Jon Stewart, last name omitted,
 for Peace Train.
Ozzy Osborne introduced by Colbert for Crazy Train;
 can’t run them at the same time, so on with Love Train.

Colbert: I’m not sure if I want to get on the love train.
Stewart: Think about it, STDs, heartbreak.
Colbert: That does sound a little scary.

‘Even through moments of insanity, we keep our cool.’
Examples of recklessness, reality show ‘look-back seat’: Steven Slater, Teresa Guidice.

2PM

Kid Rock, Cheryl Crow play music.
Next song— T.I. was in jail when he did the green screen performance, wasn’t he.

Medals of Reasonableness, medals of Fear (to mock 8.28’s medals of Honor).
Stewart gave a medal of Reasonableness to Velma Hart.
Colbert gave a medal of Fear to a child, for her courage.
Anderson Cooper; a Reasonableness medal given to...his extra-tight (small) black shirt.
Fear of robots!  R2D2 got a medal, ran over Stewart’s foot.

As we get toward the end, footage of news media getting unruly, nutty and unpopular.
And as with the point of the show (to mock —or ‘correct the error that was’— 8.28),
 the problematic footage, ‘fearmongering,’ was lumped with footage of Glenn Beck.

Stewart debated; F.D.R. (who used the truth): “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
Colbert said, ‘he’s dead’, and went with Richard Nixon.

To overcome the ‘reason’,
 a giant Stephen Colbert fear monster...made out of paper;
 they tried to match the mouth with Colbert’s speech.

Finally, Stewart does a monologue...similar to Beck’s.
 Sanity is subjective, and fear is an object?
 (Sanity’s not subjective; it’s clearly defined.  Fear is an emotion.)

‘The media will say what they’re going to say about this day/event.’
‘I mean this sincerely...’
‘Not that there isn’t anything to fear.’
Rehash: ‘The media are part of an immunity, but when it goes too far...lupus.’

What reveals the insanity here: “If you amplify everything, we hear nothing.”
(Seek the truth?)

‘The ability to distinguish the difference between real racists and tea partiers,
 real bigots, and Juan Williams, and Rick Sanchez.’

10PM — reports; many major ‘sources’ refused to cover the event

One-sided:
86% ticket-polled said that they were voting Democrat.
‘Which one is more likely to be fascist?’  Democrats, Republicans...

Animosity:
‘Let me see your passport!’
Steven Crowder was attacked for asking questions, had his iPhone knocked out of his hand.

People encircled, protested the Fox News van.
Beck as Hitler image, and among the ‘insane’ without the mustache.
“I’m with stupid” — the arrow points up.

Yusif Islam is controversial because there’re many recordings of
 previously-known-as Cat Stevens wanting Salman Rushdie dead,
 calling for fatwa (justification of death—Islam prohibits murder).

There was some good intent, but the show was ultimately co-opted.
 Message to the media: stop trying to “shoot the messenger,” even if it’s Stewart,
 and actually look at the message being said.