BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear @ National Mall

DC -- Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear @ National Mall:

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Description of Pictures: 450 billion people showed up for this rally! Not really, but I figure I can make up numbers like Fox Views and that fiction writer Michele Bachmann do...
I've seen estimates that the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear "only" had 200,000 people. Maybe that's true. I dunno. But, like for all of these events, it sure seems a lot bigger when you're in the thick of it. The amazing thing to me wasn't just the mass of people on the Mall -- it was the mass of people walking down 10th and 7th streets trying to cram into the Mall. Unlike with the Beck rally, there was no reflecting pool taking away space for the crowd but people still couldn't fit. It was huge!
Being sane and reasonable, I sampled the crowd for a bit just to do it and then went to the Newseum to watch the event on the Jumbotron.
And, sigh, no, I didn't get a souvenir towel.
Also included here are pictures of a float. I haven't a clue what this float was about or if it was even part of the rally. The van behind it had some sign about hemp-woven shirts...

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. RALLY_101030_011.JPG: "Words have meaning" Stop The anti-intellectual movement aka Insanity aka [Tea Bag]ers
2. RALLY_101030_015.JPG: The Metro line coming down for the rally
3. RALLY_101030_038.JPG: There were some anti-rally protesters -- "truth" means they just make it up: Honk if you don't believe the liberal media tellthetruth2010.org
4. RALLY_101030_045.JPG: Fox was one of the few networks other than Comedy Central that covered the event. Since the performers were both Comedy Central people, most networks didn't want to promote a competitor. Fox, of course, was pretending to cover it "truthfully", looking for anything bad that they could find.
5. RALLY_101030_051.JPG: Follow the $$$ TEA PARTY is NOT Grassroot$
6. RALLY_101030_059.JPG: Matt Damon Wouldn't care if the President was Muslim Soul Pancake
7. RALLY_101030_076.JPG: They were handing out towels but I didn't get one
8. RALLY_101030_087.JPG: The fear is too damn high
9. RALLY_101030_093.JPG: Can we talk?
10. RALLY_101030_098.JPG: Sane is sexy
11. RALLY_101030_104.JPG: Thank you Obama for - Supporting education, science and the environment - Increasing infrastructure spending - Expanding children's health insurance - Providing better body armor to our troops - Saving jobs with the stimulus - Enacting consumer protections on credit cards
12. RALLY_101030_108.JPG: What do we want? Reasonable Discourse When do we want it? Sometime in the not- so-distant-future
13. RALLY_101030_113.JPG: Where is he really from?
14. RALLY_101030_114.JPG: Sanity is da bomb!
15. RALLY_101030_117.JPG: Democracy not Plutocracy
16. RALLY_101030_124.JPG: The world is Nuanced; get used to it Sanity NOT Profanity!
17. RALLY_101030_146.JPG: With the zoom, this was as close to the stage as I could get. There really wasn't a point in watching from the mall.
18. RALLY_101030_155.JPG: Canadians should fear: - Harvard Professors - Long Form Census - Access to Information Act - Long Gun Registry - The Media - Toronto - Omar Khadr - Polar Bears [The guy's name tag is Stephen Harper, the name of the current Prime Minister of Canada. I presume he's not Mr. Harper and is protesting a conservative government there.]
19. RALLY_101030_191.JPG: Think for yourself or the Beck/Palins will think for you
20. RALLY_101030_203.JPG: Just be *DECENT* to people
21. RALLY_101030_224.JPG: [C]ommunism [H]itler L[i]beral Socia[l]ism Mus[l]im Terr[o]rist Wingn[u]t [T]ea-bagger [The letters spell out "CHILL OUT"] are just labels (the fear is only in the ???)
22. RALLY_101030_245.JPG: Forget cannabis legalise [sic] Haggis!
23. RALLY_101030_251.JPG: Sane! in Port Townsend, WA
24. RALLY_101030_264.JPG: I'm NOT threatened by dissenting Socio-Political beliefs... ...but I'm TERRIFIED of VELOCIRAPTORS
25. RALLY_101030_277.JPG: Shift the tax burden from Earnings to Consumption
26. RALLY_101030_283.JPG: Gay marriage for some, Miniature American Flags For Others!
27. RALLY_101030_290.JPG: I gave my Change to GOP, Inc
28. RALLY_101030_294.JPG: I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're NOT HITLER
29. RALLY_101030_296.JPG: 9/11 was an Outside Job
30. RALLY_101030_304.JPG: I'm not afraid of Muslims/Tea Partiers/Socialists/Immigrants/Gun Owners/Gays
31. RALLY_101030_309.JPG: But I am scared of spiders
32. RALLY_101030_313.JPG: I have a scream
33. RALLY_101030_330.JPG: I'm with Stupid [crossed-out] --> Reasonable
34. RALLY_101030_341.JPG: Lines for the port-a-potties
35. RALLY_101030_344.JPG: Han shot first [Someone from the Politics and Prose store]
36. RALLY_101030_352.JPG: We can't repel stupidity of this magnitude It's a TARP
37. RALLY_101030_374.JPG: Calculus
38. RALLY_101030_380.JPG: Vote Pro-Choice. Politicians Make Crappy Doctors.
39. RALLY_101030_394.JPG: Restore Sanity -- Fight Fox -- MediaMatters.org Fox Keeps Fear Alive -- FoxKeepsFearAllive.com
40. RALLY_101030_428.JPG: I'm Mad As Hell At People That Are Made As Hell! Will Bitch & Moan For Brains!!!
41. RALLY_101030_445.JPG: I Don't Care About FOX NEWS I Just Want Fox to Bring Firefly Back!!
42. RALLY_101030_448.JPG: Keep masturbation legal! Pearl necklaces for everyone!
43. RALLY_101030_468.JPG: Restore sanity... More brains = More food [More zombie folks]
44. RALLY_101030_485.JPG: 911 was NOT an "inside job" you deluded psycho!
45. RALLY_101030_492.JPG: Couldn't decide on a slogan 911 was not an "inside job" you deluded psycho!
46. RALLY_101030_500.JPG: I am a Veteran. I am an American. I am Muslim. MyFaithMyVoice.com
47. RALLY_101030_505.JPG: My favorite shirt at the Rally to Restore Sanity. I screwed you all but thanks for blaming it on the black guy
48. RALLY_101030_508.JPG: The crowd from the steps of the National Gallery of Art. It was a *huge* event.
49. RALLY_101030_531.JPG: Hitler -- there's only one
50. RALLY_101030_538.JPG: Afraid yet? Restore (in)sanity!
51. RALLY_101030_552.JPG: Ban Fracking Now!
52. RALLY_101030_558.JPG: Imagine
53. RALLY_101030_562.JPG: Compromise
54. RALLY_101030_620.JPG: Restore sanity Faux News Change the channel
55. RALLY_101030_645.JPG: Crowds at the Rally to Restore Sanity
56. RALLY_101030_687.JPG: A little respect goes a long way
57. RALLY_101030_707.JPG: 1984 ministry of "truth" 2010 Fox "News" MSNBC
58. RALLY_101030_710.JPG: Sanity RIP I want my country forward
59. RALLY_101030_713.JPG: People watching from atop the port-a-potties. I can only imagine what that was like for the people inside them.
60. RALLY_101030_751.JPG: Restore Sanity End Afghan War
61. RALLY_101030_763.JPG: Fear with this sort of thing
62. RALLY_101030_772.JPG: The Adventures of Unemployed Man
63. RALLY_101030_785.JPG: Pennsylvania Avenue was empty
64. RALLY_101030_818.JPG: These were the crowds coming down from the subway station. Keep in mind these photos are in sequence so the Mall was already toe-to-toe.
65. RALLY_101030_845.JPG: Crowds were streaming in the whole time
66. RALLY_101030_855.JPG: The Consitusion [sic] means whatever we say it MEANS!
67. RALLY_101030_884.JPG: I am not a witch
68. RALLY_101030_888.JPG: God gave me a sign (and I'm holding it)
69. RALLY_101030_919.JPG: Restore Sanity Fight Fox mediamatters.org
70. RALLY_101030_930.JPG: These were crowds leaving the rally
71. RALLY_101030_941.JPG: Moderate is the new black
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