Where it f**king belongs.
Former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee appeared on The Daily Show last night, where she briefly spoke of her tenure heading up DCPS while pitching her new book.
America, or at least the America for which the live video stream actually loaded, got the debate it wanted last night when Bill O’Reilly and Jon Stewart dissected the issues and each other at George Washington University.
Forget President Obama and Mitt Romney. Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly will debate the issues of the day on October 6 at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University.
After a third day of barraging questions from the House Oversight Committee, the General Services Administration really got skewered last night when it wound up as the lead story on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.
If there was one thing that deserved special attention at Saturday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, it was the signs. It seemed like every single attendee brought at least one with them: some of them silly, many of them incredibly funny and all of them containing sentiment that would certainly not be out of place in the comments of any given DCist post. While “I Thought This Was The Line For Georgetown Cupcakes” gets our choice for best effort of the day, there were several strong contenders. Here are a whole bunch of our favorites.
Just like the Restoring Sanity rally back in August, we could have spent tons of words on what the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear said about about mainstream media, tomorrow’s elections or America today. (Though Kid Rock’s involvement kind of cramps our ability to come up with anything enlightening, to be totally honest.) We could prattle on about the long lines, Metro delays and most people’s inability to see or hear anything when they got to the Mall. But there are plenty of people who get paid a lot more money than us to make such sweeping statements about such things (not to mention, there are plenty of people who would do it for free) — so we’ll just show you all the visuals from Saturday’s rally and let you make your own conclusions.
Well, it’s finally here: the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. It appears, even at 8:30 a.m., that the crowds are already starting to pack in along 3rd Street and on the Metro. So will the crowd, estimated at 200,000 people, actually be that huge? Will there be a Bruce Springsteen performance, as many have rumored? And for the love of all things holy — will there be enough portable toilets to go around? DCist will have a crack team of correspondents on the scene today — including, but not limited to myself, Heather Goss, Eddie Kim, Brett Gellman, Alicia Mazzara, Martin Austermuhle, Ian Buckwalter, Kyle Gustafson, Missy Frederick, Elisabeth Grant, Kelly Rand, John Fleury and Valerie Paschall — to record, via the magic of Twitter, the things that they are seeing, hearing, and feeling, as well as any other sensual experience which the Rally will provide.
Want to join in? Tweet along with us — use the hashtag #feardcist and your tiny communiques will appear alongside ours in the real time ticker below. Don’t forget to check out our basic primer if you haven’t already — and everyone have a sane and/or fearful day.
Look, we know you’re all probably suffering from a serious case of Rally fatigue. So are we, to be totally honest — after all, this event alone has fed the pundit machine for the last two weeks almost on its own. But if we didn’t provide you with this information, then we wouldn’t really be doing our job, now would we? We swear this’ll be quick, like ripping a Band-Aid off a particularly hairy patch of skin.
Metromix reports that they’ve gotten their hands on a very preliminary schedule for Saturday’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear — and while we’re working on confirming if any of the reported details are true, we thought you might appreciate knowing what is being floated out there. There are still a ton of performers and “special guests” listed as “to be announced,” but what details are on the schedule sound promising if they pan out…
