Some Actual Displays Of Sanity And Civility At The Jon Stewart Rally (Updated)
LatestAt the outset, a rally asking for less of something and at least partly centered on a television cult of personality didn’t seem terribly inspiring. But the people I saw there today actually seemed to take civilized discourse seriously.
Very quickly, media people on Twitter declared that it was as white as the Tea Party rallies. This conclusion appeared drawn from watching a glimpse of them on television. (What was it Stewart said about the media?) I’m no knee-jerk defender of The Daily Show‘s record on diversity, but that seemed to be utterly false based on what I saw walking around the rally.
These t-shirts read, “I Love America” in Arabic.
Really, guys. People of every color.