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bjbj Now, a few other things I want to mention. The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Jon
Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central. I watched almost all of this thing. I was
pretty excited for it, I was actually going to go down to DC but we were in the middle
of some things with the show here, I wasn't able to make it. I'm kind of glad I didn't,
because really there were just a few highlights from it. How much of this did you see, Louis?
Louis: To be honest, I didn't see any of it. David: You haven't seen any of it. Well, The
Roots opened up, and John Legend came out, that was great, they were both great. Then
it got someone boring. The Mythbusters guys came out, you know, with the show "Mythbusters".
Louis: I love that show. David: They were horrible. I mean, they were literally horrible.
They were doing experiments with the crowd, like having them jump all up and down, having
a wave go back and forth, the wave took minutes to get from the front to the back and it was
complete silence. Completely bogus thing to do on live TV, it just didn't go well. And
then they brought out Cat Stevens, or Yusuf Islam, as he is now known, and Ozzy Osbourne,
and The O'Jays. They were all pretty good. My initial thought was bringing Cat Stevens
out is a little bit risky politically in the sense that even though it was an accident,
he was put on this no-fly list, and he wasn't let into the U.S. It doesn't seem to really
be hurting the way the rally is being looked back at in retrospect, but the conservative
media outlets did talk about that, right? They were kind of criticizing the inclusion
of Cat Stevens in this thing. Yeah. So, and that was written on the wall. We knew that
was going to happen. And then Jon Stewart's speech at the end was very good. I thought
that was probably the highlights. I could've done with the first 30 minutes and then the
last 15 minutes for Jon Stewart's speech. Now, the interesting thing, 215,000 people
are estimated to have been there compared to about 100,000 for Glenn Beck. Now, I know
if you watched Fox News, they estimated only 15 people were there, so that might've given
you the wrong impression if you didn't actually see the event. But that was as expected, no?
Louis: Right. David: So yeah, I guess it was a success. I don't know. It wasn't great.
I'm glad I didn't go, let me put it that way, just for that, because number one, I'm sure
I could see it much better on my TV, but number two, the highlights were kind of at the beginning
and at the end and a little bit in the middle. Is it good for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?
Yes. Their shows are popular, their shows will continue to be popular. Beyond that,
what else is there to say? Louis: Yeah, not much. Good for them. I think it's hilarious
that the turnout was much higher than for Glenn Beck. That's about it. David: OK. Well,
we've heard from Louis, and that's basically it. The Clint McCance story. I'm not going
to go into this whole thing. There's an incredible story that happened last week. Clint McCance
is the former vice president of an Arkansas school district, and he went on Facebook and
made incredibly anti-gay comments including I hope that *** and *** die of AIDS, he
likes it when *** and ***, as he puts it, die of AIDS. He said a bunch of crazy
things, and then he went on the Anderson Cooper show and he did an interview. The entire interview
was bizarre, and it was a non-apology. The guy clearly does not regret what he has said,
he is just sorry that he got caught. And we have a great commentary, piece-by-piece analysis
on our YouTube channel, so log onto YouTube.com/MidweekPolitics, check it out. We literally, Louis, are going
through in detail each piece of this apology, and it's just an incredible story. New stations
I want to say hello... Go ahead, Louis. Louis: Oh, just the Facebook thing, like who thinks
they can put things on Facebook, and just so ignorant as to how, you know, widespread
it really is. David: That's right. Well, and there are a lot of people who maybe aren't
as computer-savvy who maybe don't think that that would become public, or I don't know
what people are thinking, but clearly just sorry he got caught. And you know, he explained,
and we go into this, some of the things he said were just in response to Facebook comments.
That makes perfect sense. Louis and I, everybody who works on the show, anytime somebody puts
up a Facebook comment we don't like, we go into anti-gay tirades. I mean, it's just a
natural reaction to controversial Facebook comments. Louis: Right. David: New stations
airing The David Pakman Show: Hit 94 FM in Aruba. I hope we're not wrapped up with that
Natalee Holloway stuff now that we're airing in Aruba, but we're thrilled to be on. Last
week's poll: Should Juan Williams have been fired from NPR for his recent Muslim comments?
Surprising. No, 57%. 37% say yes, he should've been fired. I'm surprised. I thought most
people would go in the way of he should've been fired, even though, as I said last week,
I don't believe he should have. And of course, our new poll: How effective will the Tea Party
winners be at passing the changes they promised? I believe not very effective. Log onto DavidPakman.com
and vote. Here's a few emails from last week: Colorado Amendment 62. Randy says, "You missed
an important point on Colorado Amendment 62. Not only would it outlaw all abortion in all
cases, it would outlaw most forms of birth control. The amendment describes a person
as a fertilized egg." Absolutely right, and we mentioned that earlier. The amendment is
insane, and it's a total disaster. Juan Williams. "Williams absolutely should've been fired
by NPR for saying something that is blatantly racist. He should be on Fox if he wants to
perpetuate hate and fear of brown people who he decides are Muslims. You replace the word
Muslim with Jewish or black, people would be shouting, 'Racism!' from every rooftop.
We're conditioned to hate people, but that doesn't make it morally acceptable when we
fail to challenge it." I completely disagree. The context of what he was saying was actually
anti-racist, he should not have been fired for that reason, he should've been fired years
ago for bringing his fake liberal opinions to Fox News. Today on the bonus show, we're
going to talk about did Louis vote or not? Louis has never voted in an election prior
to today, or prior to this election, if he voted. Louis: That's not true. David: Oh,
so you have voted sometimes. Louis: Yes. David: But you stopped voting under protest? Louis:
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