Stephen Colbert needs to start giving the Colbert Nation projects to do whilst on holiday because as we have learned, the Nation will move on its own for its great leader, in his absence.
What started a week ago from a post has turned into a mammoth Internet affair. The post in question, from Reddit:
I’ve had a vision and I can’t shake it: Colbert needs to hold a satirical rally in DC.
I was woken in the middle of the night by this(along with the sound of my cat getting ready to pee on the rug).
Think about it. It’ll be just like Colbert’s mockery of GW Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondent’s Dinner, but 500,000 people will be able to participate with him. We’ll all stay totally in character as teabaggers. The kid with the microphone that interviews all the idiots at these things can come by and we’ll ramble into his microphone.
This would be the high water mark of American satire. Half a million people pretending to suspend all rational thought in unison. Perfect harmony. It’ll feel like San Francisco in the late 60s, only we won’t be able to get any acid.
I know you’re out there somewhere, Stephen, watching LOLcat gifs along side us. We need you. There’s no way to have a logical public discussion with the teabaggers. The best we can do is to mimic them. Show them a mirror and hopefully some will realize how ridiculous they actually are… Or maybe they won’t even realize that they’re being mocked, which could be even more awesome.
Note: This is a repost. First one never popped into New.
EDIT(Finally): The response to this post has blown my mind. I really did jump out of bed at like 5AM and type this thing up. Then I checked from work and it’s front page and there’s a Facebook page and people are emailing one of the Executive Producers. I was just hoping some people would get a laugh out of it, and now it has over 6,800 upvotes? It’s like I cracked the best joke of my life in a public place. :DBut to be fair, both pugsworth and hobbit6 posted the general idea before me in that Jon Stewart thread. I just fleshed it out a little bit. Anyway, I don’t really know what to do or say about actually trying to make a Colbert Rally happen. I’d sure as hell be there, and I think I’d opt for the “Go back to the rug store with the rest of the Afghans” sign.
I just wanted to say that I’m really happy that so many people got a kick out of it. And the thought of Colbert himself actually maybe seeing this is probably the coolest thing that’s ever happened to me so far in life.EDIT 2: vinhboy has created a wikia page… http://www.colbertrally.com/ Nothing up on it yet, though. Please feel free to change that!
(Here is the Jon Stewart thread mrsammercer refers to. In it the original idea was to have Jon Stewart hold a rally, but pugsworth and cobbit6 both first suggested that Colbert would be more appropriate for such a task)
From this one post, the idea has exploded. When I first heard of it, the facebook page only had about 5,000 members, now is over 33 thousand – and growing.
A twitter and google trend campaign began and in a short time, ranked number one (image thanks to www.colbertrally.com):
I don’t see how Colbert can ignore his Nation’s pleas. He brought us together and now the Nation is calling for his help. The we need him. We need him to help show the world that the United States isn’t as crazy as it looks – and believe me, the US is looking pretty crazy right now. Having such a rally will be showing that the US still has a sane population and will show that ‘special interest’ groups, like Glenn Beck’s followers, are not the voice of America.
Update from tonight’s shows can be found here.
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