Take ur toolbox to the rally of sanity and/ or fear bc nothing makes sense

“11:06 A.M.Stelter: Seven Hours From Charlotte

Rachel Knight, 20, drove seven hours from Charlotte, N.C., to Washington with her boyfriend, Jasper Spurlock, 22, on Friday. She said they watch Mr. Stewart’s program, “The Daily Show,” and Mr. Colbert’s, “The Colbert Report,” on a regular basis, and that they expected the rally to be an in-person version of the shows — “political satire sprinkled with honesty.”

11:14 A.M.

   Stelter: Reaching Young Voters

Even though this rally is being put on by Comedy Central, a comedy channel known for, as Jon Stewart famously once said, “puppets making crank phone calls,” it has a serious purpose, some of the people in the crowd say.

Given the youthful reputation of Mr. Stewart and Mr. Colbert’s audience, Heather Smith, the executive director of Rock the Vote, said the rally is an “unprecedented opportunity” to talk to young voters right before Election Day.

“It’s essentially the largest P.S.A. targeting young Americans for voting in a midterm election in history,” she said, noting that some people who can’t make it to Washington will be watching at home or attending satellite rallies in cities across the country. One of the largest satellite rallies, in Austin, Tex., had 5,000 RSVP’s, she said. Also, as Michael Shear reported this morning, the Democratic National Committee is doing everything it can to capitalize on the event.

For some political activists, the rally was a distraction on the final weekend before the midterms. There were worries that the rally would draw away people that would otherwise be canvassing neighborhoods and knocking on doors for Democratic candidates. But Organizing for America, President Obama’s political organization, sought to make the most of the rally by encouraging attendees to work at a phone bank in Washington afterward”

WHERE MY BLOGS CAME FROM YO

With these two entries from the live blogging that was happening during the Rally for Sanity and/or Fear, I think it is best to draw the similarities with Delgado/Mcgee and Ideographs. In that section of the toolbox there is a lot of mention of the younger “college” aged people and it seemed that there were those younger generations populating the Rally for Sanity and/ or Fear. It also mentions “…the emergence of student and intellectual activists central to the Chicano movement…”, which makes me think of how some people believe that this Rally was a way to distract people right before midterms. A lot of what went on at the Rally was just off the wall and bat shit crazy. It was a lot of people with the same ideologies pretending to fit in with each other.