jerseyhoya wrote:I've bought into Bill O'Reilly's line about something? Jesus $#@! Christ like I watch Bill O'Reilly?! Did you just start reading the politics thread like two weeks ago?

Well I don't know how else to explain your wild underestimation here.

People are lazy. Younger people are lazier and less politically motivated than older people. Them choosing to spend Halloween weekend in DC to ironically mock Glenn Beck sounds like a big ask. I arrived at these opinions entirely without the aid of Bill O'Reilly.

No matter how many they draw, this is going to be a hell of a show.

jerseyhoya wrote:People are lazy. Younger people are lazier and less politically motivated than older people. Them choosing to spend Halloween weekend in DC to ironically mock Glenn Beck sounds like a big ask. I arrived at these opinions entirely without the aid of Bill O'Reilly.

Are you kidding? First of all, you are ignoring the key drinking in public/meet random strangers and hook up with them angle. No one will be able to stop the college kids from doing this, it will be like a giant tailgate.

But also, I think you are vastly overestimating the degree to which the Daily Show and Colbert Report are shows for college kids. Lots and lots and lots of adults watch this show. I NEVER watched them in the college, only now. They could draw 25,000 just from the very liberal D.C. metro area without any trouble at all.

hmm halloween weekend. Interesting point.

I'm still going with six figures. Too many colleges with philosophy majors within a couple hour drive.

Also, John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are lefty heroes. Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow aren't our Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck - Stewart and Colbert are. The one thing I think the organizers have probably not calculated correctly, based on Stewart's announcement, is how many far-left types watch his show. He's not really going to have a "plea for moderateness" on his hands. The thing will be dominated by left-to-far-left types, in my opinion. But there will be a lot of them.

The Nightman Cometh wrote:hmm halloween weekend. Interesting point.

I'm still going with six figures. Too many colleges with philosophy majors within a couple hour drive.

If only they were holding it somewhere that those VT kids could possibly reach it. Sadly, it's just too much to ask.

jerseyhoya wrote:Having been in college before, I'll set the number of people who drunkenly make commitments to drive to DC for this at 500,000, and the number that show up, barring them turning this into some concert with JayZ and Eminem and whatnot, at 25,000.

see I thought you meant Stewart & Colbert were lazy

Maybe the greatest satirists of our time, and not just because they mock Glenn Beck without mercy.

My generation's Mark Twain or Jonathan Swift.

Oh my.

VoxOrion wrote:Oh my.

gotta admit, I don't keep A Colbert Christmas on the same shelf as Huckleberry Finn or even Gulliver's Travels

Bierce had better be looking over his shoulder tho

They'll get 25,000 DC residents alone, including every girl I've ever dated down here, who mostly worship Stewart.