While I can understand why they might have been considered as "pre-show" by those who were there, both Comedy Central and CSPAN carried the presentations by The Roots, John Legend and the Mythbusters guys on the live telecast. So while Jon Stewart didn't hit the stage until one o'clock eastern, I think the first hour was a part of the event and not "pre-show".
------- Original Message ------- >From : David Bruggeman[mailto:[email protected]] Sent : 10/30/2010 8:30:22 PM To : [email protected] Cc : Subject : RE: Re: [TV orNotTV] March to Keep Fear Alive/Rally to Restore Sanity No video clips up as yet. I was there. The crowd crushed the Metro system, so while I got there on time, it was about four blocks from the stage. But they at least set up several screens for viewing. Unfortunately, the audio quality was not consistent, so one musical number and some of the other performers words didn't make it to the middle (and I'm assuming the back as well). FWIW, 12-1 was a 'pre-show' with music and Mythbusters. Adam and Jamie had us making noises, doing the wave, and jumping up and down. The explanations was one of the parts that didn't come through clearly in the audio. All I know for sure is that however many of us there were (the only number I heard was 150,000), we can register on seismic monitors if we jump up and down at roughly the same time. (Since Kari Byron, also of Mythbusters, was here Sunday for the Science and Engineering Festival, you could actually see in person most of the cast in one week. Kind of rare outside of Comic-Con.) Lots of music (the Roots are definitely the house band du jour right now, with the chops to justify it), and with the exception of four or five minutes near the end (Jon Stewart tried to explain where he was coming from with all this), the rest was poking fun at rallies, rhetoric, and media coverage of same. Arianna and Oprah were neither seen nor mentioned, and while some of the signs focused on traditional left-wing complaints, most folks were attuned to the spirit and surreality of restoring sanity in the face of keeping fear alive. But, as Stewart said, what happened today won't matter, the media coverage of it will. David From: Kevin M. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 30, 2010 1:36:25 PM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] March to Keep Fear Alive/Rally to Restore Sanity Though I do have internet, and C-Span is accessible in Central Asia, I lack the bandwidth to view the rally live. OK, not technically true... I can view apx. 3 seconds, then it buffers for two minutes, then I can view another three seconds... it is actually how I would prefer to watch the Golden Globes. With luck, I will get the internet upgrade in the coming week and catch up. In the meantime, to anyone who may be at the rally.. YouTube please. On 10/29/10, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Excellent. Thanks. My internet connection at home has been reliable > all week. I hope it will last through Saturday night so I can try to > view the rally live. Otherwise, I'll catch it on the archive when I > get my faster internet connection next week. > > On 10/29/10, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: >> cspan.org confirms this (though shows the length as three hours) >> >> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> It's on my channel guide as being covered on CSPAN's main channel. >>> >>> (Also covered "commercial free" on Comedy Central and on their web >>> site at the same time - being billed as "uncensored".) >>> >>> >>>>------- Original Message ------- >>> >From : Kevin M.[mailto:[email protected]] >>>>Sent : 10/29/2010 10:04:04 AM >>>>To : [email protected] >>>>Cc : >>>>Subject : RE: [TV orNotTV] March to Keep Fear Alive/Rally to Restore >>>> Sanity >>>> >>>>Can somebody tell me if C-Span is covering the Stewart/Colbert event? >>> If so, I believe I'll be able to view the archive on the C-Span >>> website, but I can't view anything on TDS or CR's websites. >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin M. 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