I went to the Los Angeles Rally. They showed the Washington, D.C., rally live a huge TV and that part was a lot of fun. Lots of cheering for any Los Angeles references. People there tried to join in and do the wave with the Mythbusters guys. Generally good crowd reaction to all the comedy bits. Great vibe. Then at noon Los Angeles time the locally produced show began and it quickly went into the toilet. Frances Fisher came out and made the obligatory celebrity appearance. Maija DiGiorgio was the host of the program and admitted she had never done this before and it showed. Rough and unprepared. I think she whould have spent an hour before hand sketching out ideas on what she wanted to say. First comedian up was Bob Odenkirk. I love him when I see him on TV. Odenkirk had nothing to say and stunk up the stage. Just about every other comedian was a dud, too. This devolved into a poorly coordinated political rally, with comedians feeding liberal special interest groups. There was one comedian (it may have been Odenkirk, I can't remember) keeping the 1970s feminists happy by going after strippers and exploitation of the women in the media. There was another comedian keeping the teacher's union happy by bashing the teacher cutting and even Barack Obama for wanting to make teachers accountable by saying if the president doesn't meet certain objectives perhaps they should take away his Secret Service after 5 p.m. Paul Provenza and Kate Flannery are on that suck list, too. Because of the rain the grounds at Levitt Pavilion in MacArthur Park were mudddy and I didn't bringing bring a chair I found a cement block to sit on and refused to budge for the DC broadcast of the rally and for the first hour or so of the Los Angeles rally. Then they brought on the Los Angeles city councilman for that district and some teen fighting global warming and I knew it was time to go. I gave up my seat and was walking around grabbing some pictures from other locations when a comedian gave by far the best Los Angeles performance to that point: Lalo Alcaraz, who draws a cartoon called "La Cucaracha" Maybe they were saving the best for the last. I had already decided to leave, so I didn't stick around for the last half hour or so. I give credit to the two who organized the Los Angeles portion of the rally. They did a lot of work. But it seems they had to pay some special interests to get it done.
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