the stars of the show are Stewart & Colbert. i'd go to see them.

So remember how people were saying that only white people went to Glenn Beck's rally and tea party meetings in general? Watching the Stewart/Colbert rally on TV you see all white faces.

What gives?

So remember how people were saying that only white people went to Glenn Beck's rally and tea party meetings in general? Watching the Stewart/Colbert rally on TV you see all white faces.

What gives?

i agree, from all the crowd shots i saw on comedy central i saw mostly white people, i did see a couple of asian chicks though.lol

This country is still mostly white. The difference from the Beck rally is 95% of those people were probably close to 100% white. You might have a person that was 1/16th Cherokee, or 1/4 Italian from time to time. I did not see many shots with people of any diversity like Asians, Hispanics, or African-Americans. There did not seem to be many Agnostic or Jewish attendees.

At this rally, many people might have looked white if you saw a pan view of a group shot, but a large minority of them might be 50% Hispanic, or 35% Asian, etc. There were far more asians, hipanics, and african-americans. There seemed to be more Agnostics and Jewish people if Father Guido Sarducci's benediction was any indication. Probably not as diverse as the nation as a whole, but much more diverse than Beck's rally from what I saw of both events.

Wow. This post I just had to QFT in case it accidentally got erased down the road.

QFT=Quoted for truth. He agreed with you.

I don't, but more on that tomorrow.

Answer: This peculiar QFT acronym expression stands for "Quoted For Truth". It has two particular meanings when used in a discussion forum.

1) QFT is an expression of agreement and support, where the user stands behind you and one of your statements. This commonly occurs in controversial topics where opinions are very heated, and people will choose sides in an argument. If someone "quotes you for truth", they are paying you a compliment, and siding with you in the discussion.

2) QFT can also be used to preserve an original forum post, so that the original author cannot edit after the fact. A user who copy-pastes the original forum content will sometimes put the letters "QFT" at the top of the copy-paste. It is a type of forensic stamp, commonly used during very heated discussions on a controversial topic. The original author can no longer change their original text, because it is now preserved through someone else's post. The original author is prevented from denying what they originally wrote because the QFT public copy can refute any denial.

I thought they were both really white. I don't care about the racial makeup of either, but what bugs me was that the racial makeup of the tea party gatherings was used to prove the deeply racist nature of the movement. Well you can't have your cake and eat it too.

P.S. Here's a fun video from Reason.TV (a libertarian rag):

I didn't like the way the liberal blogs and media outlets harped on the Beck rally as being overtly racist, because the composition of the crowd did not meet their standards of a mythicial "real" America. I would prefer we don't go down the same path in trying to diminish the rally today.