A Slice of Bacon

For full disclosure, I must begin this by saying that I love Jon Stewart. Love him. I think he’s a brilliant man, and normally when I play the game with my buddies to pick one famous person to hang with for a day, Stewart is near the top of my list (right next to that guy that once tried to fight Jim Rome). 

That being said, when I heard they were going to lead a rally in Washington D.C., it seemed like it might be another failed project by “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” I bought their first book, and I watched their live coverage of election days, and it just never seemed to work. “The Daily Show” is perfect because the format is perfect; an intelligent man that has something he can poke fun at in himself (with Stewart, it’s his Judaism), and speaks to the public unlike any other “news” network does - like we have a brain. 

Conservatives don’t watch the show because, like a friend of mine said when he heard Barack Obama was going to be on last week, it’s just “who can out-liberal who.” Well, yeah, he’s a liberal, and yes, I like him more because I am as well, but I feel like the show goes deeper than that. 

But, that isn’t really the point. The point is, there was going to be a rally, and for all the bitching the show does about propaganda, I kept getting this dirty feeling that someone was trying to sell more books, and what better way to do it than with 150,000 followers in the same place? 

But it didn’t do that. Not at all. After reading stories about the rally, and seeing the numbers, and looking at the signs people brought, it did exactly what it was supposed to do for me. It restored my sanity that not everyone in this world is fucking crazy. 

See, my roommate is a conservative, and so are my parents. I don’t blame either for it, because I’ve never once in my life bitched about what someone else wants to do with their life. Want to move to South America and be a scuba instructor? Go kill it. Want to order a Shake Weight because you really think it’s going to put you in better shape? Let me know how that works out. 

My biggest problem today is people trying to convince me that my ideas and beliefs are wrong. Like personalities, and alcohol consumption levels and noses, everybody is different. I can’t jump as high as LeBron James, and my best friend doesn’t have to think the world is the same as I do. But, people don’t believe that. Of course they don’t. That’s why we have shows like “The Daily Show.” To somehow convince us that, “shuuushhh, there is a place where you’re not all goddamn batty.” 

Looking through the best 100 signs at the rally made me smile, mainly because it pulled off exactly what it was supposed to pull off. It made me think that there are people out there that don’t take everything said so serious that they want to march for it. There are people that think it’s funny that people think Obama’s a muslim. Or get mad because he’s black. There are people out there that don’t smoke pot yet are chill and understandable. 

Could Glenn Beck ever make me realize that? Haha. 

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