Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally To Restore Sanity this week was designed to bring a little balance to the fraught political landscape seemingly owned by the carping tea-partiers. (Yes, I'm left-wing. Shoot me)
The two Daily Show stars have generally had a big internet following. From the early days of the huge Facebook groups supporting Colbert's fictitious presidential campaign to the massive surge of support when the first rumours of a Stewart/Colbert rally surfaced, these two were made for internet stardom. Both intelligent and sufficiently anti-establishment to earn them the support of laptop warriors, there was always a big chance that the internet was going to come out to play at the rally.
There's been some great coverage on the many imaginative signs waved around at the rally, so I thought I'd pick out a few of my net-themed favourites. Cheers to BuzzFeed for being a constant source of procrastinating, timewasting entertainment.
Youtube Stars
Jonathan the zombie strikes again!
Bratty white trash kids who loves his bacon.
Religious Parody
Fed up of established religion? try The Church Of The Flying Spaghetti Monster.
General Geekiness
I'm not geeky enough to get the entire joke, but I'm sure there's some PHP developers in Leeds who are ROFLing right now.
Hey Reddit bot!
Internet Trolls
Christ, stop shouting!
Viral/Guerilla Marketing
Okay, not strictly the internet. Who are you, the Accuracy Police?
Aqua Teen Hunger Force's audacious marketing campaign got the Boston police a bit hot and bothered.
Image Memes
Oh Keanu, not again :(
End of unnecessarily long image list
Did you see a couple of little Reddit bots amongst the signs? There's a reason for that. In September, Reddit held a huge donations drive to give money to charity and to convince people that Colbert could hold a rally to challenge Glenn Beck's much maligned Restoring Honor event.
During a post event press conference, Stewart and Colbert were asked about the involvement of the internet in the rally. Did they mention Reddit? Yep. Did they credit the site with the creation of the rally idea? Nope.
Drew Curtis from Fark has already weighed in on the debate with an impassioned blog post, accusing the Daily show stars of lifting material from Reddit & Fark and demanding an apology for the slight on Reddit's efforts towards the rally.
This may not end well....
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