Scenes From The Rally To Restore Sanity: Funny Signs, Outrageous Costumes (VIDEO)

It was hard to tell whether the Rally To Restore Sanity in Washington was scheduled to coincide with the November 2 midterm elections or with Halloween, but if you looked around the National Mall on Saturday it appeared that many rally-goers embraced a wacky combination of costume and politics.

We made a short video that features some of the best, most creative, and strangest signs and costumes we encountered at the rally. We've also rounded up the funniest signs in this slideshow.

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Comments

[Christine Tuttle]

09:17 PM on 11/01/2010

Inspired by the rally, I want to keep the ball roling. Please help by checking out The Movement to Restore Unity Facebook page I created. Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/twitter/#!/pages/The-Movement-to-Restore-Unity/169072223119070

[alohaz]

06:15 PM on 11/01/2010

"Fearful crackers" was absolutely priceless.

[mynamesyow]

01:02 PM on 11/01/2010

the crowd numbers in comparison to Glenn Beck's Rally to Restore 1-800-GOLD speak for themselves. however I think in terms of bright, smiling, laughing faces this Rally beat any and all numbers that anyone can produce. I have never seen so many happy, calm people in one place in my life, ever. It was a Sea of Humanity if ever Ive seen it...and people on the outskirts didnt even try to stay w the crowd, they just roamed all around seeing the sights and taking pics...what a Day of Days...

[ForemostPanda]

01:54 AM on 11/01/2010

I still can't figure out where the blacks are in this rally?

[Peace Walker]

06:48 AM on 11/01/2010

Then it is clear that you were not there.

[MarkAntney]

07:35 AM on 11/01/2010

There were some there, as well as Asians, Latinos,...

Maybe you're confusing this event with the Million Man March?

[cargofuzz]

12:27 AM on 11/01/2010

Now that looks like it was my kind of rally! Must have been great energy.

[alyssadnickles]

12:04 AM on 11/01/2010

Here's another great site of funny signs from the rally:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-100-best-signs-at-the-rally-to-restore-sanity
Newsweek's Gabriel Snyder has identified the Rally's Twitter account as history's largest act of press criticism. I'm still in awe of the Rally's turnout-over 250,000 participants!

To Linkdrone-a political woodstock indeed!

[MarkAntney]

07:59 AM on 11/01/2010

Those signs were hilarious and the link has sublinks to more.

Thanks.

[James in ucity]

11:59 PM on 10/31/2010

Went to the Rally from St Louis. Showed up early, got a good seat, had a fantastic time. Other than being sunburnt on one side of my face, I had a terrific experience. The cops were bored, the crowd behaved itself, its a shame people weren't selling "I survived the metro" t-shirts, I think they would have done well. On a side note, kudos to the Metro staff, they handled an unmanageable situation in an amazingly professional manner.

[PC Contrarian]

09:56 PM on 10/31/2010

Here's another clip of the rally that's more in depth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlMq1R-64Qc&feature=player_embedded

[cardiaccare]

09:34 PM on 10/31/2010

"Sanity Now"
"Restore Reality"
"I mas-tur-bate and I vote"

[Rich Zubaty the Rude Guy]

09:31 PM on 10/31/2010

Wow! I was glad to finally see some leftist street theater/costumes. Let's have more. It's colorful, fun, and shifts opinions.

[beninabox1]

09:12 PM on 10/31/2010

Not great. One or two that were in sync with the message of the day but mostly partisan signs.

[cardiaccare]

09:33 PM on 10/31/2010

Sanity Now. Restore Reality!!

[SteveDenver]

07:54 AM on 11/01/2010

Yeah, really… you weren't there, were you?

[beninabox1]

08:09 AM on 11/01/2010

No I wasn't there, though I wish I could have been. But from I read on the NYT blog, the people most enthusiastic (those who got there early) had non-partisan signs - would have liked to see more of them in this post.

[Davest]

05:48 PM on 10/31/2010

I really liked the pot leaf at the end.

[prog]

06:02 PM on 10/31/2010

They need to give him bigger pupils.

[jakitchen]

06:05 PM on 10/31/2010

So that's what that was. I had no clue.

[Judy Connor]

05:43 PM on 10/31/2010

I was there at the Rally to Restore Sanity. I was a great day for the United States. Driving down from Pittsburgh, I saw other cars that had signs saying things like "Restore Sanity or Bust". So, I stopped and got a notebook and some markers and put a sign in my car window that said Restore Sanity. I got honks and thumbs up all the way to DC. Then on the way home, I followed my GPS and ended up passing a sign for the Flight 93 memorial in Shanksville, PA. I decided to stop. As I looked out over the place where those heroic people crashed to the ground, I took out my little paper sign that said Restore Sanity, and with permission, taped to the chain link fence there, amongst all the little American flags. I prayed for us, as a nation, and for all of us in the human race to strive to become the people that our God knows we can be. People of love, people of compassion, and like the passengers of flight 93, people of sacrifice. Amen

[jakitchen]

06:26 PM on 10/31/2010

Wow, just Wow.

Fanned and faved.

Restore Sanity in deed.

[Oonagh]

08:47 PM on 10/31/2010

F & F

[k6007]

05:21 PM on 10/31/2010

LOL

[coveark]

04:00 PM on 10/31/2010

YAY!!!!