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Encouraged by users of popular social bookmarking website reddit.com, John Stewart has decided to take to Washington on October 30th with a “Rally to Restore Sanity”. When Glenn Beck held his “Restoring America” rally on August 28, users of Reddit asked over and over again for Stephen Colbert, and/or John Stewart to have a rally to counter that of Beck. It looks as though John Stewart really does care what his fans want, whether it is for pure humor purposes or not.
Here is what Stewart had to say on “The Daily Show”
We live in troubled times, with real people, facing real problems, problems that have real, if imperfect, solutions, that I believe 70 to 80% of our population could agree to try, and could ultimately live with. Unfortunately, the conversation and process is controlled by the other 15 to 20%. You may know them as the people who believe Obama is a muslim planning a secret takeover of America so that he can force his radical black liberal Christianity down our throats. Or that George Bush let 9/11 happen to help pad Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock portfolio … We have seen these folks, the loud folks, over the years dominate our national conversation on our most important issues. But why don’t we hear from the 70- to 80-percenters?
Stephen Colbert, will also be holding a rally called the “March to Keep Fear Alive,” which will also take place in Washington DC on October 30. The two rallies will be opposing each other, and should be rather interesting. Both comedians seem to be doing it as part of their routine comedy for their respective shows. However, there seems to be quite a few people that are serious about these rallies.
Watch John Stewarts “Rally to Restore Sanity” announcement below:
| The Daily Show With Jon Stewart | Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c | |||
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What do you think? Will you attend either Colbert’s or Stewart’s rallies?
