For anyone who hasn't yet heard, Jon Stewart is hosting
The Rally to Restore Sanity on the Washington Mall on Saturday, October 30, 2010.
Additionally, Stephen Colbert is hosting his own mock rally on the mall,
The March to Keep Fear Alive, on the same day:
The rallies,
meant to be satirical, have gotten an overwhelming amount of response. Where the organizers of
The Daily Show and
The Colbert Report expected only a show of 25,000 people when applying for permits if the rallies' facebook pages are any reflection of what the real turnout will be over 100,000 plan to attend.
For two comedians to have inspired so much turnout says a lot about general American public opinion, both sarcastic and cynical, for our own societies. mainstream media and political processes.
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