Jon Stewart calls for return to sanity with weekend rally

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared in the Oct. 28, 2003, edition of the Dayton Daily News 

What’s Jon Stewart up to this weekend? Stewart and fellow Comedy Central wisenheimer Stephen Colbert are co-producing and co-hosting a rally in Washington on Saturday.

What rally? As everybody knows, it’s the Rally to Restore Sanity and-or Fear, a stop-the-madness wake-up call occurring (more than coincidence?) three days before the midterm election.

The underlying message of this signal event, clad in the ironic trappings of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”: Stop being played by the manipulative, fear-mongering ruling class.

Outspoken yet facetious, both Stewart and Colbert (in his role as a right-wing bloviator) have beat the drums for the rally since first announcing it six weeks ago.

The rally will be broadcast live and streamed online by Comedy Central from noon to 3 p.m.

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