Pundit Rally Restores Sanity and/or Fear!

You may have overheard the buzz in recent weeks about the political pundit team of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert coming together in DC this weekend to gather the masses in an effort to rally in the name of sanity and reason. Thousands came to show their support for the cause, a cause that’s worth looking into and worth defining in the first place.

What goal did these two have in mind?  It’s safe to say that the idea was conjured in response to Fox’s infamous Glenn Beck and his Restoring Honor rally held in DC just over two months ago.  Jon Stewart opened by jokingly explaining to the crowd that the two criteria a successful rally is judged upon are “color and size.” 

A crack to the fact that an awkwardly obvious majority of people in attendance were white,  'If you have too many white people at a rally, your cause is racist,' he said. 'If you have too many people of color at a rally, then you must be asking for something ... something we as a society are not ready to give.' 

Everyone laughed at all the right moments but were we laughing because this is the guy that makes the jokes on TV or were we laughing because it was true?  Even if the truth was a bit uncomfortable to admit, even in the name of irony and sarcasm.