Jon Stewart Announces DC 'Rally to Restore Sanity'

By Marc Schneider Posted Sep 17th 2010 06:34AM

'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart announced Thursday that he'll lead a rally on Washington that aims to encourage angry citizens on both sides of the aisle to take it down a notch, or in his words, "stop shouting, throwing and drawing Hitler mustaches on people other than Hitler."

The event has been dubbed the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and will be held on the National Mall on Oct. 30. "It's real," he told his maybe-thinking-he-was-joking audience. "We are gonna do this." Watch Stewart's big announcement:

In a video setting up his case that both political parties have gone overboard, Stewart mixed in pundits like "Birther Queen" Orly Taitz and the "Ragin' Cajun" James Carville. There were images from anti-war rallies and the recent rash of Tea Party events as well. He said the purpose of the rally will be to give the 80 percent of the country who usually "have s**t to do" a chance to rally ... but for sanity, not rage.

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Signs, Signs Everywhere

A man holds a sign during a tea party tax rally Thursday, April 15, 2010, in Kansas City, Kan. Tea party protesters marked tax day Thursday with exhortations against "gangster government" and appeals from Republicans seeking their grass-roots clout in November elections, a prospect both tempting and troubling to those in the loose movement. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 12: An unidentified women holds up a sign that reads "Taxed Enough Already No More Debt!!" during a rally on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building on September 12, 2010 in Washington, DC. Members of the Tea Party and other activists gathered at the "Remember In November" Rally to protest large government and rally for conservative principals nearly two months before US midterm elections. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

Protesters hold signs during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

Protesters hold signs during an anti-tax rally on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

Quinna Hamby holds a sign during a rally protesting taxes on the Tuscarora Indian Nation in New York, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked New York state's plans to tax cigarette sales by two American Indian nations to non-Indian customers while the tribes challenge the policy shift as a threat to sovereignty and their financial well-being. (AP Photo/ David Duprey)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators hold signs in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before they start their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

LOS ANGELES, CA - JULY 22: Demonstrators are reflected on the dashboard of a GMC truck in front of Los Angeles Federal Building before the start of their protest march to Occidental Petroleum Corporation headquarters on July 22, 2010 in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, California. Members of SEIU local 721 service employees union staged the protest asking California state elected leaders to eliminate a $1.2 billion annual oil drilling tax loophole to California oil producers while vital services are being eliminated from the state budget. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Signs, Signs, Everywhere Theres Signs

In contrast with Glenn Beck's recent religious-y rally on Washington, where signs were openly discouraged, the Comedy Central funnyman urges marchers to go to town. He suggested a couple ideas, including "I Disagree With You, But I'm Pretty Sure You're Not Hitler," and "Take It Down a Notch, America."

The rally, which he also dubbed the "Million Moderate March," will lean heavy on comedy, of course. Stewart's "rival," Stephen Colbert, bum-rushed the show to announce that he too would hold his own rally nearby for "all freedom-loving patriots" to challenge the "dark, optimistic forces" of Stewart and the 'Daily Show.'

He later said on the 'Colbert Report' that in order to "fight Jon Stewart's creeping reasonableness" and "restore truthiness" he will lead the "March to Keep Fear Alive" in the same exact spot on the same day as his Comedy Central colleague.

In a statement, Comedy Central promised a face-off between Stewart and Colbert that will be "bigger than Nixon/Kennedy, Ali/Foreman, Aniston/Jolie, 50/Nas, Joe/the Volcano, Alien/Predator, Bunny/Fudd and Ecks/Sever combined."

Watch Colbert's announcement:

Tags: daily show, jon stewart, rally to restore sanity, stephen colbert

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Friday 17 September

By Egon

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we will relax after the elections, OK?

By Corrie

I want the "I disagree with you but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler" sign. I think instead of just painting a Hitler mustache on my enemies, I might add a bowler cap and baggy suit. Get more of a Charlie Chaplin thing going on.

By Emily

I think this is the truest thing I've heard in a long time. Really, all you see on TV are radicalists and people with ridiculous concepts and conspiracy theories and taking everything way too far. There are news people that I've seen on TV state things grossly untrue as a fact, and I realized that I know more about the Muslim religion than that anchorman, who is more than twice my age, and who is spreading his opinion like fact. I believe in trying to learn all the facts about situations before judging them, and watching this was refreshing to see that contrary to the people in the lime light, there are many other more level headed people out there. I think that this is a great idea, and something I would go to if I did not live hundreds of miles away :)

By KingJ

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So what have you been smoking, LOL!

By Mel

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Give me a break. This guy has not had an original thought in a decade. He can only copy what others have already done. Typical democrat.

By cyberma777

It looks like Stewart and Colbert have the repugs in here running scared. The silent majority of Stewart/Colbert fans are going to show the whiny, whack-o minority what a Washington D.C. rally really looks like.

By vickie

That sign the teabagger is holding makes no sense...where do these people get their facts and their theories....?

By Jason123

Jon Stewart (I forget what his real name is)... YAWN!

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By Ed

How did the Beck crowd go overboard? If you had been there you would have seen 400 to 500 thousand of the most well behaved people ever at a rally. Even the DC police called them the dream crowd. Stuart is in fact being disrespectful by his attempt to marginalize the 8/28 event.

Saturday 18 September

By imvlh208

Give me a break! He's a liberal and doesn't like what's going on with the tea party conservatives. That simple. He's only trying to sound reasonable. but we know what he's all about. Who cares what he thinks anyway. He's a joke, just like any other Liberal out there. If they were lost somewhere, they would find someone to blame it on, instead of themselves with taking the wrong roads.

By cotton

Both sides have gone overboard you say? Therein lies the reason the media and most people do not understand what is taking place this season. There are actually three sides to consider this time. There are the dems and the repubs and then there are We the People. Too bad about Stewart. I actually thought he could be pretty funny at times but to make trivial the things that are dear to We the People is going to cost him big big I'm afraid. So long Jon.

By buzzo

Stewart as usual showing originality

By Linda

Original? seems like he got the idea of a rally, from a very recent rally and is calling something similar to that recent rally. Yeah, Stewart is very original.

Linda, I was being sarcastic!

By joeg2028

The originality, buzzo, is showing extremism for what it is: not what the vast majority of the people want (unlike those bozos--hmm, that sounds like something else--Palin and what's his name).

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Joe you must the king of punctuation. It is confusing to follow what you are trying to say. Hey, at least your trying to be original.

By Debra

this is not an orginial move!...off the back and opposite of Glen Beck! Beck: Truth This out dated so call FUNNY MAN!!: Fake!!

WRONG!!!

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