Hey Jon Stewart, WTF? How Can You Compare Crazy, Lying Right-Wingers to Progressives?
Jon Stewart's Million Moderate March draws a false equivalence between right-wing propagandists, and people on the left who rightly lashed out against Bush.
AlterNet / By Daniel Denvir
September 23, 2010
Jon Stewart is calling for a "Million Moderate March" on Washington this October 30. Unfortunately, his prescription for political change is that we all just "take it down a notch."
When he announced the rally, Jon Stewart made a concerted effort to appear politically unaligned, screening clips that imply an equivalence between the wacky right and the wacky left. As Jon Stewart has it, the problem is "loud folks" and a tone of political debate that has become untempered: too many crazies yelling and screaming, comparing people they don't like to Hitler.
The Tea Party far right leans on made-up things, also known as lies -- "ground zero" Mosque, illegal immigrants purposely causing highway accidents, death panels killing grandma -- to win political power. The left has a different problem. We could have used a little more hysteria in recent years, as Wall Street robbed Main Street and the most powerful military on earth invaded multiple countries. Instead, a real anti-war movement never materialized to challenge one of this nation's most violent presidencies. The people "who have shit to do" that you cited as your fan base, Jon Stewart, should have been out in the streets protesting and putting our 1960s radical parents to shame. But we've got "shit to do." On the Internet, I suppose.
Ironically, the Rally to Restore Sanity repeats the liberal establishment's greatest error: when Republicans go on attack -- either at home with lies or abroad with bombs -- hunker down somewhere in the middle and plead for civility. This young century's great problems are a government abetting ruthless misadventure at Wall Street and the Pentagon, not rudeness and rank partisanship. Jon Stewart, you are funny as hell. I laugh with you most weekday nights. But your march is seriously dumb, and I'm laughing at you. One of those sad, what-the-fuck-is-wrong-with-the-world laughs that so define our political moment.
Please read the full article at:
http://www.alternet.org/media/148254/hey_jon_stewart,_wtf_how_can_you_compare_crazy,_lying_right-wingers_to_progressives?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&utm_campaign=alternettop_storiesStewart and Colbert should announce their support to the October 2nd March on Washington and urging their supporters to attend.
Or they could just urge their supporters to be on the mall on that date and indicate they will speak to their followers on that day.
I'm sure the march organizers would love to have them both address the rally.
BBI