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Gutfeld nicely sums up Jon Stewart’s rally

based in part on his life experiences:

My point: every single day of my life was a Jon Stewart rally. Everyone around me was pleasant, usually white, and always reveling in their reflexive assumptions about the "rest" of less hip America. Yep, they were my people when we got hammered. But because of my beliefs, I was not theirs on election day. And they'd hammer me for that.

That's why when I watch the rally, i just wondered, who needs it?

Well, maybe to show a divide between two groups: The tea party was about candidates; The sanity rally was about celebrity.

Because, that was the message. The teapartiers are reacting to alarming stuff: the insane spending, the bottomless deficit, weird appointments, political arrogance -it's real anxiety over real trouble for future offspring.

Stewart's rally says, "Ignore that. Check out Cat Stevens!" With a load of flashy entertainment and outsized personalities - they are the band playing on the TItanic - enjoying the applause as we see the shadow of the iceberg.

There's not much I can, or need add to that.  Except maybe to highlight the fact that at a rally supposedly celebrating tolerance and moderation, one of the headline acts was musician Cat Stevens. Or I should say, formerly known as Cat Stevens, because now he goes by Yusuf Islam.  And what is the singer of the anthem Peace Train most noteworthy for over the last 20 years? For supporting the Fatwa against Salman Rusdie...Which he now claims is all a big joke...

As Cap'n Ed noted:

When confronted with a choice between freedom of speech and homicidal religious zealotry, Cat Stevens chose the latter.

Tolerance! Comity! Moderation! to which I'll add, HYPOCRISY!

[UPDATE]: Daily Caller's Jim Treacher adds his thoughts on Stewart's, "clown nose on/clown nose off", sctick.  This one has plenty of video exhibits, and is well worth checking out.

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