Jon Stewart Defends His 'Rally to Restore Sanity' on Rachel Maddow

Jon Stewart has taken some heat in the liberal world for the relatively tepid political ideology of his “Rally to Restore Sanity.” This site  got in on the criticism too. The flack obviously bugged Stewart, because he went on Rachel Maddow last night to clarify the ideology behind the event. He seemed to suggest the entire thing was an exercise in media criticism–a desperate plea to end the media’s tendency to rhetorically divide every issue into a red state/blue state catfight.

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