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Rally-Goers: 'Stop the Insanity, America!' [VIDEO]

Oct 30, 2010 – 9:16 PM
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Barry Weintraub

Barry Weintraub Contributor

(Oct. 30) -- With liberals and conservatives snapping at each other like vicious hamsters, you have a country that is ripe for political comedy. But meaningful political discourse? That's not really happening.

If there was one thing we heard repeatedly at Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" it's that the polarity between left and right has become so strident, meaningful discourse is becoming impossible.

Of course, the media amplifies the worst of it, and the result is making everyone in both parties unhappy.

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