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Restoring sanity
in the nation’s capitol
Photos and Sto»y by Lindsay Fendt
Photo Edita-
East Coast, West Coast, old, young.
Democrat, Republican. Americans of
all sorts flooded The National Mall in
Washington, D.C. on Saturday, cdl with the
same message: please be sensible.
“We need change. We can't keep going
the way we are going,” said Dave Zeilenger,
who came to the rally with his wife from
Kansas City, Mo. to support the political
message.
Approximately 215,000 people came
for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
According to Stewart, the goal of the
rally was to show the government the
American people’s desire for a less
polarized system.
“The political situation is a mess,” said
Elon sophomore Scott Richardson, who
attended the rally.
A number of other Elon students
attended the event, including several
students who covered the rally for their
multimedia journalism class.
“I expected a chance for my students
to see what it is like covering a large,
complex event,” said Amanda Sturgill,
professor of the class.
Among the students attending the
event was sophomore Sarah Dodge, who
said she felt that this rally was a unique
opportunity for college students to get
involved politically.
“For me, it was a way of getting heard
without holding a pro-choice sign above
my head,” Dodge said.
On the main stage, the events were
centered around comedy, but on the
periphery, there were plenty of political
messages, including tolerance of others.
Attendees hoisted signs ranging from
“Snooky Palin 2012” to “Do you believe in
sanity clause?”
like their shows on Comedy Central,
all of Stewart and Colbert’s comedy had
underlying tones of political satire.
“While what they were saying was
funny and light-hearted, they did a great
job of getting their point across,” Dodge
said. “The extremism in the media has
gone too fcir.”
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