WASHINGTON — “The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart is hosting a “Million Moderate March” in Washington, but faux political nemesis Stephen Colbert will be nearby to keep fear alive against those “dark, optimistic forces.”
Colbert, host of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” and his archenemy on the network plan to hold opposing political rallies Oct. 30 on the National Mall.
“We’re looking for people who think shouting is annoying, . . . who feel that the loudest voices shouldn’t be the only ones that get heard,” Stewart writes in promotion for his rally.
Colbert’s “March to Keep Fear Alive” is intended to restore “truthiness” to the nation. He wrote the United States is built on three bedrock principles: freedom, liberty and fear.
“They want to replace our fear with reason,” he wrote. “But never forget ‘reason’ is just one letter away from ‘treason.’ “
