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Guests to be interviewed Sunday on major television talk shows:
FOXNEWS SUNDAY WTTG, 9 a.m. Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania andWest VirginiaGov. JoeManchin III (D).
STATEOF THEUNION CNN, 9 a.m. Debate in Florida’s Senate race: Marco Rubio (R),Rep.Kendrick B. Meek (D) andGov.Charlie Crist (I).
THISWEEK ABC,WJLA, 10a.m. TimothyM. Kaine, chairman of the DemocraticNationalCommittee; retiredU.S. ArmyGen.Hugh Shelton, former chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff; Anita Dunn, formerObama WhiteHouse communications director; and Ed Gillespie, former chairman of theRepublicanNational Committee.
NEWSMAKERS C-SPAN, 10a.m. Phil Angelides, chairman of the FinancialCrisis InquiryCommission.
FACE THENATION CBS,WUSA, 10:30a.m. Rep.Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Republican strategistKarl Rove.
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For liberal groups, it’s not just for laughs Mall as a call to arms
In spite of billing, many see rally on
BY SANDHYA SOMASHEKHAR Jon Stewart has tried to paint
the “million moderate march” he will hold on the Mall this Satur- day as a live-action version of his comedy show, a satirical take on political demonstrations. But some liberal groups are
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Rep. ChrisVanHollen (D-Md.), top, will joinGOPstrategist Karl Rove on “Face theNation.”
MEET THEPRESS NBC,WRC, 10:30a.m. Michael S. Steele, chairman of the RepublicanNationalCommittee, and former representativeHarold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.).
WASHINGTONWATCH TVOne, 11 a.m. WhiteHouse senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.
doing their best to adopt the rally as their own. Democratic clubs from colleges across the country are sending buses to the event, offering a seat in exchange for a fewhours of volunteer time. Pres- ident Obama, who seemed to talk up the rally at an event last month, is expected to appear on Stewart’s “The Daily Show” just a fewdays before. And when the Huffington
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Post’s Arianna Huffington an- nounced on the show that she wouldbe offering free transporta- tion to thousands of takers from New York City, she tried to cast herself and Stewart as collabora- tors in the progressive move- ment. “You work on the message,” she told him. “I’ll work on the logistics.” It was, of course, inevitable
that a politically tinged event on the Mall three days before the midterm elections would turn, well, political. In a year when conservatives have been more en- thusiastic, liberals were quick to view the rally as a call to arms — even if it is inspired by amanwho has lately been skewering the Obama administration and who bluntly says he feels no allegiance to their political agenda. The truth is, no one is quite
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rowlead in a close three-way race against state Rep. Tom Emmer (R) and Tom Horner, the Inde- pendence Party candidate. Re- publicans are poised to pick up several governorships now held byDemocrats, but theMinnesota race offers Democrats a rare op- portunity this year to capture a Republican seat. The winner here would succeed Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), who is retiring
after two four-year terms and is a likely 2012 presidential contend- er.
Pawlenty welcomed Obama to
the Land of 10,000 Lakes with a tongue-in-cheek video Saturday. “Some people think we talk
funny here, so I thought I’d help you with some local phrases you might hear,” Pawlenty said in the video. “For example, we say ‘uff- dah.’ If you wanted to use it in a sentence, it would be like, ‘You said unemployment would stay below 8 percent and now it’s almost 10 – uffdah!’”
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sure what to expect on Saturday, despite the almost nightly plugs by Stewart and a fellow “Comedy Central” host, Stephen Colbert. (Colbert, whose comedic persona is that of a blowhard conservative talk show host, had planned his March to Keep Fear Alive as a counter-demonstration to Stew- art’s Rally to Restore Sanity. The combined rally is now officially called, “The Rally to Restore Sani- ty and/or Fear.”) Organizers have been tight-
lipped about the schedule and any special guests, and groups that have reached out in hopes of
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“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart says the rally is not a political event: “I have no obligation to the Democrats or progressives or unions,”
sharing the stage say they have received no response. Still, groups ranging from
PETA to the National Organiza- tion for the Reform ofMarijuana Laws are preparing props and making snarky signs in prepara- tion for the event, and more than 200,000 people have said on Fa- cebook that they will attend.
A question of timing Many conservatives have
watched smugly as liberal activ- ists have become caught up in a gathering that will probably re- semble a circus more than it does a serious political event and that is taking place on a prime day for campaign volunteers to help get out the vote. Brendan Steinhauser, spokes-
man for the “tea party”-affiliated Freedomworks, is a fan of Stew- art’s show and recently appeared on “the Colbert Report,” but he said he will be inWest Virginia on the day of the rally, knocking on doors for Senate candidate John Raese (R). “I’d rather have as many liberals in D.C. that week- end as possible, because I don’t want them out doing the phone calls and get-out-the-vote,” Stein- hauser said. Most large, mainstream groups affiliated with the Demo-
cratic party, such as unions and Organizing for America, say that they do not plan to have any organized presence at the rally and that they are primarily fo- cused on their get-out-the-vote efforts. But they view it as a compan-
ion effort that could bolster their cause, especially among the young people who are Stewart’s core audience and who were inte- gral to the party’s 2008 successes. “This is basically the anti-tea
party rally. It’s saying, These peo- ple are absolutely crazy and we can’t have them in the govern- ment,” saidEmmaEllman-Golan, president of the Democratic club at theUniversity of Pennsylvania. The group is offering bus rides from Philadelphia to the rally for $15 apiece, but is providing $5 discounts to anyone who signs up to volunteer for Democratic cam- paigns in the state on Sunday. Democratic candidates them-
selves have said little about the event. But at a roundtable in Richmond last month, Obama said he was amused by the idea of Stewart’s rally, adding that it was “really important” for peoplewho expectcommonsenseandcourte- sy in their daily interactions to have a rally where their voices can be heard.
To brink of seriousness Stewart is an acknowledged
liberal, but he has said that his first allegiance is to comedy. He has said emphatically in inter- views that the rally is not a political event, but rather a come- dy show for those everyday Amer- icans who are either too busy with their lives or too sensible to get overheated about politics. However, as he does withmany of his jokes, he is taking this one to the very brink of seriousness. When announcing the rally on
his show last month, he said it was aimed at the “70 to 80 per- cent of Americans” who do not believe that “Obama is a secret Muslim planning a socialist take- over of America so he can force his radical black liberation Chris- tianity down our throats. Or that Bush let 9/11 happen to help pad Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stock portfolio.” On public radio’s Fresh Air last
month, Stewart sought to play down suggestions that the event was planned as a take-down of the tea party movement and of Fox personality Glenn Beck, who in August held his Restoring Honor rally on theMall. Stewart drew a sharp contrast
between his goal and that of liberal groups, which at the time were worried that his event could overshadow the One Nation Working Together rally they held early this month. “I have no obligation to the
Democrats or progressives or unions,” he told host Terry Gross. “We’re not warriors in their cause, and if they’re upset, they should have thought of that the last couple of years before they lost the momentum that they gained.” His efforts to shape expecta-
tions of the rally have been over- shadowed by figures such as Huffington and Oprah Winfrey, an Obama ally who is also paying for hundreds of people to attend the rally. And many tea party activists remain convinced that they will be the butt of most of Stewart’s jokes. “Jon Stewart always tries to
make it seem like he rises above it all, and that’s not the case,” said Jamie Radtke, a leading tea party organizer in Virginia. “He cer- tainly has a point of view that’s fairly strident.”
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