Jon Stewart Says Press, Politicians Are Creating Extremism
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Comedy Central television hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert criticized the media at their “Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” in Washington, blaming the press and politicians for creating a political atmosphere dominated by extremist rhetoric.
“The image of Americans that is reflected back to us by our political and media process is false,” Stewart, 47, told a crowd gathered on the National Mall yesterday for an afternoon of musical performances and comedy by the two television political satirists. “We work together to get things done every damn day.”