I watched with great interest the reaction by the left to Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity. I happened to agree with Bill Maher who took Stewart and co. to task for pretending like both sides are the same. They are most certainly NOT the same. To me, there is something actively wrong with how the right are attacking the current Obama administration. The racism, the hysteria is just plain wrong. Fanning those flames is just plain wrong. It is our inclination as a country to behave as though there is nothing wrong with a white society dominating other ethnic groups. If you bring this up you are considered someone who, god forbid, supports affirmative action. I felt that the Stewart/Colbert rally was weak — and I feel badly about that. There was more to say, more to do with all of those people who took the time to show up on the eve of the November elections. I mean, did they really mean to have a concert for boomers or did they mean to really put forward a message that DOES actually restore sanity? Does he think that any right wingers watch his show? Does he think there is a middle ground here?

So, my devotion to Stewart has wavered a little, not because I don’t think, on some level, that it’s a good idea to call a timeout, but because I think sanity will only be restored when the stupid people like Sarah Palin, the hate-mongerers like Glenn Beck, and the racist, Koch-brother-backed Tea Partiers are taken to task for what they are doing to divide the nation. So, no, sanity is not going to be restored by an Earth, Wind and Fire concert (did they even play?). It will be called when the bullies are taken off of the playground. You don’t pull the bully aside, along with the kids he’s bullying, and act as though there isn’t a clear right and wrong here.

I know that it seems like it’s the right thing to do to act like both sides are behaving equally badly -but it just ain’t so. That’s the plain truth.

That’s all I have to say. Bill Maher said it better: