Stewart and Colbert Will Help Republicans on a Critical Weekend

Steven Colbert has already done us a service by mocking Congress during his recent testimony, and now he and Comedy Central compadre Jon Stewart will further help the GOP with their D.C. rally the weekend before the election:

With Comedy Central’s “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” scheduled the weekend before the midterm elections, politically minded college students face a choice: Do I want to spend a day with television comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for a party on the National Mall, or sit in a windowless room for hours making cold calls to strangers for a political campaign?

For some members of Democratic college clubs around Washington, the decision is not an easy one.

Commonly known as “Get Out The Vote” weekend (GOTV), college political groups typically spend the waning days before elections volunteering at phone banks and knocking on doors, a free service that many candidates find crucial to last-minute campaigning. But a few campaigns could lose a chunk of their infantry on Oct. 30, when Stewart and Colbert plan to hold massive rallies that promise to draw thousands of young people to the capital city

There's more about this as the link. It's nice to know that all those idealistic Dems will be wasting the day on the Mall in D.C. listening to a couple of comedians.