I'd never heard the word 'meme before, so thank you. I googled it, and see your point about 'equivalency'.

I, too, was disappointed that Stewart did not just come out and lambast the far right as the true culprits for the divisiveness that infects our society, but that was his theme: If we don't stop it, we're screwed. And to blame it on one party or group would have seen Stewart and Colbert as water carriers for the left, totally destroying the purpose of the rally.

I'm and Ed Shultz fan, and to see him in the frame opposite Glenn Beck irritated the hell out of me. But Stewart's goal was to stop the vein-swelling agitation, not add to it. To show us that we're yelling too loud to hear each other.

I see Ed Schultz, and laud him, my counterpart watching Fox lauds Beck while I call him an instigating asshole. Stewart wanted us to see that both sides have become impossible to deal with, too divided to walk down the same side of the street, at least politically.

Yet it was a touch of genius, I thought, to show us that we do walk down the same side of the street all the time. At the office, laundry, football games, hospitals, we cooperate with each other as a matter of course.

Because, in those venues, we're Americans, not political diffidents.

I thought the message was subtle enough yet arrow straight enough that the persons attending the rally, if they were going to vote, would vote against the Teaparty, primarily because Stewart's audience is progressive to begin with.

Too, I think it probably rallied some vote casting.