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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Top Stories Most Popular Photos Full Coverage Sitemap Amid bitter US campaign, comics plead for sanity AFP - 2 hours 26 minutes ago Send IM Story Print Amid bitter US campaign, comics plead for sanity WASHINGTON (AFP) - – Liberal US funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert hold a mass rally in Washington Saturday billed as an antidote to the ugly political mood polarizing America in the run-up to mid-term elections. The Rally to Restore Sanity and the March to Keep Fear Alive are expected to draw over 100,000 participants to the National Mall in Washington, just three days before Americans go to the polls at the end of a bitter election campaign. Although organizers insist it is non-political, many see the rally as a liberal response to the ultra-conservative Tea Party movement, which has held events across America to oppose what it views as growing government intrusion. Right-wing radio talk show host Glenn Beck appalled liberals in August when he hosted a rally "to restore honor" on the anniversary and at the site, on the Mall, of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech. At least 80,000 people -- hundreds of thousands according to organizers -- turned out to Beck's rally to show their opposition to President Barack Obama and what they call his administration's big government or "socialist" policies. Two weeks later, Stewart and Colbert, considered two of the funniest men in America thanks to their primetime political satire shows on Comedy Central, announced twin rallies on the Mall which were later combined into one. The name "The Rally to Restore Sanity" is an unabashed dig at Beck's event. The organizers of Saturday's event are billing it as a 21st-century version of the Woodstock music festival held in upstate New York in the midst of the Vietnam War, "with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement." "The focus of the rally is the ugliness of political debate: the Hitler comparisons, the head-stomping, the conspiracy theories, the assumption that your opponent is also your enemy and must always be assumed to be acting in bad faith," James Poniewozik said in an article in Time Magazine. He was referring to posters at Tea Party rallies depicting Obama as Adolf Hitler and a recent incident at a campaign event in Kentucky when a liberal activist was pushed to the ground and stepped on by a Tea Party supporter. Eileen Robinson wrote on the rally's Facebook page that she will be carrying a sign on the Mall that reads: "I'm a pro-life Democrat but I'm pretty sure that doesn't make me Hitler." Barbara Benagh was flying in from Boston for the rally. "After months of depressing displays we can't wait to see other sane people and feel better," she said on the rally's Facebook page. The event has become "an assertion of left-wing values" not seen since January 2009, when some 1.5 million people overflowed the Mall for Obama's inauguration, Anna Fifield wrote in London's Financial Times. A quarter of a million people from around the United States and Canada have said on the rally's Facebook pages that they are coming to Washington for the three-hour event, which begins at noon (1600 GMT). Those who attend will be treated to brief sets by musical artists, a rendition of the US national anthem by an unnamed artist, and, of course, appearances by Stewart and Colbert. Newspapers have tried to draw the organizers of the rally into a competition with the Tea Party on numbers, but a spokeswoman for Comedy Central refused to take the bait, telling AFP jokingly: "As for projected attendance numbers, we're saying 400 million." More than 1,000 applications were received by the organizers from reporters and media groups, including from Japan, Switzerland and Russia, seeking to cover the rally, making it more popular than the pope when he visited the United States in 2008. The event has even spawned smaller spin-offs around the United States and world, from one "at the Gazebo in the park, just north of the fire station" in Memphis, Tennessee, to another near the Eiffel Tower in Paris and at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque in Israel. 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