Can you summon a movement based on not much more than the force of your personality, a vague identification, and talking about how the media sucks? Sarah Palin and Jon Stewart both already have.

At the outset, a rally asking for less of something and at least partly centered on a television cult of personality didn't seem terribly inspiring. But the people I saw there today actually seemed to take civilized discourse seriously.

[Washington, D.C., October 30: Filthy, America-hating liberals and progressives gather in Washington, DC for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear. Image via Getty.]