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It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?

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David Sedaris
Age: 67
Born: 1956
Born: December 26
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Binghamton
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