Arianna Huffington reports that over 11,000 people have taken her up on her offer to provide a bus ride from New York City to Washington D.C. for the Rally to Restore Sanity, organized by Jon Stewart, of the Daily Show with Steven Colbert who is organizing his March to Keep Fear Alive.
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Stephen Colbert also got in on the action on Wednesday night's episode of the Colbert Report, challenging Arianna to provide "insanity buses' for his rival March To Keep Fear Alive event scheduled the same day in Washington.
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Huffington reported this in an recorded interview, to be broadcast next Wednesday, on the Rob Kall Bottom Radio Show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly and South NJ and also accessible as a podcast at OpEdNews.com and on iTunes, listed as the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show.
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When Jon Stewart heard of Arianna's free bus offer, he responded,
"Oh my God, Arianna just Oprah'ed the buses!" Stewart said. "By the way, I hope that her announcement was real and not some Huffington Post thing where it's not like actual transportation, it's just embedding a link to Greyhound. Like, I hope they're not just being bus aggregators in this situation."
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And here's the original interview from Tuesday night's Daily Show in which Arianna made the pledge:
