TV Smirkers Trumped by Genuine Insanity?

Is it just me, or does yesterday's terrorism lunacy--two Chicago-bound bombs of Yemeni provenance waylaid; a dozen or more similar "presents" perhaps still at large--rather take the wind out of the two rallies on the Washington Mall, rallies convened by two TV smirkers that are intended, supposedly, to "restore sanity" ("sanity" as they see it being the ability to manifest their cool, detached, ironic worldview)?