In a stone cold sober opening, Jon Stewart began last night's edition of The Daily Show with a joke-free monologue on the shooting deaths of nine black Americans in a South Carolina church by a white racist.
"I've got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina."
"Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them who wanted to start some kind of civil war.
"The confederate flag flies over South Carolina. And the roads are named for confederate generals.
"And the WHITE guy's the one who feels like his country is being taken away from him.
"We’re bringing it on ourselves. And that’s the things —al Qaeda, all those guys, ISIS - they’re not shit compared to the damage we can do to ourselves on a regular basis."
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