http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/watch-jon-stewarts-heartbreaking-charleston-shooting-monologue-20150619
"I
heard someone on the news say 'Tragedy has visited this church.' This wasn't a
tornado; this was a racist," Stewart said. "This was a guy with a
Rhodesia badge on his sweater. I hate to even use this pun but this one is
black and white, there's no nuance here."
Stewart
also criticized South Carolina for continuing to celebrate their Civil War
history – "the roads that black people drive on are named for Confederate
generals that fought to keep black people from being able to drive freely on
that road,"
"I don't want to get into the political argument about guns… what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves," Stewart said. "If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our… we invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over five or six different countries, all to keep Americans safe… Nine people shot in a church. What about that?"
"I don't want to get into the political argument about guns… what blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves," Stewart said. "If this had been what we thought was Islamic terrorism, it would fit into our… we invaded two countries and spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over five or six different countries, all to keep Americans safe… Nine people shot in a church. What about that?"
"We're
bringing it on ourselves. And that's the thing: Al Qaeda, all those guys, ISIS,
they're not shit compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves
on a regular basis," Stewart added as he neared the end of the
monologue. He then apologized to the audience, "Sorry about no
jokes."
