Monday, Stephen Colbert took a victory lap over the failed #CancelColbert Twitter campaign by declaring that he is assuredly not a racist, taking shots at the media who picked up the story, and comparing his three-day “cancellation” to the death and resurrection of Jesus.

Having the full weekend to prepare for the segment, Colbert came ready to mock those who bought into the campaign. He began by stating that he had learned that "internet equality" is more important than ever, then provided a brief summary of what had taken place over the weekend.

“All this was started by a hashtag activist, or hashtivist,” he said, but then earnestly pleaded with his audience that if any of them are attacking her on account of him, to stop, stating she has the freedom to express her opinion, and admitting that the tweet—emphatically not posted by him—did seem incendiary out of context.

Though he underscored that he was not guilty of posting the tweet, he took the opportunity to declare himself color-blind:

I just want to say that I am not a racist. I don’t even see race, not even my own. People tell me I’m white and I believe them because I just devoted six minutes to explaining that I’m not a racist...

[break for laughter and to take another sip of beer]

And that is about the whitest thing you can do.

Colbert then turned his sights on the media, explaining that after the #CancelColbert campaign exploded on Twitter, the information-challenged mainstream media picked it up:

Then it was picked up by a small group of Americans who get their information only from Twitter: the news media.

After naming most of the major news outlets, Colbert takes a shot at CNN:

CNN even took a break from their Malaysian airliner coverage to report spotting what they thought was the wreckage of my show off the coast of Australia.”

After slapping CNN’s hand, Colbert singled out Michelle Malkin, who called him a “coward” for deleting the tweet, suggestively citing her 2004 book In Defense of Internment, saying “It turns out they had it coming. One less thing for me to feel guilty about.” (Only a handful of the audience got the reference.)

Colbert then pointed out that all of the outrage took place after he had already taped Thursday night’s show, so “in a sense I was canceled for three days.” An image of Jesus appeared next to Colbert and he adopted Christ’s pose and stated, “Just like Jesus.”

He followed the line by taking another swig of beer.

Here's part 2 of the segment: