After a week-long hiatus, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show descended from his luxurious penthouse in Manhattan to show solidarity with the Ferguson protestors. Since Stewart had none of the facts on his side, the comedic host's intellectual posturing descended into nothing more than snarky ad hominem attacks on Fox News devoid of any serious critical thinking.
Leading off with his usual shtick of quickly relaying several Fox News clips stating the truth about what happened in Ferguson, Stewart took great offense when Fox contributor Bernie Goldberg pleaded with Americans to "not turn this kid into some kind of civil rights martyr" and that "Ferguson, Missouri is not Selma, Alabama."
Accompanied by photos of Martin Luther King Jr. locking arms with fellow protestors in Selma, Alabama, Stewart fired back at Goldberg by saying, "If Fox had been around for Selma, Alabama, the headline would probably have been 'Relax: Selma Isn't Slavery.'"
Of course, Stewart did believe that protests over a grand jury eschewing the indictment of an officer acting in self-defense against a black teen who just robbed a convenience store are exactly the same as protests against government-sanctioned segregation because the protests he "saw seem pretty civil rights-y." Stewart did not explain exactly how the protests were "civil rights-y," but merely claimed that they just looked that way.
Stewart then aimed at Sean Hannity for insinuating that protests over Michael Brown's death stemmed from propaganda from the likes of race hustlers like Al Sharpton, Eric Holder, and President Obama who created a hateful, angry "mind-set" among the black community in Ferguson.
"Are those the three people responsible?" Stewart asked. "Or did you just name the only three black guys you could think of?"
Stewart did not address the well-documented fact that Al Sharpton has been in Ferguson since day one and attended every press conference with Michael Brown's family, that Eric Holder visited Ferguson and vowed to "seek justice" against officer Darren Wilson, and President Obama continuously politicized the event to make generalized statements about "bad feelings" toward law enforcement in the black community.
The segment concluded when Stewart attempted to paint the folks at Fox News as hypocrites for saying men like Al Sharpton created unnecessary panic in the black community while the network supposedly has been creating unnecessary panic among conservatives with stories about Obama's lawlessness, attacks on religious liberty, and the "war on Christmas."