Last week, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show took a blow when San Bernardino District Attorney Mike Ramos rebuked Stewart in a Youtube video for misrepresenting facts in a case he handled earlier this year where a black man named Dante Parker died from an overdose on PCP after being tasered by Police.
Following the Ferguson grand jury's decision to eschew the indictment of Officer Darren Wilson for shooting black teenager Michael Brown in self-defense, Stewart responded with outrage, lamenting that Michael Brown's death seemed overtly analogous to other "police shootings," including Dante Parker's case, among others, throughout the nation.
Since Dante Parker had not been shot by police, as Stewart stated, District Attorney Mike Ramos took grievous offense to Stewart's segment, saying it only helped to build unnecessary animus toward police officers and ignored the unfortunate fact that police officers die in the line of duty.
Monday night, Stewart finally responded to Ramos and gave a sincere apology for misrepresenting the facts.
"District attorney Ramos was right," Stewart said. "We were wrong. I'm sorry about that. I shouldn't have done that."
Despite his apology, Stewart did not apologize for the multitude of other factual errors, left-wing biases, half-truths that constantly pervade his show, much less the factual errors that pervaded his show during the Michael Brown case. Not having facts on his side, Stewart ignored autopsy reports refuting that Michael Brown had been shot in the back and ignored the multitude of black witnesses who corroborated Officer Darren Wilson's account of events in favor of bashing Fox News for criticizing Michael Brown sympathizers.
Having got the apology off his chest, Stewart then took aim at his critics, primarily those at Fox News, whom he accused of exploiting his, self-allegedly, one faux-pas to slander his name, which he found hypocritical. Since Stewart makes an annual salary of $30 million doing exactly that to conservatives, framing them as racist, sexist, greedy, homophobes who care nothing about poor people, his highly immature reaction to those who rightly rebuked him misrepresenting the Dante Parker case proves he really cannot take the taste of his own medicine.
"The Daily Show has to be right 100 percent of the time," Stewart said. "Fox only has to be right once."
Then it got really ugly. After relaying a clip of Fox's Brian Kilmeade slamming Stewart's attack on law enforcement, reminding the comedic host that "85 NYPD officers were killed after 9/11," Stewart took the gloves off.
"F*ck you, Brian!" Stewart exclaimed. "Seriously, f*ck you! That is so far out of line that even in the confines of this bit, ostensibly accepting blame for the factual error I really do regret, f*ck you."
"By the way, jackass," Stewart continued. "You can truly grieve for every officer who has been lost in the line of duty in this country and still be troubled by cases of police overreach."
Fair enough, but Stewart has given no credence to the idea that conservatives can still care about black people without sending an innocent police officer to jail.