Jon Stewart's The Daily Show will be airing a segment this week featuring a self-righteous, manipulative, and downright cruel ambush of several Redskins fans who were invited onto the show under the false pretense they were being given the chance to defend the team's controversial name, but were instead met with several Native American activists accusing them of racism. 

According to a report by The Washington Post, several Redskins fans happily signed up for the opportunity to defend their favorite football team on the comedy program despite the fact they knew they'd be mocked. They had no idea the show planned to ambush them and were deliberately misled by The Daily Show's producers into believing that.

Brian Dortch, a Redskins fan who agreed to the invitation, stated he specifically asked if they would be confronted by any real Native Americans, and the producers said no.

“They told us they were going to have a fan panel, and, at some other time, they were going to do a panel with Native Americans,” said Dortch, 38. “So I said back, ‘Just to clarify, specifically, we’re not doing a cross-panel discussion right?’ The producer said, ‘Yeah, right. That would be too serious for Comedy Central.’ ”

The highly tense encounter between the fans and a group of angry Native American activists took place at a Dupont Circle hotel where one fan stated she left in tears and "felt so threatened she later called police." She also told The Daily Show to leave out her segment, but the producers have not indicated they will comply.

“This goes way beyond mocking. Poking fun is one thing, but that’s not what happened,” said Kelli O’Dell, 56, a former teacher who lives in Alexandria and doesn’t watch the show regularly. “It was disingenuous. The Native Americans accused me of things that were so wrong. I felt in danger. I didn’t consent to that. I am going to be defamed.”

The interview took place in a small conference room at the Park Hyatt hotel where the four fans essentially defended their mascot's name while Stewart's minion Jason Jones sarcastically mocked them for supporting an alleged racial slur. 

According to Bobby Wilson, a Native American activist with a group called "The 1491's," while Jones interviewed the fans, he and his fellow 1491ers were waiting in a separate room until time came for the pounce.

“They essentially explained days in advance that the fans are going to be in there, and they’re just going to be essentially justifying the use of the word Redskins and the use of racial imagery, and they’re going to say a lot of things they would most likely not say in front of American Indians — and that we were going to go in there and see if they’d actually say all of that in front of us,” said Wilson, 29. “That was definitely something we could get on board with. It didn’t seem strange or unfair on our end, considering that each of us has always been confronting racism on this level.”

Once the interview ended, Jason Jones then made the transition and invited in the activists for the ambush, according to O’Dell. “Jason says something like, ‘Well, don’t you think it would be great if you could just have a conversation?’ ” she recalled. “He turns around, and Native American people came in, just glaring at us."

O’Dell later said she felt trapped. “I was told that I was ‘psychologically damaging Native American children,’ and every time we tried to say something, we got cut off,” she said.

She said she took off her microphone while they were still filming. As she packed up her belongings, Brennan Shroff, one of the producers, approached her.

“I said to him: ‘This is not how adults behave. This is not anything I signed up for.’ Tears were running down my face. I was shaking,” O’Dell said. “I told him to tear up my contract. He said, ‘I don’t know if I can do that.’ ”

The fans were not upset that Native Americans were invited on the show and said they still probably would've appeared had they known that in advance. They just felt "misled" and "exploited" since they weren't told what was forthcoming. For instance, the producers insisted all fans wear Redskins' swag, something one fan said he would not have done had he known there would have been a debate.