On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart took an uncharacteristically furious tone as he attacked conservatives for their response to the Saturday morning murders of Minnesota lawmakers Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman.
“The only positive is that the person who perpetrated these acts has finally been caught. Finally,” Stewart said of the tragedy. “But what I was really struck by is what seemed to be on everybody’s mind in the midst of this horror.”
Stewart then played a series of news clips featuring several anchors across different networks deliberating over the assailant’s “motive.” They were quick to point out that he was “a Trump supporter” while also being an “appointee” of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the ex-running mate of former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I mean no disrespect,” Stewart said, heating up with anger. “I don’t give a fuck why this person did it. I just don’t give a fuck. I don’t care whose team he’s on. I don’t care if he listens to NPR or Fox News. I don’t give a flying fuck. What blows my mind is our resignation in the aftermath of this nonsense. ‘What are you gonna do?’ I don’t know, put a shit ton of funding into mental health? Put a shit ton of money into illegal weapons interdiction?”
Stewart continued, “We’re willing to do things about other issues. We just heard about it. Why are they attacking Los Angeles right now? Why is the right so willing to tear our cities apart in this moment?”
The late-night pundit then showed another series of news clips featuring conservatives discussing immigration issues. They claim that “dangerous criminals continue to flood our nation and kill our citizens” and that “one” death of an American is “too many.”
Stewart then launched off on a fiery rant, calling out the hypocrisy in the Republican view on immigration by reciting a laundry list of mass shootings in the United States.
He said, “One is too many. One death. By the way, true. It’s too many. Violence should never be accepted, it should never be tolerated. But that’s for their issue. In the wake of Sandy Hook and Uvalde and Parkland and El Paso and Lewiston and Aurora and Buffalo and Boulder and Binghamton and Highland Park and Monterey Park and San Bernardino and San Jose and San Francisco and the Pulse night club and the Colorado Springs night club and the Little Rock night club and the Borderline Bar in Thousand Oaks and the Ned Peppers Bar in Dayton and the Waffle House in Nashville and Virginia Tech and UVA and MSU and UCSB and FSU and NIU and SMC and the Sutherland Springs Church and the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston and the Living Church of God and the Tree of Life Synagogue and the Allen Mall and the West Roads Mall and Fort Hood and Lockheed Martin and what are we doing? What are we doing? By the way, that is a wildly incomplete list. We kept it to the last 25 years, and it’s still not everything. And what’s their response to all that?”
Another round of news clips then played, where conservative anchors claimed that “Democrats want to take away your guns” and “politicize” mass shootings.
Stewart added, “Turns out, when it comes to mass shootings, one is not too many. Actually, a shit load isn’t too many.”
Watch the entire segment below.
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