Jon Stewart really does have a way with words -- a way that people should listen to ...

The Daily Show gave a raw and impassioned opening monologue last night in the wake of the Charleston shooting at the AME church which left nine people dead and a country in mourning. In his opening speech, Stewart, who is usually chock full of jokes, somberly addressed the racially motivated murders of nine black churchgoers and the hypocrisy of South Carolina.

    “I honestly have nothing other than sadness that once again we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn’t exist. I’m confident though that by acknowledging it—by staring into it—we still won’t do jack shit. That’s us. And that’s the part that blows my mind…What blows my mind is the disparity of response. When we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves…We invade two countries and spent trillions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives and now fly unmanned death machines over like five or six different counties, all to keep Americans safe. We’ve got to do whatever we can—we’ll torture people. We’ve got to do whatever we can to keep Americans safe. But nine people shot in a church— ‘Hey, what are you going go to do? Crazy is as crazy is, right?’ That’s the part that, for the life of me, I can’t wrap my head around. And you know it’s going to go down the same path.”


We're glad Stewart is there to point out the things people need to hear. We will miss him when he's gone ...