Late night conscience Jon Stewart had been absent from television during the two weeks of unrest in Ferguson, enjoying his vacation as Missouri and cable news burned.
Back on Tuesday, the “Daily Show” host gave his take on the horrible situation surrounding the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the fallout that followed, which of course started out with a series of Fox News clips illustrating cluelessness at its finest.
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But there was more to it than just Fox bashing: Stewart used a horrifying mash-up of Fox talking heads denying that the story in Ferguson (which has a 94 percent white police department enforcing its laws in a 63 percent black town) wasn’t about race, to discuss the broader issue of white privilege in American.