Jon Stewart Has No Jokes for Charleston in Last Night’s Stirring Monologue

Jon Stewart opened Thursday’s The Daily Show with the topic on everyone’s mind: the deadly shooting at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Normally, Stewart said, his job is fairly easy — he watches the news, writes a joke about it, and he’s “out the door.� But there’s some news you just can’t joke about, and so for Charleston, Stewart said he has “nothing but sadness.� He went on to criticize the “nuanced language� some in the media have used to explain the attacker’s actions, calling the hate crime a violent “terrorist attack.� “This wasn’t a tornado,� he put it plainly, “this was a racist.�