Leave It to Jon Stewart to Properly Ether Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Their Apologists

Jon Stewart is about to gracefully step away from The Daily Show, so his farewell tour involves him routinely sonning people with his trademark piercing intellect. His latest target(s)? The University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter and its defenders.

During last night's 10-minute verbal assault, he branded SAE "The Brotherhood of the Traveling Chants," then slayed the Morning Joe hosts who faulted hip-hop for the Oklahoma chapter's outrageous racism: 

Two things. First of all, the kids on that bus weren't repeating a rap song that they'd heard. They were gleefully performing one of their fraternity's old, let's call them anti-negro spirituals, featuring a word that pre-dates rap—and probably folk...and thought. Black rappers did not introduce that word into the vernacular.

And second of all, how come when conservatives talk about African-Americans, conservatives say 'These people need to take responsibility for themselves'? Pull up those pants; get a job. But when white people do something racist, they're all, 'Well, you can't blame them. How can those poor children know wrong from right after being driven to madness by the irresistible power of the hippity-hoppity?

Appreciate Jon Stewart while he's here, folks. As the Morning Joe squad proved, good sense certainly isn't common.

[via Gawker]