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  • >> Jon: WE'RE BACK.

  • WELCOME TO "THE DAILY SHOW."

  • SO NICE TO SEE YOU.

  • MY NAME IS JON STEWART.

  • MY GUEST TONIGHT DAVID ROSE AUTHOR OF "ENCHANTED OBJECTS."

  • OBVIOUSLY, THOUGH, THE EMMYS.

  • COLBERT REPORT. CONGRATULATIONS, TO THEM. ALWAYS WELL DESERVED.

  • ONCE AGAIN. GREAT JOB. BUT FIRST, OBVIOUSLY, THE BIG NEWS

  • OF THE LAST FEW WEEKS, THE TOWN OF FERGUSON, MISSOURI.

  • WHERE THE SHOOTING BY POLICE OF TEENAGER MICHAEL BROWN HAS

  • SPARKED A SERIES OF PROTESTS, WHICH IN TURN SPARKED A LET'S

  • SAY STERN RESPONSE BY POLICE WHO APPEAR TO BE

  • AUDITIONING FOR ROBO COP. IT'S A, IT'S A STORY

  • THAT HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE OUTRAGED AND UPSET.

  • >> I CAME BACK FROM VACATION BECAUSE I'M FURIOUS.

  • >> OF COURSE YOU ARE. AN UNARMED BLACK TEENAGER GUNNED DOWN

  • IN THE STREETS BY POLICE UNDER SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.

  • WHO WOULDN'T CUT THEIR VACATION SHORT TO REGISTER THEIR FURY.

  • YOU'D HAVE TO BE A MONSTER OR IN MY CASE ENJOYING A PARTICULARLY

  • NICE VACATION.

  • BUT GOOD ON YOU, MR. O'REILLY, FOR COMING BACK.

  • UNLESS OF COURSE YOU'RE FURIOUS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE.

  • >> FURIOUS ABOUT HOW THE SHOOTING DEATH OF 18-YEAR-OLD

  • MICHAEL BROWN IS BEING REPORTED, AND HOW VARIOUS

  • PEOPLE ARE REACTING TO IT.

  • >> Jon: YES!

  • THAT IS THE OUTRAGE.

  • THE SHOOTING OF MICHAEL BROWN AND ANY LACK OF TRANSPARENCY

  • FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPONSIBLE FOR SAID INCIDENT IS

  • OUTRAGEOUS IN HOW IT HAS BEEN REPORTED.

  • [LAUGHING] >> AND, I GUESS THAT'S NOT THE

  • ONLY REASON TO BE ANGRY.

  • >> IS HE GOING TO GET A FARE SHAKE, THIS OFFICER?

  • >> THERE HAS BEEN A RUSH TO JUDGMENT.

  • >> ERIC HOLDER FLIES INTO FERGUSON.

  • >> YEAH.

  • >> YOU KNOW, WITH HIS, WITH HIS, YOU KNOW, SUPER HERO CAPE.

  • >> THIS MANTRA OF THE UNARMED BLACK TEENAGER SHOT BY A WHITE

  • COP. YOU KNOW, THAT DESCRIPTION

  • IN AND OF ITSELF ACTUALLY COLORS THE WAY

  • IN WHICH WE LOOK AT THIS STORY.

  • >> Jon: YES, DESCRIBING THE ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CASE.

  • [LAUGHING] >> Jon: REALLY DOES COLOR THE

  • WAY WE LOOK AT IT.

  • WHITE COP, SHOOTS UNARMED BLACK TEEN.

  • DOES SOUND TERRIBLE.

  • WHERE AS SAY HERO COP KILLS ALIEN HUNTING HUMANS FOR SPORT

  • WOULD PUT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SPIN ON THINGS.

  • WHICH THOUGH A VERY ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF THE PLOT OF

  • PREDATOR TWO, IS IN THIS CASE IS -- NOT WHAT HAPPENED.

  • AND, YOU KNOW WHAT THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER STORIES OUT THERE.

  • >> WHY AREN'T WE COVERING NEW YORK.

  • >> WHY AREN'T WE COVERING BLACK ON BLACK CRIME.

  • >> Jon: YES! WHY ALL THE INTEREST IN HOLDING POLICE

  • OFFICERS TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN GANGS?

  • THEY BOTH FLASH COLORS. AND, YES ONE OF THEM HAS BEEN

  • SWORN TO PROTECT AND DEFEND, BUT STILL --

  • >> WELL, THIS WEEKEND 42 PEOPLE WERE SHOT IN CHICAGO.

  • YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE THE PROTESTS.

  • I DON'T SEE THE ANGER.

  • >> IF I WERE AFRICAN-AMERICAN I WOULD BE OUTRAGED THAT MORE

  • JOURNALISTS AREN'T COVERING WHAT'S HAPPENING IN CHICAGO AND

  • MORE OUTRAGED THAT PEOPLE LIKE AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON

  • DON'T HEAD TO THOSE AREAS.

  • >> Jon: YES. WHAT COULD EXPLAIN THE LACK OF OUTRAGE ABOUT

  • AL SHARPTON AND HIS ILK NOT DOING ANYTHING

  • ABOUT BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE IN CHICAGO.

  • >> WITH CHICAGO'S VIOLENCE MAKING NATIONAL HEADLINES, A

  • GROUP LED BY THE REVEREND AL SHARPTON PLANS TO CONVENE AN

  • ANTI-VIOLENCE SUMMIT OF NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS HERE.

  • >> Jon: OH, THAT'S RIGHT BECAUSE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERS DID

  • HOLD A SUMMIT ABOUT THAT IN NOVEMBER. AND HAVE MET AT

  • LEAST THREE TIMES IN THE CITY IN JUST THE LAST 13 MONTHS.

  • WHICH IS NOT TO SAY THAT IT'S BEEN EFFECTIVE. BUT TAKEN ALONG

  • WITH THE PRESIDENT'S MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INITIATIVE

  • WHICH ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THIS VIOLENCE, ALONG WITH THE

  • COUNTLESS VIGILS AND MARCHES WITHIN THESE VIOLENCE TORN

  • COMMUNITIES MEANS THEY ARE TRYING ACTUALLY TO DO SOMETHING.

  • YOU SEE, YOU BEING IGNORANT OF THOSE ATTEMPTS DOESN'T MEAN

  • THE ISSUE ITSELF IS BEING IGNORED IN THE SAME WAY THAT

  • WHEN IT SNOWS WHERE YOU LIVE DOESN'T MEAN THE WORLD

  • ISN'T GETTING HOTTER. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • >> Jon: [BLEEP]. OH, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE

  • BOTHERING YOU, ISN'T THERE?

  • >> WHEN A COP PULLS ME OVER I SAY, I PUT MY HANDS OUTSIDE OF

  • THE CAR. IF I'M CARRYING A WEAPON, WHICH I'M LICENSED TO

  • CARRY IN NEW YORK, THE FIRST THING I TELL THE POLICE OFFICER

  • IS "OFFICER I WANT YOU TO KNOW I HAVE A LEGAL FAREARM IN THE

  • CAR."

  • >> Jon: AND THEN I BRACE MYSELF FOR THE TASER.

  • WELL, WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE FACT YOU GET PULLED OVER SO MUCH

  • BY THE COPS THAT SOMETIMES YOU'RE CARRYING A WEAPON.

  • SOMETIMES YOU'RE NOT. I DON'T KNOW.

  • DEPENDS ON HOW I'M FEELING THAT DAY.

  • BUT, CONTINUE.

  • >> I OFTEN WOULD EVEN TAKE MY -- STEP OUT OF THE CAR, LIFT MY

  • SHIRT UP SO HE COULD SEE WHERE THE GUN IS.

  • [LAUGHING] >> Jon: YOU REALLY DO HAVE NO

  • [BEEP] IDEA, DO YOU?

  • YOU REALLY DON'T. BASICALLY,

  • BASICALLY YOU'RE SAYING... [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

  • IF ONLY MICHAEL BROWN INSTEAD OF HOLDING

  • HIS HANDS OVER HIS HEAD HAD REACHED DOWN TO HIS WAIST ND

  • LIFTED UP HIS SHIRT TO SHOW THE GUN HE DID NOT ACTUALLY HAVE,

  • WELL, THIS WHOLE TRAGEDY COULD OF BEEN AVOIDED.

  • DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND THAT LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY IS INHERENTLY

  • DIFFERENT FOR WHITE PEOPLE AND BLACK PEOPLE?

  • >> A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE TRYING MAKE THIS, DANA, ABOUT BLACK AND

  • WHITE. AND TRYING TO MAKE THIS ABOUT RACE.

  • >> THIS IS PART OF THIS EFFORT TO MAKE IT EVERYTHING ABOUT

  • RACE.

  • >> IS THIS A STORY ABOUT RACE? DO WE KNOW THAT?

  • >> I THINK IT'S PLACING THE RACE CARD.

  • AND I THINK IT'S DISGRACEFUL.

  • >> THE ONLY RACIAL DIVIDE THAT IS BEING CREATED HERE IS

  • BEING CREATED BY THE RACE HATERS.

  • >> YOU KNOW WHO TALKS ABOUT RACE, RACISTS.

  • [LAUGHING] >> Jon: DID YOU JUST -- HE WHO

  • SMELT IT DEALT IT RACISM.

  • DID YOU REALLY? YOU SMELT IT DEALT IT RACISM?

  • ALRIGHT.

  • [ APPLAUSE ] >> Jon: FORGET THAT IN

  • FERGUSON, 94% OF THE POLICE ARE WHITE AND 63% OF THE PEOPLE ARE

  • BLACK, FORGET THAT 92% OF POLICE SEARCHES AND 86% OF CAR

  • STOPS ARE FOR BLACK PEOPLE. FORGET THAT THE WHITE MUNICIPAL

  • GOVERNMENT FINANCES NEARLY A QUARTER OF ITS ANNUAL BUDGET

  • THROUGH THE FINES DISPROPORTIONATELY LEVELED

  • AGAINST THE BLACK POPULATION. FORGET THAT THE HISTORY OF THIS

  • TOWN INCLUDES THIS TASTY NUGGET.

  • >> A 52-YEAR-OLD MAN NAMED HENRY DAVIS SAID THAT FOUR FERGUSON

  • POLICE OFFICERS BEAT HIM AND THEN CHARGED HIM WITH DAMAGING

  • GOVERNMENT PROPERTY BECAUSE HIS BLOOD HAD GOTTEN ON THE

  • OFFICERS' UNIFORMS.

  • >> Jon: SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. YOU GUYS

  • HAVE GOT TANKS BUT YOU CAN'T KEEP A COUPLE OF TIDE STICKS

  • AROUND. BECAUSE HERE'S...

  • HERE IS THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS GOING ON IN

  • THIS CONVERSATION.

  • THIS ISN'T ALL ABOUT JUS ONE MAN KILLED IN ONE TOWN.

  • IT'S ABOUT HOW PEOPLE OF COLOR, NO MATTER THEIR SOCIOECONOMIC

  • STANDING FACE OBSTACLES IN THIS COUNTRY WITH SURPRISING GRACE.

  • LOOK AT, LOOK AT HOW UPSET YOU ALL GET ABOUT CERTAIN THINGS.

  • >> TONIGHT CHRISTMAS UNDER ATTACK.

  • >> Jon: WHY ARE WE ALLOWING ANTI- CHRISTMAS MADNESS?

  • >> WHY DO I HAVE TO DRIVE AROUND WITH MY KIDS TO LOOK FOR

  • NATIVITY SCENES AND BE LIKE,

  • OH YA, KIDS, LOOK THERE BABY JESUS BEHIND THE FESTIVUS POLE

  • MADE OUT OF BEER CANS.

  • IT'S NUTS! >> REMEMBER...

  • >> Jon: REMEMBER, YOU WERE FURIOUS THAT AMERICA'S

  • 11 MONTH LONG CELEBRATION OF CHRISTMAS WASN'T ENOUGH. BUT

  • NOW IF YOU CAN, JUST IMAGINE THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING TO SUFFER

  • THE INDIGNITY OF A FESTIVUS POLE BLOCKING SOMETHING YOU COULD

  • HAVE JUST SET UP IN YOUR OWN YARD ANYWAY -- IMAGINE THAT

  • INSTEAD OF THAT ON A PRETTY CONSISTENT BASIS YOU CAN'T GET A

  • [BEEP] CAB EVEN THOUGH YOU'RE A NEURO SURGEON,

  • CAUSE YOU'RE BLACK. I GUARANTEE YOU.

  • I GUARANTEE YOU THAT EVERY, I GUARANTEE YOU THAT EVERY, THAT

  • EVERY PERSON OF COLOR IN THIS COUNTRY HAS FACED AM INDIGNITY

  • FROM THE RIDICULOUS, TO THE GROTESQUE, TO THE SOMETIMES

  • FATAL AT SOME POINT IN THEIR -- I'M GONNA SAY

  • LAST COUPLE OF HOURS. BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR.

  • QUICK STORY.

  • SO WE LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY.

  • A LIBERAL BASTION.

  • RECENTLY -- LET ME FINISH.

  • RECENTLY WE SENT A CORRESPONDENT AND A PRODUCER TO A BUILDING

  • IN THIS LIBERAL BASTION WHERE WE WERE GOING TO TAPE AN INTERVIEW.

  • THE PRODUCER, WHITE, DRESSED IN WHAT COULD ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS

  • HOMELESS ELF ATTIRE, AND A PRETTY STRONG 5:00 O'CLOCK FROM

  • THE PREVIOUS WEEK SHADOW.

  • STRODE CONFIDENTIALLY INTO THE BUILDING PROCEEDING OUR HUMBLE