Jon Stewart Piles On ‘Morning Joe’ For Blaming Racist Frat Chant On Rap Music (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart joined the masses piling on the hosts and panelists of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" for suggesting that rap music was to blame for the racist chant that got a fraternity chapter banned from the University of Oklahoma.
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Jon Stewart on Wednesday night joined the masses piling on the hosts and panelists of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” for suggesting that rap music was to blame for the racist chant that got a fraternity chapter banned from the University of Oklahoma.

“The kids on that bus weren’t repeating a rap song that they had heard,” Stewart said on “The Daily Show.” “They were gleefully performing one of their fraternity’s old, let’s call them anti-Negro spirituals, featuring a word that predates rap — and probably folk — and thought.”

Stewart then turned to Fox News and lambasted the network’s talking heads for negating the role of race in incidents like the OU fraternity chant. One Fox guest went as far as to declare that “racism is on its last leg.”

“It’s a pretty strong fucking leg,” Stewart said.

Watch below via Comedy Central:

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  1. I am going to miss Stewart so much. Who is there who can call out jerks like Scarborough and Kristol?

  2. That last bit really sums up how ridiculously stupid the argument being made by conservatives is.

  3. let’s call them anti-Negro spirituals

    Jon you slay me. I’m really going to miss you.

  4. In my opinion, everything that comes out of conservatives mouth is stupid.

  5. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Last leg? Uh huh. Cons must have found a new word to replace racist.

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