http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/08/1356392/-Jon-Stewart-mad-about-his-mistake-Fox-News-only-needs-to-be-right-once?detail=facebook#
Last week Jon Stewart had an "impromptu theme" of social injustice. In
one his skits he enumerated all the black males that were killed by
police recently. In the process of his enumeration he had a bad call. It
turned out according to the coroner's report that Dante Parker died from from drugs in his body and not from police action. This was according to San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael Ramos.
"District Attorney Ramos is right," said Jon Stewart. "We were wrong.
In our list of unarmed black men shot by police we should not have
included Dante Parker, who according to the county medical examiner,
died of a PCP overdose. So I am sorry about that. We should not have
done that."
For that mistake Jon Stewart points out an interesting thing. "Now
rather than having to have the uncomfortable conversation about a
judicial system that may be biased or a disturbing pattern of unarmed
black men being shot by police or a certain element of militarization
and force that has crept into certain aspects of law enforcement
culture—my stupidity, my sloppiness. I did this to me.—can become an
opportunity to negate that entire conversation and shift it back to
slightly safer, let's say less nuanced ground."
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