Tonight, Jon Stewart tackled Dr. Laura Schlessinger's reprehensible, racist comments (listen here). Specifically, Stewart called out Sarah Palin for blindly/stupidly/hypocritically defending Schlessinger's vitriol when she'd called for Rahm Emanuel's firing last year for essentially the same thing. Video inside.

Yesterday, Dr. Laura Schlessinger shocked her radio show audience when she argued with a black woman about racism and—among other things—said the word "nigger" six times. Today, Schlessinger apologized for her incredibly offensive rant. Audio and transcripts, inside.