Video: The Moment a ‘Daily Show’ Host Realizes What His Audience Is

Ho hum, nothing to see here, just a left-leaning audience laughing at and cheering coordinated domestic-terror attacks on their political opponents. This isn’t a scene from today’s ‘Tesla Takedown’ protests either — about which more in a moment — but a moment from Comedy Central’s Daily Show, which is supposed to be more broad-minded. Or at least funny in a ha-ha manner rather than peculiar.

The audience reaction seemed to startle the host, too — or maybe that was the reaction the show had hoped to prompt with this segment on Tesla attacks (via Twitchy):

“Wow, you guys like domestic terror”

The Daily Show’s audience applauds the domestic terror incidents against Tesla, disturbing even the liberal host… pic.twitter.com/WAyFPS0ZrK

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 20, 2025

Hilarious! Arson and mayhem are so much fun when it gets committed against Approved Targets Of The Two-Minute Hate. Or perhaps that’s just the natural state of the Left generally. After all, as Dustin Grage reminds us, these are the same people who cheered violence on a larger scope and scale a few years ago:

These were the same people that cheered on as Minneapolis burned for four consecutive days.

— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) March 20, 2025

Grage just got swatted a few days ago, so he has a particular insight into this phenomenon. However, it wasn’t just the people cheering on the riots. The media that kept insisting that four days of arson and terrorism in Minneapolis were “mostly peaceful” protests were likely composed of the same ilk. I’m surprised that the media hasn’t called the anti-Tesla terrorism “mostly peaceful,” too.

That brings us to what organizers say will be lawful demonstrations today called the “Tesla Takedown.” Leftists will gather at Tesla dealers in an attempt to torpedo the only car manufacturer in the West that is fully committed to delivering on the Left’s climate-change agenda. The Verge covers the movement to cut off the proverbial nose out of spite for the face:

Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th, organizers said during a mobilizing call Wednesday.

The protests started at a handful of Tesla locations in early February, and has grown to hundreds of locations across the world, as more people have come out to demonstrate against CEO Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government. Waving signs and chanting slogans, the so-called Tesla Takedown protesters have become a flashpoint for opposition to Musk’s actions to eliminate federal aid programs and fire tens of thousands of government employees as the head of DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency. …

“The things that we’re fighting for, we are fighting for our country,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Tex.) said. “We’re fighting for democracy. We’re fighting for our freedoms. And when I say fighting, I’m saying that figuratively. Obviously, everything that I am promoting is nonviolent.”

Is it really “obviously”? 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett asks activists to take down Tesla and Elon Musk on her birthday pic.twitter.com/Y0chSa8IB1

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 20, 2025

Has Crockett called for an end to violence against Tesla dealers and Tesla car owners? Has any Democrat in current leadership called for an end to domestic terrorism targeting Elon Musk and his employees? Chuck Schumer? Hakeem Jeffries? Kamala Harris? Tim Walz? 

Actually, Walz has been chortling with glee over a recent drop in Tesla’s stock price. And that seems rather strange to Power Line’s Scott Johnson and Fox News reporter Bill Melugin:

As Gov. Walz gloats about Tesla stock dropping, records from the Minnesota State Board of Investment show that as of 6/30/24, the state of Minnesota had 1.6 million shares of Tesla in its retirement fund, and 211,000 shares of Tesla in its non-retirement fund. I’ve reached out to… https://t.co/W0EA0cPASS pic.twitter.com/r1obVBpfU7

— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 19, 2025

As Minnesota governor, Walz is chairman of the Minnesota State Board of Investment. As of June 2024, according to the state board’s asset listing, it held 1,615,511 shares of Tesla common stock. Is he celebrating the decline in value of Tesla stock as chairman of the state board? Assuming the state board still holds Tesla common stock, someone in the news business really ought to ask him.

As of June 2024, the market value of the state board’s holdings in Tesla was up more than $150,000,000 and, if my math is mathin’ (which it may not be), it appears to have increased since then. Is that good or bad? Someone in the news business really ought to ask him. However, if the state board still holds the stock, he would not take questions along this line well. That much I can tell you.

The Star Tribune had two reporters on its story quoting Walz’s Tesla tirade, but no information about the current level of the state board’s investment in Tesla. The state board’s holdings and values are as of June 2024 are posted here.

Let’s go back to The Verge for one last look at the aim for today’s Two Minute Hate — er, Tesla Takedown:

“If we kill the Tesla brand, if we drive down the stock price low enough, we can force him to sell his stock to pay back the billions of dollars of debt that he took on to buy Twitter,” [Micah] Lee said. “This will drive Tesla’s stock into a death spiral.”

There’s a brand being killed and being sent into a “death spiral,” but it’s not Tesla’s. Voters may not be confident in Musk’s role in cutting government spending, but they overwhelmingly want government spending and overreach cut back. Terrorizing people for owning or selling Musk’s vehicles — or even cheering it on or refusing to condemn it — will paint Democrats as even more radical, even more dangerous, and even more despicable. If Democrats want to align themselves with domestic terrorists, voters will have no trouble remembering that at the ballot box.