JON STEWART, HOST: Does he, you know, I only read some of the transcripts of what he was saying. And he was saying certain thing like, “We've got to get rid of this because it's one of the last vestiges of racial preferences,” the Voting Rights Act I guess.

MADDOW: He said that, he said when Congress re-upped the Voting Rights Act, they looked into whether or not it was still necessary. Ten months of debate, 21 hearings, 15,000 pages of evidence, and in the Senate they voted 98-0 yeah we still need that. But he said, “That vote really, what does that vote mean?”

STEWART: Didn’t he say something like, “We told them to fix this in 2006 but clearly they won’t or can't, so we have to do it for them?”

MADDOW: Because it’s not, it’s not a real vote. It’s a racial entitlement now. Voting is a racial entitlement, something that you are entitled to on the basis of your race.

Wait a second. Do you know how that sounds?

But I think he does know how that sounds, and that's the neat thing about being there in person because you can see oh, actually, he's a troll. He’s saying this for effect.

Naturally, this affront forced Fox News host Megyn Kelly to breathlessly rush to Scalia's defense, saying she personally objects to "that kind of language against the Supreme Court justice."

"I don't think it does anybody any good," Kelly said. "I think they vote their consciences up there whether they're left or right." (via TPM). Tellingly, she wouldn't mention Rachel Maddow by name, referring to her only as "a liberal commentator". (And no she didn't use the word "biotch", though you know she was thinking it.)