Justice & Law Quote by Jon Stewart

Stewart’s joke turns on a deliberately obtuse misunderstanding: he pretends the Supreme Court’s ADA decision is the first step toward pampering golfers, as if letting a disabled player use a cart is equivalent to inventing unfair “help” in a sport already built on hired help. The punch line lands because golf is one of the few games where outsourcing physical labor is not only allowed but traditional. “Some guy carry his clubs around for him” is the oldest perk in the sport: the caddie. Stewart’s mock alarm exposes the slippery logic behind so many anti-accommodation arguments, where basic access gets reframed as special treatment.

The intent is classic Daily Show-era cultural critique: take a legal ruling with real consequences and reveal the bad faith in the backlash by pushing it one notch past reason. Stewart isn’t litigating the ADA; he’s ridiculing the reflex that treats disability rights as an inconvenience to “purity,” especially when the institution claiming purity is already cushioned by money and custom. Golf’s etiquette, exclusivity, and quiet privilege make it an ideal target: the sport looks like meritocracy from a distance but runs on built-in advantages up close.

Context matters: Casey Martin’s case (PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin, 2001) was a high-profile test of whether accommodation “fundamentally alters” competition. Stewart’s line punctures the sanctimony of that debate, reminding viewers that fairness is often invoked selectively - strict for the disabled, flexible for everyone else.