On Wednesday night, Jon Stewart couldn’t quite process why a bill about pigs was making news in New Jersey.
News reports informed the host of “The Daily Show” that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) had a “pig problem,” after he declared he would veto a bill banning “gestation crates” that house pigs on farms.
The crates prevent pigs from moving much at all, and even drive many of the animals insane. But a photo of bacon served as a counterargument, keeping Stewart on the fence.
Still, the New Jersey state legislature passed a bill banning the crates that was backed by 93 percent of voters.
So why is Christie vetoing the bill? Banning the crates remains extremely unpopular with farmers in the Iowa, a state which happens to host one of the first key contests in the GOP presidential race.
“Well you know, I guess you can’t ignore the citizens of Iowa who elected you governor of New Jersey,” Stewart said before he did a double take. “Wait a minute, what’s going on here?”
The host to cut to a montage of Christie rattling off his favorite line: that his job is to stand up “for the people of New Jersey” and put them ahead of “petty, personal politics.”
Stewart donned his thickest New Jersey accent: “With uh, of course, the obvious exceptions of bridges and pigs. Fuck them.”
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Mocking the pig Christie is getting easier by the day
Bridge, ahem, is actually a thing in some places [NSFW] HT to Live Leak via Tosh.O
Why do CC video clips always have autoplay set on?
That should not be the default!
What else could New Jerseys favorite thug do?
Christie is unraveling and folding like a lawn chair.
The guy comes out smelling like a greaseball in everything he does these days.
The mere thought of toning down his obnoxiousness and trying to seem Presidential has wrecked his whole deal. He needs to get back to be being his rude-fatass, bullying self. Not huge and nicer doesn’t work for him and neither does attempting to play non-thuggish Jersey jerkwad.
He begged for his Obama bucks and got them and kept them and even snuck in a ‘big’ hug on the President. That is literally as close to being President as he’s ever going to get.
The pig cage that Christie needs to worry is the one made out of steel bars and has a roommate in it named Bubba.