Jon Stewart went over all the weird revelations that have come out of the federal corruption case against former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) and his wife on Thursday’s “The Daily Show.”
Stewart found it particularly “f*cked up” that Maureen McDonnell pitched Ann Romney a dietary supplement manufactured by Jonnie Williams, the donor at the center of the couple’s gifts scandal, as a cure for her multiple sclerosis.
“How do those two live with themselves?” Stewart said, before positing that Williams probably came up with a pill that made them forget when they “trivialized a woman’s debilitating and incurable disease so that a wacked-out supplement huckster would buy you a watch.”
The comedian didn’t buy the defense that the McDonnells couldn’t have conspired to promote Williams’ company because their marriage was on the rocks, either, pointing out that “you don’t have to be happily married to be corrupt.” But Williams testified that he never had an affair with the first lady, nor was he aware that she had a “crush” on him, despite some emails that would suggest otherwise.
“What are they, in f*cking 4th grade? What is this?” Stewart asked. “Williams didn’t pick up on the signals? I guess because he’s a crazy-eyed inventor, got his head filled with so many ideas doesn’t know when the ladies are trying to hit him up!”
But according to Stewart, the real victim in the gifts scandal appears to be “family values” man Bob McDonnell.
“Wow, I guess by your own definition, you’re a terrible person,” Stewart quipped.
Watch below, courtesy of Comedy Central:
One of his best ever.
It’s too bad that more politicians aren’t getting busted like these two did.
Stewart is too kind. The McDonnells never graduated from kindergarten (No, I don’t know why we still call it that.)
Unfortunately, the exaggerated zany antics that we see on Stewarts show can’t compare to the mirth and satire worthy antics created by elected leaders in real life. To the people that put them in office…what in God’s name are you thinking? I know…I know…they are only a part of the despicable machine that gets rubber stamped in the illusory facade that pretends to foster a representative democracy. As long as the influence of money dictates the outcome of every race their is no chance of limiting the depth and breadth of corruption in the current system and changes to the process are light years away.
‘What Are They, In 4th Grade?’
yes. Mrs.McDonnell could have married Fred, who now is the rich owner of a mafia-controlled construction company. she’d be living in the style to which she’d like to become accustomed. but no, she married Bob who was supposed to become a rich lawyer, but instead became the gov. of VA, which hardly pays anything at all. she’s entitled, dammit!
then that nice (rich) Jonnie came along, and gave her nice things, and put up with her constant whining (because they don’t live together), maybe she should have ignored mother, and married him. oh, it’s so hard for a girl to know which man’s pockets are actually deeper!