“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart enjoyed a layup on Wednesday night after Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) announced he would soon resign his office after a media frenzy over his finances as a lawmaker.
Schock’s now-infamous excesses allegedly included purchasing an expensive replica of what appears to be the presidential lecturn, and allegedly using taxpayer money to take his staff to a Chicago Bears game, a weekend trip to New York, and an out-of-state Katy Perry concert. (Stewart: “The interns can’t go to an in-state Katy Perry concert!”)
But apparently Schock stepped over the line when he reportedly billed the U.S. government for 170,000 miles on his personal car, when the vehicle turned out to have only clocked 80,000 miles on the odometer.
“Congressman, why did you have to ruin your fun, maybe-fraud party with what appears to be actual fraud?” Stewart asked.
The biggest laugh came not from one of Stewart’s lines, but from a clip of Shock’s father, who said he knew his son would be successful in a couple years.
“Two years from now he’ll be successful — if he’s not in jail,” Schock’s father said.
Back in the studio, Stewart assured the elder Schock, “don’t sell him short, even if he is in jail, I think he’ll be successful there as well.”
“He’ll be the baddest ass in the whole clinker man!” Stewart shouted. “Not only will he cut you, he’s gonna Instagram that shit!”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
This post has been updated.
Think about it.
Had this guy not been tripped up, he would have done all this, gotten away with it, campaigned on superior moral and nationalistic virtues, and possibly gotten elected to the Presidency, where he and his party would work to craft a legacy for all time completely at odds with the truth.
Aaron Schock. Bob McDonnell. The “rising young stars” of the Republican Party. All cut from the same corrupt, conservative cloth.
Maybe Aaron Schock can learn to practice what he preaches whilst behind bars. He can refuse his government provided Jello and his 27 cents an hour salary.
Schocka Wocka Flocka apparently is flaming out.