Jon Stewart was on hypocrisy watch on Thursday night, taking aim at Fox News host Megyn Kelly for condemning corruption abroad while celebrating it at home.
The host of “The Daily Show” first ran clips of Kelly and others chasing up recent stories of Hillary Clinton’s alleged favors for foreign donors contributing to The Clinton Foundation.
“The question remains, to whom does she owe favors, because of the politics donations,” Kelly said on her show.
Stewat said that while Kelly and the media were rightly suspicious about foreign donations, no one appears to care about corruption at home.
The host noted that Clinton supporters and super PACs will attempt to raise $2.5 billion dollars for her 2016 run, and reminded everyone of the GOP’s own money machines such as Sheldon Adelson and the Koch brothers.
He contrasted Kelly’s concern for special favors and big money in the Clinton case to her coverage last year when Democrats were looking to crack down on money in politics — which, as Kelly put it, was “basically an attempt to limit the First Amendment.”
“They think that money corrupts in politics and they’re looking to stop that, quote, ‘corruption,'” Kelly said.
“I guess the rule here is that money is free speech, unless that money speaks with a funny accent,” Stewart said.
As the coup de grace, Stewart brought up the case of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who vetoed an overwhelmingly popular measure to ban inhumane gestation crates for pigs.
“Why would Chris Christie care? Well, either he just feels in his heart pigs have had a free ride for too long,” Stewart said, “or, he was doing the bidding of GOP mega donor and Christie 2012 backer, Iowan Bruce Rastetter, who happened to be one of America’s top hog producers.”
Watch the clip, coutesy of Comedy Central: