January 14, 2014 7:19 AM
Jon Stewart Burns Bill de Blasio On Pizzagate
BY Celeste Katz
He got himself into it with a knife and fork -- and the media's still eating it up with a spoon.
Jon Stewart went after Mayor de Blasio's Pizzagate scandal on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Monday night, teeing off on the big guy's mind-blowing Jan. 10 food faux pas: "De Blasio! ... You're supposed to be championing the middle class. Two weeks into your term, and we catch you eating pizza a la Trump?!? And you call yourself a radical socialist bent on destroying New York City."
"Look, I understand there is a learning curve to being mayor, but here is lesson No. 1: Learn how to eat your city's signature dish. If you were mayor of Philadelphia, would you eat a cheesesteak with a knife and fork? If you were mayor of Buffalo, would you eat Buffalo wings with a knife and fork?"
Stewart -- who himself had something of an episode during the episode -- wasn't buying into Hizzoner's "ancestral homeland" schtick about Italians deploying cutlery to dispatch their pizza.
"Admittedly, your predecessor Bloomberg did not eat it with his hands. He would usually have an assistant cut it up and chew it and then feed it to him like a baby bird. But you are not that. You're a man of the people. EAT LIKE ONE!"
Jon Stewart Burns Bill de Blasio On Pizzagate
BY Celeste Katz
He got himself into it with a knife and fork -- and the media's still eating it up with a spoon.
Jon Stewart went after Mayor de Blasio's Pizzagate scandal on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" Monday night, teeing off on the big guy's mind-blowing Jan. 10 food faux pas: "De Blasio! ... You're supposed to be championing the middle class. Two weeks into your term, and we catch you eating pizza a la Trump?!? And you call yourself a radical socialist bent on destroying New York City."
"Look, I understand there is a learning curve to being mayor, but here is lesson No. 1: Learn how to eat your city's signature dish. If you were mayor of Philadelphia, would you eat a cheesesteak with a knife and fork? If you were mayor of Buffalo, would you eat Buffalo wings with a knife and fork?"
Stewart -- who himself had something of an episode during the episode -- wasn't buying into Hizzoner's "ancestral homeland" schtick about Italians deploying cutlery to dispatch their pizza.
"Admittedly, your predecessor Bloomberg did not eat it with his hands. He would usually have an assistant cut it up and chew it and then feed it to him like a baby bird. But you are not that. You're a man of the people. EAT LIKE ONE!"
