WATCH: Jon Stewart Mocks Koch Brothers $900 Million Campaign Pledge - 'Behold Our Benevolent Overlords'

Janet Allon
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Janet Allon
January 29, 2015Video

Jon Stewart took aim at the Koch brothers' plan to spend $900 million on the 2016 election cycle Wednesday night. But don't worry,  there's a good chance that they are not seeking "control over the levers of democracy," perhaps they would, Stewart suggests, be "satisfied with just hand jobs."

Ha!

And anyway, always ridiculous Ted Cruz has argued that it is "grotesquely unfair to paint the Koch brothers as nefarious billionaires."

Oh no, they are "benevolent gods," quipped Stewart next to a picture of the Koch brothers as Venuses on clam shells.

But really, why is everyone so worried about money distorting our leaders' priorities? Wiith prompts from Lassie, Stewart delves into a little recent example of that precise distortion in the Obama administration.

Be afraid, be very afraid. Watch:

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