Jon Stewart Isn’t On Board With This Bus Tour: ‘Obama Is In Campaign Mode Already?!’

Jon Stewart acknowledged tonight that the 2012 race was, somehow, already in full gear, mocking the media for its short attention span in flitting from Rep. Michele Bachmann to Gov. Rick Perry in “seven hours” and taking a few stabs at the latter’s cartoonish swagger. But most surprising of all to Stewart appeared to be the fact that the White House was denying President Obama’s swing state bus tour wasn’t campaigning: “I’m sure the President just had some frequent Greyhound miles to spare,” he quipped.

Stewart began with the Republicans, noting how quickly the media went from obsessing over Rep. Bachmann to Perry and comparing them to a particularly absent-minded dog. And as for Perry, Stewart appeared a bit overwhelmed by the attitude, jokingly exaggerating Perry’s comments about “being passionate about America” to be a lot more sexual than they were likely intended to be– a promise that, “as President, I will f*ck the sh*t out of America,” possibly in some sort of rural barn structure.

But Perry and Bachmann weren’t the only ones courting votes– and President Obama wasn’t fooling Stewart with that bus. “Seriously,” he said, “Obama is back in campaign mode already?” Of course the President denied it, but the signs were obvious to Stewart, who even provided Obama with the 2012 version of “Yes We Can”: “I Though We Could, But It Turns Out The Other Guys Are A*sholes.”

The segment via Comedy Central below:

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