Instant Classic Picture Catches Mitch McConnell Ignoring Jon Stewart In Senate Hallway

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walked right past Jon Stewart and didn’t say a word in a moment that was captured in an instant classic photo.

Here is the pic that was originally snapped by a photographer for Roll Call:

The look on Jon Stewart’s face is priceless as McConnell pretends not to see him in the virtually empty hallway.

Jon Stewart has been ripping Mitch McConnell to shreds for holding compensation for 9/11 victims hostage.

As Stewart said on Fox News, “In terms of getting the 9/11 bills passed, Mitch McConnell has been the white whale in this since 2010, and this brings up something because I think it’s the cynicism of Washington that also causes this situation to be so emotional. They asked Mitch McConnell about the testimony after it was done. He said oh, gosh, I think he used the word gosh. Gosh, we haven’t looked at that in a while, but we will look at it, and I’m sure we’ll deal with it as compassionately as we have in the past, but I want to make it clear that this has never been dealt with compassionately by Senator McConnell. He has always held out until the very last minute, and only then, under intense lobbying and public shaming has he even deign to move on.

The House overwhelmingly passed the legislation, and so far McConnell has not been able to extract any ransom in exchange for providing aid to 9/11 victims.

Jon Stewart has been fighting for more than a decade for 9/11 first responders and victims, and judging from the photo, Mitch McConnell is behaving like a beaten man.

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