Popping culture: Miss Piggy is a pundit?

By Simon Thibault • January 30, 2012 5:51 am EDT

When I was a kid, Miss Piggy was my favourite Muppet. How my parents didn’t know I was gay, I’m not entirely sure. But I digress.

I would go around pulling “Hi-ya!”s because I thought it was funny, and I even had a Miss Piggy coffee mug that I used for hot chocolate.

So imagine my surprise when I learned that the grande dame of all things porcine and I share the same journalistic ideas.

Case in point:

#Nuffsaid

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