Stewart Rips Selma Coverage: CNN Drone-Obsessed, Fox ‘Aggrieved’

Jon Stewart tonight contrasted the beauty of the Selma anniversary celebration with the smallness of some of the cable news coverage from CNN and Fox News. Stewart addressed the speeches by John Lewisand President Obama (the latter’s he mockingly referred to as an “assault on real America”).

But CNN had a drone that was hovering around the Edmund Pettus Bridge during much of the day, and Stewart was just a little peeved that they would not stop talking about it. He paraphrased the words of Dr. King himself to say news organizations shall “be judged not by the content of its content, but by the uselessness of its gizmos.”

Stewart also went after Fox News, asking, “Could Fox take this commemoration of courageous civil rights marchers and somehow turn it into white conservative victimization?” And with the controversy about the supposed George W. Bush Photoshopping, Stewart mock-congratulated Fox for finding something to be “aggrieved” about in Selma.

Watch the video below, via Comedy Central:

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