Fox, Islam, Jesus ... Fail.

[Stoney]

Oh yeah. The interview was terrible. She seemed singularly focused on this one issue.

Most likely because that's the talking point her producers instructed her to hammer away at during this interview. Which, frankly, is how many of the Fox babe interviews go--you can usually identify a quite specific theme that the interviewer keeps coming back to well after the question's already been adequately addressed--and usually conveying the impression that the interviewer's just following instructions.

I actually think the question is a valid point to address once: did the fact that you are converted muslim not impact your objectivity in writing this book? And I think that would be an equally valid question for a Christian writing a book critical of Islam. The problem was after he adequately answered it and she didn't seem capable of really moving on with the discussion, perhaps because she didn't feel she'd yet properly "exposed" him the way she'd been instructed. It's like she though her sole purpose in this interview was to point out that the guy was a muslim.

 

[Boom_70]

Fox interview was not worse than the snippy Katie Couric interview with Sarah
Palin but off course that interview was much celebrated.

 

[Starman]

Oh yeah. The interview was terrible. She seemed singularly focused on this one issue.

Most likely because that's the talking point her producers instructed her to hammer away at during this interview. Which, frankly, is how many of the Fox babe interviews go--you can usually identify a quite specific theme that the interviewer keeps coming back to well after the question's already been adequately addressed--and usually conveying the impression that the interviewer's just following instructions.

I actually think the question is a valid point to address once: did the fact that you are converted muslim not impact your objectivity in writing this book? And I think that would be an equally valid question for a Christian writing a book critical of Islam. The problem was after he adequately answered it and she didn't seem capable of really moving on with the discussion, perhaps because she didn't feel she'd yet properly "exposed" him the way she'd been instructed. It's like she though her sole purpose in this interview was to point out that the guy was a muslim.

The progression of the typical faux fascist noise interview:

 

[DanOregon]

Almost as surprised something like this interview got through as I was at the KTVU fiasco.

 

[Alma]

Fox interview was not worse than the snippy Katie Couric interview with Sarah
Palin but off course that interview was much celebrated.

You're kidding, right? Couric's interview with Palin was precisely the kind of interview Palin, by then, had come to deserve after saying so many ludicrous and inflammatory things. She earned the snobbiest pollyanna in the class, teeing her up. It revealed Palin for the dangerous buffoon she was and is.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Fox interview was not worse than the snippy Katie Couric interview with Sarah
Palin but off course that interview was much celebrated.

What was so hard about being asked what newspapers she read? I'd have hated to see how she would have reacted under pressure from our enemies when she was so afraid of a mere question about newspapers.

 

[H.L. Mencken]

I can see logical fallacy from my house.

 

[DanOregon]

Fox interview was not worse than the snippy Katie Couric interview with Sarah
Palin but off course that interview was much celebrated.

What was so hard about being asked what newspapers she read? I'd have hated to see how she would have reacted under pressure from our enemies when she was so afraid of a mere question about newspapers.

It WAS a condescending question that would have put Couric in place by just saying - "We DO get the Internet in Alaska Katie," and then saying the NY Times, the Washington Post...of course, then it would have been cut from the interview.

 

[amraeder]

I can see logical fallacy from my house.

Nice

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I heard this author on ATC a couple of days ago. It was really interesting.

http://www.npr.org/2013/07/15/198040928/christ-in-context-zealot-explores-the-life-of-jesus

 

[JR]

The saddest part is that the Fox interviewer had clearly not read the book.

Another Fox Fraud.

 

[DanOregon]

Nobody reads the books when they have the author on. At best, they'll have read the sections a producer or intern has highlighted for them and perhaps read a few reviews, a good one and a bad one, to be able to ask some reasonable questions.
The sad thing about the interview is that Aslan has an interesting story to tell. His family fled the Iranian Revolution, he became an evangelical Christian in his teens and then he went back to Islam. And he taught at a Catholic High School.

 

[93Devil]

Fox is not news. It's entertainment. And this entertainer was trying to entertain their fans by jabbing at the man with the brown skin.

 

[Mark2010]

I'm still puzzled why all the hot anchor chicks are conservatives instead of moderates or liberals.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Fox is not news. It's entertainment. And this entertainer was trying to entertain their fans by jabbing at the man with the brown skin.

But CNN and MSNBC are bastions of news-gathering skills and ethics...

 

[Mark2010]

CNN is the only one that seems to employ actual reporters to go out in the field and cover anything.

MSNBC's idea of coverage seems to be to run video tape of a plane crash shot by some affiliate and spend the rest of the day and night with a few airhead anchors conversing with their own in-house "experts" --- most of whom seem to be media types themselves --- glorifying the liberals and bashing the conservatives. It's gotten so damn predictable, day after day and night after night I don't even bother to watch anymore.

Tune it tonight to see Chris Hayes, Rachel "lesbian" Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell remind you how wonderful Obama and the Democrats are and how great America would be if those mean-spirited, evil Republicans in Congress would just shut up and get in line like a bunch of loyal puppies. Now, that may or may not be true. But even if it is, there's a limit to how much of this mindless dribble the average viewer can take.

Fox News is about the same, albeit from the other side of the agenda. "Obama is terrible and the Tea Party will save America." Same **** every stinkin' day.

These "news" stations need to get some real reporters to cover some real news.

 

[Greenhorn]

Maddow's middle name is Anne.

 

[YankeeFan]

How dare MSNBC put a lesbian on the air. Next, we'll have blacks and Jews on TV.

Hell, ESPN just hired a gay Jew to work for them. ESPN! And they hired a guy who's gay and Jewish!

What's the world coming to?

 

[93Devil]

Fox is not news. It's entertainment. And this entertainer was trying to entertain their fans by jabbing at the man with the brown skin.

But CNN and MSNBC are bastions of news-gathering skills and ethics...

Have you ever seen me defend MSNBC? Two wrong media outlets do not make a right.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

CNN is the only one that seems to employ actual reporters to go out in the field and cover anything.

MSNBC's idea of coverage seems to be to run video tape of a plane crash shot by some affiliate and spend the rest of the day and night with a few airhead anchors conversing with their own in-house "experts" --- most of whom seem to be media types themselves --- glorifying the liberals and bashing the conservatives. It's gotten so damn predictable, day after day and night after night I don't even bother to watch anymore.

Tune it tonight to see Chris Hayes, Rachel "lesbian" Maddow and Lawrence O'Donnell remind you how wonderful Obama and the Democrats are and how great America would be if those mean-spirited, evil Republicans in Congress would just shut up and get in line like a bunch of loyal puppies. Now, that may or may not be true. But even if it is, there's a limit to how much of this mindless dribble the average viewer can take.

Fox News is about the same, albeit from the other side of the agenda. "Obama is terrible and the Tea Party will save America." Same **** every stinkin' day.

These "news" stations need to get some real reporters to cover some real news.

How about mindless drivel? Can they take that?