CRINGE WORTHY - Foxnews interview of Reza Aslan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1cOnNrY5s

The demented and broken logic of the foxnews conservatard interviewer is astounding. She mindlessly parrots off a "gotcha question" script, clearly hasn't read the book that she is asking questions about, and completely ignores or doesn't appear to comprehend Aslan's answers.

At the end of the video near the 9:10 mark, after she has been thoroughly schooled and embarrassed throughout the length of the interview, she falsely asserts that Aslan doesn't disclose that he's a muslim in interviews and programs--a last ditch lie that he also squashes.

Now think about the audience that this interview was geared toward: conservatives. For foxnews to conduct an interview in such a shameful and poor manner, they MUST believe that their audience is nothing more than bunch of brain-dead morons.

 

You finally got one. Congratulations.

 

Thank you for admitting that your "side" is the one opposed to truth because the only thing that "got one" in that interview was the truth.

 

"My side" You don't know what My side is.
and I'm not opposed to truth.
But that was a bad interview.

 

Then who exactly was the "you" who finally "got one"?

 

what a mismatch.

The interviewer is profoundly stupid and she gets absolutely squashed in the most polite yet firm way.

I can't believe the "depth and incisiveness" of her questions. Her complete lack of finesse in attempting to assert her agenda was painful to watch.

But is anyone suprised at the christian bigotry of Fox?

 

Obviously fox is biased and disingenuous, and this "interview" sticks out as such an egregious and overt example of that. The accusatory and disrespectful tone of interviewer is simply shameful, and it's clear that she's being coached on what to say by changing the course of the interrogation (not an 'interview') multiple times each time she looks at the nonsensical scripted questions on the desk.

How Aslan (or anyone for that matter) could maintain such poise and composure in the face of such utter and blatant stupidity, is really beyond me.

This laughably bad 'interview' has gone viral, and as a result Aslan's book has skyrocketed to the #1 spot on Amazon's list and #2 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

 

Fox is awful and pushes a neo-conservative (not conservative, neo-conservative) agenda of Zionism.
What do you think that makes MSNBC? Honest and the work of geniuses?

 

The was painful to watch. Don't know how that guy didn't just explode into a ball of rage on her.

 

The best part of this whole story is Fox News complete denial that the interview was wrong in anyway.

This is the article the plastered on the front page yesterday in their defense:
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013...book-zealot-fail-to-mention-author-is-muslim/

My favorite line:
"As a journalist and author who is Christian I cannot imagine penning a so-called objective biography of Muhammad and then concealing my conflict of interest in national media interviews."

The difference is John Dickerson, Reza Aslan has 4 PHDs in historical religious study and you are just some pastor posing as a journalist for Fox news.
The article title is bogus anyways, he never hid the fact that he is indeed a Muslim. I saw two other interviews with this him regarding the book and both interviews covered his personal faith.

 

Wow she just couldn't accept the fact the man has a PHD and wrote the book from a scholar's point of view. The phrase "does not compute" comes to mind.

 

Not sure if she can't accept it or if she is just plain stupid. She literally looks like a deer in the headlights and is just vomiting out words the producers wrote down. The guy explains like 6 times he is a religious scholar and she seems too stupid to adjust the questioning. Truly amazing. "Does not compute" LOL! So true.

 

Well, there is the fact that his one PHD is in sociology and he his an Associate professor of creative writing.

 

Just noticed in his interview. "I am a professor of religions, including the New Testament–that’s what I do for a living, actually".
No actually you are an ASSOCIATE professor of creative writing lying about your credentials on naionwide TV.
"To be clear, I want to emphasize one more time, I am a historian, I am a Ph.D. in the history of religion" without a single degree in history.

 

Some people are blaming the interviewer, but I blame Fox viewers. You think Fox viewers would accept anything less than an entire interview that equates to "YOU'RE A STUPID MUSLIM; DON'T TALK ABOUT OUR LORD AND SAVIOR!"

"Hey, look over there!"

 

I blame the non fox viewers who are too ideologically blinded to realize he is lying through his teeth. He is not a "professor of religions" and is instead an associate professor of Creative Writing. He is not a historian, as he has no degree in history and his PHD is in sociology, not history.

 

LOL have you seen MSNBC? Their interviews are geared towards the lowest IQ voters on the planet. They may as well use cartoons, no one would even notice.

 

I thought that was an excellent interview!


Very enlightening.

 

That interviewer proved her stupidity and ignorance within 10 seconds

Jesus was a Jew. He was never a Christian, let alone the founder of the religion. Christianity was founded after he died.

Jesus is revered in Islam as well, so that is like asking Christian why they revere Noah or Moses.

And that is just her ignorance on the topic of Jesus. She was also ignorant of the fact that many scholars study religion without actually being religious. He had to explain to her 5 times that he studied Jesus from a Biblical Historians' perspective and not from that of a believer.

- - - Updated - - -

That interviewer proved her stupidity and ignorance within 10 seconds

Jesus was a Jew. He was never a Christian, let alone the founder of the religion. Christianity was founded after he died.

Jesus is revered in Islam as well, so that is like asking Christian why they revere Noah or Moses.

And that is just her ignorance on the topic of Jesus. She was also ignorant of the fact that many scholars study religion without actually being religious. He had to explain to her 5 times that he studied Jesus from a Biblical Historians' perspective and not from that of a believer.

 

And yet half the people here yelling about this woman, who is clearly in over her head, have essentially argued at some point in their time here that the term religious scholar is an oxymoron.

Oh and for what it is worth a scholar is no less likely to be biased in some regard than anyone else. And PHD means you have authored a doctoral thesis, after paying a university major bucks for at least another two years beyond what your masters required, that wasn't immediately rejected by your supervisory team. In certain fields at certain schools this is not infrequently more of a statement of your perceived political reliabilty than a comment on your scholarship.

 

He has a BA in Religion and a Master of Theological Studies Degree. If he was a Christian saying something against Islam, he wouldn't have been questioned at all and wouldn't need ANY credentials. Fox leg humps Christians and takes a dump on Muslims every chance it gets. It's a fact and everyone knows it.

 

Dude based on the synopsis found at CNN his book is little more than arrant nonsense. If Jesus wanted open rebelion against the Jewish eadership why did he tell the disciples that two swords were enough in Luke. He was never a mamber of the Zealot party and his only violent actwas to run the money changers and dishonest merchants out of the Temple. He came, in certain ways to restore the temple not destroy it. Aslan merely takes the then current misinterpretation of what and who the Messiah would at whole cloth and then tries to make the gospel stories fit into his predetermined ideas. That doesn't make him a scholar that makes hm a propagandist.

 

The ignorance of Fox and their viewers on display here. Alan's degrees are in the history of religion and frankly it looks at religion from a sociological not theological position. Facts versus scripture you might say. He does make his living as a writer of books on that topic since his best sellers earn him more than his salary at Riverside which is not uncommon. Perhaps the Fox interviewer just hadn't had anyone read the book to her.

 

Except he presents no facts only opinions based upon, as near as I can tell, that odd lens though which Islam tends to view the world at large.

 

He claimed on National TV that he is a "professor of religions", when in fact he is an associate professor creative writing. He is lying through his teeth and you all want to criticize the Fox News reporter for being mean to him.