ROFLMAO!!!! -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:webmas...@sstwebworks.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 7:53 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: 'Fair and Balanced' my ass
And now there is coffee in my keyboard On Jul 30, 2013 8:07 AM, "Scott Stroz" <boyz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I wonder if Green interviewed JK Rowling if she would ask why Rowling, > as a muggle, has a right to write a book about wizards. > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I thought I would post this here, as it highlights why journalists > > and > most > > people consider the "interview" to be a biased attack on the author. > > > > *" On Friday, Fox News' Lauren Green aggressively questioned > > religious scholar Reza Aslan over why he, a Muslim, would choose to > > write a book about Jesus Christ. During the length of the > > increasingly absurd > 10-minute > > segment, that implied criticism quickly became direct with Green > > accusing the author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of > > Nazareth<http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BRUQ7ZY/?tag=slatmaga-20> > > ** of being incapable of providing an unbiased academic account > > because > of > > his faith, and even wrongly claiming that Aslan had gone to great > > lengths to hide the fact he is Muslim."* > > > > We know this is a lie, and the Author never hid the fact he was a > > muslim, nor did he try to. Why would a credible news anchor make > > such a statement if the intention was not to push an agenda? It's > > either they brought the man on to embarrass him, or the anchor is > > incompetent and did not do the least bit of fact checking before the "interview". > > > > Sam do you think the interviewer displayed competence and was > professional > > in her handling of this interview? > > > > She never read even the first few pages of the book on which she is > > interviewing the author. > > She didn't even skim it, or read the crib notes. Then she brings > > accusations which are totally incorrect. > > > > *""I think the fundamental problem here is that you're assuming that > > I > have > > some type of faith-based bias in this work that I write," he told > > Green, putting the interview's absurdity into words for anyone > > struggling to at home. "My job as a scholar of religions is to write about religions ... > and > > one of the religions that I've written about is the one that was > > launched by Jesus," he continued. "I think it's unfair to just > > simply assume that because of my particular faith background that > > there's some type of faith agenda with this book." * > > > > And that is the clincher. The interviewer's entire purpose was to > > ascribe bigotry and bias to the author because he was a muslim > > writing about > Jesus > > Christ. Which given the author's background is so stupid that only > > those completely blinded by the agenda of Faux could not see it. > > > > > > > http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/07/29/reza_aslan_book_sale > s_zealot_author_knew_what_he_was_doing_on_fox_news_that.html > > > > The notion that an entire segment could be based around furthering > > the bigoted attitude that muslims cannot comment on Christianity, > > and pushing the agenda that muslims are intrinsically > > anti-christian, is rather abhorrent. > > Taking into account the interviewer's unprofessionalism alone should > > be enough for people to see there was something wrong with the interview. > > > > Of course, if you DO hold the view that all muslims are > > anti-christian, > and > > you DO hold the view that the author set out to write a book tearing > > down Christianity, and vilifying Jesus Christ, then perhaps you > > would overlook all of that. And that is exactly the mindset that > > Faux set out to support and who the segment caters for. > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:366106 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
