For example, if they have a liberal guest on, they will ask them something like 'why do you hate white people, hate god, hate America, love terrorists and want to put violent criminals back on the street?' (That may an exaggeration, but only a slight one) The guest will try and fail to explain what their positions actually are to someone who is simply too stupid and narrow-minded to absorb it.
It's actually hard for me to understand how Fox News can be successful propaganda for the Republican party. All I see are a bunch of blithering idiots who get owned every single time they bring on a guest who doesn't agree with them, but who are too stupid to realise it. To me Fox New makes conservatives look stupid, not smart. But their viewers eat it up.
Recently though Fox News' Lauren Green in an interview with Muslim scholar Reza Aslan, took her wilful ignorance so far that even some of the Fox News audience were put off. I was actually surprised to hear that. I thought the viewers would eat this up too.
Reza has written an academic work called 'Zealot: The life and times of Jesus of Nazareth.'
Lauren's first question was 'Reza you're a Muslim so why'd you write a book about the founder of Christianity?'
Reza's reply: 'Well to be clear I am a scholar of religions with four degrees including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades who also just happens to be a Muslim.'
When Lauren asks 'Why would you be interested in the founder of Christianity?' Reza responds 'Because it's my job as an academic. I am a professor of religion including the New Testament. That's what I do for a living actually.'
He also stated - 'Just to be clear this is not some attack on Christianity. My mother is a Christian, my wife is a Christian, my brother-in-law is an Evangelical Pastor. Anyone who thinks this book is an attack on Christianity has not read it yet.'
This of course did not convince Lauren that Reza was not biased against Christianity and continued to accuse him of having an agenda against Christianity throughout the interview. Reza spoke as slowly and carefully as he could so that what he was saying would sink in, but it didn't.
Reza also points out that by Lauren's logic Fox News is unqualified to talk about Muslims because they're not Muslim. So apparently people should disregard everything Fox News says about Muslims.
I'd like to make a different point because this is something I've noticed on Fox News a few times. Lauren's line of questioning makes no sense whatsoever if we assume she wants an objective and impartial academic assessment of Jesus. Her questions imply that only Christians are qualified to talk about Jesus.
On what basis would she assume that Christians are objective and impartial in their assessment of Jesus? Christians WORSHIP Jesus as a God. That would create HUGE potential to not be impartial. Pro Christian bias is just as bad if you care about accuracy.
Is Lauren Green saying that if you think Jesus was a man like the rest of us and you have four Phds and 20 year of research to go on you are biased, but if you literally worship Jesus as a God and you're a dirt-ignorant Fox News host then you are objective and impartial? Of course she's not. That would be ridiculous. She knows that a Christian would be just as (or more) likely to be biased on the subject of Jesus than a Muslim and she DOESN'T GIVE A CRAP!
When I have something to say, my concern is getting it accurate. Lauren Green's concern is 'how much pro-Christian bullshit can I get away with speaking without being detected? How can I shamelessly make myself look way better than I am, by giving my religion way more credit than it deserves?'
That message came blaring through the screen as it often does when Fox News talks about religion.
