Incredibly Cringeworthy Interview

--Kaiser-- · 30-07-2013 09:23AM

Someone gets harangued on Fox News.
The shock!
the horror!

Hobbes · 30-07-2013 10:26AM

--Kaiser-- wrote: »

Someone gets harangued on Fox News.
The shock!
the horror!

Except this time it is the presenter.

Ash.J.Williams · 30-07-2013 10:28AM

i was waiting for him to ask "is this questioning influenced by 911 at all?"

CiaranMT · 30-07-2013 10:57AM

Found this article on Foxnews.com, penned last week. She must have read it beforehand or something, because it's every bit as bad:

Fox News wrote:

Peter Johnson Jr

Reza Aslan, author of the new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth” has been interviewed on a host of media outlets in the last week. Riding a publicity wave, the book has surged to #2 on Amazon's list.
Media reports have introduced Aslan as a “religion scholar” but have failed to mention that he is a devout Muslim.

His book is not a historian’s report on Jesus. It is an educated Muslim’s opinion about Jesus -- yet the book is being peddled as objective history on national TV and radio.

Aslan is not a trained historian. Like tens of thousands of us he has been formally educated in theology and New Testament Greek.
He is a bright man with every right to hold his own opinion about Jesus—and to proselytize his opinion.

As a sincere man, Aslan’s Muslim beliefs affect his entire life, including his conclusions about Jesus. But this is not being disclosed. “Zealot” is being presented as objective and scholarly history, not as it actually is—an educated Muslim’s opinions about Jesus and the ancient Near East.

Rest of article

It's woeful stuff

Sofiztikated · 30-07-2013 11:16AM

CiaranMT wrote: »

Found this article on Foxnews.com, penned last week. She must have read it beforehand or something, because it's every bit as bad:

Rest of article

It's woeful stuff

I think that is some of what she was talking about?

Wibbs · 30-07-2013 11:40AM

gobsh&#237 wrote: »

Like tens of thousands of us he has been formally educated in theology and New Testament Greek.

Yea a really common one on the CAO that is.

gobsh&#237 wrote: »

As a sincere man, Aslan’s Muslim beliefs affect his entire life, including his conclusions about Jesus. But this is not being disclosed. “Zealot” is being presented as objective and scholarly history, not as it actually is—an educated Muslim’s opinions about Jesus and the ancient Near East

Eh no. Maybe they should have taken theology themselves. Muslims believe that Jesus escaped crucifixion, whereas this Aslan lad sees this as a historical fact.

BTW how he escaped crucifixion is a doosie. Apparently Allah did the old switcheroo and swapped him for a bloke who looked like him. Oh yes. Brilliant. That wasn't a good day to be told "hey you know who you really remind me of? That Jesus guy from Galillee. No really Dave, you're the spit of him" *Puff of divine smoke* "Hey Dave where'd you go? Dave... Dave..."

Amerika · 30-07-2013 03:15PM

Gotta love Fox News… they’re not afraid to put powerful and strong interviewees from all viewpoints and will put it out there even if it makes themselves look bad. They're more Fair and Balanced then most of the media here.

Yes, Green didn’t do so well, and appeared she simply was reading questions given to her rather then having done the research herself. But Aslan played on tricks too, with little more than pseudo objectivity as his defense. And by his many of the comments here, most fell for it. I guess it’s now considered intellectually impossible for someone with 20 years of study and some nice credentials to write a hit piece towards something which is against their own views and ideologies. That’s his argument, right?

floggg · 30-07-2013 05:37PM

Amerika wrote: »

Gotta love Fox News… they’re not afraid to put powerful and strong interviewees from all viewpoints and will put it out there even if it makes themselves look bad. They're more Fair and Balanced then most of the media here.

Yes, Green didn’t do so well, and appeared she simply was reading questions given to her rather then having done the research herself. But Aslan played on tricks too, with little more than pseudo objectivity as his defense. And by his many of the comments here, most fell for it. I guess it’s now considered intellectually impossible for someone with 20 years of study and some nice credentials to write a hit piece towards something which is against their own views and ideologies. That’s his argument, right?

What's that your smoking on?

Just like you'll agree being a scholar doesn't preclude you from being biased being Muslim doesn't preclude him from writing an objective and thoroughly researched book on Josh Bin Yosef.

Stinicker · 30-07-2013 05:46PM

I am an expert of this, I am an expert of that etc. I have a pHD etc, I bet he was studying Jesus while other normal lads were out getting the shift and more. What a total nerd geek!

ScumLord · 30-07-2013 05:54PM

kfallon wrote: »

Is it just me or does anyone else not really bother with random posted YouTube clips that are over 2 min long?

I much prefer videos at least 10 minutes. One time I spent 40 minutes watching a guy make a wooden sphere on a lathe.

I much prefer he's view of Jesus. That he was a great man that changed the course of humanity but he wasn't a god.

Stinicker · 30-07-2013 06:04PM

ScumLord wrote: »

I much prefer videos at least 10 minutes. One time I spent 40 minutes watching a guy make a wooden sphere on a lathe.

I much prefer he's view of Jesus. That he was a great man that changed the course of humanity but he wasn't a god.

Wasn't he supposed to be the son of God?

ScumLord · 30-07-2013 06:06PM

Stinicker wrote: »

Wasn't he supposed to be the son of God?

So they say. I don't know if he actually did or whether he's followers made him out to be the son of god so others would listen to what he had to say.

Nodin · 30-07-2013 06:56PM

Stinicker wrote: »

Wasn't he supposed to be the son of God?

...that little argument has been the subject of a bit of bloodshed over the years.

woodoo · 30-07-2013 07:30PM

If it had have been bill oreilly bill would have shouted him down and then cut him off while proclaiming he was biased being a Muslim.

Cesira · 31-07-2013 06:07PM

The reporter obviously got her credentials out of a cracker jack box...her ignorance and bias is blaring. BTW...it is a good book!

sunflower27 · 31-07-2013 06:28PM

Stinicker wrote: »

I am an expert of this, I am an expert of that etc. I have a pHD etc, I bet he was studying Jesus while other normal lads were out getting the shift and more. What a total nerd geek!

Yes. Correct. He states clearly at 8.04 that he is indeed still a virgin.

Incredibly Cringeworthy Interview

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