On another front, last week I gave Lauren Green of Fox News the Clown Award for her Islamophobic "interview" of religious scholar Reza Aslan, where she seemed incapable of grasping the concept that Aslan, who is a Muslim, could be interested in writing about Jesus - even though Aslan is a PhD in religious studies with a degree in the New Testament.Apparently, I wasn't the only one who thought Green was a clown: Buzzfeed asked "Is This The Most Embarrassing Interview Fox News Has Ever Done?" On Twitter, The New Yorker's Emily Nussbaum called it "demented." The Twitter hashtag #foxnewslitcrit was spawned, full of mock interview questions such as, "As a human, Mr. Tolkien, why would you want to write about hobbits?"
However, there was one place which thought she did a great job: Fox News, where her career is apparently safe.
On the network's "America Live," host host Shannon Bream claimed there was nothing to the whole business, that it had been drummed up by "liberal" and "far-left" media. Right-wing media hack Brent Bozell was there to say that he "applauded" Green for hinting Aslan was biased, that Aslan couldn't be a "very good Muslim," although why Brent Bozell is supposed to be some expert on what makes a "good Muslim" is a mystery for the ages, that Aslan was misrepresenting his academic credentials, and couldn't have read all the books he said he'd read.
Oh, and that Lauren Green is a great person, with which Bream agreed - just before plugging her own upcoming story on people who were attacking Christians.
Sources:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/07/29/206580444/book-news-outrage-after-fox-news-interview-with-zealot-author
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23foxnewslitcrit&src=typd
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/lauren-green-fox-news-reza-aslan-interview_n_3675809.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/31/fox-news-defends-reza-aslan-interview_n_3683736.html
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