# Fox News hits a new low with Reza Aslan interview

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**Created:** [July 29, 2013, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-hits-a-new-low-with-reza-aslan-interview/664794 "2013-07-29T06:55:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-hits-a-new-low-with-reza-aslan-interview/664794/101 "2013-08-02T01:05:28Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> Actually, on second thought, this would be entirely aimed at their camp, people who aren’t going to listen to reason. OMG, he’s a Muslim! And he wrote a book about our Savior! Burn him!

Yes, exactly. Nobody is an idiot here.

The interviewer was asking the questions that their viewership wanted asked: The questions that were being asked in the conservative blogoshpere, the one-star amazon reviews from people who hadn’t read the book, the yahoo news comments. These people were not interested in the ideas inside the book, they wanted the author confronted about his audacity and his heresy.

They gave their audience what they came for. The people watching the clip on youtube and complaining about the interview are not their audience.

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**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-hits-a-new-low-with-reza-aslan-interview/664794/102 "2013-08-02T17:51:25Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> I don’t remember that as “storming off.” I don’t know if they were trying to calm their viewers or Karl Rove.

Yes, I thought that was more about giving them an excuse to switch the cameras and sound off Rove.

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**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fox-news-hits-a-new-low-with-reza-aslan-interview/664794/103 "2013-08-02T19:08:15Z")

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> [@YogSosoth](#):
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> Now I’m confused. That incident made Rove a laughingstock, and he’s one of Fox’s cash cows. Why would they do that?

Yes, I also thought that was a rare laudable moment for Fox. In the late stages of the election, Karl Rove was blustering that Ohio shouldn’t have been called yet for Obama, offering up some unlikely scenarios as justification. Anchorwoman Megyn Kelly then asked him, “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better? Or is this real?”

The walk down to the stat nerds’ room may have been over the top but the question posed to Rove was a wonderful moment. As was the inevitable mournful confirmation by the stat nerds that Rove was barking out his ass.

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