You know the drill—a Fox News guy shows up outside the gates with his serious-reporter look on, shoves a mike in students’ faces, asks them what they think about “the Muslim problem,” and smirks at their answers. Then he heads back to the studio and has a nice chat with Bill O’Reilly about those dumb, elitist “yooouung folks.”
There are so many substantive problems with the video—to name just one, no one would dare show up at the Columbia gates, or anywhere for that matter, talking about “the Jewish problem” or “the black problem”—but they’re kind of beside the point. I’d expect nothing less from my friendly neighborhood fair-and-balanced network. What really struck me was how amateur it was. What’s with the cuts to Richard Pryor and Austin Powers? Yes, general, we do have a situation here. Come on, Fox—you can’t expect us to take you seriously when you’re splicing interviews together with boobs in bikinis, or when you say things like, “So let the blondes go through?”
