Westboro Baptist = nutjobs picketing funerals.
Julie Banderas (of Fox News) looses it while interviewing Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church.
*Quite* entertaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdT9dfrb-Q
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Vivianne Draper
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06-20-2006 10:11
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Billybob Goodliffe
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06-20-2006 10:16
Even I dispise them. I WISH THEY HAD COME TO MY FRIEND'S FUNERAL!!!
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Kevn Klein
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06-20-2006 10:26
The interviewing reporter needs to learn how to interview, and not badger. I think it made Fox look terrible.
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Reitsuki Kojima
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06-20-2006 10:35
The interviewing reporter needs to learn how to interview, and not badger. I think it made Fox look terrible. Considering the circumstances, I think she was fair. _____________________
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06-20-2006 11:10
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Kevn Klein
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06-20-2006 11:50
Considering the circumstances, I think she was fair. No she was not. As a news gathering reporter, it's not her place to judge or argue with those whom she is interviewing. She must be objective as a reporter. Nothing was gained by having a shouting match with the one being interviewed |
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Ordinal Malaprop
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06-20-2006 11:56
Oh come on, FOX is endlessly judgemental. In this case I agree with them. Give the Phelps bigots hell.
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Kevn Klein
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06-20-2006 12:24
Oh come on, FOX is endlessly judgemental. In this case I agree with them. Give the Phelps bigots hell. If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. People tend to feel sorry for the one being verbally abused, especially when the purpose of the abuse is focused on the religious beliefs of that person. If the interviewer had just allowed the person to say what she believed, the viewers could have judged without her help. All she did was make it hard to hear. |
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Reitsuki Kojima
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06-20-2006 12:28
No she was not. As a news gathering reporter, it's not her place to judge or argue with those whom she is interviewing. She must be objective as a reporter. Nothing was gained by having a shouting match with the one being interviewed As I said, given the circumstances, it was fair. Doing her job right? Never said that. _____________________
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06-20-2006 12:34
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06-20-2006 12:43
People tend to feel sorry for the one being verbally abused, especially when the purpose of the abuse is focused on the religious beliefs of that person. Sorry, but Ms. Phelps was dishing it out as well, including preaching her hatred. Just be glad these two women weren't in the same building. _____________________
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06-20-2006 12:46
Kevn, I really, really doubt that anyone but people who already believed as she did felt ANY sympathy.
They're pretty bloody vile. _____________________
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06-20-2006 13:02
If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. I can't say that's what I've learned. |
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06-20-2006 14:12
When Godzilla and Mothra are rampaging through Tokyo, does it really matter which one is the good guy? Under my desk - LMAO Best analogy EVER! . _____________________
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06-20-2006 14:18
If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. People tend to feel sorry for the one being verbally abused, especially when the purpose of the abuse is focused on the religious beliefs of that person. If the interviewer had just allowed the person to say what she believed, the viewers could have judged without her help. All she did was make it hard to hear. That explains why everyone feel ssorry for the extremist muslims when they are being asked why any sane god would condone violence? Oh wait.. they don't.. |
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06-20-2006 14:31
No she was not. As a news gathering reporter, it's not her place to judge or argue with those whom she is interviewing. She must be objective as a reporter. Well, that the American method, in theory. In practice, the media has always been biased. _____________________
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06-20-2006 15:52
If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. People tend to feel sorry for the one being verbally abused, especially when the purpose of the abuse is focused on the religious beliefs of that person. If the interviewer had just allowed the person to say what she believed, the viewers could have judged without her help. All she did was make it hard to hear. Though Ms. Banderas' words empowered me. I do agree that the interviewing process would have been much more humiliating for the Westboro "Church" if she had remained calm and answered their rhetoric with some sharp but subtle questions. The best interviewer makes the interviewee say "I AM AN IDIOT!!!" several times, loudly, without having the interviewee know they are saying it. ==Chris |
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06-20-2006 20:16
Westboro Baptist = nutjobs picketing funerals. Julie Banderas (of Fox News) looses it while interviewing Shirley Phelps-Roper of the Westboro Baptist Church. *Quite* entertaining. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCdT9dfrb-Q Kick ass! That was beautiful to watch. Props to the Patriot Guard Riders who got a mention. |
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Another, earlier interview w/the same protester
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06-20-2006 20:39
The best interviewer makes the interviewee say "I AM AN IDIOT!!!" several times, loudly, without having the interviewee know they are saying it. ==Chris I concur. I don't blame her for losing her cool, but it wasn't, by any means, a piece of masterful reporting. I do admire her for not letting a four-letter word slip out though, even while she was frothing at the mouth. _____________________
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06-20-2006 21:03
I concur. I don't blame her for losing her cool, but it wasn't, by any means, a piece of masterful reporting. I do admire her for not letting a four-letter word slip out though, even while she was frothing at the mouth. That Westboro witch said one thing I agree with: Evil must be confronted, loudly and under no uncertain terms. This is what the interviewer did, and she did it well. I've had the chance to speak out to Phelps himself, and to the so-called "national director" of the KKK. I personally believe there is a moral imperative to speak bluntly to these people, to tell them what you believe. That doesn't necessarily mean screaming or hysterics, but there should be no tip-toeing around it, either. _____________________
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Allana Dion
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06-20-2006 21:27
If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. People tend to feel sorry for the one being verbally abused, especially when the purpose of the abuse is focused on the religious beliefs of that person. If the interviewer had just allowed the person to say what she believed, the viewers could have judged without her help. All she did was make it hard to hear. While I personally do think it's time for news reporting agencies to stop and remember the days when they still believed in remaining neutral and strictly reporting.... A) The woman was picketing funerals for cryin out loud, no one is feeling sorry for her anytime soon. B) If you pay closer attention to the video, in it the "religious" woman was calling the reporter a bimbo and telling her she was going to hell. I'd hardly call her an innocent victim. They were both giving as good as they got. One was emotional, the other was fanatical.... They both lost it. C) It was still dammed entertaining.  EDIT: Those other two reporters did a pretty good job of making the Phelps woman look like a lunatic. _____________________
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06-20-2006 21:54
The interviewing reporter needs to learn how to interview, and not badger. I think it made Fox look terrible. Your failure to condemn the Phelps woman's horrific pronouncements doesn't surprise me in the least. |
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Lo Jacobs
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06-20-2006 22:02
If we have learned anything about fighting bigotry, it's that we fight hatred with love, not more hatred. And yet you still believe that gay people shouldn't be allowed to marry. _____________________
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Lo Jacobs
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06-20-2006 22:02
You know what, I don't even want to get into that.
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