is the way they have these nasty verbal battles with guests who happen to disagree with them, in which their strategy is to monopolize the conversation, even if it means shouting and raising their voices, and not letting the guest get a word in edgewise. They're the verbal equivalent of thugs and gangsters. Even the most dumb person should be able to recognize that something that is truly fair and balanced requires much more in the way of common courtesy and decency on the part of the hosts - and a willingness to let the hosts talk freely, even when their viewpoint may be different than your own.
My favorite segment of these is the one with Reza Aslan - the only darn thing that mattered to the Faux News hosts was that he was a Muslim, nothing else mattered - that he was ALSO a professor of religious studies, New Testament, etc... If that didn't smack of Christian bigotry and hatred of Muslims, I don't know what does. I suppose that the implicit message was that only a Christian can be an expert on Christianity - or maybe a Jew, but certainly not a Muslim. And of course, this betrays a total ignorance of the reverence and respect that Muslims have for Jesus, and the number of times he is mentioned in the Quran, etc...
The other segment that showed Faux's predisposition towards unbelievable prejudice and reading a book by its cover was when that African American man, who looked more like a Rastafarian, just so turned out to be a college professor and a member of the NIH - oops, Bill-O! Just goes to show that you never know who you may be talking to!
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