You’d think they’d just cut their losses and let it blow over

I guess the next step will be to accuse the Left of “trying to milk this for all its worth.”

Fox News, after a pause, has come back fighting against criticism of their interview with Reza Aslan, a Muslim scholar who wrote a book about Jesus. And as the discussion about a book that’s more or less a William Manchester-style literary biography (that is, one steeped in scholarship, but written for the mainstream) of the historical Jesus spirals further and further away from, you know, the actual content of the book itself, what’s emerging is a deep, conservative fear, and anger, concerning the audacity and bias of non-Christians who discuss the content of the Bible.

I know just how they feel. Astrologers don’t like it when astronomers write books about astrology, either.