S.E. Cupp: Why Is the Liberal Media So Mean to Religious People?

IMO, she’s not really an atheist. She’s a “FoxNews (TM) Atheist”, a character on a TV show, that could be played by pretty much anyone. She is as scripted as Snooki, and her appearances on TV are just RealityTV. We will never really know what she actually thinks and believes, because “FoxNews(TM) Standard Characters” are not allowed to break character in public. The same is true of Ann Coulter, btw. 

Yeah, I don’t really understand her, that seems to be the best explanation.  Especially when she said she wanted raise her children religious to teach them morals (wtf?)

I won’t say she’s not an atheist, since the only qualification for that title is a lack of a belief in god. she reminds me of that married to a woman gay mormon dude with the great sex life.
Just shows that being an atheist does not by default make you a critical thinker.

She didn’t even answer any of his softball questions.  

Even at the end, he ask why the double standard, she replied, there is a double standard.      Reminds me of  that song..
You start a conversation you can’t even finish itYou’re talking a lot but you’re not saying anything…

I believe that she is as atheist as Colbert is conservative.

I just don’t think she’s genuine. She’s made far too many odd statements which are entirely in conflict with her assertion she is an atheist.

“”I haven’t closed the door on faith. It just hasn’t found me yet… I really aspire to be a person of faith one day.” C-SPAN

Bill Maher: “You’re an atheist, so you think people who believe in God are deluded.”
S. E. Cupp: “No I don’t! I get the appeal of religion. I don’t believe in God, but I’m not, like, mad at him.”

S. E. Cupp: “As an atheist, I could never imagine electing – voting for –
an atheist President… Religion keeps a person who is endowed with so
much power honest. ”

If she an atheist, she is a self-hating one.

If I had to venture a guess, I’d say she represents what FOX and the conservatives want atheists to be. They manufacture this person who is strongly contrasted with a lot of atheists who defend secularism and are willing to criticise religion for what it is. A chance to

It wouldn’t surprise me if she has a magic “conversion” some time soon in the future and write a book about how she came to see the error of her ways as an atheist.

i generally make it a point not to doubt someone’s self-identification, but in her case, it’s really hard to buy what she’s selling. if she is an atheist , she is a self loathing one, who still buys into the idea that you need some kind of religious type structure to impose morality on us, and that a lack of god makes us (and her) lesser than people who do subscribe to something that she allegedly doesn’t agree with.

i think the examples compl3x cites illustrate that her atheist label is likely an atheist in name only.

I’m wondering what alternative universe S.E. Cupp lives in…….

The very embodiment of cognitive dissonance. She flip-flops on her statements. She could actually give Romney a run for his money in the intellectual dishonesty department. 

I consider her the female version of Stephen Colbert. 

Ten dollars says shes waiting for the most (monetarily) convenient time to have a born again conversion.

I don’t believe her at all, the whole interview seems scripted. There are a lot of reasons to think so, but the biggest reason is the background. They attempted to make the interview look live, but bf you watch the Toys’R’us banner during any of her lines, it’s not fluid, there are a lot of breaks in it. They tried to get her to not move too much, but occasionally her hands just appear or disappear mid-statement. So the whole interview seems highly suspect, and the rhetoric is just one small reason that I see to doubt it.

I don’t care about whether she’s an authentic atheist, but she and especially whoever’s editing together the CBN segment doesn’t seem to grasp the difference between criticism and oppression.

She’s a House Atheist.

The headline should read, “Why ARE the Liberal Media . . .”  The word “media” is a plural noun.  Just sayin’.

She has lied about MRFF, and a member of that organization sets the record straight on her lies (in what SEEMS an attempt to mislead the public, using the MEDIA) at this Amazon site: 
http://www.amazon.com/Losing-Our-Religion-Liberal-Christianity/product-reviews/1439173168

I’m not a violent person at all but when she was on Real Time I wanted to punch her in the face.

Respectful press? WTH?  The press is supposed to report the news. We do not have a press anymore we have editorial news. How about we check it on both sides? She is so full of it.

Aaaaand she’s supposed to be an atheist. Right. Shenanigans.

Am I the only one who’s favorite part is where she hopes that *one day* Christians will be able to organize around their portrayal in the media “just like the Tea Party organized around fiscal responsibility.”

I fell out of my chair laughing at that one. There is so much wrong with that that I don’t even know where to begin. I wonder what color the sky is in her reality?

My initial instinct is to NOT say “She’s not a real atheist”, because that would be akin to Christians saying “[name bad person] is not a real Christian” whenever it’s convenient.

However, watching her deliver her so obviously scripted responses, as well as other behavioral patterns, one has to seriously wonder if she is a fake, planted by the other side to infiltrate the ranks of atheism 😉

Funny story: Couric herself never called “Christian values” repugnant. They aired some material where a man who’s son was killed in the 1999 Columbine massacre blamed his perception of increased violence on abortion being legal. You know, because it decreases the value of human life. In her blog, Couric noted that they aired the material with the knowledge that ”
a lot of people would disagree with it. We also knew some might even find it repugnant.” That’s it. She was commenting on what she thought some other people’s opinions might be of a specific statement.

I can’t find any info on that specific Olberman comment, but I know he has previously compared Christian dominionists to Islamic extremists. It’s a fair comparison, IMO. They both want the world to be governed according to their religious beliefs, albeit modern Christians are less likely to resort to violence in pursuit of that goal.

You have to remember that the source of this clip is CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network). They aren’t exactly unbiased on this matter.

Except, we don’t have ranks. More likely, she can be just as much an atheist as she claims to be, but have no commitment to intellectual honesty, particularly when it comes to achieving her political goals. The GOP has a long history of manipulating the religious right by saying the right things to them to convince them to vote Republican, without every believing what they’re saying. The religious right has certainly infiltrated the GOP since and now there are many Republicans who actually do believe this stuff, but there’s still plenty of cynical manipulation going on.

She appears to me to just be another cynical manipulator who has figure out that if she plays the role of an atheist defending Christianity, she can keep fundamentalist Christians turning out to the polls and voting Republican.

Convenient how they say a comment about pro lifers specifically is supposed to be an  attack on all Christians, and Bill Maher is the only one they actually show a video of. Yeah, Bill Maher attacks Christianity (and other religions), but that’s Bill Maher, you won’t find any significant broad brush strokes against Christianity from the “main stream media” and they know it, or they’d have showed some, instead they misquote Katie Couric, the most inoffensive person on television.

I gotta come up with a gimmick to sell books.

If she didn’t call “Christian values” repugnant, she should have.  They are. 

Oh, my week makes SO much more sense now. All week, there’s been a deluge of  whining on Facebook, Twitter, etc. from Christians about how they’re the only group it’s okay to bully without repercussions, and about how atheists are being “big bullies,” etc. It was like they were all  reading from the same script, cued to release on a certain date, and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. The white, middle-class, Xtians (especially males)have started seeming like a Monty Pyrthon sketch: “Help, help, I”m being repressed!” One woman locally (can’t say where this was witnessed for privacy reasons) actually started crying over “losing her religious freedoms.” Read: no prayer in schools, teaching evolution in classrooms,  and someone mentioned in passing taking “Under God” out of the national anthem–all ways she is personally being hurt by the repressive atheists in a way that no one but a Xtian can understand (I wish I were kidding).

Once again, all of them are, indeed, using the group-think of sound bites. At least now I know where this particular avalanche of crap came from.

I’m pretty sure the Pope’s an atheist. Maybe she’s just incredibly honest – the Pope, and a non zero number of other religious leaders are really atheist who are willing to lie to use religion as a tool for getting whatever it is they want, maybe she’s just not willing to claim she believes it, but still wants to use religion to get what she wants.

How far did I get into the video? I didn’t even press play.

Maybe you haven’t read all the posts.  Some think she is an atheist and a jerk.  Others think she is a jerk and maybe not even an atheist because what she says seems inconsistent with non-belief in God.  Nothing much dogmatic there.  

 Why doesn’t she tell that to the parents of the children who killed themselves from being bullied because they were gay/perceived as gay due to an Minnesotan school district bending to the will of Christian hate groups who told the district that they had to remain ‘neutral’ on homosexuality and thus prevented the staff from being able to stop the bullies.

You missed my point.  The idea that folks wouldn’t take her at her word that she’s an atheist even when she says she is.  That’s something you see people do in a variety of settings, and it illustrates just how common atheism is becoming in its behavior.   Sometimes I have to remind myself it isn’t just another religious denomination.

Heh, hence my use of the word “supposedly.” Thanks for the clarification.

The picture was meant to jokingly say that she talks too much and too wrong. A dick in her mouth will make her unable to keep talking, it will make her quiet as it corresponds to the females.

It’s very fitting for a pornographer to attempt to put a woman in her place by silencing her through a dick. Shut the fuck up and start sucking you whore. It’s usually what their movies are all about.

Good for you if you think women with opinions with which you disagree should be dealt with in such manner.

Actually, it’s sex-negative to imply that fellatio should be a degrading and humiliating act, which is exactly what the Hustler picture was doing.  If you don’t see the sexism in telling a woman to stuff a cock in her mouth because you disagree with what comes out of it (or the blatant sex-negativity of implying that giving head is demeaning and submissive), maybe it isn’t the evil feminists with the blinders on.

she is showing cleavage…she clearly is a heathen

If Joey Ratzinger is an atheist, he’s even more despicable than I already thought.

Wow, she has got the weakest form of atheism ever. Very cute. but very clueless.

 Actually I don’t think that at all. I think Cupp has found a persona that sells and is pushing it. She might well be an atheist and happy about it, but knows that playing to the Fox crowd is a goldmine, so she does it.
Aside from her talk on atheism, here are some other bits of her work at Fox:
http://youtu.be/-koy-XecKzU?t=5m22s

She’s a character, and I can’t take anything she says seriously.

 Oh, bullshit. Would someone photoshop a penis into Glenn Beck’s mouth because he needs to shut up? No. They did it because she’s a woman. End of story. Do any of you nitwits EVER realize it’s only men that fight this? Has it ever occurred to you that you don’t notice it because you’re male and you’ve never had to deal with it.