From Pharyngula
EXPELLED!
Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 20, 2008 8:26 PM, by PZ MyersThere is a rich, deep kind of irony that must be shared. I’m blogging this from the Apple store in the Mall of America, because I’m too amused to want to wait until I get back to my hotel room.
I went to attend a screening of the creationist propaganda movie, Expelled, a few minutes ago. Well, I tried … but I was Expelled! It was kind of weird — I was standing in line, hadn’t even gotten to the point where I had to sign in and show ID, and a policeman pulled me out of line and told me I could not go in. I asked why, of course, and he said that a producer of the film had specifically instructed him that I was not to be allowed to attend. The officer also told me that if I tried to go in, I would be arrested. I assured him that I wasn’t going to cause any trouble.
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They singled me out and evicted me, but they didn’t notice my guest. They let him go in escorted by my wife and daughter. I guess they didn’t recognize him. My guest was …
Richard Dawkins.
He’s in the theater right now, watching their movie.
From the official Expelled website:
“It’s (EXPELLED) going to appeal strongly to the religious, the paranoid, the conspiracy theorists, and the ignorant –– which means they’re going to draw in about 90% of the American market.”
-Atheist blogger and fabulist PZ Myers, on a film he has not yet seen.
http://expelledthemovie.com/blog/
I mistakenly posted this in the Limbaugh posting instead of this one, but I think the only good that will come out of Expelled is the universal realization that documentaries, cannot be trusted as definitive sources of information. Those of us not on the left have been aware of this for the past seven years, with the flood of far-left documentaries which use selective editing to distort actual events or testimony in service of an agenda, but the left has been far too happy to allow the truth to be misinterpreted, as long as they agree with the conclusion. We now see the far right doing the same here with its Michael Moore job on evolution.