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What a burn! FOXNews, that bastion of evolution-denier Bill O'Reilly, has posted its review of "Expelled."

Some choice comments:

Directed by one Nathan Frankowski, "Expelled" is a sloppy, all over the place, poorly made (and not just a little boring) "expose" of the scientific community.

To wit: Stein, Frankowski and pals say in "Expelled" that perfectly good scientists and educators are being stigmatized for wanting to teach their students creationism and "intelligent design" - in other words, junk science - in addition to or instead of conventionally accepted Darwinism.

(emphasis in the original)

The whole idea of Stein, a Jew, jumping on the Intelligent Design bandwagon of the theory of evolution begetting the Nazi's is so distasteful you wonder what in - sorry - god's name - he was thinking when he got into this. Who cares really if "Expelled" is anti-Semitic? It will come and go without much fanfare.

And the coup-de-grace in the PS:

Following "The Passion" release pattern, "Expelled" will open wide on the 18th but mostly in rural and poor neighborhoods. It's got just one theater in all of New York City, in Times Square, none in places like Beverly Hills or wealthier better educated urban neighborhoods where more "evolved" people might live.

Just more evidence that the film seeks to enrage the faithful, not to inform the general public or engage in honest debate.

According to the film's website, the producers are in a whopping 45 theaters in North Carolina, and a mere 7 in Massachusetts, 35 in Georgia, 11 in New Jersey, 4 in Connecticut, and 1 in Vermont. And so on. There are huge numbers of screens in Florida and Texas taking the film, particularly 7 in San Antonio. If I lived in the deep south, I'd boycott the filmmakers for thinking of me as this gullible and unsophisticated.

(bolding mine)

Ouch.

The Discovery Institute probably won't be happy with the fact that the movie's IMDB keywords are
"Creationism"
"Fake Evidence"
"Christian"
"Conspiracy Theory"
"Propaganda"
"Jesus"
"Science Fiction"
"Parody"
"Documentaries"
"Independent Film"

Somehow, it seems that "No Intelligence Allowed" is the perfect subtitle for this movie.