Blogger gets expelled from Expelled

[Gullible Jones]

This is the most hilarious thing I have read all day. PZ Meyers got barred from a theater showing Expelled - but they let his guest in.

His guest was Richard Dawkins.

[Shinova]

Jedi mind trick indeed.

[Durandal]

This is just too damn funny.

EXPELLED!
Category: Creationism
Posted on: March 20, 2008 8:26 PM, by PZ Myers

There 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.

I went back to my family and talked with them for a while, and then the officer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only wasn't I allowed in, but I had to leave the premises immediately. Like right that instant.

I complied.

I'm still laughing though. You don't know how hilarious this is. Not only is it the extreme hypocrisy of being expelled from their Expelled movie, but there's another layer of amusement. Deep, belly laugh funny. Yeah, I'd be rolling around on the floor right now, if I weren't so dang dignified.

You see … well, have you ever heard of a sabot? It's a kind of sleeve or lightweight carrier used to surround a piece of munition fired from a gun. It isn't the actually load intended to strike the target, but may even be discarded as it leaves the barrel.

I'm a kind of sabot right now.

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.

Tell me, are you laughing as hard as I am?

[Lusankya]

Because I'm mean and like pointing this kind of thing out - already posted.

[Johonebesus]

They accidentally let in Richard Dawkins.

There 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.

I went back to my family and talked with them for a while, and then the officer came back with a theater manager, and I was told that not only wasn't I allowed in, but I had to leave the premises immediately. Like right that instant.

I complied.

I'm still laughing though. You don't know how hilarious this is. Not only is it the extreme hypocrisy of being expelled from their Expelled movie, but there's another layer of amusement. Deep, belly laugh funny. Yeah, I'd be rolling around on the floor right now, if I weren't so dang dignified.

You see … well, have you ever heard of a sabot? It's a kind of sleeve or lightweight carrier used to surround a piece of munition fired from a gun. It isn't the actually load intended to strike the target, but may even be discarded as it leaves the barrel.

I'm a kind of sabot right now.

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.

Tell me, are you laughing as hard as I am?

In case anyone is unaware, there have been many advanced screenings of the anti-science propaganda film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. These screenings have been held for the press, but by invite only. The approved reviewers were then supposed to sign non-disclosure agreements to make sure only positive reviews were written. There were a few mistakes of course, but it hasn't gotten nearly the coverage of so-called left wing propaganda films.

To summarize the above article: This week a screening was held in Minneapolis that was evidently open to the public. This weekend there is the 34th Annual National Conference of American Atheists in the same city. Two of the attendees, Richard Dawkins and one Paul Zachary Myers, attempted to get into the movie, and Myers was stopped by the police and asked to leave. His family and Dawkins however were allowed in.

I can't put it any better than another blogger: "If you make a movie that falsely claims there's a massive conspiracy to expel dissenting voices, it's probably unwise to then expel dissenting voices."

[Johonebesus]

Oops, sorry.

[SilverWingedSeraph]

Already posted, twice.

[DPDarkPrimus]

The first thread is the worst iteration, though, as it doesn't have the article posted, and the thread title doesn't give you any idea what the thread is about.

[Gullible Jones]

And I meant to post this in Off Topic. Crap.

[Ghost Rider]

Merged into one large monster.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Now THIS, this is comedy gold.

Over at RD.net, we've been wondering how to respond to this movie and now that Dawkins has got a good look at it, I imagine a game plan can be made on how to show up these morons even more. I know that a few people found Stein an intelligent and reasonable man until I pointed out what he had just made now.

[brianeyci]

I was talking to my brother about this, and in the end we concluded Stein wasn't a smart man, even without Expelled.

Remembering a whole shitload of trivia isn't what makes a man smart. I saw through Stein long before this crap.