http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/expelled_no_intelligence_allow.html
Ok, I just decided I like Roger Ebert. This is a really long article, so here are some choice quotes:
...This film is cheerfully ignorant, manipulative, slanted, cherry-picks quotations, draws unwarranted conclusions, makes outrageous juxtapositions (Soviet marching troops representing opponents of ID), pussy-foots around religion (not a single identified believer among the ID people), segues between quotes that are not about the same thing, tells bald-faced lies, and makes a completely baseless association between freedom of speech and freedom to teach religion in a university class that is not about religion.
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...He takes a field trip to visit one "result" of Darwinism: Nazi concentration camps. "As a Jew," he says, "I wanted to see for myself." We see footage of gaunt, skeletal prisoners. Pathetic children. A mound of naked Jewish corpses. "It's difficult to describe how it felt to walk through such a haunting place," he says. Oh, go ahead, Ben Stein. Describe. It filled you with hatred for Charles Darwin and his followers, who represent the overwhelming majority of educated people in every nation on earth. It is not difficult for me to describe how you made me feel by exploiting the deaths of millions of Jews in support of your argument for a peripheral Christian belief. It fills me with contempt.
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Some of the comments of the review covered this so I'll add it to your blog instead.
It's interesting that Michael Moore uses the same set of bad logic and dirty tricks in his "documentaries". Seems to me both Moore and Stein are equally despicable for it. It's interesting that Ebert (who I also really respect) doesn't deliver the same level of derision in reviews of Moore's work.
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