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You read the title correctly. Now, if you have half an hour, read the rest.

That is simply one revealing fragment. 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.

I remember seeing the website for Ben Stein's eXpelled a few months ago and being shocked at how poorly put together it was. I completely lost all respect for Ben Stein at that time, and it doesn't appear as though he'll be getting it back any time.

P.S. And on a side note, I despise the decline of the "documentary." There's no way in hell Michael Moore movies should win awards for "documentary" films. They - and eXepelled - are not documentaries. They're op/ed pieces.

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