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EXPELLED Controversy Top Issue in Blogosphere

SANTA FE, N.M.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Something amazing happened yesterday. The controversy around Premise Media’s upcoming movie Ben Stein’s EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed became the hottest topic in the blogosphere. According to BlogPulse, a service of Nielsen Buzzmetrics, the issue held the number one slot throughout the day on Monday, March 24th (http://www.blogpulse.com). There were also over 800 results on Technorati (www.technorati.com).

“It is amazing to see the reaction of PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins and their cohorts when one of them is simply expelled from a movie. Yet these men applaud when professors throughout the nation are fired from their jobs and permanently excluded from their profession for mentioning Intelligent Design,” said producer Mark Mathis. Mathis was at the event that has raised this controversy.

Mathis continued, “I hope PZ’s experience has helped him see the light. He is distraught because he could not see a movie. What if he wasn’t allowed to teach on a college campus or was denied tenure? Maybe he will think twice before he starts demanding more professors be blacklisted and expelled simply because they question the adequacy of Darwin’s theory.”

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PZ has provided an enormous amount of free advertising that couldn't have been purchased at any price. What a windfall for Expelled, and the timing is perfect. There's just enough time for the buzz to build in the next three weeks but not enough time for it to be forgotten.GilDodgen
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Poachy, do you suppose this whole event was planned by Mathis...or did he just happen to bungle into it?Lutepisc
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Beautiful. I'll say this about our side, we have some darn fine press release writers.poachy
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PZ Myers continues to publicize Expelled, now going on 1467 comments, keeping it #2 on Blogpulse On PZ Myers' classic instruction:
"The only appropriate responses [to proponents of Intelligent Design] should involve some form of righteous fury, much butt-kicking, and the public firing and humiliation of some teachers, many school board members, and vast numbers of sleazy far-right politicians.”
(http://www.pandasthumb.org/pt-archives/001143.html#c35130 Comment #35130 Posted by PZ Myers, 6/14/05, 07:50) Does this constitute the "hate speech" of which liberals are so enamored? Or is it just typical fascist application of dogma?DLH
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A beautiful response by the producers which probably won't get the air time it deserves. Thank you, Mr. Mathis, for stating this so cogently! I had been formulating these thoughts about the proportionality of the offending event (denial of tenure vs. denial of freebie entrance to a movie) vs. the intensity and pervasivess of the response myself...but hadn't quite come up with the words. Mr. Mathis, you are truly a professional and a gentleman.Lutepisc
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Blogpulse of Expelled Bloglist of "Expelled stein"DLH
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