Every once in a while you come across something so outrageous and sad that you almost think that it is all a big parody, except for the fact that it is 100% real. Next, you think that humanity is more messed up than you ever imagined, and you are even more horrified when you realize that a large segment of the population actually buys into that particular brand of lunacy.
Case in point: The Expelled DVD.
Okay, the fact that Expelled is a pile of dishonest claptrap is old news. The drama by the IDists after getting epically humiliated countless times over the movie is also old news. Nothing could make Expelled even more of a failure, right?
Wrong, of course. When it comes to the IDists, nothing is too absurd or too unbelievable. Are you ready for the latest cringe-worthy truckload of FAIL regarding the Expelled movie? Get ready for it now….
The person who wrote the promotional blurb for the cover of the Expelled DVD is Ben Stein himself.
“I love this film!” –Ben Stein
Let that sink in for a bit, folks.
Ben Stein wrote the cover blurb for his own movie. Ben Stein wrote the cover blurb for his own movie. Ben Stein wrote the cover blurb for his own movie. Ben Stein wrote the cover blurb for his own movie. Ben Stein wrote the cover blurb for his own movie.
Can it get any more pathetic than that?
It seems like good old Stein couldn’t even get some church leader to promote his terrible movie, and he had to resort to the usual self-praising games just like his compatriot William Dembski, who wrote positive reviews of his own book at Amazon under different names.
Those IDists are like a train wreck that has greatly surpassed the point of being funny, but somehow we can’t seem to stop watching and cringing.
Oh, the failure! Oh, the comedy! Will it ever stop?
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Perhaps this is just a case of parody? Maybe Stein is in on the joke of self-serving blurbs and is satirizing it here. I can’t conceive of anyone being THAT dense otherwise.
Believe it or not, it did get more pathetic:
http://scienceblogs.com/erv/2008/10/expelled_the_punchlines_wont_s.php
At least they seem to have fixed (or re-rigged) the poll now.
Also, having to insist that you’re the #1 documentary of the year, as well as claiming that the film “has made real change from the legislature to the classroom,” when the project was a complete failure, is fairly sad as well.
Ah c’mon SS, This seems to be pretty clearly a joke on their part. Obviously they could have gotten an endorsement from someone with some letters behind their name. It would be a total hackjob, but they do have a few handfuls of them at arms reach.
If it wasn’t for Stein being in it, though, he was probably about as good of an endorsement as they could’ve got.
Hmmm… Ben Stein was a speechwriter for the Reagan Administration. Honesty is not exactly his suit. Self-aggrandizement is more like it. Ben Stein has an ego problem, IMHO.