CPU Magazine Features Positive Review of ‘Expelled’ — WTF

Each issue of Computer Power User (CPU) magazine features a page written by Blaine Flamig highlighting “the latest and most interesting releases in PC entertainment, consoles, DVDs, CDs, and just leisure and lifestyle stuff we (for the most part) love and recommend…” The January 2009 issue recommends that idiotic Ben Stein film Expelled — No Intelligence Allowed. According to Flamig’s copy (emphasis added),

From esteemed professor, author, lawyer, actor, and presidential speech writer (Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford) comes Ben Stein’s sarcastically soaked, less-than-biased “Expelled–No Intelligence Allowed.” More propaganda than documentary, “No Intelligence” explores the controversies, persecutions, and hits to America’s educational and scientific communities as perceived by Stein and company due to American scientists holding dear to Darwinian principals vs. giving equal considertion to Intelligent Design theories. Directed by Nahtan Frankowski and penned by Kevin Miller and Stein, “No Intelligence” is heavy-handed in favor of Intelligent Design (the film tries to make a connection between Hitler’s actions and natural selection), yet convinces somewhat that America’s educational system could use some revamping.

Unbelievable. Of course the “persecutions” in the film are completely bogus, and Stein and Miller are betting that viewers of their film will never bother to fact check them. Well, at least they succeeded with Flamig.