Kristine
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I just snorted sushi out of my nose. Whom do I sue? (Maybe I should call teh attorney, Stein himself?)
| Quote | Blah, blah accomplished scholar [what? May I ask, what scholarship has he "accomplished?" Maybe he once received, er, a scholarship? That must be it.], attorney, writer and actor who attended Yale Law School — delivered a message of creationism, patriotism and value for humanity to graduates and their families on blah, blah, blah.
“Blah, blah, historic because it’s the first Commencement address delivered in sneakers,” Falwell joked [Wassamatah, yer pa who was once a playboy Calypso musician never paraded around in his Bermuda shorts beneath those robes?] as he invited Stein to the podium, just moments after Liberty University conferred an honorary Doctorate of Humanities blah blah. [Humanities, yet. That's my field, and them's fightin' words.]
Stein, 64, spoke of LU founder Dr. Jerry Falwell as a great man and praised the university for its support of Israel, the unborn, family values and morality. [And Israel's prevention of more unborn Palestian Israeli citizens, by trying to pass laws in the Knesset limiting marriage by Israeli citizens who are Palestians?]
“It is a wonderful thing to be in a place where you can say the truth, and one of the truths is that in this country you can say any curse word … on television. The only words you cannot say are God and Jesus Christ — " blah, blah, see anything contradictory here? 
He spoke extensively about his work on “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” a documentary exposing the flaws of Darwinism and showing how the scientific community discriminates against scholars who believe in creationism.
[I thought ID was not about creationism!] 
“I realized that the real issues of life were not economic issues, not necessarily material issues, but metaphysical issues,” he said, later explaining how looking at life as merely “animated mud” rather than a God-given blah blah animated mud-flinging.
After his documentary went public, Stein said the reception was fiercely critical blah, blah, "name-calling blah beyond anything, blah, blah, I’ve worked for Richard Nixon, blah, blah, been called a lot of names,” he said. “But I’ve never seen the [kind of] anger directed at this movie and at yours truly.” [See, that's how you get Ben Stein to finally remember, after his "forgetting" during the UVM debacle, that he actually did this movie - make it all about him!] 
Stein received a standing ovation for his remarks.
Though Stein does not share all of the same views as Liberty University, Chancellor Falwell said one of the major reasons he invited Stein to speak was because of his documentary.
When Falwell first announced that Stein would be delivering this year’s Commencement address, he said: “His work in exposing how fraudulent science is being used in this country to destroy freedom and advance tyrannical social and political agendas deserves our attention and respect.” |
| Quote | | Was that a real audience, or a fake one, as Stein used in the film? |
Does it really matter? 
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