"Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

The following is exerted from the transcript of Glenn Beck's hour long interview of Ben Stein.

Some exerted things ...... that cause some people ...... to hate Ben Stein.

GLENN BECK

Ben Stein Profiled
Aired May 2, 2008 - 19:00:00 ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


BEN STEIN, FILMMAKER: Tonight, from Yale valedictorian, presidential speech writer to game show host, Ben Stein has done it all. Starting out as an attorney with his electric personality, he`s worked for Presidents Nixon and Ford and has appeared in numerous commercials, TV shows and movies.
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BECK: So the point of the movie -- and this is why you need to see it. The point of the movie is we`ve got to have a conversation -- and I tell you, Ben, when I saw the movie, I walked away saying there`s a big portion of America -- and it`s coming from these universities -- that I don`t even recognize anymore.

STEIN: I don`t recognize them either. They don`t have any idea of the sacredness of human life. It all starts with the sacredness of human life and we work backwards and forward from there. But if you don`t start with the sacredness of human life, you`re not getting anywhere.
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STEIN: It makes you want to vomit that we have people in Iraq and Afghanistan laying down their lives for a just, lawful, compassionate America, and here at home, the looters are running wild. That just makes me sick, and I think there should be a stop to it.

It disappoints me very much that Mr. Bush, whom I like very much, is not taking major steps to reform the bankruptcy process so that people cannot put a company into bankruptcy, destroy the lives of the employees, and then walk off with hundreds of millions of dollars in stock.
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STEIN: No, we are energy interdependent. We could be energy independent, but it would take a mammoth national effort. I don`t think we have the willpower to do it. Because look, if we try to disturb the giant masses of earth surrounding all the coal and make coal into oil, I wouldn`t mind. It doesn`t bother me, Glenn.

BECK: Drill through the head of reindeer. Sorry, kids. Santa`s reindeer, you hold them down and I`ll put the drill bit through their head to get the oil.

STEIN: I don`t know if I`ll do that. But we do need the oil very, very badly. I agree entirely. We have enough coal to turn into oil to last virtually indefinitely. We have enough nucular, as Mr. Bush says to last virtually indefinitely. I think we should do it. I love the environment but I love the idea of being independent much more.

BECK: Look, I love the environment as well, but $10 a gallon for gasoline.

STEIN: Oh, it`s going to be more than that.
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STEIN: All right, that I`ll do. Seriously, we could -- Germany made itself virtually energy independent during World War II while it was being bombed 24 hours a day. We are not being bombed except very rarely and horribly occasionally, but we can do it. We just don`t have the willpower to do it.

BECK: Do you realize that Germany stayed afloat with coal-to-oil exactly the same .

STEIN: While being bombed.

BECK: And you know what, our military is making coal-to-oil right now because they want to be energy independent for the military to be able to have all of it be able to make right here in the United States of America.

STEIN: I think it`s a good idea.

BECK: It`s a great idea. Yet we won`t do it for the general public?

STEIN: I keep thinking if we lose in Iraq, God forbid, if Iran takes over and dominates the Middle East we`re going to be in real trouble. What if Russia stops selling energy to Western Europe? I think Russia at present has more domination over Western Europe than Stalin ever did.
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BECK: Back with Ben Stein, author, comedian, documentary filmmaker of "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."

It is in movie theaters now, and I`m telling you, America, if you`re a God- fearing person, if you`re somebody who wants your kids to go to college, please go see "Expelled." Look it up. It`s in theaters this week.

I want to ask you a little bit about -- let`s start with the food crisis.

Tell me about it.

STEIN: Well, two factors. The worst one, the inexcusable one, was the ethanol mandates in which Congress just out of nowhere required that a very large amount of cropland be used to produce ethanol -- corn for ethanol.

Corn for ethanol is a great idea in theory. It doesn`t produce as much energy as it costs to make it.

BECK: Right.

STEIN: So, it`s a net energy loser. It`s using up a lot of crops that could be feeding animals and people.

BECK: It`s going to have more. I think it`s like -- what is it, 24...

STEIN: They`re doubling it.

BECK: Yes.

STEIN: They`re either doubling it or tripling it.

BECK: I think it`s 25 percent this year. It`s 50 next year.

STEIN: And not only is it causing a food crisis, which is terrible, and real people are really starving, but also it is causing environmental havoc because lots and lots of jungle and virgin forests are being knocked down to grow corn.
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BECK: Here`s the thing. You talk about it in your movie "Expelled." It`s the same thing with Islamic extremism, global warming, ethanol.

STEIN: Yes, you`re not allowed to tell the truth.

BECK: You can`t...

STEIN: You`re not allowed.

BECK: You can`t.

STEIN: No, but ethanol I think -- you`re getting to a place where you can tell the truth, because everyone now realizes there is just no point to doing it. We would have done a lot better drilling, drilling, drilling, converting coal into oil.

It`s turning into a real worldwide disaster. And, you know, people in the U.S. pay more for their food. People in Haiti die. People in (INAUDIBLE) die.

BECK: Yes. Here`s the amazing thing. Everybody says -- all these liberals are running around saying, oh, our foreign policy is making people hate us. When we starve the world to death over an invisible gas, how much are they going to hate us then?

STEIN: Yes. Do you know how much all the greenhouse gases in the upper atmosphere is caused by manmade activities? Less than 2 percent.

BECK: Yes.

STEIN: So, and the addition and the saving by using ethanol is inconsequential, if any. It`s just -- it was a bad, bad, bad idea.

But hugely beloved in the agricultural states. And more power to them. We all want to make money, but hugely beloved in the agricultural states but a disaster worldwide.

The second big crisis is not manmade. It`s the drought in Australia, which has greatly cut back on rice production.


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I don't hate Stein for his opinions on international economic policy.

That is something he has knowledge of.

I even agree with him on the corn to ethanol thing - turning food into fuel while people go hungry - foolish.

What I hate him for is limited to the distortions and legerdemain in his recent movie. He avoids anything scientific in the movie and turns the topic into one long conspiracy theory.

He should be beaten with a tyrannosaur's ulna.

One of the things exerted in the EXCERPT was said by Beck, not Stein.

Nothing like an interviewer that throws softballs.

BECK: Yes. Here`s the amazing thing. Everybody says -- all these liberals are running around saying, oh, our foreign policy is making people hate us. When we starve the world to death over an invisible gas, how much are they going to hate us then?

TerryRC wrote:One of the things exerted in the EXCERPT was said by Beck, not Stein.

Nothing like an interviewer that throws softballs.

BECK: Yes. Here`s the amazing thing. Everybody says -- all these liberals are running around saying, oh, our foreign policy is making people hate us. When we starve the world to death over an invisible gas, how much are they going to hate us then?

An interview is a conversation between two or more people (The interviewer and the interviewee) where questions are asked by the interviewer to obtain information from the interviewee. Interviews can be divided into two rough types, interviews of assessment and interviews for information.

TRC, me thinks you are confusing the transcript of an "interview" with the published article by a "reporter".

Tell ya what Terry, ..... the next time President Bush has a "News conference", you make a VCR recording of every second of the "question n' answer" period when reporters are permitted to interview the President.

Then TRC, you check "word for word" ....... the printed results of those reporters against you VCR recording ............ then tell me if the reporter(s) quoted themselves verbatum in their published article.

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That's it......I'm going to have to make time to see this movie.

Stephanie wrote:That's it......I'm going to have to make time to see this movie.

Steph, they showed a couple segments of the movie during that interview, ..... one in particular was Ben talking to one of those College Professors.

And ..... MERCY GAWDS, ..... if I didn't know better I would swear on the Bible that that fellow was "just a bum off the street" ........ that Ben chose especially for a "faked interview".

If that was "the norm" ...... of the caliber and expertise of the Professors that are teaching our graduate and undergraduates ......... then we truly are in "deep shidt".



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Back in RI I lived in a community that neighbored URI for several years. Many of my neighbors were profs. Some of them, like me, were involved in local politics. A lot of them dressed like bums. A couple of them didn't live much better.

There was this one guy who had a common-law wife and child. I'll never forget the only time I ever entered his home. When I tell you stacks and piles and heaps of old newspapers, magazines, and books occupied every available space in that place, I'm not exaggerating. What was far worse, was the way he treated his girlfriend. It is an experience I will never forget.

We were talking about the upcoming election and campaign efforts etc. This woman was driving all around our town hanging these plastic litter bags with his name on them filled with his campaign lit and other local Republicans running. He wouldn't let her say a word. "Shut up, Maggie!" "Nobody is listening to you, Maggie!" "Can't you see I'm saying something, Maggie!" He treated her like a doormat. Their son was witnessing all of this. I got the hell out of there as fast as I could and never looked back.

TRC, me thinks you are confusing the transcript of an "interview" with the published article by a "reporter".

Tell ya what Terry, ..... the next time President Bush has a "News conference", you make a VCR recording of every second of the "question n' answer" period when reporters are permitted to interview the President.

Then TRC, you check "word for word" ....... the printed results of those reporters against you VCR recording ............ then tell me if the reporter(s) quoted themselves verbatum in their published article.

What is your point? That Beck didn't say one of the things that YOU bolded in your quote? That Beck didn't interview Stein?

That your quote wasn't an EXCERPT from a larger piece?

Meh...