Michael, no no no, didn’t you get the memo? Arguing that he was hassling people in line is so 20th of March. We’re not going to get anywhere if we’re not all singing from the same hymn-sheet. Here is the latest, as crafted by our friends at CRC Public Relations, 25 March 2008. Now, repeat after me:

“Recognizing the opportunity to make a point of the inconvenience and pain that they, and others like them, have caused to numerous scientists and educators, the decision was made beforehand to deny Myers access to the film if he actually showed up.”

Got it? Good. Now, go spread that on your blogs.

“I will go see this movie, and I will cheer loudly at my 30 seconds or whatever on the screen, and I will certainly disembowel its arguments here and in any print venue that wants me. That’s going to be fun.”

Promising to cheer loudly every time you see yourself on the screen is a threat of going to be disruptive.

Also P.Z. Myers was being aggressive in line as he would “worm” his way towards the screen which did annoy others who were standing in line. Here is a man aggressively heading toward the production, promised to cheer “loudly” each time he seen himself, who would allow a man like this showing signs of being disruptive into the screening?

If he would have set aside his pride, and displayed more civil behavior instead of acting so militant about it, he would have most certainly have gotten into screening the production. Now he has to wait to buy a ticket like everyone else to do all the things he said he would do or maybe he has done that already…lol

Thanks Duae, you beat me to it. I think that Myers was stupid to do it, but I’m really pissed at Panda’s Thumb, who seem to be giving it the kind of spin we’ve come to expect from the Expelled group. That’s just embarrassing. At least Myers didn’t try to spin what he did, and openly said that he was “misbehaving” in the title of his post on the incident.

Yes, Ferrous Patella, he did receive an email invitation, however that invitation was not to speak on the call but to submit questions by email. He rang up early and they accidentally gave him the code with which to speak live. He, realising their error, decided to take advantage of their mistake anyway and use it.

Every time I posted something about the various RSVP sites, Glen would appear and seemingly challenge what I had said, inadvertently allowing the dishonesty to propagate further (as I saw it, anyway). I couldn’t figure out why – until I realized that he knew all along. Ah, well.

I have both the links and images of the cached version of the screenings list, which both mention Mall of America, but only one specifically says “Private screenings”. So, as you say, it looks like there was a page for invited guests, and one for pretty much anyone who found the link.

It is analogous to being invited to be in the audience at a panel discussion, but arriving early at the same time as panel members, and walking in with them to the main table without security noticing.

Myers did also disconnect shortly after speaking up on air. Hilarious.

And if Expelled writer Kevin Miller hadn’t run away from our questions to him on that very same thread on which Glen linked to the One Great City blog, Miller would have seen us openly discussing attending these screenings, and would have also read J-Dog ask me to invite PZ. (Of course I thought of it myself.) Dweebs.

Expelled is set to open in theatres on the weekend that both Charles Darwin and his grandfather, Erasmus, died. What bad taste! I hope to see this film, which is an exercise in psychological projection and paranoia bar none, share the same fate.