So there I was, having a light lunch at home and surfing between channels when lo and behold I am entranced by a 30-second commercial for the Creation Museum running on... yeah, you guessed it... Fox News.
Transcript, link and brief commentary after the doodley-thing.
NARRATOR:
The L.A. Times calls the Creation Museum "a 60,000 square-foot menace to twenty-first century scientific advancement."
Vanity Fair calls it "the biggest collection of kitsch in God's entire world."
Architectural Record says it's "more frightening than Disney's Haunted Mansion."
KEN HAM (President, Answers in Genesis):
There are nearly two hundred natural-history museums across America that teach evolution, so why is the media so hateful to our museum that teaches Creation from a Biblical perspective? Think for yourself, and prepare to believe.
This commercial is fantastic, in all the meanings of the word.
It immediately invokes the conspiracists' bête noire, that dreaded liberal media (L.A. Times, Vanity Fair, Architectural Record [WTF? Architectural Record has a well-know liberal bias?!]), and evokes the mythology of a victimized (read: "martyred") Fundamentalist Christian believer.
Ham's comments regarding the preponderance of natural-history museums teaching evolution versus the poor, little Creation Museum (200 to 1, so sad...) is the kind of argument certain to appeal to those who sincerely believe in Murdochian "fairness" and "balance."
The kicker, though, is the exhortation to "think for yourself"...
The commercial began airing exclusively on Fox News on Wednesday and will run through Easter.
For your Friday entertainment!