A couple months ago, I started a new feature on the site. It was designed to feature the crazy email I receive on a regular basis. I haven’t done one in a while since, honestly, the email’s gotten less bizarre. People still write to disagree, but usually they’re pretty level-headed.
So, what is it about the Apollo missions that whips the loonies into such a frenzy?
On Tuesday, I wrote a Daily Caller piece about Obama’s cancellation of the Constellation program and, ever since, I’ve been receiving email from the “Moon Hoax” crowd. These delusional morons have been lobbing video clip after video clip at me. All of them contain supposed hoax ”evidence,” and are designed to ”educate” me.
They promise that one day, when I see the light about NASA’s fake missions, I’ll thank them for it. Uh…yeah. Sure thing.
You may think it’s mean to toy with people so obviously unable to live in the real world but, I have to admit, I enjoy egging them on.
One guy in particular has been fun. His name’s Rory_Snyder@yahoo.com, and he’s been sending me incontrovertible evidence that the Apollo landings were completely bogus. Most impressive is the following photo showing a bright blue sky outside the Apollo 13 LEM window - proof positive that the phony missions were filmed right here on Earth.
I’ve resized this picture so it will fit on the page but, otherwise, it’s exactly as I received it. A black and white photo of a blue sky. Glorius, isn’t it? Just look at the majestic, swirling clouds, the cerulean sky, and the glorius midday sun.
Rory went on to claim that all of the moon rocks brought back from the lunar surface were culled from an Antarctic asteroid strike, that 18 Astronauts went to the moon and not one of them ever saw a single star, and that the all-powerful forces forces of Russia and the TV show Mythbusters have conspired together to support the U.S. position.
As Rory put it: “Shame on Mythbusters for going along with the scam!”
One can only imagine the animosity he feels toward Tom Hanks and Ron Howard.
Rory then pointed me to the collected works of Bart Sibrel. Sibrel’s a Nashville based cab driver and the leader of the hoax movement. He likes to ambush Buzz Aldrin with claims that he’s been lying all these years about Apollo 11.
You may remember him from this clip…
Sibrel was recently arrested after assaulting a woman who refused to give up her parking spot. It seems that when road rage caused his much-vaunted scientific mind to snap, he leapt up onto the woman’s car, and began jumping up and down while shrieking and berating her. He later plead guilty to vandalism. There can be little doubt that the arrest was simply government persecution – nothing more than an attempt to intimidate the nation’s foremost purveyor of truth. Why, oh why, why must the enlightened suffer so?
Still unwilling, and perhaps a bit afraid, to acknowledge the wisdom of Rory and Sibrel’s words, I pointed out that there are photos, taken last year by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, depicting views of the Apollo landing sites from orbit.
Rory impressed me greatly with his response to these images. It was as follows:
Nobody from Wayne State has an IQ over 100. None of you people should be in any intellectual leadership positions. That’s like they polishing a turd. I loved the photochop images of the alleged landing sites.
At this point he was really starting to open my eyes. Clearly, once I looked at them with my newfound knowledge, these pictures had indeed been “photochopped.” Perhaps by impugning my degree, Rory had somehow shocked me into accepting the truth. So, I wrote back. I wondered if he was also the kind of guy who believed George Bush had blown up the world trade center. I should have known. My pen-pal is far too intelligent to put stock in such ridiculous theories.
Rory doesn’t blame Bush. He has his sights on the ”real” culprits – The Jews.
“Get used to hearing about this scam and 9/11: The Day of the Jew. Jews and some of their Gentile lackeys in our gov’t did 9/11. rory_snyder@yahoo.com “
What was interesting about this sentiment is not just the anti-Semitic rhetoric, but the fact that I’ve now heard the same thing from two other Moon hoax believers. There seems to be some major crossover between the anti-Israel crowd, and the moon hoax gang. How long will it be before they team up, and come to the logical, inevitable, Occam’s razor inspired conclusion?
That’s right, the Jews faked the Moon landings.
Thank you, rory_snyder@yahoo.com…. Thank you for teaching, for inspiring, and for protecting us all from the Jews. Good luck with the foil hat business.
- Robert Laurie
P.S. It should be noted that, in 13 (so far) seperate emails, Rory has vigorously argued against evidence that his claims are painfully, obviously, incorrect. He has never once, however, argued against MY claims that he’s a bigoted anti-semite. To thine own self be true, I suppose.
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By the way, what is the one variable in all these American scams like the JFK/RFK Assassinations, phony Moon Landings, 9/11, non-existent WMD’s in Iraq, Global Warming?
That variable is the complicit media run by Jews. Stanley Kubrick, Henry Kissinger, David L. Wolper and Tom Hanks are all Jews who have participated in the Apollo scam!
That’s right, after almost a week, Rory is still writing me. This comment really sums up the intellect level of the conspiracy crowd.
Kubrick, Kissinger, Wolper, and Tom Hanks. The Media. All Jews.
A: What you’re describing, Rory, is a constant. Not a variable.
B: Apparently the wise bigot, Rory Snyder has once again failed to do his homework.
Not that it’s anyone’s business outside of the Hanks household, but…from an interview with Tom Hanks, non-jew, about his religion:
“I feel that the good and bad believers have to do with the good and bad in their deeds,” said Howard. “Belief is personal and to be respected. But behavior and actions taken on behalf of those beliefs, well that’s something that society has to react to when it’s bad and applaud when it’s good.”
For example, Hanks quoted key lines in which the Swiss Guard commander aims this shot at the hero: “My church feeds the hungry and takes care of the needs of the poor. What has your church done? Oh, that’s right, Mr. Langdon, you don’t have one.”
“This is true,” noted Hanks, whose complex family history included doses of Catholicism, Mormonism, the Church of the Nazarene and several years as a Bible-toting evangelical teenager. “The church does feed the poor. It does take care of the hungry. It heals the sick. I think that the grace of God seems to be not only in the eye of the believer, but also in the hands of the believer.”
These days, he said, he still ponders the big questions while raising a family with his Greek Orthodox wife, actress Rita Wilson.
Miracles are everywhere in daily life, he said, and it’s the “mystery of it all” that continues to haunt him.
“I must say that when I go to church — and I do go to church — I ponder the mystery,” he said. “I meditate on the, ‘why?’ of ‘Why people are as they are,’ and ‘Why bad things happen to good people,’ and ‘Why good things happen to bad people.’ … The mystery is what I think is, almost, the grand unifying theory of all mankind.”
http://www.pottsmerc.com/articles/2009/04/12/opinion/srv0000005095974.txt
Please Rory, when you’re going to pin that yellow star to someone’s clothes, at least do your homework. Or has Bart Sibrel convinced you that there’s a vast global conspiracy designed to hide the “fact” that Hanks is Jewish?