RUSH: Whoopi Questions Moon Landing

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[Yosemitest]

Whoopi Questions Moon Landing
July 21, 2009

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: If you've ever had any doubts that the women on The View (snorts) are literally kooks,
we're going to confirm it for you here.
This happened yesterday morning.
It's Whoopi Goldberg, Barbara Walters, and co-host Sherri Shepherd
about Apollo 11 landing on the moon. (Click on video link to the right)



WALTERS: Whoopi, you don't really doubt that the men landed on the moon.

GOLDBERG: I am just saying that there are wonderful --

SHEPHERD: Don't they have a tape?

GOLDBERG: There are wonderful... You know, I love great conspiracy theories.
And these are better than a lot of them, because they say,

"Why is the flag rippling?
There's no air."

WALTERS: Because he touched it supposedly.

GOLDBERG: Yes, but it was
-- was it always in a ripple?
Was it starched in a ripple?

RUSH: Whoopi Goldberg admitting that she doubts the moon landing 40 years ago actually took place because the flag has a ripple in it and there's no wind. There's no air up there so how can that be? Did they starch the ripple in it? In fact, yes! Rather than have it stiff. (laughing) "Poor woman" is right. The problem is, these women weigh in and influence other women on serious stuff. More and more of the mainstream media has just become Kook City.

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RUSH: For Whoopi Goldberg, you know, there's no air on the moon.
The moon flag is hung from a horizontal rod, not verticals.
It's the same reason your drapes have ripples in them.
There's no air.
No air flows and so forth.
So they had to spread the flag out, Whoopi,
otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell what it was.
(sigh) Are those...?
Well, never mind.
I was going to ask if they're really women on that show.
They gotta be women.

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[Yosemitest]

Thanks Rush. I enjoyed the show.
But reference your statement
"There's no air."
Let me add a little information.

The flag waved as the Lunar Module Ascent stage lifted off the moon's surface.
Reason:

"Aerozine 50" was released from a compressed gas tank into the nozzle
to propel them off the lunar surface.
This highly pressurized gas "blew" the flag during blastoff,
hence the video from the "Eagle" Lunar Module Accent Stage
with the flag waving during blastoff (time line 5:31 thru 5:41 of this video).

Think of it as simular to a child releasing an untied ballon full of air,
to push the ballon around until all the pressurized air escapes from the ballon.
There is no flame needed from escaping pressurized gas.

Thanks again, Rush.
Here's one more link.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees Apollo Landing Sites

[Yosemitest]

Darned typos'! I meant balloon.

[GeronL]

I think they mean when the flag was put into the ground. Its still silly of course.

[Yosemitest]

Ya’ gotta take your laughs where ya’ find’em.

[SmokingJoe]

Question: Who is the craziest of them all, Whoopi “Come see my Bush” Goldberg, or the super crazy Rosie “Bush set Explosives to Bomb the WTC” O'Donnell?

[Yosemitest]

That’s a hard choice between to reprobates.

[Yosemitest]

That’s a hard choice between two reprobates.

[South40]

[Rennes Templar]

I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance.

[ez]

That’s what happens to non-critical thinkers when they choose to believe everything that lands in their email inbox...

[UnChained]

“I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance”

The moon’s atmosphere is a really hard vacuum. Their is no ambient air to stir up and create wind. Once the nozzle exhaust hits the ground and bounces, it would head straight for the sky becoming instant;y rarefied.

There was a crater. It was 1/4 inch deep because that is how deep the dust is on top of the solid rock of the lunar surface.

[crazyotto]

Goldburg’s as DUMB as a ROCK.

[jws3sticks]

Goldburg’s as DUMB as a ROCK.

Better yet, Goldburg’s as DUMB as a MOON ROCK.

[MikeWUSAF]

Duh! Sheila Jackson-Lee can tell you the flags were planted on Mars not the Moon.

[Salamander]

I don’t believe Whoopi Goldberg ever happened so I gotta go with Rosie.

[samtheman]

SHEPHERD: Don't they have a tape?

Now there's a deep thinker for you.

There's someone with a high-IQ bringing instant clarity to the situation.

What an insightful question. How she makes mince-meat of the whole issue with her steel-trap mind.

[kempster]

Please. In the future remind us to put on our tinfoil suits before you post articles like this.

[FDNYRHEROES]

Yeah, OK, Whoopi, the Apollo 11 Landing was fake...but the OTHER ONES (Apollos 12, 14, 15. 16 & 17) were quite real...

[n2dubes]

Whoopi “loves a good conspiracy theory”. There is a theory being floated around about a certain president who may not be eligible to serve because he is not a natural born citizen. How is that for a conspiracy theory Whoopi? And this theory is only months old. However, for some reason I doubt this theory will makes its way on to the view (a conspiracy in itself?).

[Venturer]

Whoopi is often called intelligent . She has the same press agent as Obama. The Media.

[depressed in 06]

Had DumbO announced he was giving his press conference this evening from the surface of the moon, Whoopi would have praised him for being a great innovative pioneer.

[Izzy Dunne]

Goldburg’s as DUMB as a ROCK.

Now see, here, Mister.

I have a lot of rocks on my property.

Not one of them has ever doubted the moon landing (unlike Miss Whoopie).

Not one of them has ever uttered a racist hateful comment (unlike Miss Whoopie).

Not one of them has ever accused me of having 'white goggles" (unlike Miss Whoopie).

I am offended by your characterization of rocks as dumb in general and similar to Miss Whoopie in particular.

;->

[Texas Jack]

Whoopi's remarks tell us a whole lot about her.

You see, all of the rest of the world has been fooled, except for her and and few fellow believers.

Now the fooled list is long and distinguished so I won't go into it here. But, keep in mind that we were in a race with the Soviets at that time and they were working feverishly on a moon landing of their own. Whoever got to the moon first would pull off a major coup in world opinion. So, if anyone should have been skeptical of the actual landing, it would have been the Soviets. But instead, they responded by canceling their moon landing project.

What Whoppi is telling the rest of dupes is that she is smarter than us, or at least, she has some kind of intuitative power that lets her ferret out the truth.

However, it's been my experience that people who claim to have such abilities are in fact actually less intelligent than others. It seems that the dumber a person is, the more likely they are to think they have some kind of special gift that guides them to the truth.

[Red in Blue PA]

Seriously....why does anyone talk about the people on that show? It only serves to lend it credibility when it has NONE!

[silent_jonny]

I vote for Rosie "Fire Doesn't Melt Steel" O'Donnell.

[mvpel]

I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance.

Remember how they said "Contact light" just before the landing? This light was activated by the 1.5-meter probes on the landing feet shown below, signaling them to shut off the descent motor.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

http://dailyweek.com/stories/20090720_pluto/pluto.html

[Right Wing Assault]

I wonder what she thinks about Obama’s Birth Certificate?

[Oztrich Boy]

Question: Who is the craziest of them all,

Joy Behar. Whoopi occasionally has doubts about Big Gubbmint being the best solution, Joy never.

[Oztrich Boy]

“I find it interesting to note that with all the moon dust shown from photos, the descent engine made no crater nor spewed dust pattern underneath the lunar lander. I can only surmise it was shut off and they dropped for a good distance” The moon’s atmosphere is a really hard vacuum. Their is no ambient air to stir up and create wind. Once the nozzle exhaust hits the ground and bounces, it would head straight for the sky becoming instant;y rarefied.

Part of the answer. The main part is because of the vacumn the rocket exhaust can really expand (the reason the exhaust nozzle is so huge) to a very low density/velocity gas before it hits the surface.

[Salamander]

But do any of your rocks have eyebrows?......:)

[fortunecookie]

"Aerozine 50" was released from a compressed gas tank into the nozzle to propel them off the lunar surface. This highly pressurized gas "blew" the flag during blastoff, hence the video from the "Eagle" Lunar Module Accent Stage with the flag waving during blastoff (time line 5:31 thru 5:41 of this video).

Now, c'mon, don't confound poor Whoopi with all this scientific babble. It's just science's contrivance so they can sell the notion that we 'really' landed on the moon. Good thing Whoopi and others 'uncover' the conspiracies and share. /sarcasm

BWA HA HA HA. At least Barbara had the good sense to question her on the conspiracy theory stuff. I wonder if Whoopi would actually listen to and try to digest the actual reason the flag waved. Is this really what Barbara thought of with The View? I thought she wanted something more intellectual from her co-hosts.