Posted on 07/27/2019 6:39:30 PM PDT by rlmorel
Bill Whittle, one of the most eloquent of conservative voices to be found, is also a pilot and an aviation enthusiast. On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Bill Whittle has hosted a four part series on the Apollo program titled "What We Saw".
There are four hour-long episodes:
Apollo 11: What We Saw: Part 2 - The Clock is Running and We're Underway!
This is one of the most enjoyable documentaries/commentaries on the Apollo 11 moon landing that I have ever seen. Spoken from an American perspective (which is conservative by its nature) Bill Whittle discusses the cultural and social impact in a way that is quite different (and far more entertaining) than the way PBS or any other entity would have done it. A source like PBS would have focused on the environment of the Vietnam War, racial dissension, etc. but Bill Whittle frames it from the perspective of a boy who lived through it, and in doing so, allows us who saw it that way as well, to re-see it as our own eyes did.
It is brilliant.
I saw this 4-part documentary last week and it was wonderful.
These short videos (just 3-6 min. long each) are some of the most brilliant, pithy, and informative summaries on how we as conservatives view these things, and contrasts them with the views of the Left. (I was so impressed with these (I got a DVD for joining BillWhittle.com that I was going to spend money and buy a dozen of them to give to people as gifts, until I found out he thought these arguments and ideas were so important that he had to make them available to everyone for free on YouTube...and I agree with him)
I am not Bill Whittle...:) and I don't work for him, but I admire the man greatly, and implore you to watch these videos above as well as the "What We Saw" series!
Thanks for posting this my FRiend :-)
Thanks for this post.
BillWhittle BOOKMARK!!!!!
My brother and I watched them over two nights, and we constantly were looking at each other and grinning at the way Bill Whittle framed things...we both laughed aloud when he talked about Sputnik and the dog Laika...
“Those vodka-swilling, aetheist, Communists were sending a dead dog over our heads once every 56 minutes!”
(I had to paraphrase there, but you probably remember that part of the episode!)
You bet!
You are welcome!
Excellent.
Last week I watched the three parts of the documentary "Chasing The Moon", and also "8 Days: To The Moon And Back". Both were on PBS, and were superb.
Bookmark
I found out a lot I didn’t know in that series.
I loved the alternative view he presented of the first steps on the moon, described from the vantage point of Buzz Aldrin and his camera shooting the scene through the window of the LEM looking down.
The part where he pointed out that in the whole time, you never saw either of their faces in the entire moonwalk, except...when Armstrong put his foot down and looked back up at Aldrin filming...you could just make out his face!
And how the entire moonwalk covered an area no greater than the infield of a baseball diamond!
“Bill Whittle is one of the most powerful and eloquent conservative voices out there,”
We’ve said he’d be good on standby when Rush decides to retire.
Yes...I used PBS as a “whipping boy” to try to make my point, but a better example was the excellent “From The Earth to The Moon” series specifically the episode about Apollo 8, where I got fed up with all the Leftist presentation of assassinations, Vietnam, the drug culture, all that, to where I wanted to shut it off.
But even as I say that, I understand that they took the entire episode to set the stage for the one part at the end about the woman who sent a letter to NASA saying “Thank you for saving 1968”.
I see how they did that, but...I didn’t like sitting through it.
I have always liked Rush, but...there is something about Bill Whittle that really resonates with me from a fundamental sincerity standpoint that isn’t quite as strong with Rush, as much as I admire Rush.
Bill Whittle has a bit more of a no-hold barred approach without crossing that line (for me, at least)
Yeah. Whittle definitely is more “deep” than Rush. Often when I’m listening to him, I think, “Wow! I never thought of that.” I don’t understand why he doesn’t have more popularity and exposure.
I wanted to like it, but it contained so many mistakes I gave up on the second episode. The Apollo 8 astronauts read from the Bible on Christmas Eve (in the U.S). He kept on saying it was Christmas Day.
My father co-wrote the proposal for Project Vanguard and designed Vanguard 1, so I’m pretty picky about space history. See my website www.gpsdeclassified.com
I had no idea how close the mission came to disaster. The astronauts were seconds away from having an uncontrolled landing. Even had they survived, they could easily have been stranded on the moon. The dream would have become a nightmare that went on and on. I think we would have had to go back, just to collect the bodies.
I also saw those PBS documentaries......more than once, because they were re-aired on different days and at different times in some cases.
They were spellbinding.
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