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.
Great stuff. Thanks for posting!
Marking.
For what it's worth, which may not be much, I posted to FR comparisons between the number of Google hits for Whittle and Glenn Beck back in 2011 and 2012. Here they are, along with the current results.
July 27, 2019
Google hits for "Bill Whittle": About 258,000 results
Google hits for "Glenn Beck": About 4,780,000 results
December 6, 2012
Google hits for "Bill Whittle": About 708,000 results
Google hits for "Glenn Beck": About 19,700,000 results
July 2, 2011
Google hits for "Bill Whittle": About 413,000 results
Google hits for "Glenn Beck": About 27,000,000 results
I'm not sure those are apples-to-apples comparisons, and Google may be screwing with the results because Whittle is conservative, but Whittle deserves to do MUCH better.
How about a guest host gig on Rush, or a special program on Fox?
I married a Whittle Girl. My one and only trophy wife.
Thanks for the links!
As for Bill Whittle, his Firewall videos are among the BEST, if not the best out there. And his "Right Angle" videos with Scott Ott and Steven Green are very good as well.
One of my favorite "Firewall" videos was his one on Jon Stewart, War Criminals, & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs
It is one of his earliest Firewall videos, and by his admission, one of his own favorites.
I don’t blame you for disliking a few inaccuracies, I know they get my goat when I watch something and I am usually the person in a group saying “What?”, but like President Trump being inaccurate about something-Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater!
The overall message is a good one...:)
I’m so old I remember the actual EVENTS! :-)
Even Sputnik and Laika.
My Dad brought home a piece of the material used in Echo 1 (from Bell Labs) and challenged me to rip it.
It took a whole day but I did it! LOL.
I’ve been enjoying the podcasts while driving. They’re very good.
Maybe because 95% of those hits were by Beck minions?
A “This is so fricking cool!!!” BTTT!
I’d love to have it on DVD!
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