It’s scary sometimes to think that Woopi Goldberg can be described as the rational one on The View. I can’t believe she pulled the “I’m just saying…” gambit with regards to the moon landing being faked. You’re not just saying it! You’re proposing that millions of people are involved in an elaborate coverup to manipulate the public into thinking something happened that didn’t happen. IT’S NOT A MINOR CLAIM!
But for the record, Phil Plait easily answers her questions here:
The questions Whoopi asks aren’t hard to answer. No one took the footage of Armstrong’s first step (it was a camera he deployed before stepping off the ladder), and there was a video camera on the rover that shot the footage of the ascent module taking off (remotely controlled on Earth by Ed Fendell). The flag waves because the astronauts were struggling to get the pole in the lunar surface (let a belt hang from your hand at arm’s length and move your arm back and forth; watch the belt ripple despite the fact it can’t be the air making it move).
Etc., and so on, und so weiter, ad infinitum. Someone should point her here.
What does it say when Barbara Walters is the voice of reason? Egads.
Too bad Buzz Aldrin wasn’t on the show. It would be hilarious to see someone on that show punched in the face.
I love that Boortz called her a “demented moonbat” over this one.