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No Ryan, they did not place a UN Flag...
That's not the Neil Armstrong I knew— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) August 31, 2018
I am glad they are doing a movie about Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and the first Lunar landing. The Apollo missions were peaceful and not about territorial claims, but credit where credit is due--it was a United States funded mission. While I support looking back at this mission (and just how dangerous and amazing it was), this bit of historic revisionism is off putting infuriating.
Astro Bob: You can still see those flags on the moon (with a big telescope and the right resolution)
Legal Insurrection: How do you omit one of the most iconic moments in history?
Powerline: Liberals don't like America, Revising History, Moon Landing
Victory Girls: Hollywood disses American effort in Lunar Landings
Mark Steyn: Lie Me To The Moon and The Lost Frontier
Daily Mail: Buzz Aldrin blasts back at film
Astro Bob: You can still see those flags on the moon (with a big telescope and the right resolution)
Legal Insurrection: How do you omit one of the most iconic moments in history?
Powerline: Liberals don't like America, Revising History, Moon Landing
Victory Girls: Hollywood disses American effort in Lunar Landings
Mark Steyn: Lie Me To The Moon and The Lost Frontier
Daily Mail: Buzz Aldrin blasts back at film
Instapundit: Let's Go Back And Stay
Nice
Don Surber: Only the American Flag is on the moon
Nice touch Senator Marco on the use of lunacy in context:
This is total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together. The American people paid for that mission,on rockets built by Americans,with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn’t a UN mission. https://t.co/eGwBq7hj8C— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 31, 2018
Instapundit: Jim Treacher: Hollywood Redacted and Hollywood does a Neil Armstrong movie, leaves out the flag raisingJFK, 1962, on the moon mission: "For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace."https://t.co/ACnrJ0mYRl— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 31, 2018
Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the moon. Just another poignant detail that Hollywood chose to leave out of the movie #FakeHistory @RyanGosling https://t.co/Apsf5urbq8— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) August 31, 2018
You really have to be creative to find a way to alienate half of America with a movie about Neil Armstrong. Hollywood found a way. https://t.co/0EP0T4fBuO— Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) August 31, 2018
TOM: Back to School Labor Day Book Post and In The Mailbox 08.31.18: Twitchy: Chuck Yeager Pulls No Punches About Hollywood’s Depiction Of Neil Armstrong’s Lunar Landing MomentBut why not just present the facts as they were? I think Ryan Gosling is a wonderful actor, but omitting the seminal moment in the midst of mankind’s greatest achievement seems a purposeful denigration of the 400,000 Americans who accomplished it. https://t.co/K6SldeBkPA— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 31, 2018
Offputting? Not to me.
ReplyDeleteInfuriating is more accurate.
It is a combination of pandering to the Chinese movie market and Hollywood's typical reaction that anything "American" needs to be taken down a notch.
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