Excerpts from an interview with Bart Sibrel
[Lies are Unbekoming] Don't really pay attention to the "facts", what we're looking for here is a pattern you always see with conspiracy theorists.
They'll cherry-pick things and end up with the conclusion they want to reach. This explains so much about where we are today.
Learn to spot these patterns, humans are really good at this.
Once you've been exposed to enough of this it jumps right out at you when you see it.
Oprah Winfrey’s first guests — a gentleman by the name of Bill Kaysing. He had the second-highest security clearance to Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket designer. Kaysing would edit confidential memos going from von Braun to the Pentagon, English not being von Braun’s native language, and grammar not being the West Point graduates’ forte at the Pentagon. In the process, he read a memo from von Braun warning the Pentagon that the likelihood of meeting Kennedy’s goal by the end of the decade — to go to the moon on the first attempt with untried 1960s technology — was only a 1 in 10,000 chance.
If you can imagine, reaching the South Pole, just here on Earth, took six attempts to land successfully. No aviation accomplishment has ever worked on the first occasion. Not the Wright Brothers’ plane, nothing. It’s never happened in the history of aviation that the first time they tested a vehicle, it worked — except for the most complicated one of all time.
Then at age fourteen, I saw a television interview on Oprah — one of Oprah Winfrey’s first guests — a gentleman by the name of Bill Kaysing. He had the second-highest security clearance to Wernher von Braun, the Nazi rocket designer. Kaysing would edit confidential memos going from von Braun to the Pentagon, English not being von Braun’s native language, and grammar not being the West Point graduates’ forte at the Pentagon. In the process, he read a memo from von Braun warning the Pentagon that the likelihood of meeting Kennedy’s goal by the end of the decade — to go to the moon on the first attempt with untried 1960s technology — was only a 1 in 10,000 chance.
If you can imagine, reaching the South Pole, just here on Earth, took six attempts to land successfully. No aviation accomplishment has ever worked on the first occasion. Not the Wright Brothers’ plane, nothing. It’s never happened in the history of aviation that the first time they tested a vehicle, it worked — except for the most complicated one of all time.
That’s what led Kaysing to realize: if they went to the moon when he read that they couldn’t, then they must have falsified it. If you play poker, you know you can win with a bad hand if you just pretend you have a good hand. That’s what they did.
That planted the seed in my mind. After I watched that interview, I went back to my shrine of Apollo pictures and started looking at them with critical eyes. There’s a saying: eyes wide shut. Sure enough, there was a part of each picture, horizontally left to right, where the soil was real and grayish colored, and then it would suddenly change color and focus — a fake backdrop.
There it is! Right there! Get a good look! pay attention to all the should, could, must, all these words are tells. None of them have a shred of proof to them but he's just sure there's a conspiracy.
The liar's punishment is that he cannot believe anyone else.
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