[Ramón Gitannes]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen

Tot voor kort hoorde ik bij de 90 % die nooit eraan gedacht hadden dat de 1969 moonlanding fake zou kunnen zijn. Nu reken ik mezelf tot de 5 % ‘undecided’. Ik ben echter niet in slecht gezelschap...

"Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the Moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the Moon before the decade was out. The old carpenter asked me if I really believed it happened. I said sure, I saw it on television. He disagreed; he said that he didn't believe it for a minute, that 'them television fellers' could make things look real that weren't. Back then, I thought he was a crank. During my eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if he wasn't ahead of his time." (Clinton 2004 autobiography, My Life)

Is dit geen ‘diplomatieke taal’ om zich van iets te distancieren? Of is Clinton ook een ‘conspiracy theory freak’?