Stephen Colbert: You're on Notice!

Stephen Colbert: I am putting you On Notice!

On the August 21st show, Mr. Colbert made allegations that the Apollo Moon landings were faked. As an astronomer, Apollo fan, and scienciness guy, I cannot let such allegations, such slandericious statements go unchallenged.

So Mr. Colbert, I challenge you.

I'm go for launch. Are you?

Comments

[Aramingo]

You could call this "When irony meets irony". Both sides playing for laughs.

Phil, you would do well to refute some of the "It was faked" whack jobs that post here. THAT would be entertaining.

[mckinley]

I heard the Chinese are planning to photograph or video the Apollo 11 landing remnants, and that most famous flag, when they get to the moon in the next decade...

Proof..

[DemonicLaughterInc]

I heard the Chinese are planning to photograph or video the Apollo 11 landing remnants, and that most famous flag, when they get to the moon in the next decade...

Proof..

Ah yes, but what if the Chinese fake their own moon landing and then claim there's no evidence of American landings.
The Chinese are very, very cunning:)

[larry278]

Wait till the Japanese studio where the moon landings were stage is discovered & the videos hit the boob tube, TV. To neo-cons: all is lost; give it up.

[martinchill]

exsqueez me?

what's wrong with using the good 'ol california desert?

buy american, son!

[dannyo152]

The question "that's why we never went there" was the sarcastic rejoinder to the comment that going to the Moon is a waste of money. There wasn't any one, in that clip, who straight-up suggested the Moon landings didn't happen.

[pigsatthetrough]

Irreverence towards His Truthiness, does not change the obvious. When the wind blew the flag on that moonlit day, and no stars were seen, the Jig, so to speak, was up!

[rektruax]

That's right... Ten of thousands of engineers and scientists worked to make the lunar landing possible, but it's all a lie, and they've all kept the secret safe.

3 men can keep a secret, as long as 2 of them are dead.

[Desiderata]

Christianistas could never abide in the Hereafter with Jesus Christ because they would not judge Him holy enough.

[Archie1955]

The Rapture is only one interpretation of that part of the Bible and unfortunately the evangelicals that believe that particular interpretation are themselves extremist in nature. You can not discuss this belief with any of them in an intelligent manner because there simply is no intelligent basis for such a belief. War and killing is what these depraved people support and desire because they think somehow that will get them to Heaven. Have they got a rude awakening waiting for them!

[dissolvethecorporation]

Let's say the Christians and Muslims are both right. Does that mean that as evangelical girl who pledges chastity will become one of the seventy virgins?

[rektruax]

Actually, there's no evidence that anything is waiting for them. There certainly isn't any logical reason to believe there is.

I love my mother-in-law dearly, but she reasons there MUST be a heaven and hell, because she can't accept the idea that what awaits her, and what became of her husband (a great guy) is the same fate that Hitler experienced. Which is really no reason at all, but gives her some kind of comfort.

[JGatsby]

Why is it so many Americans can't tell the difference between wanting to beleive something is true and something actually being true. Those are reasons that you and/or your mother in law don't want to live without the comforting idea of heaven and hell but they have nothing to do with the question of if they really exist.

BTW, by your reasoning George W. Bush must not really be president because I and several of my friends can't accept the idea that the American people (even with some help from riged vote counting) could be so stupid as to elect him twice.

[Merlin7]

Many conservatives aren't bright enough to realize that Colbert is spoofing. Some members of Congress and the Bush team even believe in The Rapture, the idea that an invisible man in the sky will soon snatch up some people into heaven. And these same people are making and enforcing our laws and running our government. That, folks, is more absurd -- and frightening -- than anything Colbert could come up with.

[cindyw]

I think you're right that some conservatives don't get the joke. Otherwise, how does one explain Colbert's being booked as a speaker at the White House Correspondents' Dinner year before last? Colbert was brilliantly funny, but his act did not go over very well with most of the attendees. For once, Bush lost his smirk. Shouldn't someone have seen that coming?

[nowaterboardUSA]

Sir I am a Colbert fan and think you have misuderstood the finest pundit that has ever lived!

What Mr.Colbert meant was simply no science was used to make the moonlandings. Jesus literally with his big loving hands picked the Apollo rockets up, placed them in space, then later placed the astronauts on the moon in their lander. Now why would the almighty even bother with spacecraft you say? TV Ratings is the answer.

[dissolvethecorporation]

Remember Peter Frampton? Colbert will agree to launch, then stub his toe and send Lisa Nowak in his place.