Lunar Lunacy

Revisionist history to eradicate American exceptional-ism is rampant, especially in Hollywood. I use, as my best example, the upcoming movie entitled, “First Man,” the story of Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon back in 1969.

That was a moment of American triumph. JFK said it was our national goal by the end of the decade to put a man on the moon…and we did it. We did it without Great Britain, Australia, or any of our enemies like the Soviet Union. It was an American accomplishment which took millions of our tax dollars and employed hundreds of thousands of our most skilled workers.

But remarkably, Hollywood has blotted out one of the most significant things Armstrong did after he uttered the now famous words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

He planted the American flag on the lunar surface.

And that act has been wiped from the script. In the upcoming movie, Armstrong does not plant the flag. And that has set off the second man to have stepped on the moon, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin. Armstrong left us in 2012, but Aldrin is going strong at 88-years of age. He is joined in his disgust by Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who says “this wasn’t a UN mission.” Rubio accurately tweeted, “The American people paid for that mission, on rockets built by Americans, with American technology and carrying American astronauts.”

The actor portraying Armstrong, Canadian Ryan Gosling, says he believes dumping the flag scene is good because the landing was more of a human achievement. Speaking at the Venice Film Festival, Gosling said the landing “transcended countries and borders.”

That kind of thinking only widens the gap between the west coast elite and those of us in flyover country. I’m boycotting the movie.

I don’t need to watch revisionist garbage.