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2014-12-05 The Grand Turk

Americans Never Landed on the Moon According to Turkey

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Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Tell me the part again about how Turkey is an important and valued member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That smacking noise you hear? Kemal Ataturk face-palming from beyond the grave.

Posted by SteveS 2014-12-05 01:58|| 2014-12-05 01:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Hold on a second! there is a turkey on the moon? Is that what he is saying?

Posted by Steven 2014-12-05 02:43|| 2014-12-05 02:43|| Front Page Top

#3 No, but there's a turkey (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan) who wants to be.

A jerky turkey.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-12-05 03:07|| 2014-12-05 03:07|| Front Page Top

Don't change your channel. Holocaust denials coming soon.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-05 03:15|| 2014-12-05 03:15|| Front Page Top

#5 He's already denying Armenian Holocaust, Besoeker.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-05 04:40|| 2014-12-05 04:40|| Front Page Top

#6 This is old news from February 23, 2001 - The Great Moon Hoax, Moon rocks and common sense prove Apollo astronauts really did visit the Moon.

Recep has been watching old Fox TV re-runs - All the buzz about the Moon began on February 15th 2001 when Fox television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Guests on the show argued that NASA technology in the 1960's wasn't up to the task of a real Moon landing. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Neil Armstrong's historic first steps on another world, the rollicking Moon Buggy rides, even Al Shepard's arcing golf shot over Fra Mauro-- it was all a fake!

And oh, Recep needs his Aricept, you know the yellow pills --

Posted by Buzz the Prolific1786 2014-12-05 07:51|| 2014-12-05 07:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Since one of the other headlines is, "Putin's Wife Gets Crimea in Divorce Settlement", I'm inclined to think that this site should be taken with a grain of salt.

Posted by Matt 2014-12-05 07:55|| 2014-12-05 07:55|| Front Page Top

#8 She did? I didn't know he was married.

Posted by KBK 2014-12-05 08:13|| 2014-12-05 08:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Guys, you're missing the real story here.

we get the black suitcase where all secrets of the world are kept.

Where is the black suitcase and whom gives it to world leaders????

Is it transported in black helicopters? SUVs? Drones? Does it have answers to all of the Ancient Aliens?

This is critical, we need to get our top men on it, stat!!!!

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-05 09:13|| 2014-12-05 09:13|| Front Page Top

#10 So the ability to bounce a laser off the reflectors left there by us is all 'Jinn-Driven'?

Posted by Mullah Richard 2014-12-05 09:31|| 2014-12-05 09:31|| Front Page Top

#11 So someday when Turkish astronauts get to the moon (cue laugh track) they'll be able to explain how that American flag got there, right?

Posted by OCCD 2014-12-05 09:52|| 2014-12-05 09:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Guys, you have been trolled. Thats a troll site or else very lame attempt at being the Onion. Mods, delete.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-05 10:51|| 2014-12-05 10:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Please check your sources people.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-05 10:53|| 2014-12-05 10:53|| Front Page Top

#14 "Chitinews.com is humorous, satire and fake news agency. All of the articles on our website are untrue and are intended purely and solely for entertainment."

Satire? Humor? Pretty wide of the mark. I do not think those words mean what you think that they mean.

People, please check the sources. This is embarrassing.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-05 10:57|| 2014-12-05 10:57|| Front Page Top

#15 OOPs! I blame this slip on being influenced by MSM's journalistic standards and listening to White House spokesmen Josh Earnest news conferences (i.e. That's my story and I'm stickin to it!).

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-05 11:11|| 2014-12-05 11:11|| Front Page Top

#16 Can we move this to Rantburg's Not True, But Plausible section?

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-05 11:23|| 2014-12-05 11:23|| Front Page Top

#17 That it's a satire site is now noted, OldSpook. Good catch!

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-05 11:25|| 2014-12-05 11:25|| Front Page Top

#18 But ... how can it be satire when it's so ... plausible? [sarc off]

Besides, if it was done in Hollywood, they'd have killed all those involved to keep it a secret.

Posted by Bobby 2014-12-05 13:33|| 2014-12-05 13:33|| Front Page Top

#19 Heck I've been hearing this for years so why would I check to see if Tayyippee really believed it? After all they still believe in flying carpets, right?

The Myth Busters did a show testing all the complaints and found that there's nothing to any of them. Same thing with the truthers but you still hear of them all the time.

Posted by AlanC 2014-12-05 14:13|| 2014-12-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#20 SteveS, "Tell me the part again about how Turkey is an important and valued member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization."

The relevance of NATO now, is another question but once Turkey helped put pressure on the Soviets in the Caucus and Black sea merely by existing. Also membership kept Turkey and Greece from fighting (which the Soviets would have dearly liked).

Now, not so much. I would have kicked Turkey out (or disbanded NATO) when they refused to allow troops to invade Iraq from their border. Now I'd be talking to Greece about how beautiful Constantinople is in the summer.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-12-05 14:29|| 2014-12-05 14:29|| Front Page Top

#21 Istanbul or Constantinople?

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-05 14:59|| 2014-12-05 14:59|| Front Page Top

#22 So someday when Turkish astronauts get to the moon (cue laugh track) they'll be able to explain how that American flag got there, right?

Ever notice that there were no Turks on Star Trek?

/old joke rehash

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-05 15:59|| 2014-12-05 15:59|| Front Page Top

#23 Actually, it was Mars. Sheila Jackson Lee told me.

Posted by tu3031 2014-12-05 16:12|| 2014-12-05 16:12|| Front Page Top

#24 Marty the Martian believes you tu3031.

Posted by Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 2014-12-05 18:23|| 2014-12-05 18:23|| Front Page Top

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