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Very interesting and quite creepy in this specific context - genuinely enlightening as to wider possibilities. The actual faked Nixon speech is in the "Special
by mellosouls 6y ago
Very interesting and quite creepy in this specific context - genuinely enlightening as to wider possibilities.
The actual faked Nixon speech is in the "Special Report" starting at 3.37 here (after a scene setting prelude):
https://moondisaster.org/film https://moondisaster.org/film
The original contingency letter from which the speech is derived:
https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events/centennials/nixon/images/exhibit/rn100-6-1-2.pdf https://www.archives.gov/files/presidential-libraries/events...
- Angostura 6y agoFascinating. It's good, but there are lots of little emphatic "head nods" that don't make sense in the context of the speech - unless that was just an odd mannerism of Nixon's.
- owenmarshall 6y agoI wonder if a more recent subject would've been better. We all know the tics and habits of our current president, but Nixon was half a century ago and I wonder how many of us have seen his speeches in any real depth. Hell, play me Billy West reading Nixon as "Richard Nixon's head" from Futurama and I might buy it.
- teddyh 6y agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1484/ https://xkcd.com/1484/