登月之谜：克林顿也信阴谋论？

　克林顿的回忆录《My Life》中有如下一段叙述： 　　

（1969）‘The next six weeks in Hot Springs were more interestingthan I could have imagined. I worked one week helping asixty-seven-year-old man put up one of Jeff’s pre-fab houses in thesmall settlement of Story, west of Hot Springs. The old guy workedme into the ground every day and shared a lot of his homespunwisdom and country skepticism with me. Just a month before,Apollo11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left theircolleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceshipColumbia and walked onthe moon, beating by five months President Kennedy’s goal ofputting a man on the moon before the decade wasout. 　　The old carpenter asked me if I reallybelieved it had happened. I said sure, I saw it on television. Hedisagreed; 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 inWashington, I saw some things on TV that made me wonder if hewasn’t ahead of his time.” 　　

中文大意： 　　

（1969年）“接下来在温泉城的六个星期比我想象的还有意思。有一个星期我都在帮一位67岁的老人在城西边一个叫做斯多里的小居民点搭建杰夫的预制房。这位老伙计每天都让我累得趴下，但也跟我讲了许多折射着朴实智慧和乡村怀疑主义的故事。就在一个月前，阿波罗11号的宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林和尼尔·阿姆斯特朗离开了他们在哥伦比亚号飞船上的同事麦克尔·科林斯，踏上了月球，把肯尼迪总统希望在60年代结束前把人送上月球的目标提前了五个月。 　　

老木匠问我是不是真相信有这么回事。我说当然，我在电视上看到了。他表示不同意，他说他压根儿就不信有这么回事儿——“那些玩电视的家伙可以把虚假的东西弄得很真实”。那时，我觉得他是个怪人。然而我在华盛顿后来的八年间，在电视上看到一些事情真让我寻思，这家伙是不是很有点儿先见之明。” 　　

【解读】

原先克林顿觉得怀疑登月是电视剧的这个老木匠是个怪人。可是，后来在华盛顿担任总统八年时间的政治经历，让他认识到幕后的黑幕——这老木匠可能有先见之明。作为一个总统，他对国家的幕后机密肯定是知道的，所以——“Duringmy eight years in Washington, I saw some things on TV that made mewonder if he wasn’t ahead of histime.”——言下之意，就是电视演播不可信——阿波罗的登月是假的。