“she personally called Nasa to order them to move the lander camera to the American flag planted by Niel Armstrong. Check it out.”
During a 1997 visit to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, Jackson Lee, who was then serving on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees U.S. space policy, asked a guide whether the Mars Pathfinder would be able to show an image of “the flag the astronauts planted there before.” When it was subsequently pointed out that the flag to which she was referring was in fact the one that Neil Armstrong had planted on the Moon—not Mars—in 1969, Jackson Lee complained that she was being mocked by bigots. “You thought you could have fun with a black woman member of the Science Committee,” her then-chief-of-staff wrote angrily in a letter to the editor.
Gawd that is funny. How can people that stupid be elected? It shows the utter stupidity of 700,000 constituents in her congressional district. How can that be? Any way anything she proposes is a sad joke