Faking the lunar landings......really?

Lets think about this, just for a minute or two. Its been forty years since Messrs Armstrong and Aldrin set foot on the moon, since Neil uttered those now famous words, "this is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", I always suspected that was a verbal error, and recently Armstrong confirmed it, it should have been, "this is one small step for A man" which makes much more sense! Anyway, 40 years.....40 long years. And still in all those four decades, some people out there, have continued to insist, the moon landings were staged, a 1969 production, filmed somewhere in some dessert, back in the states, so that the U.S got one up on there old adversaries the USSR. That, over the last forty years, not one individual has come forward and said, to anyone, and i mean anyone, not just a member of the press, but even a member of their own family,"you know what, you are right, it was a fake, oh, that is one sweet relief, all these years living a lie, we were in Arizona, can you believe that, in fact Armstrong, he is fake too, and Aldrin, both made out of balloons and squirrel fur, yup, and the pictures you saw, not real at all, oh and the equipment that's still on the moon, its not really there at all, in fact the moon's not real, that big old ball in the sky, we made that".
One thing, (apart from the overwhelming evidence for the positive argument, and the fact that most of the conspiracy theorists tend to come across as being a tad, well, menta)l, that convinces me the moon landings were genuine, is, if they were not, why stop there. Why not fake a Mars landing? If the Americans had been able to mock the moon landings and keep the story covered up for forty years, why not, using the unbelievably brilliant effects we see employed today in the movies, make up a Mars touchdown. Imagine if you will, The Americans pull Peter Jackson to one side(Lord of the rings, King Kong etc) and say, Pete, here's a bit of an idea for you!!
The Americans could fake a Mars landing, and even better than that, they could create a budget for the real thing, Billions of dollars, making space exploration become a reality, the tax payer wouldn't mind that, its a positive step, NASA can do it, select a crew of American heroes, throw in a Brit and a homosexual, in fact no, a trans gender, and a north Korean and an Iranian, and Nelson Mandela, and fly those dudes to Mars, Whoohoo, old Pete Jackson, now so beyond those poxy Oscars, sits in his workshop, masturbating over his new film, project 'red planet' and within five years, oh my, touchdown "this, is, another stepping stone, for mans continuing exploration, of our imagination, and of our technological capabilities" or some such shit.

President Obama, within the next few days i am told, will be making a pledge to send man to Mars, to go back to the moon, and use it as a launchpad for continuing exploration. He has the vision that Kennedy had, he sees that us, humans of all creed, need a distraction, away from the continuous, mouse trap on the nipples, news, we seem to wake up to every morning. We need a shiny object to follow so we don't notice whats really going on with all the other underhanded, falsities, perpetrated by our governments. Damn it, we need hope. Is Mars that hope, you bet your house(while you still have it) it is.
And when it happens, will it be an animated pixar version we will be watching on our TV screens, or will they have actually achieved the glorious beginnings of mans natural propensity to explore and conquer. Well, just like the moon, i guess only time will tell.