The guy's editorial comments did annoy me a bit - I don't think spending the money to go to the moon was a waste. In fact, the waste was in going and then stopping.
If you are referring to his "global dick-wagging contest" line, I didn't interpret it quite that way. When he says it, he's showing mostly military weaponry, not NASA hardware, though one shot is of a B-52 carrying the X-15.
But we have to be honest here; Apollo
was part of a global dick-wagging contest between the USA and the USSR, even if we'd like to think it was something much more. Sometimes it's possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons. And so it all came to an abrupt end, surprising only NASA and its supporters like us.