The Washington Times and John Boehner, joined at the hip

the Washington Times is nothing more than a vanity newspaper for the neo cons

I wouldn’t say, “nothing more” – but it's understandable that you would, even people who study Moon feed that same very incomplete view.

The WT serves many purposes and all are important to its founder, Sun Myung Moon. It’s his propaganda outlet to gain credibility and acceptance for his movement both here and around the world. Ultimately it’s a paper designed to support the most right wing elements in our nation, to manipulate our political system – to “influence” us - to make our political environment more in tune with Moon’s “messianic” right wing, authoritarian and theocratic ideology. According to US News and World Report in 1989, while reporting that virtually every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, was tied to Moon, they reported that he refers to what he doing as the “natural subjugation of the American government and population.” We went “naturally” right with the masses never seeing Moon’s hand.

Lots of papers are losing money today but Moon’s has since day one even though his followers worked for the paper for free when it first started. One Moon follower wrote about the “payday” revolt he started when he actually cashed his paycheck and kept the money. People debate about how much money Moon has funneled/laundered into the country to fund the paper but his own daughter recently put the figure for the WT at “over two billion dollars.” Moon's cash mostly comes from Japan where the Unification Church has been found guilty of swindling widows out of fortunes.

Moon brags about using the paper to influence us but our media and media watchers will not talk about it in those terms because they are under the mistaken belief that his is a “religion” and should therefore be treated with kid gloves. In fact, being critical of Moon organization is no different than being critical of the Birchers or the Larouchites. Some in the media have bought into the deception that Moon’s movement is “hand’s off” the paper, the lie that it is not integral to his “messianic” mission.

Moon addressing his followers:

So please take spiritual dominion in your states. You can proclaim spiritually to the government leaders, "I am the elder brother, you are the younger brother." Teach them what you have learned. I invited many congressmen and senators to come to conferences to be educated. Though they may not proclaim openly, many of them support me. Through the Washington Times, Insight magazine, and the World and I, I have been preparing the foundation for you to influence America. (Leaders' Conference - November 23, 1989 - Sun Myung Moon - http://tinyurl.com/3dtnek )

and another one...

I influenced America through the Washington Times and so many different activities. Do you want Father in America. (YES !! The ministers responded)…The Last Days are coming to America. Be careful. Those that oppose Rev. Moon will perish. Since I came here, I didn't get anything from America. (Sun Myung Moon, September 13, 2002 "The Last Days Are Coming to America." http://tinyurl.com/22ctk )

Moon has been supplying the cash, operatives and media backbone for the conservatives for decades and he doesn’t do it because he “likes” them or is an “anti-communist” – he wants “American-style” democracy replaced also. He has been the number one financier of right wing thought in America for the last 30 years; no one comes close to him at funding the right. Not necessarily by donating to politicians as most of us are conditioned to look, but by supplying and supporting the infrastructure to the new right. He is the “Father” of today’s conservative movement but people are afraid to say it because then they would have to admit he has been winning. True, the nation appears to have awoken to some degree after 8 years of the most failed presidency in our history and behind an outstanding presidential candidate but make no mistake about it, neither the left nor the right would be as skewed right as it is today absent Moon’s intended influence. The world will be dealing with Moon’s “conservatism” for decades to come, no matter how many their numbers. When people ask the questions - “What happened to the Republican Party?” “What happened to the Goldwater Republicans?” “Why did the conservative movement become so far right?” Why did the right lose its way?” The answer in all cases should include “Moon.”

In short, the WT supports Moon’s “messianic” vision of how America should be. Those who shill for Moon's mission dishonestly claim the paper is "independent" of Moon when in fact several very, very conservative editors quit the paper due to Unification Church influence. But that argument misses the bigger much, much more important point, that the paper itself serves Moon by manipulating our political system towards his right wing, theocratic ideology. For instance, Moon never had to tell Pruden what to write, all he had to do was hire someone of his ilk, give him a forum and turn him loose.

This is how James Whelan, the first editor/publisher of the WT described what Moon’s organization has been doing to our nation. He said this during a “must view” panel discussion featuring 3 former editors of Moon’s media. Whelan quit the WT saying he had “blood on his hands” for helping Moon gain credibility.

http://tinyurl.com/yqqbmz

"They (the Moonies) are subverting our political system. They're doing it through front organizations--most of them disguised--and through their funding of independent organizations--through the placement of volunteers in the inner sanctums of hard-pressed organizations. In every instance--in every instance--those who attend their conferences, those who accept their money or their volunteers, delude themselves that there is no loss of virtue because the Moonies have not proselytized. That misses the central, crucial point: the Moonies are a political movement in religious clothing. Moon seeks power, not the salvation of souls. To achieve that, he needs religious fanatics as his palace guard and shock troops. But more importantly, he needs secular conscripts--seduced by money, free trips, free services, seemingly endless bounty and booty--in order to give him respectability and, with it, that image of influence which translates as power."

Moon has been wildly successful even if people are afraid to admit it and now he has set his eyes on the world as the WT and UPI gear up to help him do to the world what he did here.

The difference is, of course, that campaigns buy ads in the media. The media does not sponsor the ads, as the Moonie Times did in this case.

The problem is that the Washington Times doesn't ACKNOWLEDGE that it's practicing advocacy journalism.

If you're going to claim that you're unbiased, and if you're going to cite "liberal media bias" for any truthful story you don't like about conservatives, then you'd better make sure you're above reproach. If you don't, you're a hypocrite, and you can expect to be called on it.