Mother Jones on Sun Myung Moon's Love Child

Read the exclusive story by Mariah Blake here.

Must Read Article on Sun Myung Moon's Dynasty in The New Republic

Mariah Blake has the story.  Also,  see a compilation of some of the weirdest Moon videos.

Best Posts from this Blog

1. Warren Jeffs versus Sun Myung Moon
2. The theocratic chain of misery
3. Hillary Clinton and the Moonies here and here
4. ACORN Versus The Unification Church
5. Senator Orrin Hatch and the Moonies
6. How the Moonie media bought Chris Matthews' soul
7. William Bennett and Sun Myung Moon
8. Moon's alliance with another cult
9. The Internet as the bane of destructive cults
10. Amway and Moon's Unification Movement: hierachies of misery
11. My YouTube Video: "The World's Most Powerful Cult"
12. The Bush family and Moon here, here, here, and here.
13. Moon and Regnery Publishing.
14. Notes on the movie Inchon Ronald Reagan's positive review here.
15. Barack Obama Versus Sun Myung Moon
16. A brief history of the "America" brand
17. The ancester liberation scam
18. Wash. Times Employee calls Obama fans "zombies"
19. Private vice versus public vice
20. The Washington media establishment and Sun Myung Moon
21. The Moonie media and the Obama/Madrassa smear. also here
22. The True Believer Versus the Cynic: Why Hyun Jin "Preston" Moon May Be More Dangerous than his Father
23. Racism and the Washington Times.
24. Is opposition to Reverend Moon religious bigotry?

Rep. Danny Davis (D-Ill) Now Shilling for Scientology

Representative Danny Davis, part of the infamous Sun Myung Moon coronation cermony, is now shilling for The Church of Scientology.

Must Read

Frederick Clarkson, "Missing Pieces of the Story of Sun Myung Moon"

The Most Unfortunate Thing about Sun Myung Moon's Death

In my opinion, the most regrettable thing about Moon's death is that it occurred before he could be deported for immigration fraud and crimes involving moral turptiude regarding his loathsome activities in the Nansook Hong episode.

Who Will be the Head of Sun Myung Moon's Empire?

I have previously speculated that it will be Hyun Jin "Preston" Moon but there is some reason to believe that younger son arms dealer Kook-jin "Justin" Moon will take over the reins.  One thing I know about the Moonies is that logic and reason have no place in the decision-making process--egomania and cupidity are the relevant factors.  If nothing else, Kook-jin would be the apt choice because it is fitting that the Moonies are headed by someone with the word "kook" in his name.

For a list of my best posts on the Moon family and the Unification movement, click here. Also, watch the YouTube video about Moon: The World's Most Powerful Cult

Sun Myung Moon is Dead

The LA Times' obit.  Read this blog to know more about Moon's awful legacy.

Sun Myung Moon in Intensive Care

According to the AP story, Moon is in a Seoul hospital being treated for pneumonia.  The important question: will Moon join the choir invisible before his prophesied death date of January 13, 2013?

Matt Drudge Rescue Mission to Moon's Washington Times

Salon.com's Lindsay Beyerstein has the story:

D.C.’s conservative newspaper, the Washington Times, has long been mocked for its crazy owner, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. When he isn’t busy performing mass weddings, the billionaire Moon has been underwriting the money-losing paper — which, at a high point, once earned the personal praise of Ronald Reagan. Recently, however, the Times has struggled, not just because of the usual industry woes, but also because of infighting among the 92-year-old Moon’s heirs. Thankfully, the Times has had a helping hand from another famous right-wing eccentric: Matt Drudge.

For the past year, Drudge has provided the Washington Times with, on average, 46 percent of its monthly traffic. In November of 2011, the Drudge Report sent 4.7 million visitors to the Washington Times website, or 57 percent of all the Times’ traffic that month. By comparison, just 820,000 visitors actually accessed the Times through its homepage that November. (These numbers come from the Times’ internal Google Analytics statistics, which Salon obtained.)

The Drudge Report’s interest in the Washington Times is relatively recent. In November 2010, for example, it sent just 1.5 million readers to the paper’s website, less than a third of the readers it sent one year later. The Drudge Report began linking to the Washington Times with greater frequency in March 2011 — the same month, it so happens, that the Times hired a Drudge Report editor to write a weekly column for the paper.

Joseph Curl, a veteran political journalist and longtime friend of Drudge who had worked for the Drudge Report as an editor since May 2010, joined the Times that month. Curl’s first column coincided with a 30-person hiring spree. And in May 2011 — the last time Drudge referrals to the Times dipped below two million — it became clear that Drudge was employing another Washington Times hire from March 2011, Charlie Hurt, who had quietly left his job as the New York Post’s Washington bureau chief several months earlier. Hurt’s first Times op-ed ran the same week as Curl’s.

Both Curl and Hurt still work for Drudge, though you wouldn’t know it from their Washington Times columnist bios, which do not mention their other work. The jump in Drudge Report links to the Washington Times coincides perfectly with their hires. From April 1, 2011, through March 31, 2012, Drudge referred 39.4 million readers to the Washington Times’ website. In that same period, one year earlier, he referred less than half as many readers, just 19.6 million.

Are Hurt and Curl channeling traffic from one employer to another? And could the Times have hired Hurt and Curl with the expectation that the site would benefit from their jobs at Drudge? Hurt, Curl and Drudge, along with the Washington Times president, Tom McDevitt, all declined to comment. However, as editors at the Drudge Report, a famously small and close-knit shop, it seems unlikely that they are unaware of — or unconnected to — the sudden boom in Washington Times links. Both men have also personally benefited from their dual employment, as the Drudge Report has given their Washington Times’ columns coveted spots on the website’s blogroll. (Such a black box is the Drudge Report editorial apparatus that Curl and Hurt declined to comment on what their specific roles are at Drudge or whether, in fact, they even worked there still. A Washington Times insider says that both, however, continue to work for Drudge.)

Drudge is famous, of course, for his power in conservative circles. He is credited with helping put Mitt Romney over the top in the Republican primary, even coming under attack from Rick Santorum. Like Romney, the Washington Times can also credit much of a recent turnaround to Drudge. While the paper survives, as always, on the largesse of the Moon family, Drudge has helped the paper’s website restore traffic to the levels it enjoyed in the mid-2000s, before the economy and Moon family squabbles gutted the paper and its website. The man who became famous for nearly toppling a president now appears to be using his influence to prop up a right-wing paper.

Must Read

Report by Media Matters for America: "The Washington Times' Year Of Obama Derangement Syndrome"

The Anti-Union Robocall from Pat Boone (Ohio Issue 2)

A relative of mine in Ohio received a robocall from Pat Boone urging a yes vote on the anti-union Issue 2 ballot referendum. Boone has been an advocate of Amway and has emceed events for the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

What's wrong with This Picture?

Pictured here is Washington Times editor emeritus Wesley Pruden who previously wrote that Barack Obama lacks "blood impulse" for what America "is about" due to "Kenyan father,"and a "mother attracted to men of the Third World." Pruden shouldn't be one to discuss lineage considering his own father. Now, Pruden is, without irony, accusing the "desperate friends of Barack Obama" of "playing the race card" on the pages of the Washington Times.

Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times Spreads Michelle Obama Flag Smear

Elspeth Reeve writes, "On Tuesday, the Washington Times' James S. Robbins claimed video with no audio proves that during a solemn ceremony commemorating 9/11, Michelle Obama dismissively whispered to her husband, "All that for a flag." It was a reference to "the American flag -- you know the one brave men died for," Media Matters for America has more.

This is from a newspaper owned by a man who claimed that Americans' individualism (i.e., their rejection of him as Messiah) is evidence that "America has become the kingdom of Satan" and that the United States is "Satan's Harvest."

Unintentional Irony Alert

Last year I pointed out (here and here) the irony of Moon's Washington Times contributor Jason Mattera writing a book calling young supposrters of President Obama "zombies."

Well, believe it or not, Marybeth Hicks has topped Mattera. Hicks is the weekly "cultural columnist" for Sun Myung Moon's Times and she has just written a book titled, Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid--alluding to the cyanide/Kool-Aid mixture served by cult leader Jim Jones to his devotees.

Article on Race-baiting at Sun Myung Moon's Washington Times

Media Matters for America has an article on recent race-baiting at The Washington Times. Here is a previous post about racism at the Times.

New Video on the Unification Movement

Former Moonie Steven Hassan has a video on Vimeo.

Media Matters for America on The Wash. Times' Opposition to "Hateful Bile"

Read it here

Moon Flunky Danny Davis Withdrew from the Chicago Mayoral Race

Chicago can count its lucky stars that Moon's "crowner" Davis won't be the next mayor; the city's politics are embarrassing enough.

Sun Myung Moon Coronation Flunky Danny Davis Running for Mayor of Chicago

Danny Davis, who obsequiously presented a crown to Messiah wannabe Sun Myung Moon in a notorious 2004 coronation ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, is running for mayor of Chicago. In an early poll, Davis is currently tied for a distant second with 9 percent behind Rahm Emanuel who is favored by 32 percent of voters.