June 27, 2006
Moonies Discover Blogging
While the Post may have corned the market for mainstream media blogs, the Washington Times isn't far behind. Well, actually, they're really far behind. But that doesn't mean that they're not trying.
Courtesy of our friends at Wonkette and Fishbowl D.C., today we discover the Washington Times' newest blog. Joining their current roster of blogs -- three to date -- the newest blog is titled "Washington Intern," and just like its name hints, is produced by the paper's interns. Don't expect insider exposes on what it's really like to work for the Moonies' official publication, though. It's three entries to date are somewhat fluffy and devoid of real content, focusing less on news or analysis and more on life in Washington. From the eyes of a bright-eyed Moonie intern. Yes, it is as exciting as it sounds.
Poke fun as we may, we're curious to see how the blog develops over the course of the summer. Will any of the interns become disillusioned enough to pen a scathing critique of the paper's management? Will they reveal a crumbling wall between the paper's editorial line and its reporting operations? Will they get tipsy with Reverend Sun Myung Moon at the company picnic?
The suspense is going to kill us.
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I especially enjoyed Jacqueline Palank's piece, "Just like in the movies." She gets an A+ for irony in writing about being inspired by a film that goes against government corruption while working for a paper that props up one of the most corrupt administrations in history.
I can't wait for the post about her impending mass wedding!!
Personally, I enjoyed the comment that read, "I keep looking for you on Fox News".
Oh good Lord, that's just SAD.
Someone needs to put that blog out of its misery.
Especially telling is the fact that one of the interns is a student at Patrick Henry University and another attends Samford... I'm surprised they didn't come right out and say they're proud of their little part in propping up the Bush administration.
From "The Tourist In Me"
"Little do they know that in the briefcase is my own camera loaded with pictures of monuments. Little do they know that while I might look official in my suit, inside I'm bursting with excitement. Little do they know that as an intern in D.C. for the summer, I'm every bit the tourist they are."
...these are the interns you guys rant about on a daily basis, the tourist/intern hybrid from middle america
I am going to love this blog. Hours and hours of unintentional entertainment.
"Little do they know that in the briefcase is my own camera loaded with pictures of monuments. Little do they know that while I might look official in my suit, inside I'm bursting with excitement. Little do they know that as an intern in D.C. for the summer, I'm every bit the tourist they are."
"Little do they know that I'm interning for one of the worst newspapers in America."
CJR once described the WT as a "jouranlistic farm system."
Here’s an excerpt from a 1992 article called “Moonstruck: The Reverend and his Newspaper” by Ann Louise Bardach. The article finally saw print in 2004 when included in the book Killed, Great Journalism Too Hot to Print by David Wallis.
Notably among the paper's (Washington Times) first staffers were the children of conservative luminaries, a group dubbed the "mini-neocons." They included John Podhoretz, whose parents Norman Podhoretz and Midge Dexter are veritable conservative institutions, Liz Kristol, Irving's daughter, Danny Wattenberg, son of Times columnist Ben, and Dawn Weyrich, daughter of conservative icon, Paul Weyrich. …
Charlotte Hayes, who wrote a hilarious and snarky memoir in The New Republic entitled "I was Moonie Gossip Columnist," still laments the loss of the generous expense account she had at the paper. "This is on the Rev.," Hayes, a thoroughbred conservative, would tell sources as she lunged for meal checks. "The Times," she added drolly, "is a place for free market conservatives to escape the free market."
The WT has nothing to do with the free market of ideas. They claim they are “independent” of Moon but that is laughable for two main reasons. One is they have had several editors and writers quit over editorial independence. No doubt Moon had a hand in molding the paper. But more importantly, the thing everyone seems to miss, is that Moon doesn’t have to tell them what to write. He wanted a paper to drive our nation towards the right, hard right. He doesn’t have to tell people like Pruden or Blankley what to write. They are on auto pilot full bore hard right rudder. They do his bidding, they are his tools. Moon doesn't have to clock in.
This of course creates a political climate for the theocrats Moon has also funded. Moon wants a hard right theocratic governance for American and he has been wildly successful in the role he played to do just that. He says his job as Messiah was to raise up the Christian right and he did it.
The man plops down a propaganda paper in the middle of DC, spends a couple billion on it, money which he swindled from the Japanese targeting widows, and yet he is invisible not only to the nation but to the conservative rank and file he has brought to power. They are his creation. Moon is an anti-democracy homophobic authoritarian theocrat - remember the Republican Party 25 years ago before it bedded down with Moon? haha There is a reason this is happening folks.
Moon has more to do with our nation’s political climate than any individual. The WP said in 1999 Scaife had spent 300 million on “conservative” causes. Haha Moon has outspent him seven fold on the WT alone yet who will you hear is the “sugar daddy” of the right? Haha They haven’t clue.
Read about how he made billions to fund his political manipulation of the USA in sections 45 – 51 Here: http://tinyurl.com/dgeur
Btw, Moon has moved onto the planet – he has a planet gigging political machine the nation and the world are even blinder to than his effort here.
There is a reason all this is happening to our nation. Here’s just a smidgen the masses no nothing about:
U.S News and World Report March 27, 1989
Rev. Moon's Rising Political Influence
His empire is spending big money trying to win favor with conservatives.
On New Year's Day, 1987, South Korean mystic Sun Myung Moon, who considers himself to be the son of God, told his Unification church followers that he wanted to expand the church's political influence in the United States. His aim, Moon said, was "the natural subjugation of the American government and population." …
...the church[Unification]has established a network of affiliated organizations and connections in almost every conservative organization in Washington, including the Heritage Foundation, the largest of the conservative think tanks and an important source of government personnel during the Reagan administration. …
As the Washington Times has become the voice of capital conservatives, the Heritage Foundation has become far more tolerant of church ties. …
The Unification Church's newfound influence has occasioned intense debate among conservatives. One group of worried young conservatives meets regularly in private to compare notes about the problem. But little of the debate has surfaced in public forums. "Most people are afraid to address the issue because they don't want to publicize the extent of the church's involvement," says Amy Moritz of the Conservative National Center for Public Policy Research.
Because almost all conservative organizations in Washington have some ties to the church, conservatives also fear repercussions if they expose the church's role.
Is this what liberalism has become in the 21st Century? Doesn't anyone see the bigotry and intolerance in Martin's comments on the Washington Times interns and the attached comments? Like most critics of Rev. Moon, they are content to to repeat the same tired old nonsense. I'm willing to bet they have never taken the time to look at the Divine Principle which forms the basis of Rev. Moon's teaching or read one of his sermons. I never see the lily white liberal bloggers talk about the hundreds of black ministers who have found great inspiration in the teachings of Rev. Moon. To discount their respect for this man is itself a form of racism. The world is torn apart right now by religious bigotry. Please don't add to the problem.
To "Jack", I'm sure it's because Martin HAS read the "Father of the Universe's" bats#&t-crazy messianic ramblings that he's critical of him. His race has nothing to do with it. Oh, and as I see it, the world is not being torn apart by religious bigotry, it's being torn apart by religion.