Moonie is nutty

by Jill on 3.14.2008 · 12 comments

in Are you serious?, Media, Politics, Radical Right-Wingers, Sex

Ever wonder who’s behind right-wing media? Here’s one example:

This guy owns the Washington Times, one of the most popular wingnut publications out there. He’s got a lot of fans in the GOP, and he loves them right back. And he’s the kind of guy who will get up in front of a room full of people, rail against “free sex,”* and end his speech with “NO ONE CAN OPPOSE ME!”

Bonus: The two-second shot of the guy with the awesome “professional” mullet.

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*I suppose the opposite of “free sex” is “paid-for sex.” Or, in wingnut terminology, “traditional marriage.”

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{ 12 comments }

1 Bitter Scribe 3.14.2008 at 5:17 pm: The Godfather with an incomprehensible Korean accent.

IIRC, Moon was accused of molesting teenage girls in Korea under the guise of “purification rites.” Free sex, indeed.
2 Holly 3.14.2008 at 7:26 pm: ABSOLUTE SEX IS CENTERED ON GOD!!

God, how I wish there was more of this video. He is just all sorts of crazy.

Bush the elder is basically his lackey as far as speaking goes — he’s been paid so many millions of dollars by Moon’s church that they can ask him to speak anywhere and he just hops on a plane and goes. I really wonder what the contract looks like.
3 Bitter Scribe 3.14.2008 at 8:43 pm: I really wonder what the contract looks like.

And whether it was signed in blood.
4 ACM 3.14.2008 at 10:35 pm: And whether it was signed in blood.

of virgins.
5 Gina 3.14.2008 at 10:37 pm: But they skipped over the anatomy lesson! Now how am I supposed to figure out the differences between men and women?
6 Banisteriopsis 3.14.2008 at 11:36 pm: I love how they keep cutting to shots of women in the audience rolling their eyes. Go AV Team!
7 Blunderbuss 3.15.2008 at 3:25 am: I have nothing more insightful to say except maybe WHAT THE SHIT.
8 TracyTurnblad 3.15.2008 at 4:14 am: Whoa. That was my first viewing of Moonie, and it was a doozy. My non-existent faith in traditional media outlets is further justified.
9 B.D. 3.15.2008 at 9:44 am: Total tangent: a close friend and I were leaving his parent’s home to go out for the night in the 1980s. We were stopped at the door by his mom who announced that his stepfather had a serious question to ask him. My friend hated his stepfather (who was a alcoholic) and was annoyed, but stopped for the question. “Do you believe in free sex?” asked his stepfather. Stunned, my friend stood there mouth agape trying to comprehend what he just heard. I, trying not to be rude, retreated to another room to put my hand over my mouth to keep from laughing. “What kind of question is that?” my friend replied. His stepfather repeated and my friend said, “Well, I’d never pay for it?” His mom intervened at this point and said, “I think what he’s trying to ask is do you use condoms?” My friend was 22 and it was so nice that they suddenly became concerned about this enough to have the conversation in front of his friend at this time.

Who knew his stepfather was a Looney Moonie?
10 Sage 3.15.2008 at 7:11 pm: I completely forgot that “wouldn’t be prudent” line – it’s such a classic!
11 Craig R. 3.15.2008 at 9:56 pm: Yeah, but I noticed that it was only the *women* in the audience who were showing the WTF? eyerolls.

What about the guys? Or are they all so enraptured by the sterling concave/convex biology lesson?

Moon is walking-around-free proof that if you are wealthy you are “eccentric” and let out loose, but if your economic circumstances are otherwise, you are batshit crazy and locked up.
12 ElleBeMe 3.17.2008 at 8:13 am: The Rev Moon is not only a far-out wingnut, but he also holds quite a bit of property in the DC area.

Anyone aware of his coronation at one of the US capitol buildings a few years back? Seems as if the senators he has paid off got together and crowned him the supreme leader of heaven or other some such shit.

I shit you not….

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/06/21/moon/index.html

On March 23, the Dirksen Senate Office Building was the scene of a coronation ceremony for Rev. Sun Myung Moon, owner of the conservative Washington Times newspaper and UPI wire service, who was given a bejeweled crown by Rep. Danny K. Davis, D-Ill. Afterward, Moon told his bipartisan audience of Washington power players he would save everyone on Earth as he had saved the souls of Hitler and Stalin — the murderous dictators had been born again through him, he said. In a vision, Moon said the reformed Hitler and Stalin vouched for him, calling him “none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”

To many observers, this bizarre scene would have looked like the apocalypse as depicted in “Left Behind” novels. Moon, 84, the benefactor of conservative foundations like the American Family Coalition — who served time in the 1980s for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice — has views somewhere to the right of the Taliban’s Mullah Omar. Moon preaches that gays are “dung-eating dogs,” Jews brought on the Holocaust by betraying Jesus, and the U.S. Constitution should be scrapped in favor of a system he calls “Godism” — with him in charge. The man crowned “King of Peace” by congressmen once said, according to sermons reprinted in his church’s Unification News: “Suppose I were to hit you with the baseball bat to stop you, bloodying your ear and breaking a bone or two, yet still you insisted on doing more work for Father.”

Just remember…he has the President’s ear, and that of his father as well….

Yes, our government IS that F*cked up.