{"id":7521,"date":"2009-11-15T11:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T19:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7521"},"modified":"2009-11-16T02:26:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T10:26:26","slug":"and-they-call-the-liberals-moonbats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7521","title":{"rendered":"And They Call the Liberals ‘Moonbats’?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I’ve always known that the rightwing Washington Times<\/i> was owned by the self-proclaimed Messiah<\/a> and “Dear Leader” of the Unification Church, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, I don’t think I fully appreciated just how directly in control of the paper the Moonies actually were. Nor did I fully appreciate how desperate the wingnuts must have been to give the appearance<\/i> of “conservative” points of view seen emanating from a seemingly “legitimate” inside-the-beltway newspaper, even if it meant allying directly<\/i> with a loony-tunes religious cult.<\/p>\n

Well, so much for that self-delusion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In any case, now that the wingers own both the Wall Street Journal<\/i> and the bulk of the Washington Post<\/i>, they can probably get by without the Washington Times<\/i> if it comes to that.<\/p>\n

A few selected on-point comments from the TPM story linked above, in which they post the first public statement from the Moon family (which also now owns UPI), about the ongoing, whacked-out internecine family battle over the newspaper most-frequently quoted by Limbaugh, Hannity and all the rest…<\/p>\n

NowhereMan:<\/a><\/p>\n

Were a “liberal, msm” newspaper of consequence owned by a foreign, religious nutjob, the wingers would have long since devoured the printed meal.<\/div>\n

JohnGorenfeld:<\/a><\/p>\n

Can you imagine what Sean Hannity would make of it if The Nation<\/i> were owned by a billionaire cult leader whom evening news reports used to warn mothers about?<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n

Kinkistyle:<\/a><\/p>\n

The whole idea that a major newspaper and new[s] organization is owned and operated by a loony cult is just mind-boggling.<\/div>\n

JohnGorenfeld:<\/a><\/p>\n

Beltway folks may be jaded enough to yawn at the fact that a cult leader formerly mentioned in the same breath as Jim Jones is publishing the Washington Times; raving about ending Christianity<\/a>; and arranging for bipartisan dinner parties where he claims to be the Messiah<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But most other people I have talked to find Moon’s ownership of the Times amazing. It’s a living political cartoon of hypocrisy that ought to be at least as well known as the supposed evils of ACORN and George Soros.<\/p><\/div>\n

Druidity:<\/a><\/p>\n

The real surprise to me in this article is that Moonies own UPI. I couldn’t care less about WT, I never read it and everyone knows where they lean. But a lot of local and national papers carry the UPI stories.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I’ve always known that the rightwing Washington Times was owned by the self-proclaimed Messiah and “Dear Leader” of the Unification Church, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, I don’t think I fully appreciated just how directly in control of the paper the Moonies actually were. Nor did I fully appreciate how desperate the wingnuts must have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,188,154],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mainstream-corporate-media","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-washington-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7521"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}