Moonie Times To Remain Crazy

Word was, earlier this month, that the Reverend Moon's wretched Washington Times was going mainstream with the arrival of John Solomon. Known to Media Matters fans for his questionable attacks on John Edwards, Solomon was being pitched to us as the guy who would usher the Times into being a real newspaper. No more scare quotes around the word "gay," for example!

Today, though, Think Progress reports that Mr. Solomon has assured the conservative Heritage Foundation that he hasn't "drunk the Kool-Aid" of the Washington Post. Which is kinda funny considering his new boss literally commands cult members to drink "Holy Juice" symbolizing the blood of Reverend Moon.

What a sham: Anyone who has followed the 25-year history of the Washington Times knows there'd be no reason for it to exist except as a launching pad for bad right-wing reporting--from the story in 1988 that Dukakis was mentally ill, to the one in 2005 that Saddam's WMD were moved, sneakily, to Syria.

Anyway, I also wanted to invite Kossacks, who have very graciously put up with posts about my new book, to watch my new documentary film, The King of America. It's about the hilarious and disturbing intersection between the conservative movement and Reverend Moon, best known as an alumni of that generation of cult leaders that produced the phrase, "drinking the Kool-Aid." You can watch it by going to www.TheKingOfAmerica.com.

What you'll see is that the Washington Times is the only major newspaper in America that is the appendage of a Scientology-like cult, which regards the Capitol as part of its divine destiny. If you don't laugh at it, I promise you will at least be creeped out by it.