We're not making this up.
As reported in the Washington Post: Reverend Moon declares himself Messiah at Senate offices, March 23, 2004.
The Washington Times.
Moon owns the the influential conservative newspaper, which he's funded since 1982.
Citizen Moon.
At the paper's 1997 celebration at the Washington Grand Hyatt, Moon proclaimed that "free sex is centered on Satan!"
Perfect strangers.
Moon (on stage in Seoul, 1992) is famous for his mass weddings, in which he orders followers to marry spouses of his choosing.
And many more.
1995: George and Barbara Bush celebrate the birthday of Mrs. Moon (center). The man in glasses, Bo Hi Pak, was Moon's top aide.
"Why not come to our bicentennial rally?"
In the late 1970s, Moon was such a sensation that John Belushi portrayed him on Saturday Night Live skit, with Dan Ackroyd as a deprogrammer.
"You're not doing the Lord's work...you worship this son of a bitch."
When students left their families to join Moon in the 1970s, desperate American parents turned to Ted Patrick (right), the first deprogrammer.
Bailing out the Right.
The late Jerry Falwell told Esquire that Moon "is like the plague," before accepting $3.5 million from his church.
Meeting Dad's friend.
As shown on South Korean television, George W. Bush poses with Moon's current deputy, Rev. Kwak.
Her former master.
Long-time church operative Josette Sheeran (in 1997), ostensibly no longer a Moonist, was named by the current White House to State Department and U.N. posts.
"Our American members are willing to die."
The leader of the American Unification Church, Michael Jenkins, seen sermonizing in 2007.
Faith no more.
On Easter, 2003, Moon rewarded African-American ministers for removing crosses from their churches and following him. John Kingara of Worcester, MA (right) obeys.
Funeral for the cross.
To repent for the "false faith" of Christianity, a Moonie delegation buries a cross in Jerusalem, 2003.
Like Ike.
June 25, 1965: A confused Dwight Eisenhower agrees to meet an anti-Communist "cultural group" led by Moon.
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Meet the Rev. Moon, conservative news baron.
(And you thought Tom Cruise was scary.)
Just how crazy have our politics become when members of Congress bow down to a cult leader on Capitol Hill who dresses up like King George III...jet-sets around the world with the Bush family...and publishes conservatives' favorite newspaper, the Washington Times?
This is the darkly comic story of Reverend Moon, the billionaire L. Ron Hubbard of the East, to whom D.C. insiders shamelessly pay homage, as he gives maniacal speeches about being the Second Coming.
Years ago, Moon was widely considered a dangerous madman, the next Jim Jones. He inspired TV specials with names like "Escape From The Moonies." His cult separated college students from their families, put them out on the street selling flowers, paying for Moon's mansions and yacht. Moon's control over their lives was so total, he even chose spouses for them.
Most people who remember Rev. Moon think he disappeared, died, was deported. In fact, as you will read in Bad Moon Rising, Moon is richer and more influential than ever. And an all-star cast of powerful Republicans have sold their souls to him.
The joke is that Moon fits in just fine.
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In 2004, author John Gorenfeld scooped the Washington press corps when he exposed a creepy dinner party on Capitol. With lawmakers participating, the Times publisher held a ritual coronation for himself as the "King of Peace." Wearing a majestic cape and coronet, he declared himself Messiah. The New York Times editors compared the event, sponsored by a U.S. senator, to an act of the Roman emperor Caligula.
That, as you might imagine, was just the tip of the iceberg.
Bad Moon Rising takes you into the underbelly of the Religious Right. Which is surprisingly, scandalously entwined with Moon and his business empire—an untold chapter in American political history.
He's the man Washington power-brokers don't want you to know about, who has been coming to their rescue for years. And from his seat of respect, he is launching odd, multi-million dollar campaigns of his own to replace Jesus (whom he considers a failure), and attack the wall between church and state...his church, that is.
There's more. The Chicago Tribune has reported that he controls the U.S. sushi industry. He manufactures heavy industry, does business with Kim Jong-Il. And he now officially considers himself Emperor of the Universe, claiming the imagined endorsements of dead U.S. presidents.
Strange sex and violence, power and blasphemy...The author invites you on an arresting journey as he explores the skullduggery with which Moon insinuated himself into Washington's most moralistic circles, with a cast including the Bush family, Jerry Falwell, Left Behind author Tim LaHaye, Richard Nixon, an overseas gangster or two, and the men who built the Religious Right...with more than a little help from Moon.
Read about the state of American democracy in Bad Moon Rising, and you won't know whether to laugh or cry.
Bad Moon Rising. Buy it for a conservative friend, and blow someone's mind.
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Bad Moon Rising:
How Rev. Moon Created the Washington Times,
Seduced the Religious Right and
Built an American Kingom
Published in the U.S.A. by PoliPoint
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Sausalito, CA.
ISBN-10: 0979482232
ISBN-13: 978-0979482236
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