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Moonies Selling Failing Washington Times

9:23 pm EST May 1st, 2010 | Conservative, Media | 18 Comments

No doubt the Washington Times’ problems are the same as the rest of the mainstream media, right? Their persistent liberal bias. Right? Um, no.

Washington Times executives are negotiating to sell the newspaper, after the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s family cut off most of the annual subsidy of about $35 million that has kept the Unification Church-backed paper afloat, company officials said.

Nicholas Chiaia, a member of the paper’s two-man board of directors and president of the church-supported United Press International wire service, confirmed that the paper is actively on the market: ‘We recently entered into discussions with a number of parties interested in either purchasing or partnering with the Washington Times,’ he said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Now, where will I go for my regular features fetishizing the confederacy? I am not making that up. The Times had a feature like that.

FLASHBACK TO 2004:

More than a dozen lawmakers attended a congressional reception this year honoring the Rev. Sun Myung Moon in which Moon declared himself the Messiah and said his teachings have helped Hitler and Stalin be “reborn as new persons.”

At the March 23 ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) wore white gloves and carried a pillow holding an ornate crown that was placed on Moon’s head. The Korean-born businessman and religious leader then delivered a long speech saying he was “sent to Earth . . . to save the world’s six billion people. . . . Emperors, kings and presidents . . . have declared to all Heaven and Earth that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is none other than humanity’s Savior, Messiah, Returning Lord and True Parent.”