The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of The (Washington) Times, dies at 92

[Newsjock]

Source: Washington Times

The Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon, the leader of the Unification Church and founder of The Washington Times, died early Monday morning in South Korea. He was 92.

He passed away just before 2 a.m. local time (12:54 p.m. EDT Sunday) from complications of pneumonia, surrounded by family, friends and followers, according to Unification Church leaders.

A comment was not immediately available from Unification Church International President Hyung Jin Moon, his youngest son and appointed successor of the religious movement.

However, in the weeks prior to the passing, Rev. Joon Ho Seuk, the church’s international vice president, said that members worldwide had been conducting prayer vigils and fasting for Rev. Moon’s health.


Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/2/rev-sun-myung-moon-founder-times-dies-92/

[lastlib]

1. the world is a slightly better place today...

[ladyslipper]

92. +1

[2pooped2pop]

2. mmm, mphmm, humph, mmnmm

can't say anything nice.

[awoke_in_2003]

45. I can...

Good. That is nice, right?

[2pooped2pop]

46. well put

[catzies]

79. "Speak only good of the dead; he's dead, that's good." n/t

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

3. Good riddance to the conservative movement's favorite cult leader

I'm sure they'll be crushed that he didn't ascend into heaven before their eyes on a cloud carried by angels.
The right got far too big a pass for aligning with this nut over the years.

[pnwmom]

4. So I guess he's NOT the Second Coming?

[Trajan]

31. Not the second; coming OR going ....

Just a regular, stinking, heaping pile of useless humanity ....

[BobbyBoring]

39. Humanity?

You're more charitable then I am!

[d_b]

5. meh

[Faygo Kid]

6. The evil he has done will live on after him.

I take no joy in anyone's death (except Rush, when his time comes), but it's a relief that he's gone.

[MissNostalgia]

21. MTE

I came to reply with exact same sentiment. I can barely muster a, "meh".

[Cleita]

7. Someone is going to take over.

That Moonie money machine with no taxes is too good for some greedy followers to not try to grab the reins. Maybe Joon Ho Seuk?

[hobbit709]

8. Another phony grifting shaman gone.

[LeftofObama]

9. Can't say I'm sad to hear of his passing.

There are just some people the world is better off without.

I'm curious to see how many Washington "officials" will be attending his funeral.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

85. I was wondering the same thing.

[dawn0115]

88. Spam deleted by DURHAM D (MIR Team)

[leveymg]

10. The Moon also rises. Not.

Another ludicrous false messiah bites the dust.

Beezelbub: Rasputin, meet Rev. Moon. Pass him a towel, will you? Did it suddenly get even hotter in this place?

[Archae]

11. It isn't just republicans who will be mourning...

Remember that screwy "ceremony" in the Capitol building with Moon?

There were democrats there too, and they were talking up Moon.

http://www.salon.com/2004/06/21/moon_7/

[leveymg]

14. Some familiar names on the list from the article linked in the Salon piece:

... Nearly 90 other religious, civil, political and educational 'ambassadors for peace' were cited for their regional efforts. Members of Congress assisting at the event included Sen. Mark Dayton, Minnesota Democrat, Reps. Roscoe G. Bartlett of Maryland, Christopher B. Cannon of Utah and Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, all Republicans, and Democratic Reps. Danny K. Davis of Illinois, Harold E Ford Jr. of Tennessee and Sanford D. Bishop Jr. of Georgia." [Note: This is excerpted from an article displayed on the IIFWP website.]

[Odin2005]

71. DAYTON??? NO!!!!!!

[leveymg]

81. WELDON???YES!!!!

There some weird cross-pollination on that list. Kinda reminds me of the cast of characters from Charlie Wilson's War.

[Odin2005]

93. That was a great movie.

People forget that we essentially created what became the Taliban to fight the Soviets. They them integrated themselves into Afghan society by appealing to Pashtun nationalism.

[leveymg]

95. The book was even better.

The merry band of Cold Warriors, like Charlie, never allow themselves to be troubled by the human suffering they were causing. They were way too busy jetting around the world, getting laid, having a great time blowing shit up while serving Uncle Sam. Charlie was a nationalist and a party animal.

As for the Taliban, they're not nationalists, exactly - they were an Army of G-d, tribal people who survived since the dawn of time by killing outsiders led by fundamentalist Wahabi fundamentalists hell-bent upon annihilating all vestiges of secular western influence and socialism inside Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Arab countries, and the rest of the world. G-d help the women in Kabul who used cosmetics. If you owned a beauty parlor, you were dead. What an irony - Charlie was so much a part of the culture the Taliban saw as an "abomination against G-d."

Great movie, even better book. Lots of good stuff in there, also, about Agency culture. You should pick it up.

[Odin2005]

96. In another thread a poster just used Charlie as an example of...

...a great Southern Democrat.

[leveymg]

97. They don't know about the shit that Charlie and Gust did, and don't want to know.

[nolabear]

12. Another "god" bites the dust.

[Kyad06]

13. thought he was already gone

As Archie Bunker used to say "ain't he dead yet "

[KamaAina]

15. This is the ONLY instance in which the Washington Times could be considered a credible news source.

[alp227]

40. Agree. Washington Times is home to some of the craziest right wing voices ever.

Like the insanely homophobic Jeff Kuhner, the fundie Christian Marybeth Hicks, the has-been rocker TED NUGENT (yep he really has a job writing for this fishwrap)...ugh

An example of how stupid Kuhner is, ranting as a guest host of "The Savage Nation" about a neighbor he said lived two years off unemployment benefits (I posted this to DU in March):

Kuhner also appears on this Christian radio show of Janet Mefferd all the time ranting about "OMG the liberals are destroying our Christian heritage" etc. He has also compared gays to Communists and terrorists.

Marybeth Hicks spends her column howling about the liberal secular invasion of our culture and even wrote an entire BOOK last year or two years ago Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom! On her website she promoted her book: "America’s children are listening to a choir that sings only one note: Leftism. By undermining traditional beliefs about family, faith and freedom, and by replacing those beliefs with a value system of moral relativism and secular progressive collectivism, the radical Left is succeeding in molding the first generation of American socialists." (Those right wingers sure love to listen to themselves talking about freedom all the time right? Because I'm sure that religious authoritarianism=freedom. In other news, freedom is slavery and war is peace.)

That's the Sun Myung Moon legacy right there (btw, is Sun Myung Moon a legitimately Korean name, given the pairings of "Sun" and "Moon"??)

[blm]

16. His legacy will continue within the GOPs neo-fascist agenda that he helped shape for over 30yrs.

FOX could not have jumped so quickly onto the political battlefield without Moon's efforts to control and promote the GOP talking points in the decades prior. Many of FOX's fascist mouthpieces came through Moon's RW media machine. Rev Moon was ONE STEP removed from Hitler, and I mean LITERALLY.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/121710.html

[Greybnk48]

17. Good bye evil POS. n/t

[bluestateguy]

18. I've got nothing to say

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. Moon crowned by 81 CongressCritters in Dirksen building in 2004

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/8/14/51440/1632

That display of Moon's Washington connections pales in comparison to the now notorious 2004 incident in which Sun Myung Moon was "coronated" as "the messiah", in the Dirksen US federal office building, during a ceremony attended by as many as ( claims the Unification Church ) 81 members of the US Congress.

[Berlum]

27. This truly is shocking. And dismaying.

The corporate media ought to make a Big Noise about this...

[pnwmom]

38. There is no limit to the lengths some of the GOP will pander. n/t

[cognoscere]

43. They will, in the form of a fart in our general direction. NT

[NJCher]

58. that's it!!

I laughed for hours over that! It was just amazing that tho$e people $howed up for the ridiculou$ charade.



Cher

[BuelahWitch]

82. I wonder how their Fundie constituents would feel about

them crowning Moon as "the Messiah"...

[caveat_imperator]

87. Great pic to mess with on photoshop. :D

"Future messiah Moon (died 2012)"

[Journeyman]

20. Never say anything but good about the dead. . .

Sun Myung Moon is dead.

Good.

[Botany]

23. Beat me to it

Don't say anything bad about the dead ..... Good he is dead.

[JudyM]

59. Credit to African-American lesbian comic Moms Mabley on this classic

I only know because my 91 year old dad has quoted this one with a devious twinkle in his eye from time to time through the years... an old favorite of his.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moms_Mabley

And you chose a perfect *#&@ to use it on!!

[Journeyman]

60. Thank you for the link. I've used that line before, often wondered who originated it. . .

and yes, it is most apropos for this POS.

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. And the sun is shining.

All is right with the world.

[Berlum]

24. Republicans mourn the loss of their beloved Second Coming of Christ MoneyBags

Happily for Republicans, I suppose, they have found a fresh source of MAMMON in Las Vegas.

[Tom Ripley]

26. The world rests in a little more peace

[leftyohiolib]

28. you know when there was an arlen spector thread going about arlen being very ill alot of these very

same responses were put up there and theycaught hell from du members about how we should be humble and respectful for the life of this awful person. i wonder why they are absent from this thread

[Trajan]

36. DU is just another cross section of humanity ...

with all it's weaknesses and foibles .... to expect some sort of consistent, idealized perfection here; where EVERYONE is perfectly wonderful and where no one says a single untoward word ? .... Well, that is a ridiculous expectation ....

Your expectations are naive ...

[Great Caesars Ghost]

51. People need to realise we are in a civil cold war here.

What's with all these apologists here recently?

[pscot]

29. Good

[CountAllVotes]

32. good damn riddance

Farewell to a huge piece o'sh*t and your Moonies that follow you.

Where will they all go now?

Will they find a new cult to follow?

Hint for Moonies: Try Rmoney ... same deal there, different face is all.

[aquart]

33. Now the heirs spend their lives trying to hold the empire together.

[olddad56]

34. I'm so sad. Sad that it wasn't Dick Cheney or KKKarl Rove.

[Progressive dog]

35. Say nothing bad-bite tongue-bite tongue

There is no "good to be interred with his bones."

[formercia]

37. Another one bites the Dust

I feel sorry for the Dust.

[AntiFascist]

41. Know your BFEE...

1984 Death of Outstanding Congressional Staffer Buried Poppy-Moon Relationship

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3645322

[Panasonic]

42. I sure hope he finds $DIETY in hell

where he deserves to be.

Rot, Moon, Rot.

And the rats can't eat enough of you fast enough.

[cognoscere]

44. Word on the street has it that even Hell doesn't want him. An unconfirmed source

quotes Satan as saying, "Just what the fuck kind of place do you think I'm running here? That POS can go live in Cheney's ass. There's plenty of room because Dick's brain doesn't take up that much space."

[Warpy]

47. “I've never wished a man dead,

but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”

I have never agreed more with Clarence Darrow than I do now.

I am glad that poisonous old fraud is no longer sucking oxygen. I hope his sons now start to fight over the spoils and the squabble be massive and public. Having baby brother appointed scammer in chief is not going to sit well with the older ones.

And may the fact that he, too, has to take a dirt nap like everybody else get through to the people he's scammed for decades that he was no better or worse than they are.

Death, at last, is the great equalizer, even for a man who got himself crowned emperor of the universe by Republican Congressmen.

[HughBeaumont]

48. In the immortal words of Johnny Rotten:

"Good fucking riddance to bad rubbish. I don't give a fuck and neither does anyone else."

[Berlum]

49. Well, the G.O.P. cares a lot

Second Coming of Christ Moon has been a faithful CashMoneyBucks pump for the modern day Repubbies...who knelt down to worship at his feet and kiss his keester.

[HughBeaumont]

55. The Washington Times and UPI (R-Disgust) have their flags at half mast.

Those wretched Bewshler piglets can roast in Dick Cheney's future home.

[plunati43]

72. In the immortal words of Bob Dylan

And I'll watch while you're lowered
Down to your deathbed
And I'll stand o'er your grave
'Till I'm sure that you're dead.

[Great Caesars Ghost]

50. Why didn't it happen sooner?!? Oh well.

[Fuddnik]

52. Only the good die young.

He was 92.

[dhill926]

75. ha ha.......

[CrispyQ]

53. I believe that if you don't want people to speak badly of you when you die,

you should have behaved differently when you were alive.

Glad you're gone, asshole.

There's a few others on that list, too.

[grasswire]

54. ...and there was great rejoicing in the land......

Colson and Moon in one year!

[KansDem]

56. What sad news...

CELEBRITIES IN THE NEWS

Hal David: ‘Raindrops’ lyricist dies at 91

I wish I hadn't clicked on the link...

[SoapBox]

57. Uh oh...Debbie Downer appears...

So how many evil spawn did this sicko produce?

And will they continue the crazy?

...sorry!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

61. Poppy and Babs Bush with Rev. Some Dumb Loon in happier times

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

62. and here's the crooked bastard with Saint Ronnie the holographic messiah

[oldhippydude]

63. once in a blue moon

interesting timing

[graham4anything]

64. Elvis Costello (singing about the evil Thatcher) "Tramp the Dirt Down"

says it all about evil people.
Don't wish them ill however...


"but when they finally put you in the ground
I will stand on your grave, and tramp, the dirt down"

[Arctic Dave]

65. Another human POS gone.

Fuck that guy.

[mercuryblues]

66. I predict

plenty of infighting over control. Many, many lawsuits claiming mis-appropriations of church funds. The church splitting into different factions and *poof* the mooney-times goes up in smoke and Murdoch buys it at a fire sale.

[Warpy]

68. With the eldest sons skipped over in favor of the youngest

I think we can pretty much guarantee that.

All I hope is that they make it a public squabble.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

78. The Moonie Times has never made a profit

and has only existed by being propped up from Moon's wingnut welfare payments.
Wes Pruden and the boys down there may want to up date their resumes soon, as the gravy train may be over if Moon's kids decide they'd rather have the money for themselves.

[GoneOffShore]

67. Can we dance now?

[underpants]

69. As was said here at DU when Jerry Falwell died......

When someone dies you are supposed to say something good.
Rev. Moon is dead.
Good.

[Odin2005]

70. Grave-dancing time!!!

[Zorra]

90. I thought you'd never ask.

Tango?

[Doctor_J]

73. Hopefully he'll get the seat in hell right next to Reagan

and that Murdoch will soon join them.

[LiberalEsto]

74. Good riddance

to a fascist greedster who exploited lonely teenagers and young adults, brainwashing and forcing them to sell candy and flowers on the streets even in the worst weather, and grabbing their earnings to finance his luxurious homes, cars and empire.

[jsr]

76. What are they going to do with Messiah's corpse?

[Poll_Blind]

80. Rent out an arena, pack the corpse with dynamite. Jump a monster truck over it, blow it up.

At least it could make a challenging flash game.

PB

[southerncrone]

83. Reckon Poppy will give his eulogy?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/04/bush-sr-celebrate-rev-sun-myung-moon-again

[UpInArms]

84. the world is a better place - rid of that piece of scum

am glad that he can no longer pour his billions into right-wing insanity

[agentS]

86. This article paints him in a nice way

Still makes him look bad, but that's his own fault, not the media's. THough the writer of this post tries to blame the media for that.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2012/09/117_118901.html

The Korean newspapers are taking mostly nice about him, mostly...

[blogslut]

89. ...

[blkmusclmachine]

91. .

[Jamastiene]

94. Nice.

My mother taught me to say something nice or not say anything at all. So, nice is all I can say here, really.