Accuracy for Moonies? (Unification Church in bed with Cliff Kincaid and Accuracy in Media?)

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Is Accuracy in Media throwing its lot in with the Moonies?

In a Feb. 1 Accuracy in Media column, Cliff Kincaid eagerly defended InsightMag.com -- the successor to the now-defunct Insight on the News magazine, owned, like the Washington Times and United Press International, by Unification Church-controlled News World Communications -- over its article that promoted the false claim that Barack Obama attended an extremist Islamic madrassa as a child. Kincaid insisted that the story "cannot be easily dismissed" because Obama's purported Muslim past remains "mysterious" and a CNN report debunking the claim was "hastily-produced and superficial." He added:

Some "progressives" want the public to believe that the story has been proven to be a lie, smear, or hoax. But that is not the case. It is the case that "progressives" want to use this controversy to make conservative media pay for running the story.

But in 2004, Kincaid and AIM did exactly that to CBS' Bush-National Guard story -- dismiss it completely because one part was found questionable, even though many of the allegations raised in the report were not affected by the questionable sourcing of those memos. Kincaid and AIM also used that story to further their attacks on the "liberal media."

For instance, a Sept. 21, 2004, statement by Kincaid claimed that CBS was "caught in the middle of a criminal conspiracy, with links to the Kerry campaign, to use forged documents to bring down an American president." But in his column on the Insight article, Kincaid does not note the prediction of The New Republic's Jason Zengerle, made more than a month before the Insight article appeared, that conservatives will "launch a savage and despicable whispering campaign" against Obama "and then blame it all on Hillary" -- a description that fits the Insight story to a T.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/aimmoonies.html