The Messiah? The Rev. Sun Myung Moon? Crowned by members of Congress? WTF!??!
http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/05/im-and-i-approve-this-messiah.html
Sun Myung Moon is a strange man. He's also very rich, well connected to a number of the mighty of the land, and the founder of Washington's other newspaper. He has apparently also been crowned Messiah in the presence of a number of U.S. congressmen at a recent Washington Times to-do. The Gadflyer has the weird full story, and you can see some of the photos from this Moonie-watch blog.
... In fact, the only place you could read about the new king, unless you bookmarked Moon's Korean-language website, was in the blog world. There, dozens of the most CSPAN2-hardened cynics reacted to the screenshots with a resounding "WTF," the sound of dismay and confusion at a scene that news coverage hadn't prepared them for. The images might as well have come from Star Trek's Mirror Universe.
First, we're shown a rabbi blowing a ram's horn. Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He's having a ball.
Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner....
I hadn't heard of all this until I read Bill Cork today.
Sun Myung Moon is a strange man. He's also very rich, well connected to a number of the mighty of the land, and the founder of Washington's other newspaper. He has apparently also been crowned Messiah in the presence of a number of U.S. congressmen at a recent Washington Times to-do. The Gadflyer has the weird full story, and you can see some of the photos from this Moonie-watch blog.
... In fact, the only place you could read about the new king, unless you bookmarked Moon's Korean-language website, was in the blog world. There, dozens of the most CSPAN2-hardened cynics reacted to the screenshots with a resounding "WTF," the sound of dismay and confusion at a scene that news coverage hadn't prepared them for. The images might as well have come from Star Trek's Mirror Universe.
First, we're shown a rabbi blowing a ram's horn. Most Jews would hold off on this until the High Holy Days, but it probably counts if the Moshiach shows up in a federal office building at taxpayer expense. Then we see the man of the hour, Moon, chilling at a table at the Dirksen in a tuxedo, soaking all this up. He claps. He's having a ball.
Cut to the ritual. Eyes downcast, a man identified as Congressman Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) is bringing a crown, atop a velvety purple cushion, to a figure who stands waiting austerely with his wife. Now Moon is wearing robes that Louis XIV would have appreciated. All of this has quickly been spliced into a promo reel by Moon's movement, which implies to its followers that the U.S. Congress itself has crowned the Washington Times owner....
I hadn't heard of all this until I read Bill Cork today.