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To: 2ndDivisionVet

OMG, welcome back to being a 1982 Democrat. Your Cruz Delusion knows no bounds. Moonies. Give it a rest, that attack on the paper is almost 35 years old, and was created by WaPo editors.


21 posted on 03/25/2016 3:40:22 PM PDT by Defiant (After 8 years of Chump Change, it's time for Trump Change!!)
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To: Defiant

The internet disagrees with your story.

The Washington Times (aka The Moonie Times) is Washington, D.C.’s newspaper which perpetually plays second fiddle to the Washington Post. The Times has lost money ever since its inception in 1982 until 2015, in which it finally became profitable.[1]

Started Unification Church founder Sun Myung Moon, the Church has pumped over $1.7 billion into the paper to keep it afloat.[2] Although much of the early Times staff came from the defunct Washington Star, the paper’s board of directors was made up of members of the Unification Church, with the staff undergoes occasional purges, resignations, and faction fights over the direction of the paper.[3] No less an authority than the Rev. Moon himself has proclaimed the Times a “gift” to America to thank the U.S. for fighting Communism in Korea, or something like that.[4] In 2002 Rev. Moon outdid himself by proclaiming he established the Times “in response to heaven’s direction” and that “The Washington Times will become the instrument in spreading the truth about God to the world.”[5]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Washington_Times


38 posted on 03/25/2016 3:45:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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