The Bush Family: Enjoying A Nice Slice Of Moon Pie
extreme right-winger, Sun Myung Moon after being crowned in a Senate building
The Wall of Separation has a great story about Bush's disturbing ties to Washington Times owner Rev. Sun Myung Moon:
In a May 4 New York Times column, pundit David Brooks attacked author Kevin Phillips’ book American Theocracy as “paranoid.”Brooks charged that “Phillips’s book is rife with bizarre assertions.” As an example, the Times columnist cited Phillips’ contention that the Rev. Sun Myung Moon “has been close to the Bush family.”
Bush addressed Moon gatherings in Japan in 1996. British newspapers reported that he was compensated for this in the six figures. He also spoke at a Moon event in Argentina.
* Moon operatives pushed hard for President George W. Bush’s “faith-based” initiative and, in return, were richly rewarded. A Moon front group called Free Teens has received millions in taxpayer money to run an “abstinence-based” sex education program for young people.
* A separate Moon group, Service for Peace, got $80,000 from the Corporation for National and Community Service in December to support service projects in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. The Bush administration has also given tax money to Moon groups to run marriage-improvement seminars.
Read the whole article here.
Bill McCartney
