Hillary Get Played by the Moonies: Exclusive Report

[scoobiedavis]

On the Sun Myung Moon blog Before anyone accuses me of being a GOP shill, check out my main blog and go the sidebar with the transcripts of my conversations with Limbaugh, Hannity, Bill-o, and Coulter.

[Kittycat]

1. Can you post a few sentances or a paragraph at least.

We're like that here, we like teasers :)

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Here is the whole text. Note how MLK III actually showed up at the group.

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-23-2007/0004668026&EDATE=

Moon, King Address Universal Peace Federation Assembly 2007

NEW YORK, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Martin Luther King III,
the eldest son of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., today appealed to more 400
leaders of the Universal Peace Federation gathered in New York City to make
a new commitment to fulfilling the humanitarian promises of the United
Nations, especially the Millennium Development Goals. The UPF, founded by
Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon in 2005, is an international network of individuals
and organizations dedicated to peace.
"History will judge our generation," King said, recalling the words of
his father, "not by whether we did what was popular or safe, but whether we
did what is right." King said that the tools of faith and non-violent
action, so successful in his father's civil rights campaign, could also
prove effective in reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals, which are
aimed at solving the urgent problems facing the world's children, including
hunger, disease and the need for education for all.
"As my father often said, the question is not whether we have the
technology or the ability, but whether we have the will and the heart,"
King said. "I believe we can do most anything with faith."
King was joined by other experts in the field of service. Mr. Paula
Sototu, the director of Habitat for Humanity in Fiji and a long time senior
Fijian diplomat, said that it was not enough for the wealthy and developed
nations to simply offer foreign aid as a 'hand-down" to poorer nations. "It
is important to form partnerships with equal dignity for all parties," he
said.
Rev. Mark Farr, director of Faith and Service at the Points of Light
Foundation, founded by former President George Herbert Bush, challenged the
audience to think of the MDGs as a spiritual problem, not simply a
humanitarian matter. "We in the West are used to think of our work as
helping those in the need solve their problems," he said. "But in fact the
problem starts here at home. It is our moral failure that has created the
need for the MDGs. It is not just the task of some government agency, but
it is our task. We are the solution."
Rev. Moon addresses the UPF General Assembly this evening on the topic
of "The United States and the Future Direction of the United Nations and
the World." More than 1200 people will represent all 190 nations present at
the UN. Letters of support from Heads of State from many nations will be
read, as well as messages of support from local political leaders including
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and from religious leaders, NGO directors
and other others.

This is the Pat Buchanan 1972 CREEP dirty trick strategy the "bad endorsement" but in reverse. Someone with the Moonies---a right wing organization that does not want to see Hillary elected dog catcher---is telling the world that she endorsed the Reverend Moon. Character assassination by association. And yet this document says she endorsed some group that MLK III also endorsed.

We saw the same thing yesterday when CBS reported that a minister whom Obama had been hanging out with endorsed him---and then it was revealed to the world and press that the minister runs an anti-gay group. The minister in question is a buddy of Bush. Therefore, it is likely that he hid the fact that he does anti-gay work, knowing that once he made the endorsement, he could reveal his anti-gay work, at no risk to himself but at enormous harm to Obama within the Democratic Party.

Pat Buchanan is a master of this kind of dirty tricks. Posting this stuff here as Divide and Conquer is part of the Buchanan play book, too.

[scoobiedavis]

3. I call 'em as I see 'em

My loyalty is not with the Democratic Party. I would be writing the same post had the person in question been Barack Obama or John Edwards. My primary criticisms have been with the GOP embrace of Moon (e.g., here and here). However, I'm not going to cut a prominent politician any slack because he/she is a Democrat. It is Hillary's responsibility to know whom she is endorsing. A Google search would have instantaneously shown anyone interested that the group in question is a Moonie front group. It is interesting that you cite Martin Luther King III. For some reason, he feels the need to accord legitimacy to Moon and I have addressed this issue.

Also, in the post I mentioned Hillary's previous gesture toward the Washington Times. The Washington Times and Moon have literally demonized Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Times constitutes an attack on journalism. At best, Hillary's desire to be associated with it was appalling cluelessness on her part.