I couldn't decide what to title this post. All things right wing would have
done it. As would have wingnuts gone wild. I just couldn't resist the graphic.
The Republican right may be losing its most devoted media ally. The Washington
Times editor-in-chief Wes Pruden and managing editor Fran Coombs, who have
yanked the Reverend Moon-owned paper to the far right, are in trouble. Word
is out that the leftist Nation is preparing an exposé on racism and
sexism at the paper. The Times has published pieces by Coombs's wife Marian
Kester quoting BNP chief Nick Griffin as an expert on Muslim culture. And
Pruden is the son of the chaplain of the Citizens' Council in Little Rock,
Arkansas, a segregationist group. When Eisenhower sent troops to protect nine
black teenagers attempting to enrol at the local high school in 1957, the
Reverend Pruden told the mob, “That's what we gotta fight: niggers, communists
and cops.” The Moonies, who have spent over $1.1bn on the loss-making
Times in the 25 years they have owned it, have been fretting about the newspaper's
attacks on the UN (which they like) and on North Korea, where the South Korea-based
Moonies have big investments. They have now quietly set up a search committee
to seek replacements. A strong contender is said to be Maggie Thatcher's former
aide John O'Sullivan.
That's a good one, but did you see Max Blumenthal's column over at Huffington
Post? Senator John Cronyn got caught cozying up to the “racist right”. First George Allen, now
Cronyn. The Republicans aren't even hiding it anymore.
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