It has long been amazing that Official Washington has been so blasé about the curious case of the Washington Times, where a Korean theocrat – known for brainwashing his followers and for maintaining close ties with international drug cartels and foreign intelligence agencies – has been allowed to spend billions of unregulated dollars to influence U.S. political decision-making.
The fact that Moon wrapped himself in “conservative” political garb – and was quick to denounce any investigations of his organization as “religious bigotry” – helped fend off inquiries into exactly where his money was coming from.
But what proved most important was how Moon made himself useful to Ronald Reagan, the Bush Family and other Republican heavy-hitters – often by putting into play propaganda smearing their political enemies. These Republicans, in turn, helped protect Moon, at least since the late 1970s.
Like I wrote yesterday, Moon wound up wielding power behind the scenes.
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Paul Ryan has been caught in so many lies, both major and minor, he is becoming about as notorious as Pinocchio.
The most laughable was the one where he claimed to have run a marathon in under three hours.
It sounds like the infamous Rosie Ruiz, the "winner" of the women's division in the Boston Marathon who was shortly exposed as a cheat.
Ryan wanted to be as well-remembered:
t started when Hugh Hewitt, a Right-wing talk-radio host, interviewed Mr Ryan. In that interview, the vice-presidential candidate boasted about his fitness, declaring that he had once run a marathon in less than three hours.
This claim piqued the interest of Runner’s World magazine, which noted that marathon times are recorded — and that it was unable to find any evidence of Mr Ryan’s accomplishment. It eventually transpired that Mr Ryan had indeed once run a marathon, but that his time was actually more than four hours.
In a statement issued by a spokesman, Mr Ryan tried to laugh the whole thing off as a simple error. But serious runners find that implausible: the difference between sub-three and over-four is the difference between extraordinary and perfectly ordinary, and it’s not something a runner could get wrong, unless he’s a fabulist who imagines his own reality. And does suggesting that Mr Ryan is delusional rather than dishonest actually make the situation any better?
It's just another example of Ryan's grandiosity.
Speaking of Rosie Ruiz, here is a video clip after her "victory" in the Boston Marathon:
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