DU research machine: Carlton Sherwood is your topic

[July]

Reading www.dailykos.com got me looking into this mockumentary Dole is pushing. In a few minutes I found www.catch.com/comments/34140_0_17_0_M/ with information that I think it would be useful to confirm.

According to this website, Carlton Sherwood, the producer of the film, is a former Washington Times reporter who wrote a book about Rev. Moon called Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon (published by Regnery, originally published by Andromeda, whose contact no. was the home phone of former Reagan NSC official Roger Fontaine -- also a former Wash. Times reporter).

Site also says Sherwood worked communications for Ridge when Ridge was gov. of PA and is EVP of WVC3 Group, which is an anti-terrorism security firm in Reston, VA.

Catch also cites someone (wasn't clear to me) saying that Sherwood was "tapped" to run a Bush admin. public outreach program, www.first-responder.gov, which is apparently not actually in operation.

Learned at Google that there is a journalism award named for Sherwood that honors writers showing concern for veterans. In the few years it has existed, several awards have been given to Wash. Times reporters, Gannett reporters, and WTOP (anyone know what that is?) reporters.

Can any of this be confirmed? Isn't the possible role working for the Bush administration significant?

Production company for the film is "Red, White, and Blue Productions," natch.

[aquart]

1. I'm more interested in the Regnery/Moon connection.

Regnery publishes rightwing slime. Can they really make a living with it? Who subsidizes them? Moon?

[WilliamPitt]

2. He's a hardcore Moonie, for starters

http://www.equip.org/free/DM182.htm

A Summary Critique: Inquisition

The Unification Church has always portrayed Sun Myung Moon, its founder and current leader, as a man who has suffered greatly because of his reli­gious beliefs. Inquisition pursues this same course. In fact, the major theme of this mammoth book (705 pages) is what the author perceives as the inexcusable perse­cution of Sun Myung Moon.

Carlton Sherwood, Pulitzer-prize win­ning reporter, treats Moon and his followers with the highest respect and admiration while he describes Moon’s critics as ambi­tious, self-serving, and ruthless. He even devotes an entire chapter to Moon’s early biography in Korea, chronicling his grievous travails at the hands of both Com­munists and Christians. According to Sher­wood, although Moon has not been physi­cally tortured in the United States, he was unjustly prosecuted by the U.S. courts, unduly vilified by the American press, and unfairly scorned by the general public. The reason: racial and religious bigotry.

This indictment is leveled at a vast array of American institutions and people — from the Justice Department to the print media, from manipulative politicians to inflamed parents. No detractor of Moon is spared Sherwood’s censure. Although Moon was tried, convict­ed, and served time in prison for conspiracy Sherwood sees the real conspiracy as the American quest to “nail” Moon.

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http://www.tparents.org/Library/Unification/Talks/Seshchri/INQUSTN.htm

The Persecution and Prosecution of Reverend Moon

by Candadai Seshachari

This book review of Inquisition is reprinted, with permission, from Weber Studies: An Interdisciplinary Humanities Journal, Fall 92 (Weber State University, Ogden, Utah). Dr. Seshachari is the Interim Dean, College of Arts and Humanities at Weber State University.

Imagine this scenario: A hard-hitting, highly respected journalist, the only reporter ever to have won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Peabody Award, sees an irresistible opportunity to do a woof-and-warp expose on an alien church. The leader of this church has been tried for federal tax evasion and duly sentenced to 18 months in jail. This church has been publicly ridiculed and openly attacked in the American press. U.S. Senator Robert Dole and Congressman Donald Frazer have vociferously accused the church of brainwashing religious-minded Americans with lies and blasphemies.

The reporter hires himself on the staff of a newspaper that is owned by the much-aligned church to "get an inside track on one of the most controversial religious organizations in the United States." In time, he earns the trust of its leaders, secures access to its inner echelons of power, and gains access to confidential records. The stage is now unabashedly set for an explosive account that could conceivably blow the church off the American soil!

Now the players: the church, the Unification Church; the leader, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon; the newspaper, The Washington Times; the would-be exposer, the redoubtable Carlton Sherwood. Sherwood had hoped to undermine the Unification Church by mining the very stuff of "juicy sex scandals." He thought he would surely confront in Moon "a Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggart clone running loose."

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[blm]

3. Good time to highlight the Bush/Moon alliance.

Thank Undergod for Robert Parry's work on those longtime ties.
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