Thanks to John Gorenfeld for posting this Youtube video at Talk2Action. It's from the 1997 15th anniversary party of the Washington Times, which featured former President Bush, Sen. Orrin Hatch and many others. It all looked like a great party until Moon takes the stand and begins to rant like the madman that he is about Satan and "free sex" and proclaims that "now no one can oppose me!" The looks on the faces of some in the audience are priceless. Video below the fold.
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Hilarious Rev. Moon Video
Posted on: March 14, 2008 9:23 AM, by Ed Brayton
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Hey, the video is 'no longer available' as of 6:52 a.m. Pacific Daylight time. What happened? Or need I ask?
Posted by: Rod | March 14, 2008 9:54 AM
How, how, how do psychotic borderline fascists like him gain so much money and power?
Posted by: Wes | March 14, 2008 9:56 AM
Sorry to misinform you... it's on now. And scary.
Posted by: Rod | March 14, 2008 10:01 AM
Tell me this is a satire.
Asian man rails against sex and declares himself unopposed.
Seriously, doesn't that sound like a hilarious sketch?
Posted by: Jacob | March 14, 2008 10:42 AM
Posted by: C.W | March 14, 2008 10:43 AM
How can conservatives complain about Soros? Although I'm sure the good Rev. is a total loon, that was a curiously edited video.
Posted by: chris | March 14, 2008 11:31 AM
Wes asked:
Traditionally the options for obtaining great wealth and power are to inherit it, marry it, or steal it. Given Moon's cult-leader modus, I would say that he obtained his wealth and power by fraud. That would be the 'steal it' option.
Posted by: c-serpent | March 14, 2008 11:39 AM
It's hard to know if the eye rolling occurred at the same time as the comments. But, the bigger question that has me confused is this: Are right wingers opposed to free sex, or pay sex? Here he is going on and on about free sex, but in the last week we see this huge brouhaha about pay sex. I'm very confused. This really only leaves one choice, no sex. But then he's going on and on about convex and concave...oh, so confusing.
Posted by: soboco | March 14, 2008 12:10 PM
Anybody here recognize the name "Nehemiah Scudder"?
Moon has always reminded me of him.
Posted by: Jim Ramsey | March 14, 2008 12:42 PM
Needs more crowd reaction shots.
Posted by: Bad | March 14, 2008 1:20 PM
I've just watched the last half about ten times over. It really is very, very, funny.
Posted by: Bartholomew | March 14, 2008 1:22 PM
The video has obviously been heavily edited. Knowing how easy it is to distort what someone says by using clever editing techniques, I'd prefer to see an unedited version of this video.
On the other hand, I have no doubt that Rev. Moon is a total nut case, and the involvement of prominent politicians with him is very disturbing.
Posted by: Tim Tesar | March 14, 2008 1:46 PM
The video is hilarious but Tim has a point about editing. On a related note I watched without sound because I only have internet at work, would I be correct in assuming the subtitled section was a translation of a speech in korean? if so how do we know the translation is accurate? I'm no fan of Moon but this looks just a bit too over the top to me.
Posted by: Matt | March 14, 2008 2:23 PM
Matt,
Part of the hilarity is that the 'good' reverend is actually delivering his speech in English, but so heavily accented as to be almost unintelligible (hence the subtitles). Half the audience must be wondering exactly what the hell he's ranting about.
He is, however, just intelligible enough to confirm that the words in the subtitles, over the top as they may be, are definitely his own.
Posted by: Michael Hoaglin | March 14, 2008 2:36 PM
Yes - big Heinlein fan. Apt, and scarily so.
"If you pray hard enough you can make water run uphill. How hard is that? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill!"
Posted by: Vic | March 14, 2008 3:17 PM
I looked it up, and you are correct, sir. I went to that TrueFather.com site mentioned in the video Ed posted and found this:
So he's basically riding on the backs of his easily manipulated followers.
Posted by: wes | March 14, 2008 6:17 PM
Man, he really should have had a translator. His accent is... well, it's atrocious. Someone who wasn't a megalomaniac would probably know that about themselves, though, so I suppose my expectations regarding his self awareness are entirely too high.
I don't know how much of it I would have understood if I were in the audience, but I suspect after hearing "Free Sex" I'd have perked up a bit.
Posted by: Leni | March 14, 2008 7:05 PM
But never mind all that-- Barack Obama's ex-pastor may have said something unpatriotic!
Posted by: Coin | March 14, 2008 7:25 PM