Come on Bill: Let's me honest with the American people. Tell the truth about Sun Myung Moon's North Korean Communist Connection Bill Gertz (above), defense and national security reporter for the Washington Times, did not level with C-SPAN viewers on June 2 when he was asked about the Times' reporting of Moon's North Korea connection. QUESTION ON C-SPAN: People keep agitating about Iraq and yet our own government says that North Korea has chemical, biological and possibly nuclear weapons that can strike the United States right now. Now, Bill, your religious leader and the founder of your paper, Sun Myung Moon, has business and financial dealings with North Korea. He has a car plant there. He runs a hotel. He's been to meet with Kim Jong II. Your paper is supposed to be independent of your owner and religious leader and yet I don't see you reporting on Sun Myung Moon's North Korean communist connections. Why? GERTZ REPLY: I don't know. Have you read the Washington Times? We carry a number of stories about Reverend Moon's activities. We have not not reported on that. And I think we've covered it in a fair and unbiased way. WHAT MOON SAYS ABOUT GERTZ AND THE WASHINGTON TIMES: True Father Reverend Sun Myung Moon Sunday Morning Sermon December 10, 2000 East Garden, New York Excerpt: When the time comes, it may just take a week to change the world. That's why I have been securing the media arm, radio, television and even the wire service. Imagine the five major media organizations opening their hearts and competing to broadcast my teachings. The world would be changed. America is the most powerful country in the world. But its powerful leaders listen to the Washington Times. A statement from the Times can affect them dramatically. The government of other nations also listen to the Washington Times. Who at the Washington Times is having the biggest impact? [Bill Gertz.] Bill Gertz. How old is he? He is young. He only graduated from high school, joined the Washington Times and became famous. If you are a high school teacher, you should raise such students. If you are a college professor, you should become the most famous one in history. Realizing America's Responsibility by Rev. Tom McDevitt Former Pastor Unification Church Washington DC May 23, 1999 Excerpt: You're probably heard in the Washington Times about Bill Gertz, who wrote a book. He was on the Tony Snow program and Crossfire, and Chris Matthews, and Rush Limbaugh talked about him. Bill's book climbed from 40 to 4, then 2, then 1 on amazon.com. I heard yesterday he was #17 on the New York Times best seller list. He's our brother. I want to remind you what happened two years ago. The magazine Weekly Standard, published by Rupert Murdoch, edited by Bill Kristol, a very influential conservative publication. They did a full-page story on Bill Gertz, an exciting story for me because the first paragraph called him a fascinating phenomenon because of the stories he broke. It said that he was one of the early guys at the Washington Times, he is a member of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, he never graduated from college, and he is "now known as the most significant national security reporter in America." Furthermore, when Bill wrote the book I saw an early copy. He's bold. He dedicated the book to "the founders of the Washington Times, Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon, without which I would never have written this." I was with Bill and some other people in Kodiak, Alaska last August. We had a chance to fish and study with Father and Mother for a week. After the fourth day of doing hoon dok hae for an hour every morning, reading Dr. Lee's book, going out fishing where the salmon are leaping out of the river, bald eagles are flying over. The first few fish we cooked and it was unbelievable.              Printer-friendly version Click here to be added to our mailing list.