From moonwatcher @bartcop:
on FOX during a discussion on Viet Nam, no less. Accused him everything shy of being a child molestor.
It was this guy:
http://www.bavf.org/carlton_sherwood_award.htm My guess is we are talking about the SAME 'Carlton Sherwood' who wrote "Inquisition". When are people gonna connect the dots and see that all the shit all comes from the same toilet?
"The New Birth Project" is when Moon spent 30 million redoing his image in the eighties.
http://www.mediachannel.org/originals/moontranscript.shtml Narrator: Is the New Birth Project continuing? In June,1991, Inquisition, a new, purportedly independent investigation of Moon's 1982 tax fraud prosecution, was released by a Washington publisher, Regnery-Gateway. Its author, Carlton Sherwood, is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who once worked for the Washington Times.
Narrator: Inquisition has a curious history. It was printed once before, by an obscure publishing house called Andromeda. The phone number listed for Andromeda in a leading publishing directory is the home phone of former Reagan National Security Council official Roger Fontaine — an ex-reporter at the Washington Times. When we called, Fontaine's wife Judy answered and said she knew nothing about Andromeda. Then she told us that the company was bankrupt and that Inquisition was published by Regnery-Gateway.
Narrator: Alfred Regnery is the head of Regnery-Gateway.
Regnery: "It is not unlike a lot of other books we have published. It is a story that deals with the First Amendment, which is something that is very dear to publishers, of course."
Narrator: Alfred Regnery was told by Carlton Sherwood that the Moon Organization would purchase one hundred thousand copies of Inquisition — at least according to former Washington Times editor James Whelan, another Regnery-Gateway author. But Alfred Regnery denies it.
Regnery: "I never said that to Jim, and I've never had any conversation with what's his name-Bo?"
Narrator: "Bo Hi Pak."
Regnery: "I'm not even sure who he is."
Narrator: One week after talking to Regnery, FRONTLINE obtained a copy of a letter addressed to Sun Myung Moon. The letter was written by James Gavin, a Moon aide. Gavin tells Moon he reviewed the "overall tone and factual contents" of Inquisition before publication and suggested revisions. Gavin adds that the author "Mr. Sherwood has assured me that all this will be done when the manuscript is sent to the publisher." Gavin concludes by telling Moon, "When all of our suggestions have been incorporated, the book will be complete and in my opinion will make a significant impact.... In addition to silencing our critics now, the book should be invaluable in persuading others of our legitimacy for many years to come."
Narrator: Although he refused an on-camera interview, Carlton Sherwood told Frontline that the Unification Movement exerted no editorial control over his book.
Narrator: When we visited Gavin's office in McLean, Virginia, our request for an interview was refused.
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http://home.snafu.de/tilman/faq-you/moonies.txt A4: "Read the book 'inquisition' by Carlton Sherwood".
What was not said is that this book was paid for by the Washington Times.
Sherwood claims that he accepted a temporary staff position, because he "hoped to accomplish what until then no reporter had been
able to do: to penetrate the organizational and financial structure of
the Unification Church" (p. 16). In other words, he wanted to uncover
new dirt on Moon and add him to his trophy case.
This is not credible: Sherwood had a history of publishing about
religious corruption. The WT would never had hired him without getting
data about his past. What has most probably happened is that they have
provided him with more PR than anyone else - he basically became a Moonie mouthpiece.
A review of this book (not even totally negative) by the "Christian
Research Institute" can be found at
http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/crj0133a.txt Here is the opinion of Dennis Smith <dsmith@Access.Digex.Com >:
I have read the book "Inquisition." I found it to be an interesting book but I do have several concerns. There is a tremendous amount of information about the Unification Movement publicly available to anyone willing to take the time to locate it. A good portion of the information is generated from disinterested third parties. The book does not reflect any type of analysis of the volumes of information that are available. I am also troubled by the apparent lack of interest in the issue by the author after the book was published. Most authors promote their books and respond to critisim. Sherwood has never been heard from. As far as I know he has never given an interview about the book. Never gave a speech to any organization about the book, and never responded to any allegations that he simply
wrote the book for the SMM and took the money and ran.
There is little evidence to suggest Sherwood did any research on his own for the book he wrote. A review of the book shows he does not include any of the volumes of information from federal agencies and others that were supposedly persecuting Moon. A reporter of Sherwood supposed stature should have interviewed persons and collected information from as many people and sources as possible. How could someone write a book about such a controversial subject like Sun Myung Moon and not interview his opponents. I have sent FOIA requests to federal agencies to see if he had filed any FOIA requests for information. At this point absent statements from Sherwood himself I have been unable to determine where he got his information.
And more skepticism from the (anti)moonie forum discussing Sherwood:
http://tinyurl.com/2hdtd How could Sherwood have a whole chapter about deprogrammers and not interview any deprogrammers? How could he not interview anyone associated with the Cult Awareness Network or the American Family
Foundation? These two organization contained large volumes of
information about the church. Why wasn't he interested in any of it?
It looks like the only information Sherwood used for the book was
provided by church members. This information would be bias.
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http://tinyurl.com/2q2ok ...It is clear that this was a Moonie run and financed operation throughout though. The book reads just like the Moonie-handbook on Moonie-mythology. It is so bad, so obvious, that it seems like he wrote down word for word, one of Bo Hi Pak's speeches. It was embarassing. There didn't even seem to be an attempt at making the Moonie arguments appear as if they were really Sherwood's conclusions. Moon had a story he wanted told, and Sherwood took the cash to write it for him.
There is no decency and honesty in that. It was a Moonie-generated myth. Just like most everything else Moon pays for. All lies, all distorted, all bigger than life. But the truth is always a pesky little problem.
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http://tinyurl.com/326la Here again you are wrong in your belief. As I have previously posted
Convicted Felon Sun Myung Moon admitted in a sworn deposition to federal agents that the money he failed to pay taxes on was in fact his personal money he had received in the form of a loan to purchase stock in a bank. Of course you wouldn't know this from reading Sherwood's book he did not include any information in the book that would portray Moon in a bad light.
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