Just Like Old Times at the Washington Times?

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This is the cover story in this week's Washington City Paper.

Just Like Old Times at the Washington Times?

The Unification Church is in charge again at D.C.'s other daily newspaper, and things are going back to normal. Maybe.

By Moe Tkacik on November 5, 2010

For almost 30 years, The Washington Times has devoted itself, so far as anyone inside or outside the paper could tell, to two main purposes: Carrying the banner of free-market conservative Republicans, preferably in outlandish and over-the-top style; and losing money, preferably in the same way.

Which is why the fashion in which the Times emerged from the wrenching purgatory of the past year on Tuesday was perhaps inevitable. As polls opened across the country, the Times staff found itself summoned to its much-depopulated headquarters at 3600 New York Avenue NE for a rare morning meeting, on the rare day they had all planned on showing up anyway, and the first time in more than two years that the gathering didn’t involve another round of beloved veterans getting purged. The Times was finally being saved, and by the same man who created the newspaper, the Rev. Sung Myung Moon, the Korean-born self-proclaimed Messiah who purports to be carrying out the mission Jesus botched by failing to conceive an heir.

Bonus Washington Times-related link:

Former Washington Times Ed Who Resigned Amid Accusations Of Racism, Sexism, Supporting Eugenics Etc. Now Works For Scott Rasmussen

Posted by Moe Tkacik on Nov. 3, 2010 at 8:29 pm

Meet Fran Coombs. He works for Scott Rasmussen, the pollster and fawning John Fund “profile” subject who is now, once again, for the gazillionth time since his polling outfit predicted Bush would beat Gore by a nine point margin in 2000, “under fire” for being potentially biased somehow toward conservative candidates.
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But I will also point out that the one thing Fran Coombs has never been accused of (as far as I know) is a shortage of bias in favor of Republican candidates, policies, talking points etc. So if you found yourself at some point during the election cycle irrationally fearing that Barney Frank might not pull through last night or something along those lines, he might have been the guy responsible for putting that idea in your head, and he might have been doing it on purpose, just because he can.