# Personally, I welcome our new Korean overlord **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 12, 2004, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917 "2004-06-12T01:39:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/21 "2004-06-13T19:47:41Z")
Well, in defense of the Republicans, once you’ve starting letting religious blather or one sort become a major player, it probably gets hard to sort out what’s really looney from what only seems looney to disinterested observers. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/22 "2004-06-13T20:00:37Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Well, in defense of the Republicans, once you’ve starting letting religious blather or one sort become a major player, it probably gets hard to sort out what’s really looney from what only seems looney to disinterested observers. And Moon owns the Washington Times. That carries a lotta weight when it comes to attending whacked out parties that involve crowns and claims of being Messiah. And he’s a few degrees above most people in income. That doesn’t hurt, either. ---
**Author:** ![Apos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/838e76/32.png) [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/23 "2004-06-13T20:15:55Z")
Let’s not go overboard: while Moon is a conservative, that doesn’t mean that plenty of Democrats haven’t tried to court him and vice versa. ---
**Author:** ![GLWasteful](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f05b48/32.png) [@GLWasteful](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GLWasteful)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/24 "2004-06-13T21:47:45Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Let’s not go overboard: while Moon is a conservative, that doesn’t mean that plenty of Democrats haven’t tried to court him and vice versa. So sorry. I in no way meant to imply that it was only R’s who were involved in Moon’s shenanigans. Yes, there are far too many people who kiss his ass on both sides of the aisle. However, the slant that he, personally, has is pretty far right. To the point that his newspaper (sic) can seem positively squishy by comparison. ---
**Author:** ![blackhobyah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blackhobyah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blackhobyah)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/25 "2004-06-13T23:28:02Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > Thank you. I was going to mention my ‘how far you can go just by being utterly insane’ hero, Grigori Rostomovich Rasputin. From a recent news article it appears that Rasputin may have had something bigger than just his insanity going for him. [From “The Age” yesterday](http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/12/1086749947298.html) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/26 "2004-06-14T01:10:24Z")
> [@Apos](#): > > Apparently, though, this event happened a few months ago. It’s just that the media interest in it is just peaking now. Is there actual media interest? Please link if you can - despite Gorenfeld’s excellent blog coverage, I hadn’t been aware that the Moon story had been picked up by the mainstream press. ---
**Author:** ![da\_pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ba0ec/32.png) [@da\_pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/da_pope)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2004, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917/27 "2004-06-14T03:48:33Z")
> [@Aldebaran](#): > > I should say that he is not insane at all. > > Everyone who runs behind him is completely insane. > Salaam. A how’s the view from your glass house? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personally-i-welcome-our-new-korean-overlord/249917.md?page=1)