Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Des Moines GOP official rolls out anti-Gorenfeld site

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8/17/2005

Des Moines GOP official rolls out anti-Gorenfeld site

Don't miss the new Web site about me, Gorenfeld.com. It's a cybersquatting endeavour by Des Moines GOP official David Payer, who is in a tizzy over my reporting on Republican donor Reverend Moon, and subsequent outing of Payer himself as a sneak who sought to hide his squat behind Domains By Proxy. In this fight he isn't afraid to use weapons like poorly-coded HTML 1.0 frames and sentences like "his attitude was said to be quite different" if he has to. Stop writing about secret taxpayer-funded rituals (Washington Post) or the English language gets it.

Credit him with installing some ambitious DailyKos-style community software (sign up!) -- once it gets going, and he masters "MySQL for Dummies," you'll even be able to upload pictures of me.

Quoting an anonymous Des Moines GOP official, Payer asserts that he has the party's backing in erecting this site defending the Reverend Moon coronation on Capitol Hill -- in which Senator John Warner (R-Virginia) said he was "deceived" -- with this act of domain theft.

Most hilariously, Payer seizes on my link to J-school buddy Patrick Runkle (who ran Payer's name through a corporate database and fleshed out his ties to the Moon org) to reveal what he imagines to be a dark agenda. He even took the time for a screen grab indirectly implicating the U.S.S. Enterprise's chief engineer in the web of bias.

The horrifying implication: I am more interested in writing about the workings of the Republican Party than Mr. Payer's personal beliefs.

Fellow blogger Len also comes in for some heavy fire for speaking ill of former Christian Coalition boss Ralph Reed.

As Gorenfeld sites go, I actually prefer Johnny Goes To War, an essay accusing my blog of achieving "notority status." (But GorenfeldWatch, run by a high school friend, hasn't been updated in a while.)

P.S. This part is good too.

"John has associated himself with many interesting people. Larry Zillox is in fact a private investigator who is associated with the former "Cult Awareness Network." He specialized in forcable [sic] kidnappings to coerce people into denouncing their faith. Talk about RED FLAGS!! [actual red flag here] John, you are known by the company you keep.

So where does that put the Des Moines GOP then? I trust Larry Zilliox because the Washington Post does.

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"John Gorenfeld: The first man on the Moon"
-- Ana Marie Cox ("Wonkette," Time.com Washington editor)

"Thanks to the superb reporting of John Gorenfeld on Salon.com and his indispensable Web page, Moon's shenanigans are routinely scrutinized. Maybe some of Gorenfeld's discernment will rub off on preachers and politicians."
-- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist

"The scene summoned the moment in Robert Graves's "I, Claudius" when Emperor Caligula declares himself a god in the Roman Senate; a fawning solon instantly offers a prayer."
-- New York Times editorial on the Crown of Peace scandal

"I am happy that our work is being challenged and improved in consistency, openness and coordination, by the accountability your spotlight demands. I am not talking about simply removing stuff from websites..."
-- Moon spokesman the Rev. Phil Schanker

"Instead of welcoming Reverend Moon, this government put me into prison. History will reveal the truth in the future and the American government and people will realize what an evil thing they did. What will they do then? They will bow down. Again, that is the way of natural subjugation." -- Moon in 1987

"A political movement basing its appeal on old fashioned patriotism and family values simply cannot justify an alliance with a cult that preys on the disintegration of the American family and advocates allegiance to an international social order operating with cell-like secrecy."
-- Rep. Jim Leach (R-IA)