Saturday, April 12, 2003

Moonie Times hed:

Chinese Mata Hari ensnares ex-FBI men

This may be a record for the Father's Paper, at least outside a Bill Sammon article.

In a mere six words, the Times manages not only to be racist and sexist but also to get three important facts wrong. Leung is a naturalized American citizen of Chinese descent, not "Chinese." (Identifying Leung as Chinese is as accurate as identifying Reverend Moon as "an American criminal" just because he served time in a U.S. prison.) And the gentlemen in question were not "ex-FBI men" at the time of their alleged sexual involvement with Leung. And, of course, there is no evidence or allegations that Leung "ensnared" either man into anything.

Inexplicably, the normally-thorough Times failed to mention Leung's extensive ties to the Republican Party, her work as a Republican fund-raiser or her ties with Bush-endorsed candidates Bill Simon and Dick Riordan.

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