Klett seems to definitely include Fakkert in the Falun Gong group. D'Souza and Carlson don't seem to have anything to do with the newsroom and I don't have descriptions of how decisions are made on the TV side. (I recall D'Souza identifying as an ex-Catholic non-denominational Christian in the past.)
- Roger SImon states openly that he is a practitioner of Falun Gong:
- Joshua Philipp doesn't speak of his religious practice openly but there are some strong indicators:
- He writes ad copy for Falun Gong: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-connection-between-shen-yun-falun-gong-joshua-philipp/
- His wife, Channaly, who is also a senior editor at Epoch TImes, openly practices Falun Dafa. Philipp brags that he'd only known Channaly for two weeks before they got married- which is consistent with Falun Gong's practice of arranged marriages.
- He is co-founder of the Society of Classical Poets (Master Li despises all modern forms of art and instructs his followers to adhere to classical forms of poetry, music, visual arts, etc) and judges the annual Falun Gong poetry contest. Recent poems published on the Society of Classical Poets website are remarkably political diatribes: "A Poem on California’s Proposition One " "A Poem on the End of Transgender Surgery on Minors at Vanderbilt" "A Poem on the Busing of Illegal Immigrants" In spite of claiming classical origins, the poetry printed here is remarkably fee of rhyme, meter, or literary devices. Mostly it is just repeating recent opinions expressed by Tucker Carlson in the guise of something else, much like Epoch Times.
- Here is poem Philipp wrote in 2017:
Unshaken Faith
Forward
Alliterative verse dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced persecution in China since July 20, 1999
The ground was broken, crusty, cracked
for miles and miles, and ever on,
and in the distance, black clouds called
out death and doom, from Hell they hailed.
The beast arose, its face like flame
its arms around, the far horizons;
its wake a storm, of dark domain.
A single knight, did solely stand
gold armor gleaming, Heaven’s mark
on steed he sat, that like its master
mute, unmoved, on the battle plain.
With courage cool, the knight looked on
right through the dark, to further fields,
his brave heart rose, to brim on madness,
yet tranquilly, they stood there still.
Then dashing on, he steered his steed,
two forces flying, ‘cross the land
no weapon wielded, in his hands,
yet faith held fast, its glory true,
The silence boomed, midst gallop n’ gale,
in each their eyes, the polar flames
when just a breath, before colliding
from heaven’s heights, shone brightest light
right through the demon, dark dissolved,
the knight rode on, through patched domain
where demons falling, turned to rain.
Hmmm.. . writing poetry on a Falun Gong website about the unshakable faith of Falun Gong practitioners certainly sounds like an adherent to me.