Over at Body and Soul there’s an interesting piece about the background to Cardinal Schönborn’s recent op-ed in the NYT “clarifying” the Roman Catholic position on evolution. Not only does it seem that the red-hatted one was working from an outline prepared by the creationist Discovery Institute, but: “The cardinal’s essay was submitted to The Times by a Virginia public relations firm, Creative Response Concepts, which also represents the Discovery Institute.”
Now why would the former Count Christoph Maria Michael Hugo Damian Peter Adalbert von Schönborn require the services of a PR firm in Virginia?
(Via Suburban Guerilla.)
UPDATE: It turns out that Creative Response Concepts has an interesting notorious history. They became (in)famous as the PR firm responsible for packaging the Swift Boat Veterans’ libel The principals include Greg Mueller and Mike Russell, formerly communications directors for Pat Buchanan and Pat Robertson respectively. They’ve been caught out trying to feed stories into the blogosphere as part of their PR work on behalf of various right-wing groups, to the extent that they actually had to (vaguely) apologize for it.