Sunday, May 02, 2004

Coinkydinks

Reader e did a bit of follow-up on some of the people interviewed by NPR's Hagerty regarding Kerry's Catholicism. As you may remember, she interviewed 4 people coming out of an 8:00 am mass - a mass which only could have happened Monday-Saturday according to the Church's public schedule. Only one of those people had their occupations identified - a "union official" (commie Democrat).

What about the other 3? Well, this reader discovered nothing on one of them, but what of the other two? First we had Ted Flynn. Could it be this Ted Flynn? Ted Flynn who has written yet another version of Pat Robertson "New World Order" book, which itself was itself lifted wholesale (and then sanitized) from standard anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.

And, then, she also interviewed Carrie Gress, who likely is the woman who is the program studies manager at the Catholic Studies Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, which is yet another Scaife/Bradley funded right wing lunatic tank. You'd think her occupation, at least, would have been relevant.


..Reader patience adds in comments:


I decided to try to figure out who "Philip Monos" was; according to Google there doesn't appear to be any such person. So I went back and listened to Haggerty's broadcast piece to see if there was a mistranscription of the name. Well, yes...I believe it is actually Phillip Munoz (she gave it the Spanish pronunciation). This helps. Back to Google.

Could this individual in fact be Vincent Phillip Munoz, as in "Vincent Phillip Muñoz is a Civitas Fellow of Religion & Public Life at the American Enterprise Institute and an assistant professor of political science at North Carolina State University" and who wrote this piece for the National Review in March?


...according to readers, Munoz and Gress at least are the people we've identified.

...Flynn confirmed as well. trifecta!