Thursday, September 27, 2012
Ralph Reed rears his ugly head again
Ralph Reed, one of the slickest religious hustlers we have ever seen, was last seen humping clients for soon to be convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. After disappearing to let the heat die down, God's Own Bagman is back and hitting the feebleminded ones on his calling list with a load of lies.
Intent on making good on his post-2008 election promise [3] to "never get out-hustled on the ground again," Ralph Reed, who leads the right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition, this week unveiled the organization's ostensibly "non-partisan" presidential election voter guide, which will be inserted into church bulletins throughout the nine battleground states in which the November election will be won or lost.That's our Ralphie, still humping the rubes. And he has never yet met a false witness he couldn't bear.
In his Christian education, though, apparently Reed never learned that it's a sin to tell a lie. His voter guide contains three big ones, in its characterizations of President Barack Obama's positions on Medicare, environmental regulation and abortion.
Reed's voter guides resemble the handbills distributed by the Christian Coalition in the 1990s, at that time delivered by that quaint operation known as the U.S. Postal Service, when Reed ran the organization for the Rev. Pat Robertson.
While the Faith and Freedom Coalition says it will mail 2 million of the hard-copy version to churches and social conservative voters, it's also invested in high-tech methods of delivery, services provided by a subsidiary of Reed's own for-profit consulting firm [4], Century Strategies. (When I reported on the relationship between Reed's non-profit Faith and Freedom Coalition and Century Strategies, Reed did not return my phone calls requesting information on whether or not he was personally profiting from the arrangement.)
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