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nyhuskyfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:16 PM
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How does Ralph Reed still have a public profile?
After his little gambling scandal exposed him as a hypocite.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39448
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:16 PM
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1. How does Bennett?
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nyhuskyfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:17 PM
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2. Reed was "Mr. Morals" though
He was always the Christian Right spokesman during the late 1990's talking about personal ethics.
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:19 PM
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3. Well, Bill Bennett literally wrote the book on it.
Literally. "The Book of Virtues."
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nyhuskyfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:19 PM
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4. True
Very true
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:36 PM
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6. I still don't know how he survived after Time outed his little
enterprise venture with Enron. They found a letter written by Reed offering to get his Christian groupies started in a letter campaign to Congressmen to support de-regulation. I think he was only asking for $25,000.

How does one manage to get caught red-handed, and still be called a Christian moralist? It boggles the mind.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:20 PM
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5. What the fuck is MSNBC doing giving him 10+ minutes during DNC???
I hope Reed dies. He is worse than maggot food. Little goose-stepping motherfucker. What a whore.

Bake
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:42 PM
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7. He's trying to come back out in public after his recent sex scandal
It seems that a bunch of workers in his office quit because he was behind closed doors for hours at a time and having inappropriate dealings with his pretty young secretary, while his wife was at home taking care of the kids.

Do ya think they'll ask him about "the other woman?"

:eyes:
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leftist. Donating Member (740 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 08:47 PM
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8. Because republikans LOVE these guys with sordid lives!
Their hero of morality and virtue is a three-time divorcee who spends his evenings stuffing Oxycontin up his nose. Their Administration boasts more DUIs than the whole of Alabama. And Mark Furman?!?! How in the hell did he climb back to sea level? And he's on the radio!!!

They loved Stacey Koon as well, remember that? When he wasn't out knocking black kids around with his nightstick he was selling books on Rush's show.

Ollie, Liddy, Bennett, Scarborough ... and Laura with her stop signs ...

Kerry should change his campaign slogan to:
"Vote for me, my wife has killed less people."
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 09:02 PM
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9. Ralph Reed helped Enron screw America:
Bush 2000 Adviser Offered To Use Clout to Help Enron
By Joe Stephens
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 17, 2002; Page A01

Just before the last presidential election, Bush campaign adviser Ralph Reed offered to help Enron Corp. deregulate the electricity industry by working his "good friends" in Washington and by mobilizing religious leaders and pro-family groups for the cause

For a $380,000 fee, the conservative political strategist proposed a broad lobbying strategy that included using major campaign contributors, conservative talk shows and nonprofits to press Congress for favorable legislation. Reed said he could place letters from community leaders in the opinion pages of major newspapers, producing clips that Reed would "blast fax" to Capitol Hill.

"We are a loyal member of your team and are prepared to do whatever fits your strategic plan," Reed wrote in an Oct. 23, 2000, memo obtained by The Washington Post.

The memo offers a glimpse into the relationship between Enron and the influential conservative, who was first recommended to the company in 1997 by Karl Rove, now a senior adviser to President Bush. Reed, head of the Atlanta-based consulting firm Century Strategies, is the former executive director of the Christian Coalition and current chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22380-2002Feb16?language=printer




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Chovexani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-28-04 09:03 PM
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10. He looks like a rent boy
For real.

I didn't know he was a high holy roller too. Maybe he hangs out with Bill Bennett?
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