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Ralph Reed's Dodgy "Voter Guide" Hitting 13 Million Cell Phones

Adele Stan, one of our favorite right-wing watchers, has a new story about Ralph Reed’s latest piece of agitprop, coming soon to a conservative relative’s cell phone:

Intent on making good on his post-2008 election promise 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.

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. [AlterNet]

Reed’s voter guide claims that Obama favors Medicare cuts, a non-existent “cap-and-tax” policy, and government-funded abortions. It’s never too early to start rehearsing your talking points for Thanksgiving dinner, so get over there and check out the goods on Ralph’s voter guide