Ralph Reed: God Spoke Through Sean Hannity In Telling Me To Get Back Into Politics

Since 2006, when news of his involvement in the Jack Abramoff scandal broke, political activist (and onetime candidate for Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor) Ralph Reed has stayed out of the spotlight. But now, that’s changing—thanks to a bit of divine intervention facilitated by Fox News veteran Sean Hannity.

Reed, the former executive of an evangelical mobilization machine called the Christian Coalition, recently founded a similar organization: the Faith and Freedom Coalition. And as Bradford Plumer at The New Republic reports, the FCC’s founding was catalyzed by a heavenly message.

Reed recalled on September 11 of this year how a phone call from buddy Sean Hannity convinced him to get back into the political game. Hannity, though, wasn’t speaking for himself:

As Reed tells his audience at the Mayflower, a phone call from Sean Hannity persuaded him. “I wanted to know that this was not me,” Reed says, “that this was not any ambition of mine. I wanted to know that this was the Lord.” Reed breaks into a sly grin as he recounts Hannity’s response: “Ralph, God is speaking through this phone line right now, and he’s using me to deliver the message.”

Well, that settles it, then.

The post goes on to point out how Reed has garnered support from a rather broad group of right-of-center personalities, politicians and leaders including Tucker Carlson, Gary Bauer and Karl Rove. Read the entire piece at tnr.com.

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