SPLC
The Tablet: SPLC is a ‘Smear Machine’ ‘Influencing Journalists’
Culture
April 27th, 2018 2:16 PM
SPLC is a politically driven organization that maliciously labels those it disagrees with “hate groups.” Whether from laziness or malevolence, journalists continue to parrot the slander, even as the mountain of evidence about SPLC’s real intentions grows.
In The Tablet, Liel Liebovitz is the latest to warn that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), although formerly a institution that targeted…
NYT’s Weisman Sees Anti-Semitism Solely on Right
March 18th, 2018 8:17 PM
The plea from New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman appeared in the Sunday Review: “Missing in the Fight Against Anti-Semitism.” The online headline: “Anti-Semitism Is Rising. Why Aren’t American Jews Speaking Up?” But Weisman focused solely and dubiously on controversial rightists and missed several recent examples of Democrats lining up with Louis Farrakhan. Weisman himself has a tangled…
Alyssa Milano Uses Valentine’s Day to Fundraise For Hateful SPLC
Culture
February 14th, 2018 2:59 PM
Why does Hollywood think that a lefty hate group deserves donations on Valentine’s Day? The leap of logic was promoted by actress Alyssa Milano, who partnered with the organization Love is Louder to fundraise for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Milano tweeted an encouragement to her followers, “Let’s inspire young people to embrace diversity and practice tolerance, respect, and acceptance…
Anti-Conservative SPLC Attacks ACT for America, Bozell
Culture
October 5th, 2017 2:10 PM
The Southern Poverty Law Center is at it again -- spreading hate against people it disagrees with.This time, the SPLC targeted ACT for America during ACT’s seventh annual national conference. The assault triggered a response among liberals eager to prove their fidelity to SPLC’s intolerant agenda of hate. The SPLC attacked ACT as the “largest anti-Muslim organization in the U.S.,” and criticized…
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Public Service? Celebs Worth $11.5B Bash Trump, Right with PSAs
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August 30th, 2017 9:17 AM
Public service announcements are supposed to benefit the public. But when wealthy Hollywood celebrities create them, it’s to push their left-wing agenda -- everything from attacking President Donald Trump to promoting an anti-Christian anti-conservative hate group. The latest PSA features celebrities urging viewers to donate to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It aired on CBS August 26,…
Salon: Obey the SPLC Guidelines to Deter Trump ‘Threat of Genocide’
Culture
August 22nd, 2017 2:17 PM
The term “genocide” conjures images of World War II concentration camps, Soviet Gulags, gulags, the violence and rioting in 1994 Rwanda or the ISIS purging of Syrian and Iraqi Christians. But Salon contributors Max Pensky and Nadia Rubaii believe “genocidal violence can happen in the U.S. It has happened.” So what should individuals do? Look to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for guidance…
Oops: CNN Changed its SPLC Hate Group Story
Culture
August 18th, 2017 10:18 AM
On August 17, CNN published a story with the headline: “Here Are All The Active Hate Groups Where You Live.” Was it a concise list of Nazi groups? No. It was the SPLC “hate map” and the “917 hate groups” that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated as dangerous. The post was just SPLC’s regurgitated map and list, given without comment, context or qualification.
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Crazy 'Hardball' Segment: Guest Defends Antifa as Mostly ‘Peaceful'
August 17th, 2017 5:00 PM
On Wednesday, Antifa was given prominent and positive coverage on MSNBC and not only did it go beyond the pro-Antifa MTP Daily segment but extended to Hardball. Host Chris Matthews featured a guest that gushed over the violent leftists as “diverse” and mostly “peaceful” while another was pathetic unprepared.
Journalism? CNN Promotes SPLC’s Dangerous and Discredited ‘Hate Map’
Culture
August 17th, 2017 1:05 PM
In the aftermath of Charlottesville, when the term “hate group” is used, images of the KKK and neo-nazis immediately come to mind.
However, according to CNN, the real hate groups to watch out for are the conservative organizations, specifically Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Family Research Council (FRC), American Family Association and ACT for America.
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MSNBC Guest: Trump Is ‘An Unvarnished Racist’
August 14th, 2017 6:28 PM
Journalistic integrity took another Monday afternoon on MSNBC, with another casualty in the liberal plot to paint President Trump as a closet neo-Nazi Klansman. Piling in on the liberal media frenzy following Saturday’s sad events at Charlottesville, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing anchored a segment with Trump critic Mark Potok, formerly of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Senator Lankford Tells ABC: Christian ADF is Not A Hate Group
Culture
July 31st, 2017 10:08 AM
When a senator has to weigh in on an issue, it must be serious.
On July 31, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) penned a letter to James Goldston, the president of ABC News, rebuking the network for calling the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) an “anti-LGBTQ hate group.” On July 12, ABC reporters used the phrase again and again when referring to the religious freedom group, citing the Southern Poverty…
The NYT Again Pushes Phony Trend of Hate Crimes in Trump’s America
May 1st, 2017 5:34 PM
The New York Times is rather desperately still trying to make the idea of a recent, election-related surge in hate crimes stick, even after so many infamous “hate crimes” have been exposed as hoaxes in the Trump era. The latest, from reporter Audra D.S. Burch, made the front of the National section of Monday’s Times, covering three-fourths of the page: “Lawmakers Seek Harsher Hate Crime Penalties…
AP Touts Label of Conservative Author as a 'White Supremacist'
March 3rd, 2017 3:26 PM
After longtime conservative author, columnist, and think tank scholar Charles Murray was chased on Thursday from far-left Middlebury College by an angry mob, the Associated Press felt more than comfortable smearing Murray as a supposed “white nationalist.”
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MSNBC Analyst: Anti-Semitism Is Now ‘Mainstream’ Behavior on the Right
February 21st, 2017 9:54 PM
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Hardball, MSNBC political analyst and USA Today senior political reporter Heidi Przybyla brazenly argued that anti-Semitism is becoming “mainstream” on the right after having been only a “fringe, alt-right, white nationalist movement.”