Pigs Fly: Washington Post Admits SPLC ‘Undermined Credibility’ with ‘Blunders’

What is amazing is that the Washington Post published this. When even the enemedia is abandoning the SPLC, that organization is in serious trouble, and that is long overdue.

The “work” of the hate group SPLC is to smear, defame and libel anyone who effectively counters the hard-left/Islamic agenda. Veterans, tea party patriots, counter terror activists, even Presidential candidates on the right have been the target of their smear campaigns. They wield enormous power in the information battle space — media, movies, academia, etc.

The subversives and seditionists are very much in control of the mainstream narrative. It’s our elected officials who must take the necessary steps to reverse the coup.

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“Washington Post Admits SPLC ‘Undermined Credibility’ with ‘Blunders,’” by Allum Bokhari, Washington Post, November 8, 2018 (thanks to Todd):

A feature in the Washington Post takes a swipe at the embattled Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of the country’s most well-funded “anti-hate” organizations. The piece highlights the group’s recent “blunders,” including its failed attempt to brand moderate Islam critic Maajid Nawaz and HUD Secretary Ben Carson as “extremists.”

The Post, despite its largely left-wing editorial line, admitted that the SPLC’s reputation has taken a hit in recent years thanks to its overzealous adding of conservative groups to its “hate list”:

For decades, the hate list was a golden seal of disapproval, considered nonpartisan enough to be heeded by government agencies, police departments, corporations and journalists. But in recent years, as the list has swept up an increasing number of conservative activists — mostly in the anti-LGBT, anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim categories — those conservatives have been fighting back. Boykin, of the FRC, recently sent a letter to about 100 media outlets (including The Washington Post) and corporate donors on behalf of four dozen groups and individuals “who have been targeted, defamed, or otherwise harmed” by the SPLC, warning that the hate list is no longer to be trusted. Mathew Staver, chairman of the Christian legal advocacy group Liberty Counsel, told me 60 organizations are interested in suing the SPLC.

There are signs the campaign is having an impact. Last year GuideStar, a widely consulted directory of charitable organizations, flagged 46 charities that were listed by the SPLC as hate groups. Within months, under pressure from critics, GuideStar announced it was removing the flags. The FBI has worked with the SPLC in the past on outreach programs, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions has signaled a very different attitude. At a meeting of the Alliance Defending Freedom in August, Sessions said, “You are not a hate group,” and condemned the SPLC for using the label “to bully and to intimidate groups like yours which fight for religious freedom.”

The Post went on to admit that the SPLC damaged its own reputation with “blunders”:

Along the way, the SPLC undermined its own credibility with a couple of blunders. In 2015, it apologized for listing Ben Carson as an extremist (though not on the hate list), saying the characterization was inaccurate. Then, this past June, the group paid $3.4 million to Muslim activist Maajid Nawaz and his Quilliam organization to settle a threatened lawsuit. The SPLC had listed them in a “Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists” (again, not on the main hate list). The SPLC apologized for misunderstanding Nawaz’s work to counter Islamist extremism.

The rest of the piece, which can be read in full at the Washington Post, takes a deep dive into the SPLC’s allegations of “hatred” and “extremism” against mainstream conservative groups, including the Family Research Center and the Center for Immigration Studies. The Post interviews representatives of both groups, allowing them to present their side of the story.

Despite the length of the piece, the Post fails to mention other egregious blunders from SPLC, such as its decision to brand Somalian-Dutch activist and female genital mutilation survivor Ayaan Hirsi Ali an “anti-Muslim extremist” and “propagandist.” Hirsi Ali, a self-described feminist, subsequently published an article slamming the SPLC in the New York Times. 

The left-wing Post’s concession that the SPLC has been overzealous in its attempts to brand critics of progressive identity politics, Christian groups, and advocates for limited immigration as “hateful” or “extremist” is likely to add to the pressure on businesses and organizations that use the SPLC as a source of advice.

This includes Silicon Valley, where multiple major tech companies work with the SPLC. These include Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Amazon (whose owner, Jeff Bezos, also owns the Washington Post — something the Post discloses in its article)….

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Suresh

5 years ago

Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.

CNN and MSM canonises Mc Cain while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk

Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens

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Liatris Spicata

5 years ago

Along the way, the SPLC undermined its own credibility with a couple of blunders.

I would not say it a matter of “blunders”. A blunder (courtesy Mr Webster) is a “mistake resulting usually from stupidity, ignorance, or carelessness”.

Well stupidity, perhaps, I grant. But I doubt it was ignorance, and certainly not carelessness. It was, and is, intentional on SPLC’s part. They have carefully crafted their message to advance their agenda. Once again, WaPo reveals itself as a disingenuous purveyor of insight and information.

Oh yeah, it also was more than a “couple”.

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Chris Wolf

5 years ago

obama is Patient Zero of the African contagion that is now threatening to take our country down in fissures Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Arizona.
When you voted for obama, fools, you voted for Obola.
Only an African muslim imbued in resentment could successfully pull off the cosmic con that he did when he showed up like little black sambo on the Democrat party debate stage.
Now it’s on to civil war.

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jkarna

5 years ago

It was intentional. SPLC never had credibility.

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Bradley Lexvold

5 years ago

Please somebody post a pig with wings flying!

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AlgorithmicAnalyst

5 years ago

Reply to  Bradley Lexvold

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GonadTheRuffian

5 years ago

George Soros spreads his corrupting influence all over the world, especially the USA, his acknowledged greatest enemy.

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Bob Pegram

5 years ago

The formation of the SPLC was orchestrated by communists for the very purpose of fighting against those who support the U.S. Constitution. It has always been a communist front. That doesn’t mean every person in it was a communist or even knew that part of its background. They used the real problem of racism to foment division and to slander many legitimate effective conservative groups.

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Alleged-Comment

5 years ago

SPLC – Sh*t P ee Laff and Crap.

I think that’s their motto when they start naming YOU as a hate group.

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LeslieFish

5 years ago

High time, too! I notice that the FBI stopped quoting the SPLC as a “reliable source” — and took the link to its URL off the FBI website — over a year ago. Years ago, when I was still doing “peace work”, I noticed that the SPLC was staffed by upper-middleclass devout Marxists — whom I learned to call Parlor Pinks — and that they couldn’t be trusted politically. It’s too bad that it’s taken the rest of the country this long to figure it out.

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Mike Kevins

5 years ago

The SPLC is nothing more than a paid mouthpiece for the progs and dems. The same thing with snopes. Using either to search for the facts is utterly useless.

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