The SPLC and the Charlottesville Hoax
Put bluntly, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the organization that exposes hate groups, is a hate group. And the left-wing trope repeated by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris that Trump said there were good people on both sides after Charlottesville is a hoax.
Both of these things have been laid bare following new revelations that the SPLC has been fomenting hate in order to have more hate for it to fight.
Who, exactly, hasn’t known that the SPLC isn’t a legitimate organization?
How about the Associated Press and other respected news organizations that routinely reference the SPLC as a trusted source in their stories? The AP ought to have been investigating the SPLC. And what did Trump really say after Charlottesville? Hint: it’s not what you’ve been told.
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After all these years, the SPLC is finally getting its comeuppance.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has been enmeshed in controversy for years (often related one of its founders, Morris Dees), is now being accused of funneling millions of dollars to eight or so members of hate groups to act as informants. One non-profit leader said it’s like paying an arsonist to put out a fire.
The Department of Justice has charged the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy for hiding all this from donors. The so-called “field sources” were secretly paid by the SPLC between 2014 and 2023, according to the indictment announced y the FBI and the DOJ. The amount of money spent seems to be around $3 million. The field sources are said to include a Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and a fundraiser for a neo-Nazi group.
The SPLC will obviously mount a defense, but if all this results in this egregious organization being abolished, that would be one cancellation that America could be proud of.
The SPLC has never exposed hate groups in the way it has claimed.
What it has done is claim that groups on the right are hate groups – such as Turning Point USA – but pretty much never did the SPLC go after far-left organizations such as the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Occupy Wall Street and so on. The SPLC has been in lockstep with the Democratic Party, and yet, has been legitimized by mainstream news organizations such as the Associated Press that have constantly used SPLC sources as “experts” in matters of hate groups. The AP and others have some explaining to do.
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The SPLC and the Charlottesville hoax.
According to a report from Fox News [SPLC saw revenue surge after Charlottesville rally as DOJ alleges informant ties], the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, was a huge financial success for the SPLC. Per Fox News:
The Southern Poverty Law Center more than doubled its revenue in the months following the deadly 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally — a surge now drawing renewed scrutiny after a Department of Justice indictment alleged the group paid an informant tied to the event’s organizers.
The rally, on August 11and 12 2017, saw the birth of what is probably the biggest hoax surrounding Donald Trump, as reported in the article:
The 2017 rally, which left one woman dead, became a cultural flashpoint over White nationalism and political violence, driving widespread condemnation and a surge in donations to civil rights groups, including the SPLC. The fallout also shaped the 2020 presidential election, as President Donald Trump’s response — including his remarks about “very fine people” on both sides — was hammered by the left, with former President Joe Biden later citing Charlottesville as a reason he entered the race.
Joe Biden, as you just read used the hoax as a pretext for running for President, and Kamala Harris repeated it in a 2024 presidential debate with Donald Trump.
Video: Harris uses the Charlottesville hoax during a precedential debate.
Even more damning, the FOX News report goes on to say that the SPLC has ties to the rally:
One source, identified as “F-37,” was part of an “online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ event.” “[F-37] attended the event at the direction of the SPLC. F-37 made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC secretly paid F-37 more than $270,000.00.”
If this is true, and the SPLC will likely deny it, it amounts to creation and fomenting of hatred for two reasons: to rake in donations and to smear Donald Trump and the political Right. Remember, the SPLC has been a trusted source for the Associated Press.
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Now more on the Charlottesville Hoax.
Democrats have never let go of the hoax because it works so well for them. The problem is that Trump’s words have been taken out of context to the extent that the Left’s quotes twist the meaning a full 180 degrees.
Video: Trump in full context on Charlottesville, speaking about the statue of Robert E. Lee and condemning neo-Nazis and white nationalists at the 2:00 mark.
Trump was talking about both sides of an argument over removing a statue of Robert E. Lee and the former Lee Park. In the quote, in context, Trump plainly condemned neo-Nazi groups and white supremacists. The Left skips that part, but the video exists and you can hear it for yourself.
Video: Sky News on the Charlottesville Hoax
Three things to hope for following the DOJ/FBI indictments.
Number 1: That the Southern Poverty Law Center is soon kaput.
Number 2: That the Charlottesville Hoax is forever exposed for the lie it is.
Number 3: That the Associated Press and other mainstream media have learned a lesson about who they use as a reliable source.
I’ll take a small victory lap, because I’ve been writing about the SPLC for years, and doing my best as a talk show host to expose what they really are. The irony is that not only did I know this for a long time, but so did every legitimate reporter that may have crossed paths with the SPLC while researching a story.
Even a quick review of their controversies, financial scandals, and their record of only attacking conservative organizations should have been enough for some big-shot newsroom to mount an investigation. AP? CBS News? NBC? ABC? New York Times? Oh, but the Tea Party got investigated. Such is the state of the Mainstream Media in America.
What of it, you ask? Who really cares?
It wasn’t long after Turning Point USA showed up on the SPLC’s “Hate Map” that Charlie Kirk was assassinated. It will be interesting to find out, perhaps at the trial of Tyler Robinson, if he was aware of that.
Video: TPUSA Rep: Charie Kirk Warned That SPLC Calling TPUSA A ‘Hate-Group’ Would Put TPUSA ‘In The Crosshairs’
A “respected” organization that routinely labels good, but conservative organizations as hate groups is a cancer on America. I’d like to see apologies, especially from the AP, and from Biden and Harris and other Democrats who used the Charlottesville Hoax to smear Donald Trump.
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