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THE WORST SMEAR SITE IN AMERICA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Southern Poverty Law Center smears patriots and provides cover for the nation’s enemies.<\/h3>\n
June 29, 2016<\/div>\n
Matthew Vadum<\/a><\/div>\n
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The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic terrorists.<\/p>\n

The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement.<\/p>\n

The SPLC is a shamelessly hypocritical leftist attack machine funded<\/a> by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue\u2019s gallery of rich people and established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America. The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has an astounding one third of a billion dollars<\/a> ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there).<\/p>\n

The Center characterizes<\/a> all opposition to immigration and open borders as symptomatic of hate and all political expression of those views to be hate speech. In other words, if you disagree with founder Morris Dees and his minions you are evil and worthy of public condemnation. It may take some intellectual toughness to insist that the nation has the right to decide who may or may not cross its borders, but it’s not hate.<\/p>\n

Following the Islamist massacre at a gay club in Orlando a fortnight ago, the group has played an integral role in the Left’s propaganda push aimed at taking the focus away from gay-hating Islam and finding creative ways to blame conservatives and Republicans for the slaughter.<\/p>\n

Two days after Orlando as a sea of rainbow flags rivaling those that washed over Facebook and Twitter following the Supreme Court\u2019s pro-same sex marriage ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em> swept over social media, David Dinielli, deputy legal director of SPLC\u2019s LGBT Rights Project, tossed out a red herring as he whined amidst a national outpouring of grief that somehow politicians weren\u2019t doing enough to characterize the attack as an assault on the gay community.<\/p>\n

Instead of blaming Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen, reportedly a registered Democrat, for the attack, Dinielli blamed people like Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) instead. Many politicians were secretly delighted so many gays were killed, he implied.<\/p>\n

\u201c[M]any who offered their \u2018thoughts and prayers\u2019 know exactly what they are doing. They are trading on political expediency. The demonization of gay, lesbian, and transgender Americans pays, politically.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But this \u201cdemonization\u201d of the LGBT community that the Southern Poverty Law Center complains of is pure paranoid fantasy. Anyone who followed media coverage in the days following the June 12 incident knows that cable TV and other media were filled with wall-to-wall denunciations of the Muslim terrorist Omar Mateen by politicians who acknowledged the sexual orientation of the victims whether explicitly or implicitly. Even those not generally sympathetic to gay rights made it clear that murder, including the murder of people based on their sexual preference, was morally abhorrent.<\/p>\n

None of this is surprising to those of us who have been tracking the SPLC\u2019s adventures in vilification and defamation over the years.<\/p>\n

The SPLC is waging a scorched-earth war against Donald Trump. The group routinely and baselessly associates Trump with neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and other marginal political actors it calls \u201cthe racist right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing out that these fringe figures back Trump in the election is the most obvious kind of smear. The Left did the same thing to Ronald Reagan in 1984 when the Ku Klux Klan offered him its unwanted endorsement.<\/p>\n

Reagan waited a full two weeks<\/a> to denounce the KKK and reject its endorsement.<\/p>\n

But Trump waited barely a day after a bungled CNN interview Feb. 28 in which Jake Tapper asked him if he would reject the Klan\u2019s endorsement of him.<\/p>\n

Trump gave a less than clear answer to Tapper, blaming a \u201cbad earpiece\u201d that led him to misunderstand the question. The very next day Trump asked \u201cHow many times do I have to continue to disavow people?\u201d andattacked the KKK<\/a> on Michael Savage\u2019s radio show. Replying to a question, he said \u201cyeah, totally denounce, and I disavowed it, and I\u2019ve disavowed it numerous times, and I\u2019ve disavowed it on Twitter and on Facebook and all over the place but people refuse to accept it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SPLC’s annual report on “hate” in America this year features<\/a> a cover picture of Trump, a man the group blames for increasing hate in the U.S.<\/p>\n

According to the left-wing Guardian<\/em> (UK), “the image underscores a theme laid out by the report\u2019s author, about how hate speech has invaded mainstream political discourse in a way that might have shocked many even a year ago.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been writing these Year in Hate and Extremism essays for 20 years now, and only very rarely, if at all, have we seen a year like last year,\u201d said SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok.<\/p>\n

Hate, of course, isn’t exactly a precise concept in the world of politics and ideology, and the SPLC likes it that way because then it has wide latitude to malign and slander its targets. Its leaders are no doubt proud that Pentagon training materials borrow from SPLC reports and refer to extremists as “haters,” a colloquialism that appears in hip hop music and in humorous graphic art posted on the Internet.<\/p>\n

Trump is definitely a hater, according to the Center. On April 4 its blog cited his \u201ccontinued embrace of racist and extremist ideas\u201d and accused him of turning \u201cthe political landscape on its side and introduced countless numbers to hate speech and racist conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all spin and lies. The SPLC is still bellyaching over the courageous, electrifying anti-illegal immigration speech Trump gave last summer when launching his campaign. In it Trump said many of the Mexicans crossing illegally into the U.S. are \u201cpeople that have lots of problems\u201d who bring drugs and crime with them and that some are \u201crapists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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