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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is one of the Left’s premier, well-heeled, and most ruthless attack dogs. It relentlessly smears legitimate conservative individuals and groups by labeling them as purveyors of “hate” and lumping them in with the likes of the KKK and neo-Nazis. Its name-calling and defamation would be just more of the same bilge that comes daily from the Left were it not for the fact that the social media giants and numerous other major corporations still take the massively discredited SPLC seriously and use its smear pieces as a guide to shun and deplatform various dissenters from the Leftist agenda. So the SPLC sounds like the perfect organization for the Biden administration to work with, right? Oh, absolutely. Biden’s handlers have nominated SPLC litigation director Nancy Abudu for the Eleventh Circuit. On Wednesday, however, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) had a few words for the nominee.
Hawley began by asking when Abudu joined the SPLC. When she told him she had started working for this sinister group in February 2019, Hawley got right to the point:
2019 was the year the SPLC paid 3.4 million dollars in response to defamation lawsuits. 2019 was the year that Charity Watch gave your organization an F rating. The SPLC has been labelled by the left-wing policy journal Current Affairs as an outright fraud that uses willful deception designed to scare liberals into writing checks. The progressive journalist Alexander Cockburn said this about SPLC: “I regard it, the Southern Poverty Law Center, collectively as one of the greatest frauds in American life.” Liberal death penalty abolitionist Stephen Bright refused to accept an award named after the founder of the SPLC, saying in his words, “The SPLC has long been run by a con man and a fraud.” That’s from a Harpers magazine article. Also in 2019, SPLC employees told the press, “We were part of a con and we knew it.” That’s in a New Yorker article, not exactly a right-wing journal. Are you concerned by any of this record of the organization that you worked for?
Abudu began to answer by using a tested Leftist technique: when asked an uncomfortable question, change the subject. “Senator,” she said, “what I’m glad that I didn’t hear in that litany is a complaint about the voting rights work that we’ve done, about the clients in the communities —” Yeah, and Hitler loved his dog. Hawley was having none of this, and brusquely interrupted Abudu to ask: “Are you concerned that Charity Watch gave you an F? That you had to pay 3.4 million dollars in response to defamation lawsuits? That you’ve been criticized – that your organization’s been criticized as a fraud and a con job, and that you work for an organization who says it’s their goal in life to completely destroy their opponents! None of that gives you any pause.”
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PRCS says
CAIR frequently cites SPLC in both its Press Releases and, of course, its grossly inflated ‘everyone’s picking on us’ reports.
john smith says
Both CAIR and SPLC spread the most outrageous lies about J.W. They slam Robert and his team and us commentators. SPLC says, “Spencer is one of America’s most prolific and vociferous anti-muslim propagandists, despite his lack of academic training in islam,” (WHAT). Then it makes reference to him and the Norwegian terrorists Anders Breivik, as if they are both cut from the same cloth. Line, after line, after line what they write, are the most slanderous of lies. If I was ever in the position were I could, I would sue for defamation, but you have to have an awful lot of money for that.
somehistory says
It’s about time someone exposed the fraud and the lies and the smearing of people who point out the lies and the fraud.
It’s too bad none of us here are billionaires; because then we could file a class action to bankrupt this, imo, criminal organization.
somehistory says
Sen. Hawley is also one of the few calling out biden for his ‘ministry of truth’; and he also is after the child porn purveyors.
gravenimage says
WATCH: Josh Hawley Torches Biden’s Radical SPLC Judicial Nominee
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Good for Senator Hawley!
Nancy Abudu is pretty shady. Not just her race baiting claptrap, but also trying to get a transgender felon released because the jail was jumping through enough hoops to accommodate them.