Democrats, leftists rely on disgraced SPLC group to smear Speaker Mike Johnson
Repeats
Palestinian propaganda after terror attack in Israel
By
Peter LaBarbera
Published
October 26, 2023 at 9:17pm
Democrats,
leftists and media opposed to new House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are using
the notorious, far-left group Southern Poverty Law Center
(SPLC) and
its discredited "hate" designation to tar Johnson as being affiliated
with a supposed "hate group," which is actually a leading Christian
conservative legal defense organization.
Johnson
worked as an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom,
formerly the Alliance Defense Fund, which the SPLC has smeared as a "hate
group" – mainly due to ADF's longstanding opposition to homosexuality and
the transgender agenda.
As
Daily Signal reported Thursday, "Leftist groups and one of Johnson’s
Democratic colleagues in the House noted his history as a lawyer with Alliance
Defense Fund, now known as Alliance Defending Freedom. The Southern Poverty Law
Center, which gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into
bankruptcy, has branded ADF a 'hate group,' placing it on a 'hate map'
alongside Klan chapters."
Democrat
Representative Judy Chu, representing California's 28th Congressional District,
blasted Johnson on X Wednesday as he was on his way to being elected Speaker of
the House. Her Oct. 25 X post stated: "MAGA Extremist Mike Johnson is not
fit to lead the House of Representatives. He: - led efforts to overturn 2020
election, helping fuel the January 6 insurrection; - wants to criminalize
abortions nationwide; - worked previously for an @splcenter[SPLC]-identified
hate group." Chu's post was accompanied by a video of Johnson assailing
Roe vs. Wade for leading to the loss of millions of future workers through
abortion-on-demand:
MAGA
Extremist Mike Johnson is not fit to lead the House of Representatives. He: -
led efforts to overturn 2020 election, helping fuel the January 6 insurrection
- wants to criminalize abortions nationwide - worked previously for an
-identified
hate group
The
left-biased Guardian repeated the SPLC "hate" smear in its reporting
on Johnson:
What
do you need to know about Speaker Mike Johnson? He wrote an amicus brief to
throw out 2020 election results, voted to overturn the results of the election,
and worked for Alliance Defending Freedom – designated a hate group by the
SPLC.
SPLC's
tactic of "designating" various conservative organizations as
"hate groups" to advance the Left's political and cultural narratives
has come under withering criticism in recent years as many millions of
Americans who follow conservative media and social media were educated on the
group's radicalism and highly political nature.
(Editor's
note: Years ago, this reporter's organization, Americans For Truth,
which opposes the LGBT agenda, was one of the first pro-family, socially
conservative groups to be mislabeled
a "hate" group by the SPLC. The leftist
group's "reporting" was so slipshod that in 2010 the author of
one SPLC
report mistook this writer for Paul Cameron, another socially
conservative researcher whose first name also begins with "P.")
If
anything, despite the massive blowback in recent years against SPLC's spurious
"hate" designations, the Alabama-based "anti-hate"
organization has only expanded its web of conservative organizations maligned
as "hate groups." For example, in the MSNBC interview below, SPLC CEO
Margaret Huang discusses how the SPLC added "Mom For Liberty," a
national grassroots organization of moms (and dads) opposing leftist
"critical race theory" and pro-LGBT and pro-transgender propaganda
targeting young children in schools as a "hate" group:
Great
to join @DeadlineWH
today for a discussion of @splcenter's
new Year in Hate and Extremism report. We are lifting up how hate has moved
into the local arena, targeting schools and students, doctors' offices,
libraries and other public spaces.
Moms
For Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler dismissed the SPLC labeling it and 11
other groups "anti-government extremist groups": "Outside of it
being a leftist attack, political hit job, there's no credibility behind it.
It's truly laughable," Florida-based Ziegler told USA
Today in June. Ziegler is the chair of the Sarasota School
Board.
USA
Today reported: "In 2018 the SPLC paid $3.38 million and issued public
apologies to Maajid Nawazan, an Islamic activist and the founder of the
Quilliam Foundation, to avoid a defamation lawsuit after the SPLC labeled him
and others as 'anti-Muslim extremists.'"
Predictably,
the dominant corporate media used loaded terms like "ultra
conservative" to describe Johnson, the media watchdog group Media Research
Center reports. In contrast, words like "ultra-liberal" are rarely
used by "mainstream" journalists:
ABC,
CBS, and NBC blasted new Speaker @RepMikeJohnson as a “hardline,” “hard-right,”
“ultra-conservative” who’s “staunchly anti-abortion.”
Left-watcher
Andy Ngo sent out an X post Monday revealing the radicalism of the SPLC's
union, which in its own series of X posts Oct. 18 echoed radical Palestinian
propaganda despite Hamas terrorists' wanton slaughter of Israeli citizens:
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1716615687060246563
Scarlett
Johnson noted that the SPLC Union's post stressed that Palestinian "lives
matter," but made no similar assertion for Israelis' and Jewish lives,
even though theirs had just been savagely brutalized and murdered by Hamas
terrorists in their Oct. 7 slaughter of unsuspecting civilians:
The
union for far-left "hate watch" group SPLC has released a statement
condemning Israel and demanding it surrender to the terrorist groups that
operate in the Palestinian territories. The SPLC under its current leadership
has forged close ties with Antifa & the extreme far-left. One of its
staffers is a domestic terror suspect in Georgia indicted on RICO charges.
Another one last week was revealed to have helped the pro-Palestine insurrection at a
U.S. capitol building.
Connecting
the Dots:
Palestine (Hamas) is
a member of the United Nations.
Donald F. McHenry was
a U.S. ambassador for the United Nations and is an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Joan E. Spero was
a U.S ambassador for economic & social affairs for the United
Nations and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for
the Brookings Institution (think tank) and People for the
American Way.
George Soros was the chairman
for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is the founder &
chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for
the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
Julian Bond is a
director at People for the American Way, a director at the Center
for Economic and Policy Research and a co-founder, director emeritus for
the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
James Rucker is
a director at Southern Poverty Law Center and was a director of
grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org.
George Soros is a contributor
for MoveOn.org.
Resources:
Past Research
Leftist
Shooter Used Southern Poverty Law Center “Hate Map” to Plan Killings (Past Research on the Southern Poverty Law Center)
THURSDAY,
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/02/leftist-shooter-used-southern-poverty.html
Smaller
Bites – Connecting the Dots: Palestine (Hamas), The United Nations & Soros
Funding, All Networking (Past Research on Palestine
(Hamas))
WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 25, 2023
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2023/10/smaller-bites-connecting-dots-palestine.html
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