A House Judiciary Committee hearing focusing on the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center and recent allegations over funding much of the last vestiges of groups designated as ‘white supremacist’ organizations took a shocking turn as the interim president and CEO refused to denounce labeling Charlie Kirk as a ‘hate leader.’
For context, current leader of the corrupt SPLC Bryan Fair was sitting in front of Congress where he was hopelessly outmatched as Republican leaders took turn after turn exposing his rotten agenda and vile actions. The Trump Department of Justice recently secured an 11-count indictment from an Alabama Grand Jury after a federal investigation found millions of dollars in total being funneled to leaders and groups of the very organizations the SPLC claimed to be fighting.
Among the findings was that much of the 2017 Charlottesville protest was bought and paid for by leftist money in order to elevate the counterprotest. Readers will recall that Joe Biden launched his 2020 presidential campaign on both the lie that Donald Trump had called certain groups ‘fine people’ as well as the lie that racism was very much alive in America. As it turns out, it is alive because leftists need it to be alive and will pay for it to do so.
And so it went in the hearing that Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA) took his five minutes with the aforementioned Fair and gave him a chance to recant his organization’s previous declaration that the late Charlie Kirk, gunned down allegedly by a brainwashed kid, was on their ‘hate list.’ Fair refused, and Rep. Issa laid into him for it.
“WOW,” the social media account for the GOP Judiciary Committee wrote. “THE SPLC CEO REFUSES TO APOLOGIZE FOR LABELING ALEVDA KING AND CHARLIE KIRK AS HATE LEADERS! SHAMEFUL.”
“Mr. Fair, I don’t want you to be left out of this conversation. Your organization has labeled Dr. King and Charlie Kirk and others. Do you regret that? Will you recant it or are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk, in fact, somehow deserve to be on your hate list, for they’re constantly talking about bringing people together, talking about the teachings of the Bible, and the like,” the California representative began.
Ignoring Fair’s weak protest, he continued: “Now wait a second, no, no, I heard your statement, I only want an answer to your question in the 11 seconds left. Are you going to recant, yes or no? And if you’re not going to, please don’t tell me it’s because now you’re under charges. Your organization did it as much as 16 years ago. Will you take back any part of that, or is your hate list stand as your position of your organization, as its head today, the SPLC will continue to expose hate and extremism,” he finished.
Watch that enlightening exchange below:
The exchange was similar to that of Texas representative Chip Roy, who also had a turn with Fair. In their back and forth, Roy exposed the SPLC for labeling Christian and right-wing groups as extremists and haters for their anti-LGBT positions, but not Islamic groups, that likewise on a religious level equally oppose the movement.
“How many extremist Islamic groups do you have? Of the 1500 or so organizations you have on your hate map?” Roy directly asked, immediately getting a deflection that he could find the answer on the group’s website. However, Roy countered that he had indeed already checked the website and couldn’t find a single example of a Muslim group being labeled despite religiously-held disdain for the LGBT community.
Continuing, Roy asked: “You think SPLC could provide us a list of the Islamic-oriented groups do you have on your hate map?” After being assured that the SPLC doesn’t ‘target any group because of its religion,” and that the SPLC only “target[s] groups because they express statements and engage in activities that demean and villain,” Roy came in with the knock-out punch.
“You brought up LGBTQ groups a minute ago, right? So, you brought up LGBT groups a minute ago. So, you think there’s a bunch of Islamic groups that are pro-LGBTQ? Is that the position of the SPLC? I just want to make sure the record is reflecting that,” he said in the mic-drop moment.
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