{"id":2268098,"date":"2024-06-14T17:38:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nation-rejoices-as-another-left-wing-smear-factory-suffers-mass-layoffs\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T17:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T21:40:43","slug":"the-nation-rejoices-as-another-left-wing-smear-factory-suffers-mass-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-nation-rejoices-as-another-left-wing-smear-factory-suffers-mass-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nation Celebrates as Left-Wing Media Outlet Faces Major Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-nation-rejoices-as-another-left-wing-smear-factory-suffers-mass-layoffs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2268098&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article\u200b discusses recent layoffs at Media Matters and \u2064the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), both viewed\u200d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-of-taxpayer-funded-antiracist-group-funneled-nearly-300k-to-husbands-law-firm\/\" title=\"President of Taxpayer-Funded Antiracist Group Funneled Nearly 0K to Husband\u2019s Law Firm\">left-wing organizations<\/a>. The reductions are seen as\u2062 damaging to the organizations&#8217; functionality\u2063 and\u200b influence. \u200bThe\u2063 piece articulates skepticism about these groups&#8217; neutrality, highlighting their role in allegedly \u200bsmearing conservatives and \u2063collaborating with federal agencies like the FBI to influence \u200dpublic\u2063 perception and\u2062 policy against right-leaning groups. It criticizes the FBI&#8217;s association \u2062with the SPLC and the ADL, questioning their credibility \u200band accusing them of bias against conservative entities. The layoffs at SPLC in particular are \u2064presented as \u2064a positive development for reducing what the author\u2062 sees as undue leftist influence\u2063 on public discourse and policy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A couple of weeks ago, I covered the large round of layoffs at the Left-wing activist group known as Media Matters. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many conservatives celebrated the news because of course, Media Matters exists for the sole purpose of smearing the opponents of the Democratic Party. They misrepresent people\u2019s words, stalk them on social media, and so on. But Media Matters\u2019 dishonest attack on Elon Musk and Twitter appears to have been a bridge too far. Elon Musk fought back with a massive lawsuit, which Media Matters\u2019 management cited as one reason for the layoffs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For my part, I wasn\u2019t particularly thrilled with Media Matters\u2019 collapse because, as I said at the time, they essentially function as my PR agency. They keep clipping segments from my show and broadcasting them all over the place, apparently thinking they\u2019ve found a \u201cgotcha\u201d moment. But really it\u2019s always something that my own team was going to post online anyway. And they did all of this without taking or even requesting any compensation whatsoever from me. In fact, I never really even thanked them for the pro bono services they\u2019ve provided dependably and frankly obsessively over the years. So Media Matters\u2019 downfall was something of a bittersweet moment for me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fast-forward just a couple of weeks, and yet another Left-wing smear factory appears to be on the decline. This time it\u2019s the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). And this is a collapse I will openly celebrate because the SPLC is a substantially more effective organization than Media Matters could ever hope to be \u2014 more effective at actually advancing Left wing goals. Less effective as a defacto PR agency for us. So the worst of all worlds. If Media Matters is the B-team of Democratic Party hatchetmen, the SPLC is the A-team. And by that I mean, they\u2019re still evil, but they have a lot more influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thankfully, on Thursday, the SPLC announced it\u2019s laying off 60 workers, or roughly a quarter of its staff. The union at the SPLC \u2014 because for some reason a nonprofit has a union \u2014 has said the cuts will have a \u201ccatastrophic impact\u201d on SPLC\u2019s day-to-day operations.They won\u2019t be able to save democracy and fight white supremacy anymore, we\u2019re told.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1387-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is an important story for two reasons. First of all, we\u2019re just five months away from Election Day. Two of the Democrats\u2019 biggest propaganda outfits getting gutted at a pivotal time like this is a really bad sign for the party\u2019s messaging efforts, and a great sign for the country. It also suggests that there might be a lot more internal discord within the party than we realized, which I\u2019ll get into in a second. But the other reason this is an important story is that the SPLC has a direct line to federal law enforcement and Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We know that because the SPLC was one of the sources for the FBI\u2019s memo last year proclaiming that, \u201cradical traditionalist Catholic ideology\u201d has attracted \u201cracially or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-biggest-domestic-terror-threats-in-2021-are-violent-extremists-motivated-by-race-or-anti-authority-views\/\" title=\"FBI Says Biggest Domestic Terror Threats in 2021 Are Violent Extremists Motivated by Race or Anti-Authority Views\">ethnically motivated violent extremists<\/a>.\u201d The FBI warned that these \u201cradical traditionalist\u201d Catholics, or RTCs, can be identified by their, \u201cfrequent adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ, and white supremacist ideology.\u201d The memo concluded by noting that these radical Catholic terrorists, \u201cpresent opportunities for threat mitigation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The FBI\u2019s memo, which was written by the Richmond field office, then went on to directly cite the SPLC: \u201cFollowing are the nine RTC hate groups operating in the United States in 2021 as defined by the Southern Policy Law Center, followed by the location of their organizational headquarters.\u201d The FBI then copy-pasted a webpage from the SPLC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In other words, the SPLC functions a bit like the FBI\u2019s cutout. They produce agenda-driven \u201cthreat assessments\u201d or whatever, and then the FBI \u2014 pretending the SPLC is some sort of impartial arbiter \u2014 cites the SPLC to go after groups that the Democratic Party doesn\u2019t like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When he was asked about this under oath last year, the FBI Director, Christopher Wray, said he was \u201caghast\u201d that the agency had cited the SPLC. He said he immediately had the memo removed from FBI systems. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Christopher Wray says it was just one field office making an innocent little mistake, and that it won\u2019t happen again. But no part of that statement appears to be true. The testimony you just saw was from March of last year. Seven months later, senators Chuck Grassley and James Lankford found that, \u201cFBI Director Christopher Wray has yet to fully own up to the extent of the memo\u2019s origins \u2013 even in congressional testimony. During a September FBI briefing to Senate staff, it was clear the FBI still relies on SPLC information.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So the head of the FBI admits under oath that the SPLC is a garbage source. But the FBI is still apparently citing the SPLC in private briefings with the Senate. This is obviously a major problem \u2014 and it may constitute perjury by the FBI director \u2014 but it\u2019s not really surprising. In an interview a couple of years ago, Wray admitted that the FBI also regularly works with another partisan and totally discredited Left-wing organization, the ADL. Here\u2019s Wray speaking directly with the head of the ADL:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FBI director Christopher Wray admitted on a call with Jonathan Greenblatt that the FBI works directly with the ADL for tips and targeting of those they have labeled \u201canti-semites.\u201d This can be as straight forward as someone criticizing Israel. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UiQBcPwwC6\">pic.twitter.com\/UiQBcPwwC6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Henrik Palmgren \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddea \u16df (@Henrik_Palmgren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Henrik_Palmgren\/status\/1484401987789594626?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt\u2019s the FBI that works directly with the ADL every day,\u201d says the head of the ADL. And the FBI director agrees, saying that the ADL apparently participates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-legal-director-retracts-tweet-criticizing-supreme-court-decision-after-learning-employer-filed-brief-in-support-of-plaintiffs\/\" title=\"ACLU Legal Director Retracts Tweet Criticizing Supreme Court Decision After Learning Employer Filed Brief In Support Of Plaintiffs\">law enforcement investigations<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the same ADL that sent out a memo warning about \u201cextremist\u201d parents at school board meetings who dare to question \u201cCOVID-19 mandates\u201d and \u201cCritical Race Theory.\u201d (You might remember that Merrick Garland\u2019s DOJ then began investigating these school board meetings, coincidentally enough). This is the same ADL that published a definition on its website saying that it\u2019s impossible to be racist against white people. According to a definition that was on the ADL\u2019s website for several years, racism means, \u201cthe marginalization and\/or oppression of people of color.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I could give many more examples, including the ADL\u2019s political targeting of Elon Musk on behalf of the Democratic Party, or their various calls to censor conservative commentators and their lies about the so<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-washington-posts-jonathan-capehart-insists-its-ok-for-black-people-to-be-scared-of-crazy-white-people\/\" title=\"The Washington Post\u2019s Jonathan Capehart Insists It\u2019s OK For Black People To Be Scared Of \u2018Crazy White People\u2019\">-called \u201cgreat replacement theory<\/a>.\u201d The point is that this is not an organization that a nonpartisan FBI would ever dream of working with. But we don\u2019t have a nonpartisan FBI, so instead, the FBI director is openly bragging about working directly with Left-wing activists. He only apologizes when he\u2019s caught. And then he goes right back to doing the same thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Decades ago, back in the 70s, you could make a plausible case that the FBI should be working with groups like the SPLC. They were founded initially, supposedly, to fight various forms of discrimination in court \u2014 with the goal of alleviating the root causes of Southern poverty, particularly in the black community. But about a decade in, the SPLC decided to give up the idea of solving southern poverty \u2014 which as you may have noticed, is still quite pervasive. And instead, the SPLC morphed into a smear factory. They\u2019ve gone after pretty much everyone with a position on abortion or immigration or Islamic extremism that they disagree with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the allegedly radical and hateful groups identified by the SPLC include such well-known domestic terror organizations as The Federalist Society, PragerU, the Heritage Foundation, the Center for Immigration Studies, the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, and the Family Research Council (which an SPLC follower targeted in an attempted mass murder back in 2012). These are all mainstream conservative organizations, as you probably know. But that didn\u2019t faze the SPLC. They\u2019ve also targeted people like Ben Carson, Dennis Prager, and Franklin Graham. Ben Carson, for example, appeared on the SPLC\u2019s hate list because he holds the radical, unthinkable view that marriage is between one man and one woman \u2014 you know, that tenet of Christianity that\u2019s also been a universal view for pretty much all of human history. (They later halfheartedly apologized for the hit on Carson, saying their smear job labeling him as an \u201cextremist\u201d didn\u2019t meet their nonexistent \u201cstandards\u201d). Not surprisingly, the SPLC also has a page on their website dedicated to exposing and cataloging the crimes of the dangerous extremist whose show you\u2019re watching right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But all those attacks pale in comparison to SPLC\u2019s efforts to defame Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Maajid Nawaz. They appeared in the SPLC\u2019s \u201cField Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists\u201d for the crime of denouncing violent Islamic extremism. Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of the leading human rights activists alive, and she suffered female genital mutilation at the hands of actual extremists, but according to the SPLC, she has no right to criticize Islamic extremism. These claims were so absurd that the SPLC pulled its \u201cfield guide\u201d on extremism entirely. They also publicly apologized for calling Nawaz an extremist and paid several million dollars in a settlement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Again, this is the group that the FBI apparently still relies on for investigative information. That\u2019s why we should all celebrate the fact that the SPLC has been gutted. It may mean fewer coordinated Left-wing assaults on pro-life organizations and pro-life activists, for one thing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, like Media Matters, or any other form of highly invasive and malignant cancer, the SPLC probably will not go away entirely. It\u2019s not shutting down, at least not right now. And they don\u2019t appear to be having financial issues either, since they\u2019re historically very well-funded \u2014 and they reportedly still receive donations from liberals who think defaming innocent people is some kind of public service. That\u2019s according to the SPLC\u2019s union, which tweeted yesterday:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today, [SPLC] \u2013 an organization with nearly a billion dollars in reserves, given an F rating by CharityWatch for \u2018hoarding\u2019 donations \u2013 gutted its staff by a quarter. SPLC\u2019s decision has a catastrophic impact on the organization\u2019s work in support of immigrants seeking justice and its mission to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jemele-hill-triggered-claims-enes-kanter-freedom-letting-himself-be-used-by-the-far-right\/\" title=\"Jemele Hill Triggered: Claims Enes Kanter Freedom Letting Himself be 'Used' by the 'Far Right'\">advance human rights<\/a> through support of educators.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So there\u2019s a bit of infighting going on at the SPLC. And that post does raise an interesting question: If it\u2019s true that the SPLC is financially sound, why are they firing a bunch of employees? Over at Hot Air, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2024\/06\/13\/lots-of-layoffs-at-the-splc-n3790189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Storm theorizes<\/a> that SPLC is laying off the far-Left fringe of its workforce because they\u2019ve become unruly. That would explain why the SPLC\u2019s union is lashing out at the SPLC right now on Twitter: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the Democrats rely more on radical activists,\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Storm writes,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  \u201cthey can lose control of the messaging and direction. Younger folks who are now getting hired genuinely believe the world is on fire, that White Supremacy is on the rise, that settler colonialists are oppressing the natives, and that the borders must be open. The people at the top generally use the issues to collect money to help Democrats and slander Republicans. Suddenly they are facing revolts. I suspect that is part of what is at work here. The SPLC isn\u2019t going broke, so it\u2019s likely that they are dumping the most troublesome employees under the guise of a restructuring.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If that\u2019s the case, then unfortunately, SPLC will probably stick around. But at least, like Media Matters, they\u2019ll have to orchestrate their smears from now on with a lot less manpower. That means I\u2019ll have fewer unpaid PR representatives going forward, spreading clips of my best moments all over the Internet. And yes, that\u2019s a bummer, for me at least. But it also means that, without the SPLC running at full capacity, Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ will have a harder time cooking up fake justifications to harass their political enemies. And with just a few months to go until the election, that\u2019s unquestionably a big win for the \u201cdemocracy\u201d that Media Matters and the SPLC pretend to care so much about.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I reported on significant layoffs at Media Matters, a left-wing activist organization. Many conservatives rejoiced, viewing the group as dedicated to disparaging Democratic Party critics. 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