{"id":2598318,"date":"2026-05-03T19:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-covers-for-splc-misdeeds-with-minimal-reporting\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T19:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:47:18","slug":"establishment-media-covers-for-splc-misdeeds-with-minimal-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/establishment-media-covers-for-splc-misdeeds-with-minimal-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Media Covers for SPLC Misdeeds with Minimal Reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Festablishment-media-covers-for-splc-misdeeds-with-minimal-reporting%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=2598318&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 passage argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftist-arrested-for-trump-threats-and-media-barely-covers-it\/\" title=\"Leftist Arrested For Trump Threats And Media Barely Covers It\">mainstream media largely downplayed<\/a> a federal grand jury indictment involving the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). It claims the SPLC was charged in connection with a long-running scheme to bankroll leaders of white supremacist extremist groups through shell companies, supposedly disguised as paying \u201cinformants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The author says many outlets framed the story defensively-emphasizing denials, outrage, or missing details-while paying less attention to the indictment\u2019s central allegations. It cites examples of coverage from outlets such as NBC,USA Today,CNN,The new York Times,NPR,and others,portraying them as either minimizing or inadequately reporting the most damaging points. By contrast, it notes that the Associated Press and some other outlets reportedly handled the matter better, and it says additional reporting by major papers followed later.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes commentary from critics\/observers who contend the SPLC\u2019s actions were deeply tied to extremist-group infiltration and that the association\u2019s \u201chate map\u201d labels are linked (in their view) to violence against conservatives. the passage responds to political defenders of the SPLC (including references to Sen. Chuck Schumer) by disputing their characterization of the case and portraying the indictment as a serious credibility and accountability matter for the SPLC.  <\/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\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The biggest story of last week was one the mainstream media did not want to cover.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-men-indicted-for-hate-crimes-in-death-of-ahmaud-arbery\/\" title=\"Three Men Indicted For ... Crimes In Death Of Ahmaud Arbery\">federal grand jury indicted<\/a> the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 counts related to their decades-long scheme of bankrolling leading figures of white supremacist extremist groups through shell corporations under the guise of paying \u201cinformants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bombshell was certainly newsworthy, but media outlets that self-identify as news organizations treated the damaging revelations about the Left\u2019s favorite attack dog as if they had been asked to pick up its droppings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom following mainstream press coverage,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2026\/04\/the-medias-herculean-effort-to-obscure-the-details-of-the-splc-indictment\/\">described<\/a> National Review\u2019s Becket Adams, \u201cyou\u2019d know mostly that a supposedly noble and esteemed anti-racist group is tied up somehow in Trump administration chicanery.\u201d In its sole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/southern-poverty-law-center-says-targeted-trump-administration-rcna341237\">story<\/a> on the affair, NBC News made sure to inform readers in the subtitle that the SPLC was \u201coutraged by the false allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USA Today, meanwhile, tried to absolve the SPLC of wrongdoing in the headline itself, running articles titled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/04\/22\/splc-indicted-paying-sources-fbi-pays-informants\/89726011007\/\">FBI: SPLC paid informants without donors knowing. Feds pay them too<\/a>,\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/04\/25\/splc-doj-indictment-hate-groups-case\/89733405007\/\">From fighting Klan, neo-Nazis to federal charges: What\u2019s next for SPLC?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container = document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script = document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src = \"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement = document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex = paragraphs.findIndex(p => p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex === -1 || targetIndex < x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer = new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries) => { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry => { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve = findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis defense is insane,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/v7937w6-20260427-d-block-tyler-oneil.html\">countered<\/a> Daily Signal Senior Editor Tyler O\u2019Neil, who literally wrote the book on the SPLC\u2019s misbehavior, on \u201cWashington Watch.\u201d \u201cBy the plain text of the indictment, this is something other than your traditional informant process, and \u2026 the Southern Poverty Law Center is not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-cracks-down-on-businesses-transporting-illegal-aliens-around-the-state\/\" title=\"Florida Cracks Down on Businesses Transporting Illegal Aliens Around the State\">law enforcement entity<\/a>. This is not the same thing as when the FBI has informants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For its part, CNN had no sooner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/21\/politics\/splc-justice-department-criminal-investigation\">mentioned<\/a> the \u201cnearly a dozen counts\u201d in general terms before it hurried on to assure readers that the SPLC \u201cinformant\u201d program was \u201cnow defunct\u201d and that the SPLC had \u201cdenied any wrongdoing,\u201d without noticing the evident dissonance between these defenses. In a follow-up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/23\/politics\/what-to-know-criminal-case-southern-poverty-law-center\">piece<\/a>, it tried to pick apart the indictment, arguing that it \u201coffered few details of how donor money that paid the informants was used to further the groups\u2019 violent interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over at The New York Times, Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/21\/us\/politics\/southern-poverty-law-center-doj-investigation.html\">suggested<\/a> editors were \u201cexperimenting with the idea of a headline that says nothing at all,\u201d after theirs read, \u201cJustice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Crimes.\u201d Said Adams, \u201cOne can\u2019t help but wonder why the paper chose to omit the objectively newsworthy allegation that the anti-hate group bankrolled Klan members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, NPR didn\u2019t even bother to assign their own reporter; they merely <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/21\/g-s1-118275\/southern-poverty-law-center-fraud-charges-paid-informants\">borrowed a story<\/a> from the Associated Press. Axios appeared to ignore the story altogether.<\/p>\n<p>This suggests another side to the story: not every media outlet devoted such careful inattention to the bombshell indictment. The AP\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/southern-poverty-law-center-facing-justice-department-probe\/story?id=132238304\">ABC News<\/a> provided decent reporting, while The Washington Post has now run at least five stories on the controversy. Alas, that such demonstrations of basic journalistic competence merit recognition only serves as further condemnation of those outlets that deliberately missed the plot.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the basic problem with the mainstream media\u2019s coverage is that they obsessed over tangential aspects like who said what, while glossing over the main fact: that the SPLC was paying large sums of money to people who not only infiltrated extremist groups, but were even high-ranking leaders in those groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some cases, they were paying the very same people who they had extremist files on their website on,\u201d protested O\u2019Neil. \u201cThey\u2019re paying the very people that they\u2019re citing as evidence of hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot only did the SPLC cop to paying members of the KKK and the Aryan Nations,\u201d O\u2019Neil continued, \u201cbut the indictment shows that they created shell companies \u2026 lied to banks to conceal those shell companies, and used those shell companies to funnel money to these so-called \u2018informants.\u2019 Then, according to the indictment, they used these informants to essentially prop up hate to convince donors that America was more hateful than it already is, which is the SPLC\u2019s M.O.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you wanted a clearer justification and vindication of\u201d the thesis that \u201cthe SPLC props up hate, exaggerates hate in order to scare donors into ponying up cash, you couldn\u2019t have gotten perhaps a better clear statement,\u201d O\u2019Neil argued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not speak well of the SPLC\u2019s claimed innocence that news organizations have responded to Washington\u2019s claims with the sort of full-court public relations effort that conspicuously ignores or mischaracterizes the most damning allegations,\u201d Adams reflected. \u201cIt suggests a lack of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the lack of confidence is due to the fact that, deep down, even the SPLC\u2019s political allies understand it is most likely rotten within. \u201cThis is a nonprofit that has offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands. This is a nonprofit that unionized and had its union accuse the nonprofit of union-busting. And it\u2019s a nonprofit that had racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandals that led them to fire their own co-founder,\u201d O\u2019Neil listed. \u201cSo, this couldn\u2019t happen to a nicer group of people,\u201d he added, tongue-in-cheek.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Neil granted that \u201csome of the charges are going to be difficult to prove in a court of law.\u201d For instance, \u201ca judge might not look favorably on the government\u2019s way of interpreting how that wire fraud works.\u201d However, he added, \u201cthis made it past a grand jury, so there had to have been at least probable cause.\u201d Adams added, \u201cWhether the charges are overblown or not, it shouldn\u2019t prevent newsrooms from simply reporting the news, but it has been like pulling teeth trying to find the facts of this story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nothing resets the news cycle like an attempted presidential assassination, and the mainstream media is surely grateful for an excuse to forsake what might be their least favorite news story of the year. But the news cycle\u2019s relentless pressure does not absolve the SPLC of wrongdoing, nor can it excuse news organizations for refusing to adequately cover the news at the proper time.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the SPLC remains relevant to the conversation surrounding the presidential assassination attempt. Their determination to label mainstream conservative organizations as \u201chate groups\u201d has incited violence against conservatives. The gunman who attacked Family Research Council in 2012 <a href=\"ttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hgjI3wavx-I\">told investigators<\/a> he was motivated by the SPLC hate map, and the assassination of TPUSA Founder Charlie Kirk occurred shortly after the SPLC added his organization to the hate map.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the circle of those who credit SPLC and those who wish Trump dead has substantial overlap. As just one example, the Wisconsin brewery that promised free beer on the day Trump dies \u201cin a few months\u201d has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MBCBrews\/videos\/extremists-are-coming-for-tomahs-school-district\/678383667879092\/\">invoked<\/a> the SPLC\u2019s hate group labels to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >disparage school board candidates backed<\/a> by Moms for Liberty.<\/p>\n<p>In a sit-down with \u201c60 Minutes\u201d after the latest assassination attempt, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/president-trump-challenges-60-minutes-to-do-expose-on-disgraced-splc-after-revelations-they-funded-charlottesville-kkk\">challenged<\/a> the program, \u201cOne of your \u201860 Minute\u2019 episodes \u2026 should be on Southern [Poverty] Law [Center] and the fact that they spent millions and millions of dollars on absolute far-right, and just bad, bad groups.\u201d They\u2019ll get on that, right after they turn the moon blue.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing that can be said for the media\u2019s skewed coverage of the SPLC\u2019s exposure is that they aren\u2019t the organization\u2019s most shameless defenders. That award goes, as might be expected, to politicians like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear what this case \u2026 is really about,\u201d Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democrats.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/leader-schumer-floor-remarks-on-donald-trump-weaponizing-the-justice-department-to-go-after-the-southern-poverty-law-center\">said<\/a> from the Senate floor. \u201cIt has nothing to do with alleged wire fraud, or with the Southern Poverty Law Center somehow working in coordination with the KKK. That\u2019s ridiculous on its face. It doesn\u2019t pass the laugh test. It\u2019s about Donald Trump turning the Department of Justice into the Department of Vengeance, his own attack dog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schumer is partly right and partly wrong. It is ridiculous for the SPLC to be propping up extremist groups \u2014 and, according to the indictment, true. It doesn\u2019t pass the laugh test, but that\u2019s because it\u2019s far too serious to be a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt actually is the SPLC\u2019s M.O.,\u201d O\u2019Neil responded to Schumer\u2019s bluster. \u201cThey put hundreds of Moms for Liberty chapters on the \u2018hate map\u2019 in order to scare donors, to say, \u2018Oh, look, we\u2019re still in the midst of the Civil Rights movement. Hate is on the march. We have to oppose hate by any means possible. Give your gift today.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is beyond a scandal. It\u2019s a tremendous black mark on the Southern Poverty Law Center,\u201d O\u2019Neil concluded. So \u201cthese Democrats are covering themselves in shame by their response to this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy all means, Chuck Schumer, you can embarrass yourself further,\u201d he warned. \u201cBut I think, for those of us who know what happened in the last four years, for those of us who know how corrupt the Southern Poverty Law Center is, we\u2019re going to remember that you stuck your neck out for them, and you\u2019re going to be hoisted by your own petard when this case continues. 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