Stop the presses! ABC News has caught Attorney General Jeff Sessions engaging in some shadowy hateful activity:
AG Sessions delivered speech to an alleged “anti-LGBT hate group,” but the DOJ is refusing to reveal what he said. https://t.co/sWxap65RXG pic.twitter.com/NFfbvZGGbr
— ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2017
The actual headline doesn’t even bother with the “alleged” bit:
So, what is this “hate group”? The Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents Jack Phillips, a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding in 2012. And who decided that the Alliance Defending Freedom is a “hate group”? None other than the fine folks at the Southern Poverty Law Center.
I stopped reading when I got to the words "Southern Poverty Law Center."
— Bill David (@proust1974) July 12, 2017
It is a hate group according to SPLC, not an objective source.
— Colette Verdun (@ColetteVerdun) July 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/ChazK1234/status/885223936501460993
Guess their word is good enough for ABC News.
https://twitter.com/Heminator/status/885270238580809728
Yeah, why not?
Holy shit. The "hate group" is Alliance Defending Freedom? Are you kidding me? https://t.co/edPLyyvJfp
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) July 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/JarvisTheEvil/status/885271080163721220
Hate group?! This is why people don't trust the media. This is as dishonest as you can get.
— Taro Tsujimoto (@RCannon74) July 12, 2017
Unbelievable. What a disgustingly mendacious headline, ABC News. This is what people are sick of. https://t.co/gVb5Nn6C0T
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 12, 2017
The modern-day SPLC has about as much credibility when it comes to fighting “hate groups” as the ACLU has fighting for “civil liberties.” In other words, basically none whatsoever.
https://twitter.com/SantaCarlaDavid/status/885226344765935617
Anti-LGBT & hate group are not necessarily synonymous. The SPLC now calls anyone they disagree with a hate group. They need to be checked.
— Webb (@cobra429jet) July 12, 2017
the Southern Poverty Law Center is an extremely biased group that has been going around recently labeling many non-liberal orgs as hate grps
— Pit Master (@PitWah0995) July 12, 2017
You should update reporting to include the fact that the SPLC is designating all kinds of innocent people as "hate mongers" on risible evid.
— Tim Hirsch (@thewineismine) July 12, 2017
This is *exactly* what I was tweeting about this morning. This is why the @splcenter is "insidious". @Heminator https://t.co/xjfA2nuNFf
— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) July 12, 2017
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Update:
Here's the speech Jeff Sessions gave to the organization of Christian lawyers smeared as a "hate group". It's good. https://t.co/0obNmqIvH8
— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) July 13, 2017
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