Before you spread the false news that the SPLC named the GOP a hate group...

[MohRokTah]

you should probably read what the SPLC actually said:

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/02/17/splcs-intelligence-report-amid-year-lethal-violence-extremist-groups-expanded-ranks-2015

Nowhere on the SPLC site does it list the Republican Party as a hate group. They simply note how the hate groups are feeding into the GOP and the GOP is responding by feeding into the hate groups.

The GOP was NOT named as one of the listed hate groups, though.

[2naSalit]

1. Thanks for the clarification

I knew it was too good to be true.

[MohRokTah]

2. Yep, Thom Hartmann sure showed himself to be a fool today.

Be careful what you jump on. Occupy Democrat screwed the pooch and just made shit up. Thom Hartmann didn't bother to go to the original source and only reported what Occupy Democrat said.

[2naSalit]

3. Aha!!

I'd rather just have the straight story. Didn't catch the Thom Hartman thing though.

[Gothmog]

4. You are correct-the SPLC did not call the GOP a hate group

[Sinistrous]

5. Concede the point.

Being an accessory to the hate and violence of the identified hate groups is not exactly the same as being a hate group. But it puts the GOP in the same pile of filth.

[Major Nikon]

6. You don't have to be a bigot to be a Republican

...but it's a great start.

[UTUSN]

7. R#6 for accuracy & fairness, but it was close enough for me to take pleasure

And when I spread it among my local wingnuts, I was careful to use the original SPLC quotations, not the misleadingly titled article. It still pissed them off!1

[MohRokTah]

8. I posted it on Facebook.

My headline was SPLC Stops Short of Naming GOP a Hate Group.

Then I posted a link directly to the article on the SPLC web site.

[Rex]

9. Well we already know they are a hate group, so it doesn't really matter.

[MohRokTah]

10. Kicking this because aother DUer got taken in by the False News from occupydemocrat eom

[killbotfactory]

11. if the shoe fits... nt

[Wounded Bear]

12. Makes more sense...

Not that the GOP isn't a hate group. AFAIC it is, but no organization like the SPLC could get away with calling it that in the open.