Fox News Shep Smith has SPLC on his show-connects dots to DHS report 'the right went bonkers over'

[underpants]

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At the end Smith "all the best to you and yours at that terrific organization. Keep us updated"

The SPLC on FOX NEWS!?!?!?

See this too. The first half in which Shep Smith points out that the Dept. of Homeland Security report making the obvious warning (in a footnote) about rightwing groups trying to recruit ex-military people "they were warning us for a reason. Not about something political or social or anything else except they see signs of this sort of thing bubbling up and now it has begun"

:wow:

Fox News’ Shep Smith: DHS Report Was A ‘Warning To Us All,’ But ‘The Right Went Absolutely Bonkers’
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/10/fox-news-shep-smith-dhs-report-was-a-warning-to-us-all-but-the-right-went-absolutely-bonkers/
4:10 VIDEO at the link

[zbdent]

1. "Von Brunn served on PT boat in World War II"?

maybe this all stems from him not being able to go to see his Mecca ... Auschwitz ...

[wryter2000]

2. Gotta make out my check

My contributions are sitting in a pile waiting until I had money to send them in. Time to do it.

[morffin]

3. Shep seems top be the only OAP at Fox with a soul

He has his moments .. he was great during katrina as well.

[DAMANgoldberg]

4. Shep's contract must be coming up...

Could it be that he would bolt to CNN? He has been going off-script as far as Fox is concerned.

[Tx4obama]

9. I would like to see Shep go to MSNBC n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

5. and the right wingers will turn on Shep too - as they marginalize their views further

no reason in their thinking - just 'my way or the highway' plain and simple

[burning rain]

6. Cor blimey.

The FReepistanis already disliked Shep -- I bet seeing him on with the SPLC caused some strokes.

[underpants]

7. Shep sticking it out in New Orleans was part of the beginning of the end for the Repubs.

if he hadn't stuck it out Fox News viewers would have probably never know what was happening in N.O.

[Critters2]

8. Shep Smith just never seems to get the memos over at Fox, does he?

He's amazing.

[Number23]

10. This definitely deserves a kick and rec. People need to see what the TRUE

enemies of America look like and are doing.

[progressoid]

11. I heard Rush proudly read a letter from a ditto head today about the birth certificate crap.

These latest atrocities aren't deterring the rabid right wing.

[jody]

12. There's less to SPLC than meets the eye. It's mostly about donations. n/t

[ProfessorPlum]

13. back that up, please

[jody]

14. Read the sources at the links cited in the wiki summary below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center

Fundraising
A series by Dan Morse ran in the Montgomery Advertiser for eight days in February 1994 which alleged that the Southern Poverty Law Center practiced financial mismanagement, poor management practices, and misleading fundraising practices.<98><99> The paper took a random sampling of donors, and found out that the average donor did not know the Center was so well funded.<100> In response to the criticism, Joe Levin told the paper: "The Advertiser's lack of interest in the center's programs and its obsessive interest in the center's financial affairs and Mr. Dees' personal life makes it obvious to me that the Advertiser simply wants to smear the center and Mr. Dees."<100> The Advertiser's series was a finalist for but did not win a 1995 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Journalism.<101> The managing editor of the Advertiser at the time, Jim Tharpe, later characterized several charity-monitoring groups as being sharply critical of the SPLC's financial practices.<99>

In November 2000, Harper's Magazine published an article titled "The Church of Morris Dees" by Ken Silverstein, which was critical of the SPLC.<102> In it Silverstein wrote that the SPLC is "the wealthiest 'civil rights' group" through years of escalated fundraising and many of its donors do not know about its assets. He asserted that in 2000 the American Institute of Philanthropy gave "the center one of the worst ratings of any group it monitors" and that it spent as much money on fundraising as it did legal action.<102> As of December 2008, its Charity Ratings Guide still gave the SPLC an "F" rating for "excessive" reserves.<103>

By contrast, the charity evaluation organization Charity Navigator gave SPLC an overall rating of three out of four stars in fiscal year 2007. According to Charity Navigator, their outlays fell into the following categories: program expenses of 68.2%, administrative expenses of 14.2%, and fundraising expenses of 17.4%.<104> The SPLC itself states that "During the last fiscal year <2007>, we spent approximately 70% of our total expenses on program services. At the end of the fiscal year, our endowment – a special, board-designated fund to support our future work – stood at $201.7 million."<105> With respect to the sources of their funding, the SPLC has said that all activities including litigation are supported by fundraising efforts, and the SPLC does not accept any fees or share of legal judgments awarded to clients it represents in court.<31>

[MrModerate]

16. But a similar Wiki article says AIP's methods are shoddy and unreliable . . .

And whether donors are aware of the size of SPLC's endowment strikes me as an absolutely meaningless criterion.

I do know they've whacked a lot of professional hatemongers upside the head and I for one am happy to have them continue doing so.

[jody]

17. Facts are available upon which I base my opinion. Agree SPLC has had successes. Have a great day. nt

[jillan]

15. And the rw crazies are calling for him to be fired:

Conservatives attack Shep Smith for his Holocaust museum shooting remarks, call for firing
June 11, 2009 3:54 pm ET
SUMMARY: In response to Shepard Smith's remarks that the Holocaust museum shooting validated a recent DHS report on right-wing extremism, several conservative media figures have attacked Smith or called for his firing from Fox News.

http://mediamatters.com/research/200906110030