WEBVTT

00:00:01.540 --> 00:00:02.620
There are

00:00:02.620 --> 00:00:04.920
dangerous hate groups in America.

00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:05.820
Who will

00:00:05.820 --> 00:00:07.140
warn us about them?

00:00:07.140 --> 00:00:08.640
The media have an answer.

00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:10.360
The Southern Poverty Law Center

00:00:10.360 --> 00:00:11.800
The Southern Poverty Law Center

00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:13.660
The Southern Poverty Law Center,

00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:14.275
based in

00:00:14.275 --> 00:00:16.120
that building in Alabama

00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:17.014
calls itself

00:00:17.020 --> 00:00:18.860
the premier group

00:00:18.860 --> 00:00:21.180
monitoring hate groups.

00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:23.260
Looking at their map of such groups,

00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:24.000
you'd think

00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.300
America was consumed by hate.

00:00:26.300 --> 00:00:28.640
I once believed in the Center's mission.

00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:30.240
Well-meaning people still do.

00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:32.640
Apple just gave them a million dollars.

00:00:32.640 --> 00:00:34.720
But what donors don't know

00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:36.220
is that today the Center

00:00:36.220 --> 00:00:37.400
smears people

00:00:37.400 --> 00:00:39.400
who don't deserve to be smeared.

00:00:39.400 --> 00:00:41.280
The presence of radical Islam

00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:43.440
This woman grew up in Somalia,

00:00:43.440 --> 00:00:45.860
suffered female genital mutilation

00:00:45.860 --> 00:00:47.700
So now she speaks out against

00:00:47.700 --> 00:00:48.741
radical Islam.

00:00:48.741 --> 00:00:49.880
For that,

00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:50.467
the Center

00:00:50.467 --> 00:00:52.140
put her on its list.

00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:54.580
Multiculturalism failed these communities.

00:00:54.580 --> 00:00:55.729
This man was once

00:00:55.729 --> 00:00:57.460
an Islamic extremist.

00:00:57.460 --> 00:00:58.880
But then he decided

00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:00.140
radical Islam was wrong,

00:01:00.140 --> 00:01:00.640
and

00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.840
now he criticizes the radicals.

00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:04.440
The Center labels him

00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:07.420
an anti-Muslim extremist too.

00:01:08.180 --> 00:01:10.460
Join the fight against hate and bigotry.

00:01:10.460 --> 00:01:12.200
Visit SPLCenter.org

00:01:12.200 --> 00:01:13.120
I do think that

00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:15.630
we have a problem with hate in this country.

00:01:15.630 --> 00:01:16.860
We put about 10

00:01:16.860 --> 00:01:18.759
of these major hate groups out of business.

00:01:18.760 --> 00:01:19.880
The Center's leaders,

00:01:19.880 --> 00:01:21.420
Richard Cohen and Morris Dees

00:01:21.420 --> 00:01:22.580
would not talk to me,

00:01:22.659 --> 00:01:24.980
so commentator Nomiki Konst

00:01:24.980 --> 00:01:26.188
stepped up to defend them.

00:01:26.189 --> 00:01:27.502
They have a history,

00:01:27.502 --> 00:01:29.520
a long history of fighting against extremists

00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:30.820
like the KKK.

00:01:30.820 --> 00:01:31.600
History,

00:01:31.600 --> 00:01:32.280
yes.

00:01:32.280 --> 00:01:34.600
But they labeled skeptical Muslims

00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:36.100
like Ayaan Hirsi Ali

00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:37.200
as haters.

00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:39.020
If you have a horrible experience with religion

00:01:39.030 --> 00:01:39.948
that's one thing.

00:01:39.948 --> 00:01:40.940
It's another thing

00:01:40.940 --> 00:01:43.619
to use those experiences as ammunition against others

00:01:43.620 --> 00:01:45.180
who are practicing their religion

00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:45.920
peacefully.

00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:47.320
But they're just speaking,

00:01:47.320 --> 00:01:48.200
criticizing it.

00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:49.880
Of course she has the right to free speech,

00:01:49.880 --> 00:01:51.640
as does the Southern Poverty Law Center

00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:52.557
has a right

00:01:52.557 --> 00:01:53.640
to push back.

00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:55.460
We can stand together

00:01:55.460 --> 00:01:56.580
against hate.

00:01:56.580 --> 00:01:57.880
The Center also calls

00:01:57.880 --> 00:01:59.960
the Family Research Council a hate group.

00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:01.620
The definition of a marriage

00:02:01.620 --> 00:02:03.140
is what it's been for 5,000 years.

00:02:03.140 --> 00:02:04.800
It's the union of a man and a woman.

00:02:04.820 --> 00:02:07.320
I often disagree with the council myself,

00:02:07.320 --> 00:02:09.480
but do they belong in this hate map?

00:02:09.480 --> 00:02:10.840
When they don't agree with you

00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.140
politically, they're gonna list you as a hater.

00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:14.200
You are haters.

00:02:14.220 --> 00:02:15.280
You hate gays.

00:02:15.280 --> 00:02:17.600
No. I don't hate gay people.

00:02:17.600 --> 00:02:19.500
And I know gay people,

00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:21.340
and I have worked with gay people.

00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:23.388
But once you're labeled a hate group,

00:02:23.388 --> 00:02:24.960
you become a target.

00:02:24.980 --> 00:02:25.920
Developing now,

00:02:25.920 --> 00:02:26.900
word of a shooting

00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:28.320
at the Family Research Council there in

00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:29.380
Washington.

00:02:29.380 --> 00:02:30.960
One man was so enraged

00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:31.960
by what the Center said

00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:33.480
about the Family Research Council,

00:02:33.480 --> 00:02:35.280
he went to their headquarters

00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:36.360
to kill people.

00:02:36.360 --> 00:02:38.540
A man shot a security guard in the arm

00:02:38.580 --> 00:02:40.580
Fortunately that guard stopped the man

00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:42.560
before he could shoot anyone else.

00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:43.740
He told the judge

00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:45.680
that he was there to kill as many of us as possible

00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:47.320
because we were a hate group.

00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:48.800
The council's offices

00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:51.320
were attacked by a guy with a gun.

00:02:51.320 --> 00:02:52.300
I mean,

00:02:52.300 --> 00:02:53.360
they don't deserve this.

00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:54.700
There's always

00:02:54.700 --> 00:02:55.940
extremists out there,

00:02:55.940 --> 00:02:57.880
and it's unfortunately the world that we live in

00:02:57.880 --> 00:02:59.400
and you know hopefully

00:02:59.480 --> 00:03:01.160
people can kind of separate that.

00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:03.720
The Center also smears the Ruth Institute,

00:03:03.720 --> 00:03:04.580
a Christian group

00:03:04.580 --> 00:03:05.560
that believes

00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:07.528
gays should not have an equal right

00:03:07.528 --> 00:03:08.840
to adopt children.

00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:10.120
They're not haters.

00:03:10.120 --> 00:03:10.960
I like gay people.

00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:12.260
I have no problem with gay people.

00:03:12.265 --> 00:03:13.267
That's not the issue.

00:03:13.267 --> 00:03:13.839
The issue is

00:03:13.940 --> 00:03:15.540
what are we doing with kids

00:03:15.540 --> 00:03:18.420
and the definition of who counts as a parent?

00:03:18.420 --> 00:03:19.598
What if a gay couple

00:03:19.598 --> 00:03:20.600
had a civil union

00:03:20.600 --> 00:03:22.740
and adopted kids?

00:03:22.740 --> 00:03:23.540
There could be cases

00:03:23.540 --> 00:03:25.860
where the best person for a particular child

00:03:25.920 --> 00:03:28.560
would be their uncle Harry and his boyfriend.

00:03:28.570 --> 00:03:29.410
You know, that could be.

00:03:29.410 --> 00:03:30.941
But we owe it to the children

00:03:30.941 --> 00:03:32.471
to give them the best we can,

00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:33.640
which generally

00:03:33.640 --> 00:03:35.140
is a married mother and father.

00:03:35.140 --> 00:03:37.020
So you're a hater.

00:03:37.100 --> 00:03:39.280
When the Center put her on its hate map,

00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:40.535
the Ruth Institute's Bank

00:03:40.535 --> 00:03:41.589
sent her this letter.

00:03:41.750 --> 00:03:43.865
We've determined that you're an organization

00:03:43.865 --> 00:03:46.340
that promotes hate, violence, harassment,

00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:48.190
and so therefore we're not doing business with you.

00:03:48.190 --> 00:03:49.870
And we went and checked our website

00:03:49.870 --> 00:03:51.320
and we were already down.

00:03:51.320 --> 00:03:53.860
The Ruth Institute and the Family Research Council

00:03:53.860 --> 00:03:55.760
are still on the hate list.

00:03:55.760 --> 00:03:56.890
There's no appeal.

00:03:56.890 --> 00:03:58.920
I sure don't know how you get off.

00:03:58.920 --> 00:04:01.720
I suspect the Center keeps its hate lists long

00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:03.360
because crying hate

00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:05.040
brings in lots of money.

00:04:05.040 --> 00:04:06.560
Morris Dees' salary

00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:09.400
is more than my entire annual budget,

00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:11.060
so yeah

00:04:11.060 --> 00:04:12.200
whatever they're doing,

00:04:12.200 --> 00:04:13.140
it pays.

00:04:13.140 --> 00:04:15.020
Years ago, Harper's Magazine

00:04:15.040 --> 00:04:15.541
reported

00:04:15.541 --> 00:04:16.480
that the Center

00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.100
is the wealthiest civil rights group in America.

00:04:19.100 --> 00:04:21.340
One that spent most of its time and money

00:04:21.340 --> 00:04:23.640
on a fundraising campaign.

00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.700
Now Morris Dees did once promise

00:04:26.700 --> 00:04:28.020
to stop fundraising

00:04:28.020 --> 00:04:29.083
once his endowment hit

00:04:29.083 --> 00:04:30.340
$55 million dollars.

00:04:31.340 --> 00:04:33.255
But when he reached $55 million,

00:04:33.255 --> 00:04:35.503
he changed that to $100 million saying,

00:04:35.503 --> 00:04:37.360
that would allow them to

00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:39.400
cease costly fundraising.

00:04:39.460 --> 00:04:41.740
But when they reached a $100 million

00:04:41.740 --> 00:04:42.940
they didn't stop.

00:04:42.940 --> 00:04:44.020
Today,

00:04:44.020 --> 00:04:45.440
they have an endowment that

00:04:45.440 --> 00:04:46.449
now is over

00:04:46.449 --> 00:04:47.889
$320 million dollars,

00:04:47.889 --> 00:04:50.000
much of which is in offshore accounts,

00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:51.583
Caymans and places like that.

00:04:51.583 --> 00:04:53.040
How do you know?

00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:54.600
Oh, we look at their 990's.

00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:56.320
And it says Cayman Islands?

00:04:56.320 --> 00:04:56.820
Yeah.

00:04:56.820 --> 00:04:58.120
They pay some of their people

00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:00.100
more than four hundred thou a year.

00:05:00.100 --> 00:05:02.820
Well, you know, it's 2017.

00:05:02.820 --> 00:05:05.160
It costs a lot of money to exist in this world.

00:05:05.160 --> 00:05:06.780
Give me a break.

00:05:06.780 --> 00:05:08.109
The Southern Poverty Law Center

00:05:08.109 --> 00:05:10.000
now lists people like Ben Carson,

00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:11.050
Laura Ingraham,

00:05:11.050 --> 00:05:12.560
and Jeanine Pirro

00:05:12.560 --> 00:05:13.820
as extremists,

00:05:13.820 --> 00:05:15.840
but it doesn't list Antifa,

00:05:15.840 --> 00:05:16.834
the hate group that

00:05:16.834 --> 00:05:18.300
beats up people on the right.

00:05:20.320 --> 00:05:23.060
The Center has become a hate group itself.

00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:24.556
It's now a left-wing,

00:05:24.556 --> 00:05:25.642
money-grabbing,

00:05:25.642 --> 00:05:26.800
slander machine.