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Inside the Defamation Lawsuit That Could Blow Southern Poverty Law Center Wide Open

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations like Alliance Defending Freedom and Moms for Liberty “hate groups” or “antigovernment extremist groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2019, the SPLC put D.A. King’s Dustin Inman Society on the “hate map,” years after it had told the Associated Press that King’s organization was not a “hate group.” King has sued, and a judge has allowed his defamation lawsuit to go forward. The Daily Signal's Tyler O'Neil sat down with D.A. King to discuss the lawsuit and what it's like to be branded a "hate group." Related Links: Dustin Inman Society website: https://newdustininmansociety.org/ Liberty Counsel website: https://lc.org/ Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center: https://www.amazon.com/Making-Hate-Pay-Corruption-Southern/dp/1642934399 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal podcast for Monday, October 2nd.

0:10.8

I'm Tyler O'Neill.

0:12.8

I sat down with DA King.

0:14.9

He's the founder and president of an immigration organization called the Dustin Inman Society.

0:21.0

And this society has been branded a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

0:26.4

Now as if you've followed our work at the Daily Signal for any time, you'll know that

0:31.6

we don't exactly agree with the Southern Poverty Law Center.

0:34.4

I wrote a book called Making Hate Pay exposing why the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate

0:39.8

group accusation has zero credibility and has been used to defame conservatives and Christians

0:48.8

for what they believe.

0:50.4

But DA King filed a lawsuit arguing exactly that and his lawsuit has made it further than

0:56.5

any other lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center in arguing for defamation.

1:01.9

And that's because he has clear evidence that in 2011, the SPLC did not consider his

1:08.7

group a hate group and then in 2018, suddenly they said he's a hate group.

1:14.2

So this helps show that the SPLC had good reason to doubt the veracity of the SPLC's

1:20.7

own claims, which is huge for a defamation case.

1:24.4

So I sat down with DA King.

1:25.8

We talked about the story.

1:27.4

We talked about what his organization does and we talked about why his lawsuit is so

1:32.3

important.

1:33.3

And of course, we mentioned his law firm, Liberty Council, which also is teamed up with

1:39.0

the lawyer who represented Nick Sandman in his successful defamation cases.

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