If I told you that prominent journalists were just parroting the talking points of far left organizations without doing any fact checking, you'd probably just shrug and say, yeah sure it's Monday, what else is new?

But we're now seeing an op-ed from the Washington Post, where a retired journalist says just that.

After the longest time, they would just read the press release from the SPLC as if it were fact.

The reason that's significant is that the SPLC recently outed its co-founder for being racist and sexist.

There have been investigations into the SPLC, and now we even have former employees coming out saying, yup, the organization has a huge problem with racism even to this day.

Why, that's important. The SPLC regularly smears people, costs them money, and ruins their lives.

In fact, the SPLC once called me, alt-right, and claimed, I spoke at a Holocaust and Myers conference in Iran, which is completely insane.

They apologized to me over this, and issued a statement about it.

But today, something's happening within the SPLC, and it's kind of falling apart.

So we're going to look at the latest news as well as examples of how social media companies are using the word of a known racist organization to police its content.

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But now, back to the story.

The Washington Post published this up at April 5th.

Something strange is going on at this civil rights institution. It must be investigated.

Jim Tharp, a retired journalist who lives in Atlanta, writes,

There's something strange afoot at the SPLC, one of the nation's richest civil and human rights charities.

In March, the center abruptly fired legendary co-founder Morris D's.

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