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Bright continued with a devastating summary of the group’s activities.

“The positive contributions Dees has made to justice — most undertaken based upon calculations as to their publicity and fund raising potential — are far overshadowed by what Harper’s described as his ‘flagrantly misleading’ solicitations for money,” Bright wrote.

“People are waking up to the SPLC’s real agenda: using smears and labels to silence important public policy discussions.”

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“He has raised millions upon millions of dollars with various schemes, never mentioning that he does not need the money because he has $175 million and two ‘poverty palace’ buildings in Montgomery. He has taken advantage of naïve, well-meaning people — some of moderate or low incomes — who believe his pitches and give to his $175 million operation,” Bright continued.

“He has spent most of what they have sent him to raise still more millions, pay high salaries, and promote himself,” Bright said. “Because he spends so much on fundraising, his operation spends $30 million a year to accomplish less than what many other organizations accomplish on shoestring budgets.”

The University of Alabama School of Law doesn’t appear to have awarded the “Dees” award since 2010.

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“People are waking up to the SPLC’s real agenda: using smears and labels to silence important public policy discussions,” Dan Stein, President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), another of the SPLC’s targets, told LifeZette in an email.

“Journalists should not allow one not-for-profit — the SPLC — to have a license to indiscriminately label other organizations with which it disagrees,” Stein said. “In fact it is journalistically unethical to extend this one privilege to any particular organization without allowing all other not-for-profits to do the same to all others. What a cacophony of shrill nonsense that would be.”

Stein continued: “Time to say it for what it is, a tactic that permits unwitting journalists to fall prey to an unwitting bias. Most professional reporters have rejected these tactics. Accepting SPLC designations as legitimate is like accepting KGB propaganda — long on allegations, short on facts, full of venom and devoid of integrity.”[lz_pagination]