For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center occupied a kind of sacred space in American media — the unquestioned arbiter of hate, the group whose pronouncements landed on front pages without so much as a raised eyebrow from the reporters who carried their water. Turns out, the whole operation may have been rotten from the inside.
On Wednesday’s episode of Gutfeld!, host Greg Gutfeld savaged the SPLC and the Democrats who bought into the false narrative it was selling.
Gutfeld began by playing a montage of Joe Biden clips hammering the same line about the infamous Charlottesville hoax — that Donald Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people.” Biden ran that narrative into the ground. He even built his 2020 campaign around it. He said it over and over, repeating the lie incessantly as gospel.
Now the SPLC, long treated by the media as the gold standard on American hate groups, has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly funneling millions in donor funds directly to the extremist groups it claimed to be fighting — including the KKK and neo-Nazis.
Gutfeld’s response was characteristically blunt. “I would say you can’t make this stuff up, but that’s exactly what these hate mongers were doing, funding the very extremist groups it claimed to fight,” he said. “The arsonist may have been running the fire department. It’s like donating to save the whales and finding out that the money was going to feed The View.”
The SPLC’s whole model, Gutfeld argued, depended on a steady supply of racism — and when organic hate proved insufficient, the group manufactured it. Actual hate groups in America, he noted, have been about “as robust as Blockbuster Video.” That’s a problem when your fundraising, your media relevance, and your entire reason for existing depend on the country being crawling with white supremacists. So the SPLC has a reputation for labeling virtually any organization it can as a hate group, such as Turning Point USA or the Family Research Council.
“Hate morphs into ideas that liberals hate,” Gutfeld said, “especially since it’s the only tool they have to ruin people by calling them bigots.” And, of course, the press was a willing partner in all of it. Every hate map published by the SPLC got treated like scripture. If the SPLC said your neighbor’s bowling league was a hate group, Gutfeld quipped, it was front-page news, no questions asked.
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That manufactured climate of fear had real political consequences. Gutfeld rolled a series of Biden clips, in which he insisted that white supremacy was “the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, white supremacists.” Biden repeated variations of this false claim across multiple appearances, each one more emphatic than the last.
That narrative, Gutfeld argued, traces directly back to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and the “fine people hoax.”
“The entire narrative of Biden’s candidacy was based on a hoax created by a left-wing group, then protected by the media, who did no investigation into who these haters were,” Gutfeld noted. “The media’s oddly incurious, in addition to corrupt and stupid.”
One detail Gutfeld found particularly telling — the identities of the torch carriers at Charlottesville were never seriously investigated. The same media apparatus that tracked down every Capitol Hill grandmother from January 6 somehow never got around to finding out who those people actually were or where they came from. That asymmetry, he suggested, tells you everything about whose narrative the press was protecting.
The SPLC’s reach extended well beyond the Biden campaign and cable news chyrons. Corporate America lined up to fund what now turned out to be a racket for funding hate. “It’s about politicians who embrace them, the corporations that donated to them,” Gutfeld said, and the media outlets “who needed to make the lies true so they could say it’s racist to deport people in the country illegally, so that everyone in the next Star Trek is trans and that hiring based on merit is as out of date as the canned beans I donate to food drives.”
Gutfeld acknowledged that the allegations still need to be proven in court. But the broader point, he said, stands regardless of how the legal case unfolds. “America is one of the least racist societies in human history,” he concluded, “and that’s bad for business if your business is racism.”
And, as we know, that’s exactly the business the Democratic Party is in.
The SPLC Shakedown: Funding the Business of Bigotry pic.twitter.com/0geLR7T4eB
— Gutfeld! (@Gutfeldfox) April 23, 2026
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