Shunning truth and perpetuating hoaxes

Michelle Malkin shows how lies get manufactured in our country by groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center.

A highly tendentious researcher distorts the record, and highly gullible journalists believe him.

Step one: Find an expert with an impressive-sounding academic title to legitimize shoddy advocacy propaganda.

...Step two: Enlist gullible, lazy, biased, and complicit journalists who recycle the “expert’s” sweeping pronouncements as proven facts, backed up by other ideologically vested advocacy-group spokespeople.

...Step three: Attack the messenger. After I published a lengthy post on my blog outlining an epidemic of Muslim hate-crime hoaxes at colleges, mosques and businesses dating back to 2001, Levin took to Twitter to accuse me of “smears.” The facts, which the rest of the media failed to inform readers about while hyping Levin’s work this week, speak for themselves (see michellemalkin.com).

Step four: Classify this article as “hate” and any media outlet that publishes it as a “hate group,” so that other journalists shun the truth and continue perpetuating the hoax.

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