CNN Touts 'Hate Group' Claim Against Group Targeted in Texas Attack

Matthew Balan | May 4, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

On the 4 May 2015 edition of CNN's New Day, Alisyn Camerota played up how the leftist Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the group targeted by two suspected Islamists in Texas a "hate group." Camerota underlined that "other people say" that Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) is "even a hate group, and that they're vehemently anti-Islam....They talk about Islam, and they talk about it with, sort of, real repugnance, quite frankly."

The anchor later took a confrontational stance towards Geller herself as she interviewed the AFDI leader, and took the side of her critics: "I do think that your critics have a point when they say that you paint with a broad brush stroke, and it sounds like you're anti-Islam."

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