Not so outraged when Palin took the blame for the Giffords shooting even though her connection was non-existent.
Via BuzzFeed:
A senior researcher with the Southern Poverty Law Center called claims that it gave “license” to a shooter who injured a security guard at the Family Research Council on Wednesday “outrageous,” saying the conservative group his organization calls a “hate group” is using the shooting as “an opportunity to score points.”
In a statement, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mark Potok, wrote, “The SPLC has listed the FRC as a hate group since 2010 because it has knowingly spread false and denigrating propaganda about LGBT people — not, as some claim, because it opposes same-sex marriage. The FRC and its allies on the religious right are saying, in effect, that offering legitimate and fact-based criticism in a democratic society is tantamount to suggesting that the objects of criticism should be the targets of criminal violence.”
Earlier today, Family Research Council president Tony Perkins said that the Southern Poverty Law Center gave “license” to the violence at the Family Research Council’s Washington headquarters on Wednesday.
Potok wrote, “Perkins and his allies, seeing an opportunity to score points, are using the attack on their offices to pose a false equivalency between the SPLC’s criticisms of the FRC and the FRC’s criticisms of LGBT people.”