At the end of Thursday’s Morning Joe, co-host Jonathan Lemire interviewed the CEO of the National Urban League, Marc Morial, and former U.S. Attorney and MS NOW analyst Joyce Vance to defend the Southern Poverty Law Center amid the recent indictment from the DOJ related to wire fraud, as Morial called the indictment an “assault on civil rights.” In the same program, an advertisement aired for the indicted SPLC.
Just about an hour before the segment, MS NOW and Morning Joe aired a 2-minute-long ad, which asked for donations to the SPLC for “$19 a month” for a “special Fight Hate t-shirt.” Essentially, amid the criminal indictments, MS NOW was still taking money from the SPLC.
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