The media are having a lovely time smearing White House adviser Stephen Miller as a “white nationalist” or worse. The campaign began with a November 12 “Hatewatch” column by the Southern Poverty Law Center that was based on no fewer than 900 email messages between Mr. Miller and a former Breitbart editor, Katie McHugh. Miss McHugh turned over correspondence Mr. Miller no doubt assumed was private.
The direct quotations from Mr. Miller are very tame. I kept thinking: “Out of 900 messages, this is the most ‘racist’ stuff they could find?” No doubt that is why Mr. Miller’s own words account for only about 10 percent of the article. The SPLC spent the other 90 percent telling us why we are supposed to think that what he wrote was racist and awful. ...
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