DAVID MARCUS: Liberals' 'fine people' hoax was way worse than we thought

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Project 21 Chairman Horace Cooper breaks down the allegations surrounding the Southern Poverty Law Center on ‘The Ingraham Angle.’ In "Scooby-Doo" episodes, there is a classic moment where the gang unmasks the criminal they have caught, only to discover it is the least likely person it could be. As if, say, one tore the white hood off of a Klan member, only to find the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) lurking underneath. In this case, cartoon art really does imitate real life. For nearly a decade now, conservatives have been fuming over the 2017 "Charlottesville hoax," in which the news media took President Donald Trump’s rather bland statement that there were "fine people on both sides" of the Confederate statue debate, and, by lying, morphed it into support for White supremacy. Trump, it turns out, was never praising the racists behind the specif