The Federation of American Immigration Reform has done its best to mask anti-immigrant sentiment as an objective policy agenda. Now, surprisingly, the so-called FAIR appears to be concerned about accuracy and context.

FAIR has put out a guide for journalists in reaction to reports by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and other groups showing its ties to nativists and xenophobes. It not only goes after the SPLC, but also the National Council of La Raza and America's Voice. In the guide, FAIR urges journalists to detect any overt or hidden agenda.

Oddly enough FAIR does not appear to be moved to make the same emphasis when it celebrates and partners with pundits like CNN's Lou Dobbs. As we know, Dobbs floated a false story about immigrants triggering a rise in leprosy in the United States and said that the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was supporting drug cartels.

In its guide, FAIR challenges trends and data in hate crimes – incidents that the Department of Justice itself has found are vastly under-reported. Just Monday, the Department announced that it would open an investigation into violent, hateful attacks against immigrants in Suffolk County.

FAIR also tries to portray itself as a reasonable and credible group. It calls for an open and honest debate about immigration. Yet FAIR has dedicated itself to making that debate hostile and one-sided. And that would make sense considering the views of its founder, a funder and board member John Tanton.

For FAIR, Tanton is a "renaissance man." But interestingly enough, while FAIR dedicated ample text to trying to discredit the SPLC, it failed to rebut the charges that the Center has laid out; specifically, that Tanton is a racist xenophobe and nativist who believes in the superiority of European culture.

FAIR is targeting the SPLC but that should not distract the public or media from how it bathes in white supremacist ideology.