Posted on 06/27/2017 3:47:13 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times for defamation, according to documents filed on Tuesday obtained by The Daily Caller.
The lawsuit has to do with an editorial the NYT ran on June 14 that falsely smeared Palin as inciting the 2011 shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords by a mentally ill man who had been obsessed with Giffords for years. There is no evidence to support the NYTs implication that Palin played a role in inciting the Giffords shooting.
Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for defaming her by publishing a statement about her that it knew to be false: that Mrs. Palin was responsible for inciting a mass shooting at a political event in January 2011, Palins suit states.
Specifically, on June 14, 2017, The Times Editorial Board, which represents the voice of The Times, falsely stated as a matter of fact to millions of people that Mrs. Palin incited Jared Loughners January 8, 2011, shooting rampage at a political event in Tucson, Arizona, during which he shot nineteen people, severely wounding United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and killing six, including Chief U.S. District Court Judge John Roll and a nine-year-old girl.
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I wish her well and hope for the best but it’s very hard for celebrities to successfully sue for defamation.
That would be not much. It’ll be a moral victory at best, unless they can somehow sink their teeth into Carlos Slim. He may be a lot of undesirable things, but stupid isn’t one of them.
Sue for the ownership of the company and then fire every last person they got...Hire only conservatives and start all over...
Go Sarah!!!! Don’t take any “settlement”....
LOL!
Good Girl! Kick @ss and Take Names...and take a WHOLE lot of their money, too! :)
Twenty cents hardly seems worth her time ...
Just maybe, Rag papers will now start fact checking their stories and not just print a narrative just to get it out there.
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High time we go after these rich, elitist, amoral, deceitful, corrupt news moguls, owners and boards of directors plus newsroom management WHERE IT REALLY HURT$$$$$.
Sarah...do a MEGA !...Make Editors Guilty Already !
Leni
Let me on the jury... “Sarah Who?” “No I’ve never heard of her.” “Yes I can be fair and impartial.” :-)
The NYT is probably judgement proof. They *show* more assets than liabilities, but start discounting ‘goodwill’ (remember how that worked out for the S&Ls in the late 80s) and “deferred asset charges”, and the gap narrows. Figure liquidation value of the fixed assets, and there won’t be much left.
Hope she wins! Ends up owning the company, fires everyone, burns it to the ground, and donates the property for a Confederate memorial park.
Please let this be TRUE!!
Where do I sign for crowdfunding her legal expenses?
I think you can see it here:
http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/sarah-palin-suing-new-york-times-for-defamation/
ML/NJ
The NYT knew exactly what it was doing, make the assertion, then issue a half-hearted “correction” knowing damn well that only the assertion will be remembered.
Within 30 minutes of the shooting CNN was laying it at Palin’s doorstep, and within an hour just about every talking head on TV was parroting the lie. Then, when Palin responded to their lie, they attacked her for that.
Public figures must probe malice aforethought. I believe Palin can easily prove it.
Excellent.
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