Posted on 02/10/2022 3:43:04 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
One clear takeaway to emerge from the trial in Sarah Palin’s ongoing libel suit against The New York Times is that running the paper’s opinion section is akin to walking through an ideological and political minefield.
As the trial entered its fifth day on Wednesday, former Times editorial editor James Bennet testified that he was trying to avoid just those sorts of pitfalls when he inserted language ina 2017 editorial that many readers saw as asserting a direct link between the former Alaska governor’s political action committee and a deadly 2011 mass shooting in Arizona.
In his second and final day on the witness stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan, Bennet said the passages Palin’s lawyers have seized on were inspired by his desire to avoid a specious “both sides” claim that extreme political rhetoric is as prevalent in America on the left as on the right.
Bennet indicated that controversy over the erroneous claim about a connection to Palin’s PAC was particularly galling to him because, after taking over the Times’ opinion pages a year earlier, he was trying to allay perceptions that those pages were unfair to Republicans.
“It was a mistake … that made it look like we were being partisan,” Bennet said. “It was important to me that the editorial board reestablished or, you know, have a reputation for being able to call balls and strikes without regard to partisanship.”....
So, the editor dispatched a colleague to try to find examples of figures on the left using violent or incendiary imagery. The D.C.-based writer, Elizabeth Williamson, came back with nothing notable from Democratic politicians.
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Betsy must have thoroughly researched Dem statements such as:
Obama: 'If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun'
Obama Says "Argue With Neighbors, Get In Their Face"
“...came back with nothing notable from Democratic politicians.”
This does not pass the smell test. He passed the buck with a wink, wink to someone and they came back with nothing. Well he tried to be fair (and that is his story and he is going to stick to it).
He must have a bad case of covid because nobody could stand hip deep in the horse manure of his own utterance like that and not gag on the stench.
The entire Democrat party was wretched against Trump and his administration...calling for “get in their faces”, “do not allow them to get food or gas”, and “let them know they are not wanted here.”
For this idiot to even TRY to claim they couldn’t find any Democrat politicians using violent or threatening rhetoric isn’t just a LIE, it is THE LIE our enemedia constantly repeats!
Do they even have evidence of such an assignment and result?
Democrat politicians are notorious for falsely claiming their political opponents are racists. How incendiary is that?
“running the paper’s opinion section is akin to walking through an ideological and political minefield. “
heaven forbid that they simply things and just tell the truth and let all sides have equal space ...
What a bunch of CYA garbage. Ads by democrats with the very same cross hairs used by Palin’s Pack were presented to counter the New York Times bull manure. This was prior to Obama’s If they bring a knife statements.
Potato, Potahto.
When she wins will she twist the knife? She’s not running for anything but needs to be in the limelight in tiny spurts.
In the video accompanying the story, both the Fox host and the lawyer he had on as a "legal expert" think she will lose the case.
That’s ok also. Let the rats twist it. It’s what they do.
L I A R
Yup total 🐄💩.🙄
Well, the judge thinks she has a case. If she didn’t, he would have granted summary judgment for the defense.
She actually has a good case. This witness might appear on first reading to help the NYT, but it doesn’t.
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