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Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation
Daily Caller ^

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 NYT’s 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,” Palin’s 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 Loughner’s 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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: defamation; lawsuit; libel; lies; newyorktimes; nyt; palin; sarahpalin; slander
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To: ameribbean expat

I wish her well and hope for the best but it’s very hard for celebrities to successfully sue for defamation.


21 posted on 06/27/2017 4:08:43 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Sarah Barracuda

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.


22 posted on 06/27/2017 4:12:08 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: All

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”....


23 posted on 06/27/2017 4:12:59 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Paladin2

LOL!


24 posted on 06/27/2017 4:16:55 PM PDT by EarlyBird (There's a whole lot of winning going on around here!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Good Girl! Kick @ss and Take Names...and take a WHOLE lot of their money, too! :)


25 posted on 06/27/2017 4:18:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set!)
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To: Walrus
Go for every cent the NYT is worth!

Twenty cents hardly seems worth her time ...

26 posted on 06/27/2017 4:19:33 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: MeganC; onyx; Abbeville Conservative; abigailsmybaby; afnamvet; alley cat; antceecee; ...
Thank You for the Ping MeganC!

Just maybe, Rag papers will now start fact checking their stories and not just print a narrative just to get it out there.


27 posted on 06/27/2017 4:20:21 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: ameribbean expat

https://www.scribd.com/document/352404642/Sarah-Palin-sues-the-New-York-Times-for-defamation
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The owner has set this document to private.

You will not be able to read it unless the owner changes it to public on their uploads page, or sends you a direct link.”


28 posted on 06/27/2017 4:25:27 PM PDT by iowamark
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To: ameribbean expat; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum; entropy12; Freedom56v2; ...
As is common among liars, it's not only the Slimes original hit piece on Mrs. Palin, but the lame, incomplete, arrogant and diversionary cover-up pieces it published afterwards when they got caught.

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

29 posted on 06/27/2017 4:26:18 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.......GO PENCE !!!......USA !!! USA !!! USA !!!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Let me on the jury... “Sarah Who?” “No I’ve never heard of her.” “Yes I can be fair and impartial.” :-)


30 posted on 06/27/2017 4:27:18 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: ameribbean expat

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.


31 posted on 06/27/2017 4:29:01 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Hope she wins! Ends up owning the company, fires everyone, burns it to the ground, and donates the property for a Confederate memorial park.


32 posted on 06/27/2017 4:29:12 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: ameribbean expat

Please let this be TRUE!!


33 posted on 06/27/2017 4:31:10 PM PDT by weston (SO HERE'S THE STORY: As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: ameribbean expat

Where do I sign for crowdfunding her legal expenses?


34 posted on 06/27/2017 4:31:21 PM PDT by exinnj
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To: iowamark

I think you can see it here:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/27/sarah-palin-suing-new-york-times-for-defamation/


35 posted on 06/27/2017 4:31:46 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: ameribbean expat
Maybe we can be rid of both the New York Times and CNN before the end of Trump's first year !!!

ML/NJ

36 posted on 06/27/2017 4:32:58 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ameribbean expat

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.


37 posted on 06/27/2017 4:33:40 PM PDT by euram
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To: HarleyLady27

Public figures must probe malice aforethought. I believe Palin can easily prove it.


38 posted on 06/27/2017 4:39:17 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.,)
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To: ameribbean expat

Excellent.


39 posted on 06/27/2017 4:40:38 PM PDT by FES0844 (G)
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To: ameribbean expat
Sarah Palin Suing New York Times For Defamation

EXCELLENT !!!


40 posted on 06/27/2017 4:43:43 PM PDT by JesusIsLord
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