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.
There was even a story that the shooter’s real object was the judge who was shot also, because the shooter was angry at some decision by this judge agreeing with Obama’s undermining the ability to possess gold.
Wins the How Convoluted Can You Get? prize!