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| Sarah Palin's Defamation Suit Against New York Times Revived by Second Circuit Court |
| 2024-08-28 |
| [PJMedia] Defamation isn't always easy to prove in court. If it were, the New York Times and the Washington Post would be launching GoFundMe pages and holding bake sales to pay off their legal bills. Most prominent Republican candidates and politicians probably have at least a dozen legitimate defamation lawsuits against various mainstream media outlets that they'd file right away if they had a decent chance of winning. With publications like the Times and WaPo, the line between editorial opinion and journalism was obliterated years ago. They're not news organizations, they're one big op-ed. The editorial boards of both use their respective opinion sections to launch attack narratives that will, more often than not, be reinforced by their "journalists." Prior to the political ascent of Donald Trump, Sarah Palin had been the most maliciously maligned Republican for years. In 2017 — nine years after she'd been on the GOP presidential ticket — Palin had had enough and decided to take the New York Times to court. Palin failed in that effort but is now getting a chance for a new trial. The New York Post: The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can try again to prove that the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass shooting six years earlier that killed six people and seriously wounded Democratic U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. A judge putting his thumb on the scale during a trial to be unfair to a hated Republican? Who ever heard of such a thing?!?!? Again, defamation suits are an uphill battle. Sarah Palin and her legal team may have a dual purpose here, however. More from the Post: Media critics, and Palin herself, have viewed the case as a possible vehicle to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision that set a high bar for public figures to prove defamation. It's a safe bet that the Times wasn't running opinion pieces about the desperate need to change the Supreme Court back then. Related: Defamation 08/25/2024 Uniting as the Student Intifada, anti-Israel groups plan to further disrupt US campuses Defamation 08/08/2024 Students for Justice in Palestine has just posted that they are ‘fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.’ Defamation 08/08/2024 NY county outlaws masks at protests in response to anti-Israel intimidation Related: Sarah Palin 10/25/2022 Alaska GOP Votes 49-8 to Censure Mitch the Bitch McConnell -- For Spending $5 Million to Beat the Actual Republican Conservative Kelly Tshibaka, to Protect His Liberal Abortion-Crazy Ally Lisa Murkowski Sarah Palin 10/20/2022 MTG's tribute to Confederate soldiers hilariously backfires Sarah Palin 07/24/2022 Antisemitic internet troll ‘Baked Alaska’ pleads guilty in Capitol riot Related: Gabrielle Giffords 08/19/2024 Democrats risk star power outshining issues at party convention in Chicago Gabrielle Giffords 10/28/2022 Paul Pelosi attacked in San Francisco home Gabrielle Giffords 06/29/2021 Dean of Ethnic Studies hoped Clarence Thomas 'dies early, like many black men do,' but who cares, really? Related: New York Times v. Sullivan 03/23/2021 'Covidiots' on Spring Break Tweet Proves Judge Silberman Was Right New York Times v. Sullivan 03/11/2019 The Covington Catholic Case Could Turn on ‘Actual Malice' New York Times v. Sullivan 02/23/2006 WaPo OpEd: A Failure of the Press |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #1 if this ruling stands, it will go to trial in NYC, where jurors are, well, not quite known to be Sarah Palin fans. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-08-28 20:47 |