Lawyers for The New York Times came out swinging on July 7 in Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the paper over an editorial linking her to a mass shooting, arguing the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate could not show The Times acted with actual malice.
Palin filed her suit against The Times last week, alleging that she was defamed by a June 14 editorial called "America's Lethal Politics," which she said ties her to the 2011 shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that resulted in six deaths and a gunshot wound to the head of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, who survived the attack.
At the first conference for Palin's suit, David Schulz, a partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz, told Southern District Judge Jed Rakoff that his firm could file a motion to dismiss Palin's suit in one week. He also said there was no intent by The Times to put out misinformation.
"The complaint mentions very clearly that a mistake was made," Schulz said, saying that The Times corrected the editorial in about 12 hours.
I am still not sure who convinced Palin that this was a good idea, but I really feel that the Times is going to squash this thing like a bug, and leave her looking like an idiot.
Not that such a thing would be new to her, but still you would think at some point you might want to try and regain a little dignity.
I'm sorry, did I say dignity?
I forgot who I was talking about.
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