Sarah Palin loses Defamation Lawsuit, Transitioning into a Moai 🗿

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Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen.bsky.social)

Sarah Palin just lost her defamation case against the New York Times again. 🔗: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/sarah-palin-new-york-times-verdict-jury-trial-defamation-case-rcna202362

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Sarah Palin loses defamation retrial against New York Times​

April 22, 2025, 2:50 PM CDT / Updated April 22, 2025, 3:07 PM CDTBy Jordan Rubin

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin lost her defamation retrial against The New York Times over a 2017 editorial she said damaged her reputation, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The federal jury found the media company not liable after deliberating for about two hours.

Palin, a former Republican vice presidential nominee, lost a previous trial in 2022 against the media company but won a new one due to “several major issues” in the case, as a federal appellate panel put it last year.

Palin’s lawsuit stemmed from an editorial called “America’s Lethal Politics,” which compared two political shootings: the 2011 killing of six people and the injury of 13 others in Arizona, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat; and the 2017 Virginia shooting that seriously injured four people, including Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., at a congressional baseball game practice.

The Times editorial argued there was a clear and direct link between the Arizona shooting and the political incitement arising from a digital graphic published in March 2010 by Palin’s political action committee. The graphic was a map that superimposed crosshairs over 20 congressional districts represented by Democrats, including Giffords’.

But a relationship between the crosshairs map and the shooting “was never established,” as the appeals court wrote last year, adding that the incident was rather “viewed as a tragic result” of the shooter’s serious mental illness. (A correction on the editorial currently reads: “An editorial on Thursday about the shooting of Representative Steve Scalise incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords. In fact, no such link was established. The editorial also incorrectly described a map distributed by a political action committee before that shooting. It depicted electoral districts, not individual Democratic lawmakers, beneath stylized cross hairs.”)

The Times said in a statement after the appellate ruling last year, “This decision is disappointing. We’re confident we will prevail in a retrial.”

 

[Fillerguy]

Damn, what happened l? I'd still pirate her OF doe

 

[Phantum]

Sweet Jesus that bytch look crazy

 

[King Poetic]

I know she’s 60 plus but got damn her and vivica need to stay away from the cosmo doctors

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

If you think about it, this crazy bird was basically the godmother to the politicians we see today. Openly classless.

Nancy Reagan’s jaws had horsepower but nobody knew it like that

 

[Savvir]

 

[ORDER_66]

WTF happened to her face?!?!

 

[Ty Daniels]

Btych looks like Red Skull, LMAO

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

Have dikk Tracy villain jaw brehs

 

[Damba]

I thought that was Steven Tyler.

 

[Dreamchaser]

That gotta be AI. She looking like the green goblin in Spiderman.

 

[ryderldb]

Damn she got the permanent troll face going

 

[Cheese McNair]

It’s like her chin grew up and is now trying to move out.

 

[KingSol81]

WTF happened to her face?!?!

She told her plastic surgeon to "give me the ghoulie, I want to look like a monster who lived in the toilet in the 80s"

 

[Concerned Citizen]

What the fukk happened to her face? Ngl she was MILF af during the 2008 election but her face looks like it’s been training at 300x gravity on a capsule corps space ship headed to Namek.