Comments on: Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the Times…

By: neo

neo — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:40:23 +0000

ymarsakar: I'm not sure what you're referring to, and the only references I could find on this blog to Palin in 2012 were a pretty frivolous but admiring post about her new eyeglasses and one about the cuteness of her grandchild. So that can't be what you're talking about. I wrote a more substantive post about her in 2011 (this one), but it was one in her defense. It occurs to me that perhaps you were referring to this post about an earlier interview with Gibson? Most of the people on the thread felt her performance was either adequate or pretty good, as did I. There were a few critics, but they weren't regular commenters here and they seemed to have been people on the left to begin with.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 00:11:08 +0000

When two main sewer media interviews with Palin came out in 2012 ish, some conservatives here were controlled by the propaganda. Turning from slightly favorable to thinking of Palin as an idiot and not good enough for McCain, the arch traitor.

This was mass formation. This was mind control and conservatives fell for it as easily as Leftists do now.

By: miguel cervantes

miguel cervantes — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:13:36 +0000

furthermore, the times covered up for sheriff dupniks malfeasance, just as with chisholm and waukesha, every injury to the body politic has to be covered up,

By: I R A Darth Aggie

I R A Darth Aggie — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:08:15 +0000

If Palin loses, it’s because the deference shown media by the courts.

Publishing something the NYTimes had demonstrated in previous work to be false is proof of actual malice.

“No, we don’t read our own paper.”

By: Roy Nathanson

Roy Nathanson — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:33:47 +0000

Art Deco is right. This case always had to go to SCOTUS. Better to get the first trial result from the most blatantly biased judge and jury. I would say that this is a sound legal strategy.

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:25:10 +0000

I don’t care that the Times is partisan, I only care that they pretend to objectivity.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 07:20:41 +0000

@ Kate > “Imagine thinking that there are people who actually believe the NY Times’s editorial board is non-partisan.”

Bernard Goldberg, a former tv news reporter, quit his job in disgust and in 2001 wrote a book about the partisan nature of all the network broadcasters, called “Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.”

In one anecdote on a discussion about the ideological positions of media outlets, he recalls asking Dan Rather about the New York Times.
“Middle of the road, Bernie,” Rather replied.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:18:49 +0000

“James Bennet spewed “It’s just a terrible thing to make a mistake.”
“Even THAT statement is a mistake.” Tuvea

No, that statement is a lie.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 04:15:16 +0000

Gerard Van der Leun on February 10, 2022 at 6:22 pm said:
“Fauci is pitching? I could have sworn he was a catcher.”
He is both: he pitches nonsense and catches flack.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 03:24:39 +0000

If failing, Sullivan or otherwise, still, the NYT’s sins will be obvious.