A jury has concluded The New York Times did not libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial she says damaged her reputation.

The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict. A judge and a different jury had reached the same conclusion about Palin’s defamation claims in 2022, but her lawsuit was revived by an appeals court.

Palin was subdued as she left the courthouse and made her way to a waiting car, telling reporters: “I get to go home to a beautiful family of five kids and grandkids and a beautiful property and get on with life. And that’s nice.”

Later, she posted on the social platform X that she planned to “keep asking the press to quit making things up.”

  • Ton@lemmy.world
    13·
    3 days ago

    The saga of Sarah Palin is a perfect example why you should NEVER, EVER, as a ‘normal’ politician, associate yourself with fascist/populist politicians.

      • Raltoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        2 days ago

        She’s terrible, but more normal than McCain.

        The main thing is that she would have avoided national scrutiny and pushes for ethics investigations, if she just stayed in Alaska. She was the first woman and the youngest governor of Alaska and early on she had around 90% popularity among voters there.

        Then she saw dollar signs and hitched her ride to the far right, and has been laughed out of Alaskan elections ever since, and ended up doing Fox shows and failing to sue the press for defamation.

      • Ton@lemmy.world
        71·
        2 days ago

        She rose to national fame riding on John McCain’s coattails ofcourse.

  • JTskulk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    3 days ago

    Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, a Louisiana Republican, was wounded in 2017 when a man with a history of anti-GOP activity opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice in Washington.

    In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona that severely wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six others, Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.

    The Times corrected the article less than 14 hours after it was published, saying it had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and that it had “incorrectly described” the map.

  • lack@lemmy.world
    12·
    3 days ago

    Boebert and MTG are dime-store Sarah Palins, and Sarah Palin is an uneducated nitwit lush