Article snippet: Posted at 4:00 am on July 10, 2017 by Jay Caruso On June 14 of this year, the New York Times published an editorial entitled, ‘America’s Lethal Politics,’ on the day James Hodgkinson, a left-wing Democrat and Bernie Sanders supporter, shot Congressman Steve Scalise and three others at a congressional baseball practice in Alexandria, Virginia. In the editorial, they repeated a long-debunked lie about Sarah Palin and her “connection” to the Tuscon, Arizona shooting of Representative Gabby Giffords and the killing of six others in 2011. They wrote: They also wrote this: The New York Times said a direct link between Sarah Palin and the Giffords shooting existed. The accusation is a flat out lie. Jared Loughner, a man with schizophrenia, stalked Giffords after she refused to answer an odd question he asked her at a previous town hall meeting. The shooting had nothing at all to do with politics, and everybody knows this and has since 2011. After a tidal wave of criticism, the New York Times removed the language from the editorial, admitting no connection between Palin and the Loughner shooting existed. Sarah Palin filed a defamation lawsuit regardless and now the Times is offering up a laughably pathetic defense: An honest mistake? How is it that The New York Times, the “newspaper of record,” didn’t read their own stories to know there wasn’t a link to Palin? They published enough stories about it. Of course, in their rush to get the “other side did it too” narrati... Link to the full article to read more