The New York Times editorial board ignored its own fact checker when writing a 2011 article that falsely linked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to the 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, emails revealed in court showed on Friday.
As Breitbart News reported in 2017, the Times published an editorial attacking Palin in the wake of a mass shooting in which a crazed left-wing gunman had fired at Republican members of Congress at a baseball practice in Virginia, wounding several.
Members of the press surround former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as she leaves the federal court in New York, on February 3, 2022. (YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)
The editorial, “America’s Lethal Politics,” made the already-debunked false claim: “Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other…
