The New York Times, in an epic display of revisionist history, blamed Sarah Palin in an editorial for a mass shooting in Arizona in 2011, which is a conspiracy theory that was debunked almost immediately after the fact.
The editorial sought to draw a parallel between this week’s shooting by a far-left Bernie Sanders supporter, and that by apolitical lunatic Jared Loughner, who shot Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others in an attack in Tucson.
In doing so, the Times revived a conspiracy theory at the time that asserted that ‘target maps’ used by Palin to focus on political opponents who needed to be voted out of office actually led to the shooting.
“The link to political incitement was clear,” the column read. “Before the shooting, Sarah Palin’s political action committee circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.”
What the Times missed, however, was the fact that no link between Palin’s maps, or political rhetoric of any kind, with the shooting had ever been established.
Ever.
Via Axios:
The New York Times posted an editorial Wednesday night that invoked a debunked 2011 theory that a map circulated by Sarah Palin inspired a shooter to fire gunshots outside of an Arizona grocery store, striking and critically injuring then Congresswomen Gabby Giffords.
The editorial followed the shooting attack at a Congressional baseball practice Wednesday that was carried out by 66-year-old James Hodgkinson, who upon further investigation was found to have deep anti-Republican sentiments and had volunteered for Bernie Sanders campaign. The piece drew comments condemning the reporting from journalists whose audiences represent many different political perspectives, like MSNBC, Mother Jones, The New York Post and National Review Online.
The false link was condemned by people on all sides of the political spectrum.
even way back in Jan 2011 we knew that Loughlin’s obsession began 3 years before the Palin map.https://t.co/9nJccuIQnb
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 15, 2017
Let me chime here to say: yeah, that’s nuts.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 15, 2017
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This editorial is an unconscionable disgrace and the Times should be ashamed. Its editorial board is a joke. https://t.co/bk3iFN8Mf4
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 15, 2017
The paper of record was forced to issue a correction after the outcry …
We got an important fact wrong, incorrectly linking political incitement and the 2011 shooting of Giffords. No link was ever established.
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) June 15, 2017
… but they still left the unrelated Palin information in the corrected version!
Here’s the before and after of the two paragraphs from the @nytimes editorial pic.twitter.com/n8GJvHSl2C
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 15, 2017
Townhall’s Guy Benson writes, “I obviously approve of the decision to alter this grossly inaccurate content, but the fact that their essay was approved as fit to print in the first place last evening is quite revealing.”
But even the corrected version is a problem, according to Benson.
“The new version of the editorial still mentions Palin’s map, which is totally unconnected to anything of relevance on this subject,” he added. “A bizarre non-sequitur. Their utterly wrong, unsupported implication remains intact.”
This “correction” is not nearly good enough. The New York Times issued a false statement that could itself incite further violence from somebody with the same mindset as the recent shooter. They need to write an entirely new piece that debunks their own conspiracy, and explain to their readers why the editorial board published such a wild conspiracy in the first place.
The New York Times is a disgrace.
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Blame it on Hillary, that’s a better idea.
More crap here regarding the New York Times.
http://themillenniumreport.com/2017/06/the-new-york-times-is-exposed-its-all-propaganda/
The NYT is not a disgrace. It implies that you exhibit grace or that your profession exhibits grace. Neither is true. The NYT is accordingly exactly the piece of broadsheet trash that is has been for the last 35 years. It’s just that the rot goes much deeper and the entire edifice appears tottering on the edge of a cliff.
So far I have read that it is the fault of President Trump, Fox News, and Sarah Palin. Will we ever know the truth about this?
Oh, yea it’s all Sarah Palin fought. She trained the shooter to go shoot the Republicans. Come on stop grabbing at straws. this division is caused by Obama and Hillary Clinton training radical groups to protest showing violence, as a way to be heard. Obama is funding classes on this subject. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/12/sperry-obama-organizing-violent-anti-trump-protesters-just-miles-white-house/
And here is Hillary’s part in this violence.https://youtu.be/KNsTuvoNnaI
Place the blame where it belongs.New York Times.
NYT Editorial Board brings us just that much closer to our second civil war. Board ought to learn how to manage body armor and hollow point ammunition.
NYT Editorial Board brings us just that much closer to our second civil war. Board ought to lean how to manage body armor and hollow point ammunition, or else get their wills in order.
NYT Editorial Board brings us just that much closer to our second civil war. Board ought to lean how to manage body armor and hollow point ammunition, or else get their wills in order.
Over the past 8 years the National Inquirer could be trusted more than the New York Times, what does that say about the Un-American MSM?
NEW YOTK TIMES IS AN UNAMERICAN RAG. MY PARKEETS THROW IT OUT OF THE BIRDCAGE. IT IS ONLY GOOD FOR MONKFISH WRAP.I’M SURE IF YOU GO BACK TO HITLER THEY WERE ENDORSING HIM. FOR SURE JOSEF STALIN WAS THEIR FAIR HAIRED BOY. THE TIMES COVERED UP STALIN’S MURDER OF 12 MILLION UKRANIANS WHO STALIN FORCED THEM TO EAT THEIR CHILDREN. CAN YOU IMAGINE THE COMPASSION OF THE MAN. ABOUT THE SAME AS A PRO CHOICE COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT. DEMOCRATS HAVE NO RULES THUS NO SHAME OR CONSCIENCE.. THE TIMES CALLED FIDEL CASTRO THE GEORGE WASHINGTON OF CUBA. YOU CANNOT BE A CHRISTIAN AND A DEMOCRAT.
the left liberals will not admitt that they were defeated and will do anything anytime to disrupt trump and to make sure america will never be great again
The Liberals are going off the deep end trying to find someone else to blame for their inflammatory rhetoric other than themselves. They are the cause of this outlandish attack on Republican members of congress, no one but themselves.
Please do not forget to give the MSM the culpability they have earned.
“…apolitical lunatic Jared Loughner,… .” That says it all. Palin caused the APOLITICAL Loughner to shoot Giffords….yeah, that’s the ticket. He’s apolitical, so we’ll stick him in the corner of the right! What’s really at issue here is that yesterday’s lunatic was a liberal, a Sanders campaign worker, and they can’t escape that reality, so now they’re making up their own reality, even though it was debunked how long ago? The media is as pathetic as the rest of the liberal loons.