Sarah Palin’s defamation suit against New York Times thrown out

Sarah Palin’s defamation case against the New York Times was tossed Tuesday after a Manhattan federal judge found that the former Alaska governor failed to prove the Gray Lady intended to do her harm.

“Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States,” Judge Jed Rakoff said in his 25-page ruling. “In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others.

“Negligence this may be; but defamation of a public figure it plainly is not,” the judge wrote in dismissing Palin’s defamation case with prejudice, which bars her from refiling the case in his court.

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