Despite The Correct Verdict in the Palin v. NYT Case. There Was Media Malpractice.

 

In the reporting about the case.   Various media outlets have been ignoring the important fact that yesterday, when the judge announced he would dismiss the case no matter what the jury said, he was granting the NYT's motion to dismiss, which was filed before the case went to the jury.  And now there is this conspiracy theory floating around out there that the judge went rogue.  Shit.  Even in the NYT's own story yesterday, they buried the fact the judge granted their motion, further down the article.

And  as is often the case, people don't fucking read the whole fucking story, or do not post the critical detail.  I am looking at you ex law professor Ann.  You got a bunch of your deplorables on your blog spewing all sorts of idiotic bullshit.  Even if one of the denizens there took the time to explain Fed.R.Civ.Pro. 50. And even if today we found out the jury, who were left alone to finished deliberating, as the judge thought their verdict would be of use to the 2nd Cir.  expected to have to handle the expected appeal? They unanimously found against the whiny assed, violent rhetoric spewing, poses with guns, snowbilly.  

So there.

I do not know how good this case is going to be for the desired goal of her financers, to overturn the landmark case that established the high burden for proving defamation if one is a public figure.  I would guess the fact the jury did not at all buy her weak assed, bullshit, whiny baby, baseless  claims?   That will make it harder for SCOTUS to even go there. So we are going to have to see.  The current rogue SCOTUS is hard to predict.  But I  have no reason to believe that there are enough votes on SCOTUS to grant review, never mind change the law in a way that is all but guaranteed to bankrupt Fox News, it's imitators, and basically all known conservative/right wing media.

Speaking of ex law professor Ann.  Here is the smartest comment on her blog by her denizens, at least before I started my post here:  

"The chance of a New York jury finding for Sarah Palin is about the same as Stalin's advisors telling him that Trotsky would have made a better leader."

So they are not all fucking morons, over there.