Outside of Sarah Palin’s libel court case against The New York Times, she got cozy with conservative outlet The New York Post, according to a Slate report by Alexander Sammon.
This is the second time the court case is being heard. It pertains to Palin’s 2022 lawsuit on an article from 2017, which refers to a shooting in 2011. “But there was a reason Palin was back here, and it was clear the Times’ lawyers had their eyes on the bigger stakes, too,” Sammon penned. “That was all reinforced by what I saw on the way out.”
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The feature writer claims, “After the hearings were concluded for the day, I approached Palin and asked her how it felt to be right back here after three years. ‘It feels good to have another opportunity,’ she told me affably, ‘to hold the press accountable. Justice delayed isn’t necessarily justice denied,’ she added.”
He then followed Palin and her attorney into the lobby, where the former Vice-Presidential candidate was approached by New York Post reporter Ben Kochman.
Slate’s Feature Reporter continued to follow the group, eavesdropping on the conversation "I have a bone to pick with you,” Sammon recalled Palin saying “lightly.” “You wrote I divorced my husband,” Palin said. “Indeed, in a piece regarding the trial published Monday for the famously conservative Post, Kochman had written: “The mom of five divorced her husband of 31 years, Todd Palin, in 2019.”
Sammon noted it was Todd Palin who filed for divorce, then noted, “Quietly, the New York Post had finessed the mistake away: Now it reads that ‘Todd Palin filed for divorce against her in 2019,’ though the Google search cache hadn’t yet updated by the time I looked it up. The article features no correction.”
He ended the story by writing, “Then Palin’s lawyer cracked a joke, and all of them—Palin, her legal team, and the Post reporter—shuffled into the elevator together, laughing. It wasn’t that serious, I guess.”
