Sarah Palin’s libel lawsuit against the New York Times will have to wait — the former Alaska governor has Covid again.
U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff made the announcement at the start of the trial on Monday, when jury selection was expected to begin. “Ms. Palin has tested positive for coronavirus. She is of course unvaccinated,” he said, according to court reporter Frank G. Runyeon.
Palin’s attorney then requested a seven to 10 day delay so that she may be present for the jury selection.
Last March, Palin revealed she was experiencing “bizarre” symptoms and was proof “anyone can catch [Covid].” At the time, she strongly encouraged “everyone to use common sense to avoid spreading this and every other virus out there.” Apparently, her common sense approach does not include receiving the vaccine.
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In fact, she told a crowd late last year, “It’ll be over my dead body that I’ll have to get a shot. I will not do that. I won’t do it, and they better not touch my kids either.”
Palin filed the lawsuit against the Times over a 2017 editorial that made false links between her political ads and the 2011 shooting that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and killed six people.
The Times admitted it misrepresented a map published by Palin’s political action committee that featured stylized crosshairs over the districts of 20 Democrats, Giffords’ among them. The newspaper quickly issued a correction saying that no such links were confirmed.
It’ll be an uphill battle for Palin’s lawyers to prove the Times behaved with “actual malice” in printing the editorial — defined as “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.”
ptn2719
“Apparently, her common sense approach does not include receiving the vaccine.”
The vaccine which, of course, offers almost NO protection against actually getting sick….
Dijonaise
It provides almost complete protection against dying alone with a tube down your throat and your ass in the air with adult diapers on…
But you do you.
Cam
When you anti-vaxxer trolls do your Googe alerts to pop onto any page talking about Vaccines, remember, LGBTQ sites are really really really used to lying trolls.
So go sell crazy someplace else.
v6origal97
What both of the other folks said… plus, the vaccine was never meant to prevent illness. It was meant to prevent DEATH. Read the actual literature, not YouTube science articles
Rob
I encourage YOU and only YOU, NOT to be vaccinated against COVID. Please do nothing to protect yourself. Darwin’s watching.
Bosch
Huh how weird. In my country, only the unvaccinated are still dying. Must be a crazy coincidence.
By the way, this is Queerty, not QAnon.
RoughRugger
You DO realize that the chicken pox vaccine does NOT prevent varicella-zoster from invading one’s body right? Same for the HPV vaccine + the human papiloma virus. Same for the measles vax & Measles morbillivirus. Same for the flu vaccine & the influenza virus.
Perhaps you should do some of that “research” you anti-vax chodes are so fond of & learn how vaccines work & what they actually do??
phillycap
Even gay people are dumb as a brick sometimes. The current vaccine offers you a 90 percent protection against being hospitalized. And if it offers no protection, why are 9 out of 10 people in the ICU with COVID unvaccinated. But you keep subscribing to convenient theories for dummies dot com.
stan2015
If you don’t have the vaccine then I think you should pay higher insurance rates and be the last person to be treated in an emergency.
barryaksarben
oh yes, Sarah Palin is so smart that she has had it twice. And now Meghan McCain has shown just how stupid anti vaxxers like you truly are
Kangol2
This goober is unvaxxed and has come down with Covid-19 right as this trial is about to start!
cuteguy
She deserves what she gets from covid, even long term. Her boss Trumpf not only got the vaccine but a booster.
Fahd
She’ll lose the case, but they want to take it to the Supreme Court to try to overturn the “absolute malice” standard when pubic figures are involved. The assault on legitimate journalism is not only going on outside the United States, and with the current U.S. Supreme Court, the whole thing could morph into another setback for civil rights.
olfwob
I wonder if FOX News is soooo happy about that lawsuit
Cam
Palin was one of the early Republicans to expose that the GOP were Putin supporters.
LumpyPillows
Calling on karma to do its thing.
Tombear
Covid doesn’t like stupid bitches.
SammySeattle
I think the opposite is true.
Jack
Family theme here. Sarah-don’t get protected by a vaccine and get COVID multiple times from God knows who. Bristol-don’t use protection and get pregnant multiple times from God. Knows. Who.
Trash.
Mack
Nailed it.
Jere
What an embarrassment for Alaska and Alaskans. I bet they wish she’d just go away and never be heard from again.
M K
I wish her the very worst (umm, I mean very best, yeah, that’s it) in her COVID fight and recovery. She can be the guiding light to all not to be vaccinated. Hopefully her followers will all follow her example.
LunaSol2010
She lowers the Darwin Award standards everytime she talks! So over her lipstick lesbian pitbull soccer mom 5 minutes of fame. John McCain biggest regret … running with her against Obama. With the exception of cranky bitchy whiny misinformed deceitful screaming aggressive motor mouth fired from View daughter. Q on Jeopardy: women who bring down the USA security level internationally to 154th. Vs Canada Security Level by UNHCR #6. One border and a universe of stupid away from each other. I have not x’d it in 23 years! Never will.
shaniac
Unfortunately she’s not eligible for a Darwin Award as she’s already bred.
johncp56
Antivax Moron I do not wish any harm get well but these antivaxer morons need to be pointed out, she is very lucky to not get put in oxygen and take up needed hospital beds
Heywood Jablowme
Is she trying to win a Lauren Boobert lookalike contest?