In true biased form, the New York Times managed to take the attempted murder of more than 20 Republican Congressmen by a supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders and use it to take a shot at Republicans themselves.
The Times’ editorial board featured an op-ed on Wednesday that went back to the 2011 shooting of Democrat Rep. Gabby Giffords and a long debunked conspiracy theory involving former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
“In 2011, when Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl, the link to political incitement was clear. 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,” they wrote.
“Though there’s no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack, liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right,” the editors said.
But there was no direct incitement, despite how badly the Times wants to pin something on Republicans in their moment of tragedy.
As CNN’s Jake Tapper pointed out on social media in response to the op-ed, the schizophrenic shooter, Jared Loughner, was obsessing about Giffords for years before Palin’s map came out.
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
And there is no evidence that Loughner ever saw the map or was inspired by it.
The Times’ blatant bias was fodder for others on social media to call them out.
This NYT editorial is journalistically monstrous. It’s legitimately cancellation-worthy if you have a subscription.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) June 15, 2017
.@nytimes editorial board has now done editorials about Pulse and Alexandria shootings that found a way to blame Republicans. pic.twitter.com/EXJZJiz1Is
— David Rutz (@DavidRutz) June 15, 2017
Unbelievable. The Times is still peddling this despicable lie. https://t.co/TyGFopPt6m pic.twitter.com/2wibKRbmnQ
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) June 15, 2017
The New York Times is well aware that any link between Palin and the Giffords shooting were long debunked, but they’re going for it anyway. pic.twitter.com/BgzaQFQMz6
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 15, 2017
And BTW, the NYT’s linkage of Sarah Palin to the Gabby Giffords shooting is a despicable lie. Even the Times shouldn’t sink so low
— George L. Duncan (@GeorgeLDuncan) June 15, 2017
The New York Times editorial from TODAY takes time to blame Palin for Giffords. Jesus Christ. https://t.co/bk3iFN8Mf4
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 15, 2017
OMG. The NY Times editorial board is still insisting paranoid schizophrenic Tucson shooter was driven by Palin. https://t.co/FJSvT5RqY3 pic.twitter.com/uqXAbfJDKm
— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) June 15, 2017
The NYT is disgusting. Apparently it takes more than six years for the esteemed Gray Lady to understand the facts of a breaking news story.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 15, 2017
Where does the buck stop? The editorial page is literally the paper's voice.
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) June 15, 2017
Even the editor of the far left publication Mother Jones smashed the Times.
This NYT editorial is, in fact, stupid. Palin didn’t make that loon shoot Gabby Giffords. “Rhetoric” didn’t make today’s whacko shoot either https://t.co/C5X46nACEb
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) June 15, 2017
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