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An Error, Sarah

April 23, 2025 Buck Banks

For John McCain’s loss, you can blame her.
As a leader of the radical right, you can name her.
But if you are Sarah Palin,
Your legal strategy’s failin’,
And if you are the New York Times, apparently you can’t defame her.

Sarah Palin’s Perry Mason Moment

February 11, 2022 Buck Banks

“I admit, at this point in her testimony, I was a little impressed. Palin in no way resembled the caricature I had in my head. She was confident, articulate, and—somewhat to my surprise—quite lucid. I’m not saying she was Stephen Hawking, but she at least evinced a sort of horse sense, paired with grinning charisma, that you could imagine might make her an effective mayor or governor. Then, about a half hour in, the wheels came off.”

— Seth Stevenson

News Flash: Boris Johnson Is a Liar

February 8, 2022 Buck Banks

Leonhardt Lays Out the Case Against Trump in 40 Sentences

September 23, 2019 Buck Banks

40

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt lays out the case of Donald Trump versus the United States of America in 40 sentences.

New York Times Anything but ‘Failing’

August 20, 2018 Buck Banks

77%

CNN: “In his tweet, Trump again called the Times ‘failing,’ but the newspaper actually reported a healthy second-quarter profit. Two years ago today, he also called the Times ‘failing’ and ‘dying.’ The Times‘ stock is up nearly 77% since that tweet.”

Trump Made 25 False Statements in 30 Minutes

January 2, 2018 Buck Banks

25

Toronto Star: “President Trump sat down Thursday for a rare interview with a media outlet other than Fox News, holding an impromptu 30-minute session with New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla. … He made nearly one false claim per minute — 25 false claims in all.”

Haberman: Trump Is ‘Unleashed’

November 30, 2017 Buck Banks

“Something is unleashed with him lately. I don’t know what is causing it. I don’t know how to describe it.”

— New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, quoted by Newsweek, on President Trump’s recent behavior.

Federal Judge Dismisses Palin’s Defamation Suit Against the Times

August 30, 2017August 30, 2017 Buck Banks

“Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States. In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others.”

— Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, dismissing Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, CNN reports.

NYT Has Seen Post-Election Surge in Subscriptions

November 30, 2016 Buck Banks

132,000

Number of paid subscriptions to online and print the New York Times has seen since the presidential election, the media giant said in an exclusive statement to CNBC.

NY Times Sees Big Surge in Subscribers in the Age of Fake News

November 18, 2016 Buck Banks

41,000

The number of new paid subscriptions to the New York Times in the week since Election Day, the largest one-week subscription increase since the paper launched its digital pay model five years ago.

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An Error, Sarah

Sarah Palin’s Perry Mason Moment

— Seth Stevenson

News Flash: Boris Johnson Is a Liar

Leonhardt Lays Out the Case Against Trump in 40 Sentences

40

New York Times columnist David Leonhardt lays out the case of Donald Trump versus the United States of America in 40 sentences.

New York Times Anything but ‘Failing’

77%

CNN: “In his tweet, Trump again called the Times ‘failing,’ but the newspaper actually reported a healthy second-quarter profit. Two years ago today, he also called the Times ‘failing’ and ‘dying.’ The Times‘ stock is up nearly 77% since that tweet.”

Trump Made 25 False Statements in 30 Minutes

25

Haberman: Trump Is ‘Unleashed’

“Something is unleashed with him lately. I don’t know what is causing it. I don’t know how to describe it.”

— New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, quoted by Newsweek, on President Trump’s recent behavior.

Federal Judge Dismisses Palin’s Defamation Suit Against the Times

“Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States. In the exercise of that freedom, mistakes will be made, some of which will be hurtful to others.”

— Federal Judge Jed Rakoff, dismissing Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, CNN reports.

NYT Has Seen Post-Election Surge in Subscriptions

132,000

Number of paid subscriptions to online and print the New York Times has seen since the presidential election, the media giant said in an exclusive statement to CNBC.

NY Times Sees Big Surge in Subscribers in the Age of Fake News

41,000

The number of new paid subscriptions to the New York Times in the week since Election Day, the largest one-week subscription increase since the paper launched its digital pay model five years ago.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), on Benny Johnson’s podcast.

— Pew Research

— Tom Nichols

Numerati

42%

A new Gallup poll finds 42% of young men saying religion is very important to them, up sharply from 28% in 2022-2023. By contrast, during this period, young women’s attachment to religion has held steady at about 30%.

+50%

US business adoption of AI crosses 50% for the first time in March, according to Ramp AI Index; Anthropic goes from 7% to 30% market share year-over-year, nearly equal to OpenAI (35%).

4%

72%

A new Yale Youth Poll finds 57% of all voters disapprove of Donald Trump’s job performance as president, including 68% of voters aged 18-22 and 72% of voters aged 23-29. Compared to the fall 2025 poll, Trump has lost the most ground with women under 35 and men under 30.

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