New York Times Busted For Falsely Blaming Palin For Giffords Shooting. Here’s How They Corrected Their Dishonest Story.

Following the attack on Republican congressmen on Wednesday by a virulently anti-Republican, anti-Trump Bernie Sanders supporter, The New York Times published an editorial titled “America’s Lethal Politics” so egregiously dishonest that even many on the Left called foul. The Times has now issued a correction to the story.

In the regrettable editorial, after trying to use the shooting, which has left Republican Rep. Steve Scalise in critical condition, as a means of pushing yet again for more restrictions on Second Amendment rights, the Times made the following comparison between James T. Hodgkinson‘s heinous actions on Wednesday and Jared Lee Loughner’s shooting of Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011. Loughner’s actions, the Times dishonestly suggested, had a “direct” connection to a “stylized cross hairs” symbol Sarah Palin’s PAC used on its website. Here’s the original passage: