A New York judge dismissed Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times with a resounding statement on journalism. Federal judge Jed. S. Rakoff in Manhattan ruled Tuesday to dismiss her complaint that an editorial maliciously linked her to a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona, The New York Times reports. In his ruling, he wrote: "Nowhere is political journalism so free, so robust, or perhaps so rowdy as in the United States.