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Celerity

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9. the Palmer Report is the Louise Mensch of low-budget dodgy wish-fulfillment Dem sites
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 05:23 PM
Mar 2020

your OP

LITERALLY says this

and I quote The Palmer Report YOU are posting





https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/disgusting-bernie-sanders-is-staying-in-the-race/27197/





you need to delete this shit (and I am NOT NOT NOT a Sanders fan and truly want him to drop out, but this shit is pure TOS violation and disgusting)




more on this rag of a site


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/palmer-report/

The Palmer Report (TPR) is a liberally biased news site / blog that deals more in confirmation bias than in actual reporting. Confirmation bias generally consists of taking a set of facts, often unrelated, and building a web of conjecture around them in order to present a specific point of view as opposed to the actual facts. While confirmation bias may not be, technically, fake news, the sensational nature of this type of reporting often does more harm than good. Mr. Palmer has been criticized for inaccurate reporting in his work by other fact and bias checking sites, both for his work on Daily News Bin and on TPR, as evidenced by the entries on this list from Snopes, as well this article from the The Atlantic. Although TPR does contain some factual content, the misleading and biased way in which it is presented earns TPR a Questionable rating. (D. Kelley 4/3/17)

Overall, we rate the Palmer Report Left Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that routinely favor the left. We also rate them Mixed for factual reporting due to several failed fact checks. (11/25/2016) Updated (D. Van Zandt 9/21/2019)


Here is a list of additional False and Misleading Claims:

https://www.snopes.com/jared-kushner-go-saudi-arabia-doesnt-extradition-treaty-us/

https://www.snopes.com/russia-kompromat-jason-chaffetz/

https://www.snopes.com/denis-voronenkov-paul-manafort/

https://www.snopes.com/trump-staged-speechwriting-picture/


'People want it to be true': Inside the growing influence of a mysterious anti-Trump website

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-palmer-report-bill-louise-mensch-2017-5?r=US&IR=T

snip

Last weekend, two Trump critics — Louise Mensch, a former member of the British Parliament, and Claude Taylor, a former Clinton White House official — cited anonymous sources in claiming there was a "sealed indictment" against Trump. (Taylor is listed as a writer for the Palmer Report.) Their report gained traction on Twitter, where it was seized on by fellow critics of the president and mocked by many legal experts who questioned its comprehension of the Constitution.

As it often is, the pair's reporting was picked up by the Palmer Report, a left-leaning website that has been gaining influence online as prominent figures in politics and media share and cite its stories and information.

The "about" page of the Palmer Report thanks numerous people for sharing its articles, including several MSNBC figures; Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe; two former governors; Rep. Ted Lieu of California; and celebrities like Patricia Arquette, Mark Ruffalo, and Debra Messing. The site has also caught the attention of former Obama administration officials. Ned Price, who was a spokesman for the National Security Council and had worked for the CIA, recently shared a Palmer Report article on Twitter, to which Eric Schultz, who was a senior adviser to Obama, replied, "Too bad nobody flagged this earlier."

When journalists — including Business Insider Executive Editor Brett LoGiurato — asked Price about sharing the Palmer Report story, Price said that "every once in a blue moon, the tin hat can fit."

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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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I think he was going to stay in till the convention anyway n/t Just_Vote_Dem Mar 2020 #1
BS wages still another 'Zombie Campaign' empedocles Mar 2020 #2
We need EVERYBODY to stay healthy. marble falls Mar 2020 #11
Good Lord, Sir, Is He Still Around? The Magistrate Mar 2020 #3
+1 denem Mar 2020 #4
Magistrate I applaud you DDySiegs Mar 2020 #5
That's a great point, and I believe it. C Moon Mar 2020 #6
It makes perfect sense to me. NurseJackie Mar 2020 #8
Don't bring that garbage here. nt Codeine Mar 2020 #7
the Palmer Report is the Louise Mensch of low-budget dodgy wish-fulfillment Dem sites Celerity Mar 2020 #9
As much as I am cynical regarding Bernie's motives, that was about as nasty a hit piece ... marble falls Mar 2020 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #12
It's inviting trouble. ucrdem Mar 2020 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author geralmar Mar 2020 #14
It's not the electorate that worries me, or DUers. ucrdem Mar 2020 #15
I can't believe we have this is an OP on DU. It's Breitbart level. marble falls Mar 2020 #21
Especially patently false ones. Bernie's doesn't have any traction, we should not be ... marble falls Mar 2020 #20
He needs to get out. Publishing scurrilous crap like this is counter productive. Its patently a ... marble falls Mar 2020 #19
It's not nice to spell it out, naturally, but if Bernie didn't think Joe was vulnerable, ucrdem Mar 2020 #22
So we've become Republicans? We want to degenerate into mud slinging? That's not the ... marble falls Mar 2020 #23
So how do you explain why he hasn't had the grace to congratulate Biden on his wins ucrdem Mar 2020 #24
My 2016 dejavu was spot on. sarcasmo Mar 2020 #16
It is possible, that if BS heard thru the grapevine, that JB was infected, empedocles Mar 2020 #17
The thing is, Bernie would never be the nominee anyway Wanderlust988 Mar 2020 #18
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