Palmer Report

Palmer Report is an American liberal political blog,[3] founded in 2013 and based in Los Angeles, California.[4] It is written by Bill Palmer, who describes himself[5] on his website as a political journalist who covered the 2016 election cycle from start to finish, along with more than fifty additional writers and contributing editors in several U.S. states and the United Kingdom.[6] Palmer previously ran a site called Daily News Bin,[7] described by Snopes editor Brooke Binkowski as "basically a pro-Hillary Clinton 'news site.'"[8] The site has built a following based on speculative theories about Donald Trump going to prison.[9]

This article is about the American political blog. For the UN Report on Israel's naval blockade of Gaza, see Geoffrey Palmer (politician) § UN Inquiry.
Palmer Report
Type of site
Political blog
Available inEnglish
OwnerBill Palmer
URLpalmerreport.com
Launched 2013 (2013-MM)[1][2]
Current statusOnline

Reception

Palmer Report has been quoted by both the Washington Post and USA today as a political blogger and analyst.[10][11] Palmer expected Joe Biden to win the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination even after losing Iowa and New Hampshire as the third primary, South Carolina, matched the demographics of the overall Democratic primary electorate more closely.[12] Palmer Report has also been speculating since at least August 2018 that Trump will go to prison.[13][9]

In 2017, Zack Beauchamp of Vox Media said Palmer Report was a "mirror image of Breitbart and InfoWars on the right" due to Palmer’s comments linking Mitch McConnell and Russia; however in 2019 other sources made those same connections.[14][15]

Criticism

The Atlantic's McKay Coppins called the Palmer Report "the publication of record for anti-Trump conspiracy nuts who don’t care about the credibility of the record."[3] The New Republic's Colin Dickey said that Palmer "routinely blasts out stories that sound serious but are actually based on a single, unverified source." On another episode of purportedly overzealous editorialization, he reported Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts had ordered Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch to recuse himself from all Trump-related Russia hearings, with his only sourcing coming from a "single tweet from an anonymous Twitter account under the name 'Puesto Loco.'"[9]

References
  1. "About - Palmer Report". 2014-02-09. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  2. "Palmerreport : Palmer Report". palmerreport.com.cutestat.com. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  3. Coppins, McKay (2017-07-02). "How the Left Lost Its Mind". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  4. "About Palmer Report". palmerreport.com. 19 November 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  5. "Hi I'm Bill Palmer. Welcome to Palmer Report. - Palmer Report". 2016-08-25. Archived from the original on 2016-08-25. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  6. "About Palmer Report". palmerreport.com. 19 November 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  7. Benkler, Yochai; Faris, Robert; Roberts, Hal (2018-09-17). Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190923648. Retrieved 2020-05-15 – via Google Books.
  8. Meyer, Robinson (2017-02-03). "The Rise of Progressive 'Fake News'". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  9. Dickey, Colin (2017-06-08). "The New Paranoia". New Republic. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  10. "The their/there problem with Trump's tweet telling his intelligence chiefs to 'go back to school'". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  11. "Critics go after Trump for saying US would 'shoot down' aggressive Iranian boats". USA Today. Retrieved 2020-11-28.
  12. "Is Joe Biden really in trouble?". 2020-02-08. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  13. "Donald Trump's midnight madness". 2018-08-29. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
  14. Beauchamp, Zack (2017-05-19). "Democrats are falling for fake news about Russia". Vox. Retrieved 2020-05-15.
  15. "REVEALED: Another Mitch McConnell connection to Russia oligarch uncovered". 2019-07-31. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
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