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busterbrown

(8,515 posts) Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:54 PM Dec 2017

Palmer Report? Many Around Here..Dislike it?

Recently I've been checking it out and up to this point have found it to be a good source..

I enjoyed this quick read this a.m.. I too for awhile thought Collins was turning around

http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/susan-collins-is-garbage/6742/

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Palmer Report? Many Around Here..Dislike it? (Original Post) busterbrown Dec 2017 OP

i like him samnsara Dec 2017 #1

Don't care for it. underpants Dec 2017 #2

Yup, don't like - too much sensationalism not enough truth Amishman Dec 2017 #10

I dont rely on him for accuracy ismnotwasm Dec 2017 #3

What YOU said. . . n/t annabanana Dec 2017 #11

I find about 95% of what is on it very good...that article you referenced and written by Bill Palmer Pachamama Dec 2017 #4

Can be cathartic sometimes, but grain of salt.... I do agree on Collin's ugly debacle. hlthe2b Dec 2017 #5

Good place to read what we hope for. Bad place if you expect it to ultimately pan out that way. Hoyt Dec 2017 #6

He has some interesting theories but... Kablooie Dec 2017 #7

Clickbait with sensational headlines to lure the faithful in Lee-Lee Dec 2017 #8

Infowars of the Left Adenoid_Hynkel Dec 2017 #9

I remember that.. LeftInTX Dec 2017 #14

He offers much opinion, along with some news. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2017 #12

Palmer does speculation and basically, tea leaves reading. nocalflea Dec 2017 #13

samnsara

(17,622 posts)

1. i like him

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 03:55 PM

Dec 2017

underpants

(182,826 posts)

2. Don't care for it.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:05 PM

Dec 2017

Sensational headlines that rarely are,supported by the story.

Amishman

(5,557 posts)

10. Yup, don't like - too much sensationalism not enough truth

Reply to underpants (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:50 PM

Dec 2017

He seems to specialize in taking a nugget of truth, stripping it of context,and building a sensationalist article around it.

ismnotwasm

(41,989 posts)

3. I dont rely on him for accuracy

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:06 PM

Dec 2017

But he is fun

annabanana

(52,791 posts)

11. What YOU said. . . n/t

Reply to ismnotwasm (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:51 PM

Dec 2017

Pachamama

(16,887 posts)

4. I find about 95% of what is on it very good...that article you referenced and written by Bill Palmer

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:08 PM

Dec 2017

...is spot on about Susan Collins...

She just guaranteed the end of her Senate Career from Maine....and he is spot on about her having likely ambitions and plans to run for President - just like Corker and Flake.

Disgusting sell out

hlthe2b

(102,292 posts)

5. Can be cathartic sometimes, but grain of salt.... I do agree on Collin's ugly debacle.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:09 PM

Dec 2017

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

6. Good place to read what we hope for. Bad place if you expect it to ultimately pan out that way.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:23 PM

Dec 2017

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)

7. He has some interesting theories but...

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:25 PM

Dec 2017

I get tired of the overblown hyperbole that the end is always in sight and every one is going down any day now.

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)

8. Clickbait with sensational headlines to lure the faithful in

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:27 PM

Dec 2017

Lots of wild ass predictions, unsubstantiated crap, or massive exaggeration of small amounts of fact to play it up to look like more than it is.

All with one goal in mind- to lure you in so he gets paid by the ads that flash on your screen.

It’s literally a guy pretending to be a progressive journalist who twists and alexaggerates facts to draw in as many real progressives as possible to his website so he gets paid for the ads they see while he wastes their time with his crap journalism.

Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)

9. Infowars of the Left

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 04:27 PM

Dec 2017

If you'd believed Palmer's "exclusives," the smoking gun that was going to stop Trump's inaugural was being found every day during the recount.

LeftInTX

(25,370 posts)

14. I remember that..

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 07:16 PM

Dec 2017

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

12. He offers much opinion, along with some news.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 05:25 PM

Dec 2017

But, does gives links to news... also has some interesting and at times correct speculation at the meaning of the news.

nocalflea

(1,387 posts)

13. Palmer does speculation and basically, tea leaves reading.

Reply to busterbrown (Original post)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 05:43 PM

Dec 2017

He attempts to explain how the DC pols and their ilk think and operate .
Sort of an inside view - " this is what it really means" .

Every once in a while , he'll show some good insight about how DC functions, but sometimes he totally misses the mark , especially when it comes to the psychology of individual players.

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