Thread by @PalmerReport

I’m tired of being targeted, stalked, and harassed by fucking psychos.

TO be clear, most the psychos who do this stuff to me are liberals, and half of them are journalists. They don't do it over a difference of political views; they do it either because they're mentally unstable, or out of professional jealousy.

My political analysis is not remotely controversial (or even important enough) for multiple journalists at major news outlets to have derailed their careers while trying to smear me. And yet it's happened. People (on my political side) destroy themselves trying to destroy me.

Competing liberal media outlets have been obsessively trying to scandalize me since 2016. I guess it's reached a point where people (on my poltical side!) who believe this shit about me are whipped into such a frenzy, they honestly think harassing me is their solemn duty in life.

Every fucking day I'm stalked, harassed, and lied about by people (on my own political side) who have been conditioned to believe over the years that I'm somehow the devil, and that their psychotic behavior toward me therefore justifies itself.

Competing liberal pundits think they can get away with spreading any lie they want about me. And they're right. They know that if I fight back, they can just point to the previous bullshit they've written about me as proof that my protestations should be ignored.

Political journalism is a dirty profession dominated by scuzz balls (on the left and right). But the behavior toward me by many competing liberal pundits goes way beyond a lack of ethics. It's like something of Lord of the Flies.

What's so deranged is that at this point these competing liberal audience gain NOTHING by attacking and harassing me. My audience doesn't fall for it. And while their audience might, our mutual audience members usually side with me when they attack me. Yet they attack anyway.

But because there are no real consequences for liberal pundits and journalists who stalk and harass me (beyond losing some of their followers over it), their deranged behavior continues. The major news outlets they write for certainly don't care to bring them in line.

The real problem is that even though some liberal pundits and liberal media outlets have backed off from harassing me and lying about me, their audiences still feverishly believe that I'm some kind of devil figure who needs to be destroyed.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that if these folks knew where I lived, some of them would be outside my house, tracking my every move, honestly believing they're justified. Competing liberal media outlets have done that much damage with their years of attack pieces about me.

Again, this really has nothing to do with political differences. It's just that liberal media outlets have been targeting me for competitive reasons from day one, and after years of beating that drum, there are numerous people who should be my readers but instead want me dead.

I'm being vindicated on everything these days – which is why this psycho behavior is going into overdrive. I'm not backing down. Palmer Report's audience base keeps growing. And I intend to see this through.

But these liberal pundits and liberal media outlets who have spent years whipping up this psychotic army against me, have made it impossible for me to ever work with them, respect them, or feel safe in a room with them. I hate 95% of the people in my industry. That won't change.

There are TV hosts and podcast hosts who probably want to book me these days, but are afraid to, because they don't want backlash from the whacked out anti-Palmer army that my competitors have spent years manufacturing against me.

Half the pundits on MSNBC follow me on Twitter, and many of them end up parroting my analysis, but they never dare cite me. That's fine. At least I get to influence them. But it's because they don't want to face backlash from the army of anti-Palmer psychos out there.

So I end up being this invisible presence whose analysis influences a lot of good liberal media pundits, but they know they can never cite me by name, because of all the imaginary controversy that bad liberal pundits have invented about me.

Thank God for you all. Not only do you read and value my analysis, you hold me to a high factual standard. So when you tell me I'm really accurate at this stuff, I know I can take your word for it. Even as hordes of anti-Palmer liberals insist that my every word is fake news.

But it's just such a weird place to be in. I keep being vindicated on thing after thing after thing. Yet the hordes anti-Palmer liberals take that as a sign to ramp up their harassment of me, because they don't to have to admit to themselves they've been wrong about me all along.

Not that I want a victory lap. I've turned down even the few positive media requests I've got over the years. I don't like that kind of attention, good or bad, so I'd probably turn down most victory lap opportunities now. I just wish this army of psycho stalkers would get a life.

For those asking, I have good solid happy life outside of the political realm. I basically enjoy everything in life but my work.

It's just surreal knowing that even as there are a few million of you who greatly value my work, there are millions more people on my own side of the political fence who see me as a devil and pariah who must be destroyed – and even they don't know why they feel that way about me.

Reading through the replies, it blows my mind how many of you still can't grasp that these are LIBERALS doing this to me. Not Trump goons. Not right wingers. People who AGREE WITH ME politically, but harass me anyway, because they've been brainwashed into it over the years.

I've retweeted some of the (obviously liberal) psychos who harass me, just so you all can see that they really do exist. Yet some of you insist on accusing them of being right wingers anyway. This is... not helpful. They're fucking liberals doing this to me! Fucking liberals!

There is ZERO political basis for why this army of stalkers is obsessed with harassing me. As I've spent the past fifty tweets explaining, competing LIBERAL pundits and LIBERAL outlets spent years whipping them into a psychotic frenzy about how I'm fake news. Simple as that.

And STOP asking me to just "ignore" the fact that a huge army of liberals is hellbent on stalking and destroying me for confused reasons. Maybe you mean well, but telling me to "ignore" it is really insulting. Put yourself in my shoes. My professional life has been set on fire.

If you want to help, start by acknowledging that my psycho stalkers are LIBERALS. Stop accusing them of being right wingers. Educate them factually about my track record, line by line, event by event. Or not. But don't tell me to "ignore" the destruction of my professional life.

Anyway, I really appreciate those of you who AREN'T telling me to "ignore" it, and are instead letting me vent about the fact that an army of liberal psycho stalkers has destroyed my reputation and made my every day of work a living hell, for reasons even they don't understand.