Drew Holden
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Link to my Substack about the media, @Holden_Court , is below. Also seen in: @nytimes @NRO @federalist & more. Keeper of receipts. Maker of🧵threads🧵
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I’m launching something new, so naturally I figured the best explainer was a 🧵thread🧵.
Introducing Holden Court, my Substack about the media, what it gets wrong, and why it matters.
You probably know the drill, but more details & links to sign up in the tweets below. ⤵️
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The Hunter Biden story broke two months ago. Most of the media ignored it or called it “Russian disinformation,” despite no evidence that it was.
Now that the election is over, the story, it seems, is fit to print.
Who’s up for a little before and after?
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I hope the dozens of attendees from today’s Justice for J6 rally make it safely back to their desks at the FBI.
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Today, President Biden announced his intention to end the war in Afghanistan, to great media fanfare.
You may remember, way back in 2019 & 2020, President Trump said the same thing.
Let me know if you can spot the difference in coverage then vs. now⤵️
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We’ve got to talk about the Rolling Stone invermectin article. Turns out the story about rural hospitals so flooded with ODs that they couldn’t treat other patients was made up, entirely invented.
A lot of people took the bait, and I’ve got the screenshots.⤵️
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At some point it would be nice if we talked about the fact that there appears to be a semi-professional class of people whose energies are spent creating riots across the country.
Seattle-based activists arrested in Kenosha after filling up gas cans
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If a single pilot sharing a political opinion you don’t agree with on a flight that you aren’t on sends you into a tizzy, you should imagine what it must be like when the entire corporate universe does this for months on end on countless issues.
Some of us don’t have to imagine.
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Trying to remember the last time a “whistleblower” went public with a PR firm, press email contact, full legal team and Senate appearance.
‘Facebook’s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy’ — Watch Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen's full opening statement at a U.S. Senate hearing
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The most important story in the world right now is that various segments of the US government coordinated a malicious attack based on a lie to undermine the duly elected President of the United States.
It’s that simple. If it doesn’t bother you, it means you’re a partisan.
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Conservatives aren’t mad because there are protests.
We’re mad because ALL OF YOU said we were evil for suggesting mere weeks ago that some things are too important to keep locked down.
Don’t remember? Well, lucky for you, Twitter is free and the internet is forever.
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It’s time to revisit the coverage of Kyle Rittenhouse.
With the news that he has been acquitted on all counts, don’t forget the ways that Dems and the corporate press came together to craft a false narrative in his case.
Let’s break down how we got here⤵️
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Twitter tolerates the Ayatollah of Iran and not the leader of the free world.
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You guys aren’t going to like this, but Pence is a good reminder that, if Trump could just restrain himself once in a blue moon, the Republican ticket would be cruising to reelection.
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The reason
@ProjectLincoln
does vile, awful things is because it’s run by vile, awful people. It’s that simple.
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Also, let’s be clear here.
If it were Obama leaving his hospital room, we’d be getting fawning coverage from the media about how the president’s bravery was a heroic inspiration for a nation brought to its knees by a deadly pandemic.
So spare me.
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@anitasarkeesian
Anita, I hope you’re sitting down, because I have something very important and perhaps shocking to tell you.
Women have boobs.
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Imagine boycotting a company because it’s CEO was nice to Trump but being fine with a company that uses slave labor from concentration camps in China.
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President Biden recently said “it’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production.”
I figure the fact checkers likely won’t touch this one, so I did the homework.
Biden’s claim isn’t true. I explain. ⤵️
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Whatever your thoughts on vaccine mandates, Biden’s new order is like 8,000x more tyrannical than anything Trump ever did.
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Feels like it might be a good day to revisit these ones
"Senator Paul, you do not know what you are talking about quite frankly. And I want to say that officially," Dr. Fauci said to Sen. Paul after the Kentucky Senator accused him of lying about the role the NIH played in funding research in Wuhan, China.
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That the Covid pandemic could’ve leaked from a lab in Wuhan went from terrible, racist conspiracy theory to plausible overnight for the mainstream media, without a shred of accountability.
If you don’t believe me, look at these stories side-by-side, then vs. now⤵️
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I don’t care what your politics are. It’s self-evident that Jared Kushner has done substantially more to deserve a Nobel Peace Prize than President Obama ever did.
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March 2nd, 2020.
Some day someone will do a study on how many lives might have been saved if this happened in February or March
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Nothing says “Biden will bring us together” like “now that we Democrats have power, who has the list of our enemies handy?”
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Okay fine🧵.
Guys. People lost their minds when Trump walked slowly down a ramp one time.
I don’t think the Biden stair stumble stuff should matter. But boy did the media set one hell of a precedent about presidential walking patterns.
And if you’ve forgotten, read on ⤵️
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“15 days to slow the spread” kicked off four years ago Saturday, sending the media into perhaps its most deranged cycle of my lifetime.
I dove back into some of the worst lockdown media coverage from those early days.
Buckle in, this one’s long. ⤵️
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An incomprehensible assault on our democracy. An insurrection, surely - likely an attempted coup. A worse day than 9/11.
Climate protesters are pushing police, trying to force their way into the Department of the Interior where other activists have made it inside in an attempt to occupy the building.
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Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since Texas lifted it’s mask mandate. Coronavirus cases have been steadily declining since, w/ yesterday the 18th day in a row of decreases.
But you may remember the left & the media promised the reverse would happen. And I’ve got receipts.⤵️
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It’s subtle but let me know if you can spot the difference in tone here from NYT
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The bombshell
@nypost
story about Joe & Hunter Biden has caused some bluechecks to suddenly worry about pushing a story that may not be true.
Where was that sentiment during the Russian collusion hoax?
Your latest class of the Hypocrisy Hall of Fame.
#HypocrisyHOF
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“I mean, even if China did recklessly release a plague that killed millions of people and half a million Americans and then violated international law to cover it up, does it really matter?” is the next stage of this.
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CNN requiring expert help to understand why anyone listens to the world’s most popular podcaster is painfully on-brand.
Joe Rogan is one of the most popular podcast hosts in the world, despite a series of controversies. CNN Business spoke with a researcher who has studied his appeal to explain why his audience loves him
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Last night vs. earlier today vs. now.
You can’t make it up.
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I‘ve never seen gaslighting as bad as the current effort to pretend the protests that neatly coincide with the uptick in coronavirus cases had nothing to do with the uptick in coronavirus cases.
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With Trump calling out the media for pushing fake Chinese numbers on coronavirus cases, I suspect that reporting will soon be memory-holed.
So I put together a thread with plenty of examples, grouped by outlet.
If we don’t demand accountability, we aren’t going to get any.
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Justice Elena Kagan, nominated by President Obama, had never served a day as a judge before joining the Supreme Court.
"I’m hard pressed to think of a Supreme Court nominee in modern times who has brought such limited experience to the job," writes Linda Greenhouse of Amy Coney Barrett
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It has been 82 days since
@ddale8
,
@CNN
’s presidential fact checker, has fact-checked Joe Biden, the president.
In the interim, he has fact checked Republicans 29 times, and former President Trump 18 times.
What gives?
@FreeBeacon
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Remember the Steele dossier? It went to hell today, barely making news.
Now that its been thoroughly discredited, anyone care for a trip down memory lane about how folks on the left & in the media hyped it up because it made Trump look bad?
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The way Willis has conducted herself in this hearing is jarring.
That she was in charge of one of the most consequential legal trials in American history should terrify anyone, no matter what they think of Trump.
Not sure the legal outcome of all this but one thing is certain, Fani Willis has shown what an absolute embarrassment she is. While it's embarrassing for the Country as well, it is good we're seeing this and the nature of those persecuting Trump.
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The NIH announced a bombshell: despite what Dr. Fauci said under oath, US taxpayers paid for gain-of-function research in Wuhan.
I hope that outlets will correct the record from when they assured us this wasn’t happening.
If they’ve forgotten, I’ve got screenshots⤵️
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@JoeBiden
promised us better. We were told - over and over again, in no uncertain terms - that the Biden team was going to turn the coronavirus pandemic around.
Today, they told us that wasn’t true. We’ve got a lot more examples to go. 👇
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NPR appears to be having a struggle session because the wrong type of female minority won the Boston mayoral election.
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I think it’s worth pointing out that the Democrats impeached the President over a conspiracy theory that has since unraveled and neither the event nor the theory was mentioned during a debate a month before his potential re-election.
Like it never happened.
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Today we learned more about how awful
@ProjectLincoln
is.
If you’re wondering how these guys survived for so long, it’s because tons of people in the media & beyond boosted this pack of no-good grifters.
And I’ve got the receipts to remind them.⤵️
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We’ve all seen the various flip-flops of the CDC and Dr. Anthony Fauci over the last 18 months.
To help keep track, I present “Fauci vs. Fauci,” chronicling the twists, turns, contradictions and backtracks from the man and his agency.⤵️
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Earlier this month, these same Buccaneers signed Richard Sherman, who is currently facing criminal charges for domestic violence.
Buccaneers weigh in on their former Super-Bowl winning head coach:
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We’re seeing a narrative evolve in real time in Lancaster, PA that omits the fact that the man who was shot & killed by police was actively trying to kill a police officer, even w/ bodycam evidence.
Enormously irresponsible, especially given the current climate.
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After last night’s debate, I thought it was time to fact check the factcheckers.
There were a lot of bad claims - and more “facts” that went unchecked. I dive into them below.👇
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I know I’ve been quiet on here for a while.
Long story short, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I recently finished chemotherapy and started radiation.
The prognosis is really good, but as I’m sure you can imagine it’s been a slog.
Quick personal 🧵
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Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize for drone strikes and the media and experts won’t even mention Trump brokering a normalization of diplomacy between Israel & the UAE.
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At some point, we need to have a reckoning about the ways that Dems & the media pushed the “Russian collusion” narrative - absent any evidence - and how they’ve refused to revisit it as the narrative has fallen apart.
Just in case you’ve forgotten how bad it was👇
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The stock brokers will be fine. Somebody has to make all these solar panels.
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She should simply change the law so that “feeling the spirit” is an exemption.
San Francisco Mayor
@LondonBreed
defends violating her indoor mask mandate while partying at a club:
“I was feeling the spirit and I wasn’t thinking about a mask."
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I’ve got ZERO interest in hearing that a desire to get to the bottom of potential voting issues is an assault on our democratic system by the same people who spent four years telling me
@realDonaldTrump
was a Manchurian candidate who’s been a Russian asset since the 80s.
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Soooo, that whole pandemic thing, we aren’t doing that anymore, right?
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So former president Bill Clinton was named in unsealed documents related to Jeffrey Epstein where a witness placed him - repeatedly - at Epstein’s pedophile island.
The mainstream media is silent. Quick 🧵thread🧵
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There were probably 4-5 different points that Biden made that were conspiracy theories that the media pushed.
No pushback on them from Wallace.
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The US military going out of their way to attack a journalist is like 7000% more fascist than anything Donald Trump every dreamed of.
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Okay, some of these are too good.
Quick 🧵 of the wackiest
@elonmusk
potentially buying Twitter takes vs. what those folks had to say when Twitter booted President Trump. ⤵️
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First, for context, here’s the original piece from
@RollingStone
and the follow up from the actual hospital saying the story was BS and that the one (one!) person the story quotes doesn’t work at that hospital anymore (and hasn’t in months).
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Any follow up here,
@RollingStone
?
Vile, baseless conspiracy theories are spreading about Hunter Biden, and despite pledges to curb misinformation in the lead-up to the election, social media sites aren't stopping them
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Do you remember how bad the media’s “Covid lab leak” - the hypothesis that the virus came from a lab - coverage was?
I thought I did. But it was a more dramatic example of uniform media malpractice than even I remembered.
So I revisited it. Buckle in, it’s long. ⤵️
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Nature is healing.
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With Biden having been declared the winner (for now) by major media outlets, I figured it would be a good time to share some of the people who’ve threatened retribution against Trump supporters.
The list is a lot longer than I had anticipated it would be👇
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A little perspective on coronavirus deaths by state.
New York has nearly TRIPLE the number of deaths (32,000) as Florida, Georgia, Texas and Arizona COMBINED (12,118) despite having BARELY OVER 1/4 the population of those states.
Any reporting that omits that is propaganda.
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That
@briantylercohen
pushed a baseless lie on a show called “No Lie” is really just a little too on the nose.
@NoLieWithBTC
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It should go without saying, but inventing a narrative out of thin air simply because it confirms your priors is not going to help rebuild trust in the media.
It would’ve taken a single phone call to shoot this story down.
Why didn’t that happen?
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We even had an executive producer from MSNBC push the story that wasn’t.
@laurenpeikoff
You know what’s a good way to not be derisively referred to as “fake news”?
Stop pushing fake news.
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The idea that Covid-19 may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China has gained mainstream traction of late.
It can be easy to forget that, a little over a year ago, the idea was derided as a vile, senseless conspiracy theory.
Let’s revisit. ⤵️
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