Thread by @DrewHolden360

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You want bad @NYGovCuomo takes? Then you’ve come to the right place.

It’s good to see folks recognize his failure. But apologies are in order from those who built him into a pandemic hero while he played a villain

Here’s a top-10🧵of the worst culprits (+bonuses)⤵️

10. @Amy_Siskind

I was never holding my breath for Siskind to be a good faith actor but the sheer depravity of her content (this is only a sampling) makes it impossible to keep her off the thread.

9. @voguemagazine (and @chelseahandler and @MollyJongFast)

Listen, my expectations for Vogue weren’t high, but just look at these headlines and ask yourself “is it any wonder @NYGovCuomo got away with what he did?”

Honorable mention. @BuzzFeed

There were too many great ones to limit this to ten. Adding Buzzfeed to the thread simply because they forced me to read these words.

(Also, given some non-coronavirus headlines, it may be time to retire that survey.)

8. @ananavarro

An often overlooked member of the Cuomo News Network team, Ana gets bonus points because she often pretends to be a conservative.

My favorite tweet, though, is from 2013.

7. @MSNBC

There’s only so much you can expect from an openly partisan media outlet, so the bar here was already low.

But giving @NYGovCuomo an unchallenged opportunity to come on and defend his nursing home death scheme? Well. That makes the countdown.

Honorable mention. @CheriJacobus

A thread favorite, Jacobus misses the top ten but certainly managed to keep it weird.

6. @washingtonpost (@sarahellison and @bterris)

This article may be the worst of the Cuomo coverage from a mainstream outlet not named CNN, and that’s really saying something. google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

A brief aside here to point out that, with only a couple of exceptions, all of the people in this thread bill themselves as critics and/or objective.

If DCCC says this kind of stuff, well, that isn’t news.

But these folks ARE the news.

5. @neeratanden

Back to the program. Pretty incredible to me that Tanden, famous for being a mean person on the internet, had nothing but incredibly complimentary things to say about Cuomo.

4. @CNN

It takes a lot to have so much badness that, even spread across an entire network, it’s still damning. But from their nightly Cuomo Bros saga to their ridiculous coverage, CNN has earned this spot.

Honorable mention. @SethAbramson, a man who needs no introduction.

I will point out, though, that each of these tweets were within two weeks of Cuomo’s having signed a decree requiring nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients.

3. @JRubinBlogger

It is a testament to the outrageous level of Cuomo fangirling that Rubin barely cracks the top three. Here’s just a sampling of some of her remarkable tweets about Cuomo that have aged...imperfectly

(This will always be my favorite tweet of all time)

Honorable mention. @SteveSchmidtSES

Where stupid goes, Schmidt and company are never far behind. The Cuomo situation was unsurprisingly no different. And this from a man who still pretends to be conservative about a liberal Governor.

2. @JoyAnnReid

I’ll let the tweets speak for themselves. Just barely missed the top spot on the countdown.

1. @ChrisCillizza

Even above his network, Cillizza’s fangirlish coverage stands alone as the most egregious.

We can leave it to history whether @NYGovCuomo was a “terrific bureaucrat” who “benefited from radical transparency” but let’s just say that I’m skeptical.

There you have it, folks. The worst of the worst, in my eyes, accounting for both content and reach.

There are a lot of takeaways here, but I think one of them is pretty simple: stop worshipping politicians.

Lots of them are just bad people, and eventually the truth will out.

Perhaps the best takeaway is that, when a fawning mainstream media & blue check environment tells you a Democratic leader is without blemish, it probably just means that there are no blemishes that those folks are interested in talking about, even if many might exist.

It’s important to call out that, interspersed with these awful examples, there was a lot of reporting - particularly from local outlets - that was really, really good.

Here are a few examples from @NewYorker, @propublica, @NY1 and @ABC7

And this was also true among lots of conservative outlets and individuals, like @WSJ, @FoxNews (especially @JaniceDean) and the NY Post.

But in a lot of ways, this just makes it even more intellectually & morally bankrupt that so many people talked about @NYGovCuomo the way they did.

So many of his faults and failures were already on the record.

These people just willfully ignored them. Which is unconscionable.

Post script honorable mention - if you can make it through anymore cringe, please watch and listen to this whole video from @TheDailyShow.

And let’s just say that the coverage of @GovRonDeSantis was...a little different. Previous 🧵 for your reference/those mentioning it.

This may finally be the time some of these folks block me.

Folks will ask on occasion if they can support the work that goes into these. I’m flattered, but your local food bank needs that money a lot more. For those in DC, Capital Area Food Bank does great work. capitalareafoodbank.org

Special shout out to @MollyJongFast for finding a way to concede she was wrong while seemingly blaming everything and everyone but herself. thedailybeast.com/my-cuomo-crush…