Thread by @johnkonrad

Oh Drew, I’m thrilled you asked.

If any of my followers want to explain this to him directly, please jump in. I’ve officially run out of crayons.

Otherwise, I’m happy to walk through exactly how ya’ll at WaPo engineer hit pieces🧵

Foe those unfamiliar here’s the hir piece Drew Wrote about me, a licenses ship captain and MARITIME journalist , who was invited to go with @SecWar on a shipyard tour

washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…

First let’s define “hit piece” so we are all clear

I’ll even give you the biased Wikipedia version

First—this isn’t original. @oliverdarcy scooped the fake story. You just lifted it.

@RyanHoliday explains the scam perfectly: MSM (here, CNN) launders lies by leaking to sketchy bloggers, then “confirms” them by calling sources primed by the blog. Narrative laundering 101.

amzn.to/3Z1K7gp

The second Holiday violation is burying the leak.

WaPo can’t ethically run it from an anonymous source but Oliver can, because he’s already burned. Then reporters call people around the leaker to “verify” it, hiding the original leak trail.

Source laundering 101

So we have barely started and it already meats the Wikipedia definition of a hit peace:

“presenting false or biased information in a way that appears objective”

LIE of omission.

Here’s what you wrote and here’s the post you pulled it from.

As you can see “no scoops” was in dirext reference to the maduro raid.

But you framed it to be the new press corps’ entire body of work

LIE

Double standard framing.

You establish that even massive media companies with nearly unlimited resources worth billions are having trouble getting scoops on the Maduro coverage

But that’s AFTER you blast the new (mostly less resourced independent) for having the same problem no

I don’t have time for deep research and all your new DEI WaPo style guide changes

Traditionally, when writing about a professional, you use the proper title. Mine is Captain John Konrad.

That would’ve told readers my lane isn’t Maduro scoops it’s maritime ones.

You omitted my title which is a lie of omission and a lack of professional discourtesy.

A quick look at my website aritlce would have shown you the proper title

Ww haven’t even gotten past the “no scoops”

Which is clearly a lie because nuclear propulsion on the new Trump Class battleship was a HUGE scoop from the trip.

The first new nuclear battleships EVER

I doubt you have EVER had a scoop that monumental

LIE

This is America Drew, anyone can sue anyone for almost anything.

Of course you are free to publish this information but the proper way is to use the word “allegedly”

You did not:

@RPodleskiDOW had one request of us and one request only… no shouting @SecWar when he’s transitioning with armed security, it’s dangerous.

Did you even reach out to Tiley? IDK

Here you are bending the truth by separating us into two groups

This suggests to the reader there is the new press corps and the old one

But some in the first list aren’t new press corps, they were just on trip assignment

And you mixed topical experts (me and Christian TV) with political journalists. That’s not honest.

Next you make it seem unbalanced by failing to mention the third organization from the lld press corps who was invited: the great Tony Capaccio from Bloomberg

(He got sick the very last minute)

Ok I did write that but I contrasted the sad broken working class strip mall with the best of the nation

You leave that detail out but keep “flag emoji”?

But Ok I won’t apologize for voting for someone who puts young recruits #1

This was the one that really pissed me off.

5 words pulled from 13,000 article I wrote.

That’s called quote mining!

And that article had a video of me crying in Arlington National Cemetery which was critical context for my bias - which I admitted - here.

You pull this one out of context to make it sound like I hate journalists

It literally has a funny giphy attached you donut hole:

(This thread got out of order… returning to his quote mining)

For those unfamiliar with industry jargon or how long a 13,000 word article is… it’s about 1/10th average book and takes most people over an hour to read.

Just scroll it to see how massive it is:

gcaptain.com/a-week-in-the-…

It also has dozens of scoops!

The video of me literally in tears:

To use the most vulnerable moment of a man’s life - a moment when I was really just a kid - from video taken on the most hollowed ground in the entire nation!

That’s just VILE

I’m nowhere near the end of your lies, exaggerations and untruths but X won’t let me post more to this 🧵 so my followers can go look for the rest.

You dropped fakenews easter eggs like a pink flamingo on hormone injection therapy

It’s a hit piece @drewharwell and you’re either a double digit IQ donut hole or a dirty liar

@drewharwell One more… what exactly is wrong with a Christian network reporting that Hegseth mentioned Jesus?

Please explain that one to me in crayons Drew

@drewharwell I forgot the OP evidence on this one: