David Martosko was exiled to the Daily Mail after he blew it at the Daily Caller, but he doesn't want the Fox audience to know that.
June 17, 2015

Hey, Megyn Kelly! You just got handed a big pile of baloney wrapped in a whiny media wrapper, and if any of our political media had half a brain, they might have looked into possible reasons for why David Martosko was banned from the Clinton reporting pool.

But no, instead it's just more lies for Politico, Fox News, and even respectable outlets like the Washington Post to pick up the whine with some cheese.

"I think the real reason is between dinner time yesterday when they emailed me a confirmation ... and midnight when they changed their mind, they looked at our reporting," Martosko said. "The Daily Mail is a very ... thorough reporting organization and we don't tend to show up and do what we're told. We dig deep for stories and we find interesting stories that our massive audience wants to read."

Martosko added there are a lot of stories his newspaper publishes that "the Clinton's don't like because they're not flattering."

"The Clinton campaign does not get to choose who covers them and that's really the controversy today," Martosko stated. "This is the kind of thing we see in other countries that we do not want to emulate."

Well, no. Actually, what we do not want to emulate is allowing someone to pose as a reporter while sock-puppeting for a public relations firm in order to smear liberal activists.

And we especially don't want to emulate reporters for hack joints like the Daily Caller who invent stories with hookers and things to try and smear a United States Senator.

There's a reason Martosko was exiled to the Daily Mail, and it wasn't journalistic skill.

Hillary Clinton wouldn't let a rattlesnake live in the press pool either. That's not censorship, it's common sense.

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