{"id":47519,"date":"2016-08-30T14:20:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=47519"},"modified":"2016-08-30T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T18:22:30","slug":"huffpo-revoked-publishing-access-of-journalist-after-hillary-health-story-its-orwellian-im-scared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=47519","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo &#8220;Revoked Publishing Access&#8221; Of Journalist After &#8216;Hillary Health&#8217; Story: &#8220;It&#8217;s Orwellian&#8230;I&#8217;m Scared&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend we posted about how the media&#8217;s coverage of Trump and Clinton&#8217;s health had become &#8220;outright bizarre&#8221; (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-08-27\/american-electorate-loses-partisan-media-coverage-candidate-health-turns-outright-bi\">American Electorate Loses As Partisan Media Coverage Of Candidate Health Turns Outright Bizarre<\/a>&#8220;).\u00a0 We also asked whether Google had taken measures to censor searches related to Hillary&#8217;s health condition (see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-08-28\/google-censoring-search-results-protect-hillary\">Is Google Censoring Search Results To Protect Hillary?<\/a>&#8220;).\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Turns out that the Huffington Post may have just joined in on the bizarre behavior by censoring a journalist with the audacity to question Hillary&#8217;s health.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday night, an obviously shaken Huffington Post contributor, David Seaman, posted a video to YouTube after the <strong>HuffPo had taken measures to revoke his publishing access and delete two articles he had previously published on Hillary&#8217;s health&#8230;a move that left him &#8220;a little scared&#8221; and &#8220;spooked out&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to Seaman, he has a long standing relationship with the Huffington Post which has included &#8220;100&#8217;s of successful articles&#8221; that have been published under the banner.<\/p>\n<p>Seaman reported the move by Huffington Post by live streaming a video of his reactions on YouTube (full video below).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\u00a0Huffington Post, where I was a contributor, <strong>they have revoked my publishing access and they&#8217;ve deleted both of my articles<\/strong> that were published earlier over the weekend.\u00a0 <strong>Both of my articles have been pulled without notice of any kind.<\/strong>\u00a0 Just completely deleted from the internet.\u00a0<strong> And both of those articles mention Hillary&#8217;s health <\/strong>which is both a hashtag on Twitter and I linked to a video that a YouTuber, Paul Joseph Watson, had uploaded back on August 4th showing signs that Hillary Clinton&#8217;s health is quite poor.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Whenever a video concerning a presidential candidate&#8217;s health is viewed more that 3.5 million times somebody who is under contract to the Huffington Post and AOL should be able to link out to that.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seaman goes on to point out that <strong>completely removing a published article from the internet is unprecedented and leaves him &#8220;a little scared&#8221; of being the next person to be &#8220;vanished&#8221; for criticizing the Clinton campaign.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"quote_end\">\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ve honestly never seen anything like this.\u00a0 This is happening in the United States in 2016.\u00a0 <strong>It&#8217;s frankly chilling.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a little scared.<\/strong>\u00a0 I&#8217;m doing this video also to say, <strong>I&#8217;m not suicidal right now; I am not a particularly clumsy person; I don&#8217;t own a car at the moment.\u00a0 So if I&#8217;m to slip in the shower over the next couple of days or something silly like that you have to really employ probability and statistics here<\/strong> because I&#8217;m not a clumsy person, right, and I&#8217;m also not a depressed person right now.\u00a0 <strong>I&#8217;m a person who is spooked out though.&#8221;<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>&#8220;For Huffington Post to delete those posts without any notice, that is Orwellian.\u00a0 That is something I&#8217;ve read about happening in mainland China.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid517813\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xHhNr5jeTIw\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fortunately, we&#8217;ve discovered a cached version of one of the articles published by Seaman (which can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache%3ALwXcO-agP6sJ%3Awww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fdavid-seaman%2Fhillary-clintons-health-i_b_11752226.html%20&amp;cd=6&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\">here<\/a>).\u00a0 In it, Seaman questions whether his readers truly believe Hillary to be healthy noting that he can&#8217;t express an opinion because he &#8220;needs to keep [his] job and platform.&#8221;\u00a0 Seaman goes on to point out that &#8220;we all know what happens when you speak a little too much truth about the Establishment-beloved Clintons.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\">\u00a0I realize some readers might be wondering after watching Paul Watson\u2019s video&#8230; how is she strong, or healthy, after seeing all that?<\/div>\n<p>Look guys, I need to keep my job and platform. A lot of people read the Huffington Post and AOL properties. <strong>We all know what happens when you speak a little too much truth about the Establishment-beloved Clintons.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Just ask longtime broadcaster Dr. Drew Pinsky.<\/strong> \u201c<strong>CNN has canceled Drew Pinsky\u2019s HLN show, Dr. Drew On Call, just eight days after Pinsky made comments on a radio show questioning the health of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.<\/strong> Pinsky\u2019s show, which is six years old, will air for the last time Sept. 22,\u201d The Daily Beast reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately for Seaman, it turns out that even posing a question about Hillary&#8217;s health is a little too much for the Huffington Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webcache.googleusercontent.com\/search?q=cache%3ALwXcO-agP6sJ%3Awww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fdavid-seaman%2Fhillary-clintons-health-i_b_11752226.html%20&amp;cd=6&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user230519\/imageroot\/2016\/08\/27\/David%20Seaman%204_0.JPG\" alt=\"David Seaman\" width=\"600\" height=\"893\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And, just for good measure, here is <strong>Paul Watson&#8217;s original video posted on August 4, 2016<\/strong>.\u00a0 Sure enough, the video is up to 3.6mm views and counting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-width-video-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"fitvid611936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OqbDBRWb63s\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just to confirm his story, we took the opportunity to check out Seaman&#8217;s &#8220;long-standing relationship&#8221; with the Huffington Post.\u00a0 <strong>Certainly a quick search reveals that Seaman is a frequent contributor to the website on a variety of topics. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-08-29\/huffingon-post-revoked-publishing-access-journalist-after-post-hillarys-healthits-or\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2016-08-29\/huffingon-post-revoked-publishing-access-journalist-after-post-hillarys-healthits-or<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}