On Sunday night, Huffington Post contributor David Seaman was terminated after writing two articles about Hillary’s health, which both link to a viral video created by Paul Joseph Watson, the editor of the website InfoWars.
After being terminated, Seaman posted his own YouTube video explaining the situation. He claimed that his publishing access was revoked and “both of my articles were pulled without notice of any kind.”
Seaman said he covered the topic after Watson’s video went viral and the hashtag #HillarysHealth was trending on Twitter. His post was titled, “Hillary Clinton’s Health Is Superb (Aside From Seizures, Lesions, Adrenaline Pens).”
“That video since August 4th that Paul Watson put up has been viewed more than 3.5 million times so it was a very newsworthy thing for me link out to. People are talking about it,” he said.
“Whenever a video concerning a presidential candidate’s health is viewed more than 3.5 million times somebody who is under contract to the Huffington Post and to AOL should be able to link out to that — especially as a journalist living in the United States of America — should be able to link out to that without having their account revoked without any notice on a Sunday night, late on a Sunday night.”
Seaman explained that his termination is worrisome, and he has never seen anything like this.
“I have written hundreds of stories, filed hundreds of stories over my years as a journalist and pundit and I have never had anything like this happen,” he said.
Seaman went on to explain that part of his motivation behind making the YouTube video was because he is now worried for his personal safety.
“It’s frankly chilling, I am a little scared,” he said. “You know, I am doing this video also to say I am not suicidal right now. I am not a particularly clumsy person. I don’t own a car at the moment, I Uber around everywhere. So if I am to slip in the shower over the next couple days, or something silly like that, we have to really kind of employ probability and statistics here because I am not a clumsy person, right? And I am also not a depressed person right now. I am a person who is spooked out though. This is spooky to me.”
Seaman claims he has never has his access revoked before and said, “this is not a protection of my First Amendment rights.”
“I’m not posting controversial stuff, I just linked out to a f**ing YouTube video that was viewed 3.5 million times since the beginning of this month. And for Huffington Post to delete those posts without any notice is Orwellian, that is something I read about happening in mainland China.”
He concluded his video with his plans to seek legal counsel.
“This is not unbiased coverage of this election,” he said.
