Everyone knows the usual suspects in our nation’s media who have shamelessly sucked up to President-elect Donald Trump. Try Breitbart News editor Matthew Boyle, who also helped tuck Sen. Ted Cruz‘s children into bed. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski. Her TV boyfriend Joe Scarborough. Or their adult adopted son Mark Halperin.
But honestly… the worst of the worst on this front is Daily Mail‘s U.S. Editor David Martosko.
The journalist who thrives on scolding other journalists and telling them how things are really done in the biz somehow got the idea floated that Trump was considering him for White House press secretary.
(Please raise your hand if you think he was the one who leaked this preposterous idea.)
But it only gets more embarrassing.
New York Post‘s Page Six writer Richard Johnson reported that a secret someone (a male) was being considered for White House press secretary had suggested, as part of a 13-point vomit-ridden suckup plan, to have journalists drug tested. Johnson kept things anonymous, but any idiot following Washington media could have guessed it was Martosko.
Sure enough, over the weekend, BuzzFeed confirmed that sources told them that indeed Martosko, an openly recovering alcoholic, had pushed drug testing for reporters covering Trump. And all this, while hinting to reporters that he was a good candidate for the position since he’d be one of them (yeah, riiiiight).
Martosko did not return a request for comment from BuzzFeed. Nor did he return an email containing questions from The Mirror.
A political reporter covering Trump reacted to the whole thing saying, “What a dick!”
Another Washington journalist remarked, “I think that if there’s any journalist in DC who wouldn’t want their private life pried into, it’s David Martosko.”
A former campaign spokeswoman to Hillary Clinton referred to him as #Creepolla.
No doubt Martosko thought Trump would go for such an unconventional idea considering how much he despises and adores reporters as it suits him.
But nope.
It was former RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer — a guy who largely gets along with reporters — who got the job.
Full disclosure: Martosko is formerly the executive editor of The Daily Caller. Our paths never crossed there.