Full Disclosure: Politico Reporter Iced by Fox News PR

Considering no one except those deep in the secret bowels of Fox News knows why communications exec Brian Lewis was fired and escorted from the building in July, Politico‘s Dylan Byers last night attempted a fairly in-depth story on the matter.

Needless to say, the headline, “Roger Ailes fires his ‘right hand'” elicited masturbation jokes in the comment section.

One graph that popped was the last, in which Byers describes his own non-relationship with the network. Politico reporters have long been blackballed from FNC, with a nameless publicist snarking that they just “tend not to rate well.”

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