Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed the media for dragging his campaign Sunday, saying he has been slammed “even more than President Trump was slammed” by mainstream media outlets.
“I’ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented,” Kennedy said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic who is running a longshot primary campaign against President Joe Biden, is more popular among Republicans than Democrats, according to polling.
The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. has been hit with backlash for his stances on vaccines, particularly recent comments he made suggesting that the coronavirus could have been “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. Kennedy denied allegations of racism and antisemitism, saying on Twitter: “I have never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”
“I mean, listen, if I believed the stuff that’s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy told host Maria Bartiromo. “I would think I was a very despicable person.”
Gee, I wonder why the media would hit a spoiler candidate like RFK Jr harder than someone who is entangled in multiple trials? Maybe he will realize he has no shot and just go away but I doubt that.
Either he’s a complete and utter moron, or he’s being bankrolled by people who have made promises to him for trying to hurt the democrats. Either way, don’t see him quitting at a rational time.
The mistake the media is making is covering RFK Jr. at all. Would have figured they’d learned their lesson with Trump. The media is as much to blame as any other entity for the US’s lurch to the right because they waste their time covering it.
They did learn their lesson from Trump. Articles about crazy candidates brings more site traffic.
He’s already at the “the media is unfair to me” stage. That was quick.
Also, the last paragraph is hilarious.
Although the media hit Trump really hard, the left-on-left violence seems pretty unprecedented.
It;s clear that the left knows that he’s not establishment, like Biden is, and that if he got a fair chance, he’d probably stomp Biden.
He wants vaccine testing similar to almost all of western europes. That’s not a conspiracy theory.
sane person
So…not biden?
If they weren’t nervous, they wouldn’t be trying everything they could to discredit, trash and suppress his voice.
Our childhood vaccines are documented to be safe. He is a conspiracy theorist who is assisting the murder of children.
He wants vaccine testing similar to almost all of western europes. That’s not a conspiracy theory.
Bullshit. He’s been peddling dangerous crackpot theories for decades:
Coming from someone who read some of his fantastic environmental work from the Bush II era, I can honestly say he’s ventured so far into the deep end of paranoia he should be shunned everywhere he goes. Children are dying because of him.
Where is exactly is the left in this fight? The media is hardly the left and RFK Jr. is an alt-right candidate using his family’s name as cover to masquerade as a Democrat.
Almost all TV media is left wing. Most online media is left wing. Social media is left wing.
RFK Jr. is an alt-right candidate
Can you define alt-right?
Generally folks who are alt right aren’t willing to sign a gun ban, generally aren’t pro-choice, aren’t for college loan forgiveness, doesn’t champion trans rights, nor other LGBTQ rights, generally aren’t for nationalized drug recovery centers, aren’t anti-war, don’t fully condemn every white supremicist, anti-semite or anti asian rhetoric.
If you really think he’s alt-right, we have different depictions of what the ‘alt-right’ are.
You make a great point here. It’s so common to boil one view down to a label, and then people use that label to extrapolate a whole set of views, many of which the individual may not ascribe to. Example: he’s anti vax which is an alt right viewpoint, therefore he is alt right. You tell someone that he is alt right and then that person thinks he is bigoted toward LGBTQ+, donates to the NRA, pickets outside of abortion clinics, etc.
I’m not saying any of this in support of RFK Jr at all, just that this concept is detrimental to all rational discourse. Labels are a helpful part of language in categorizing things, but they can also be really dangerous when you default to using them in every situation even if they don’t fit.
Delusions as fuck. Media in this country is all run by the extremely wealthy. To call it left wing is laughable. Neo-liberalism (democrats) are borderline conservative and that’s who runs the media. Just cuz you’ve been brainwashed into thinking centerist big corporate politicians are “left wing” doesn’t make it true.
Almost all TV media and social media is run by corporations who only care about making money. That’s hardly left-wing.
Holy fuck you’re a crazy GQP guy eh? This guy is a complete joke to every democrat/left wing/liberal person I know. No one will vote for him. His entire purpose is to try and get some of the crazy anti vax conspiracy weirdoes who are left in the Democratic party to not vote for Biden.
Holy fuck you’re a crazy GQP guy eh?
Depends, what’s GQP?
This guy is a complete joke to every democrat/left wing/liberal person I know.
You must have a shitty circle. He’s seen more favorably than any other candidate, and has the lowest unfavorable ratings. Once you get away from the headlines from the MSM, and just watch a few interviews, you can see why. He’s for unity for the country, getting away from the power of the CIA and war mongerers.
Those headlines don’t make money, stopping the military industrial complex doesn’t make money, and fighting against a bloated executive branch isn’t good for the dems.
You’ve GOT to tell us how good that Kool-Aid is. Because for you to be that far up that walking misinformation campaign’s ass- it’s GOT to be amazing.
Oh ya, totally. He’s going to take down the military industrial complex man. TRUMP DRAINED THE SWAMP SOOOO HARRRRRDDDDDD. I mean, he replaced the crocodiles with his toad ass children and son in law to grift up more than ever before, but he drained it first.
Maybe it’s because he’s an alt righter campaigning as a Democrat.
