RFK Jr. Watch
- • 100%www.mediaite.com ‘You’re Going to Lose’: Fox’s Howard Kurtz Dismantles RFK Jr.’s Lawsuit Against YouTube and Trashes His ‘Long History of Misinformation’
The way Fox News' Howard Kurtz sees it, Robert R. Kennedy Jr. has no hope of winning his lawsuit against Google after his anti-vaccine videos were scrubbed.
- • 100%fivethirtyeight.com If RFK Jr. Wants To Be President, He’s Running In The Wrong Primary
A certain presidential candidate has been very popular lately. He appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast. House Republicans invited him to testify before Congress on c…
- • 100%www.dailydot.com RFK Jr. sues YouTube and Google, says he should be allowed to spew vaccine nonsense because he's running for president
RFK Jr. says Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have been giving him special treatment since he became a candidate—but YouTube hasn't.
- • 100%www.businessinsider.com RFK Jr's super PAC is mostly funded by a GOP megadonor who spent millions on Trump and bankrolled an effort to build a border wall in Texas
$5 million of the group's nearly $9.8 million fundraising haul came from Timothy Mellon, who gave millions to Trump's super PAC in 2020.
- • 100%apnews.com RFK Jr. says he’s not anti-vaccine. His record shows the opposite. It’s one of many inconsistencies
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr. challenges President Joe Biden, the stories he tells on the campaign trail about himself, his life’s work and what he stands for are often the opposite of what his record shows.
- • 100%www.respectfulinsolence.com COVID-19 as an "ethnically targeted" bioweapon: RFK Jr. embraces antisemitism and racism
A couple of weeks ago, RFK Jr. shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 might have been an :"ethnically targeted” bioweapon that spared the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews, showing how conspiracy theories ultimately devolve into antisemitism. Then he denied it. Same as it ever was.
- • 100%www.rawstory.com Reporters bust RFK Jr.'s historically illiterate complaint about not being given Secret Service protection
Anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is complaining that the Biden administration isn't providing him with Secret Service protection, despite the fact that historically such protection is only granted to candidates once they win the nomination of a major ...
- • 100%www.businessinsider.com RFK Jr. is tanking among Democrats, rising among Republicans: poll
Kennedy Jr. is now underwater with likely Democratic voters, with 41% disapproving of him and 38% approving, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
- www.huffpost.com Man Who Debunked RFK Jr. Long Ago Describes His 'Whack-A-Mole' Candidacy
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.
"Describing his views as ‘controversial,’ I think, is dishonest," author Seth Mnookin said of the long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful.
- www.rollingstone.com Anti-Vax RFK Jr. Says Media Treats Him Worse Than Trump
Notorious anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed that the media has "slammed" him more than Donald Trump.
- www.politifact.com RFK Jr’s baseless claim on COVID sparing Jews, the Chinese
When Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mused in a recent video that COVID-19 targeted ethnic group
- • 100%religionnews.com RFK Jr’s unhinged antisemitism is no surprise
(RNS) — RFK Jr. is channeling his grandfather, and it is not a good look.
- • 100%www.alternet.org 'Disinformation can kill': How RFK Jr. 'had everything to do with' a measles outbreak in American Samoa
Hours after anti-vax Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before the United States House of Representatives Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on Thursday afternoon, one of the nation's foremost experts on vaccinations reminded P...
- • 100%thehill.com Democrats put RFK Jr. on blast in change of strategy
Democrats are no longer trying to ignore Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and have taken to calling him out in public after a week of controversies. National party leaders for the first time acknowledged Kenn…
- • 100%www.mediaite.com Laura Ingraham Declares, ‘Popular’ RFK Jr. Is ‘Polling So Well’ as Graphic Shows Him Trailing By 57 Points
Laura Ingraham continued Fox News' relentless promotion of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and claimed he is polling well as a graphic appeared indicating he trails President Joe Biden by 57 points.
- • 100%www.dailykos.com Despite an attempt to make RFK a thing, the fact is he has no support among Dems
The 2024 presidential political season is still early, but the hot takes have been atrocious. Among the worst is the notion that President Joe Biden is in trouble because people want an alternative, and because conspiracy theorist and Nazi sympathizer...
- https:// www.realclearpolitics.com /video/2023/07/20/lawrence_odonnell_trashes_walking_tragedy_rfk_jr_he_knows_nothing_about_censorship_using_his_kennedy_privilege.html
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell trashed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the Thursday broadcast of his MSNBC show as "not very well educated," attacked him for his drug addiction, and said he is someone who uses his "Kennedy privilege" to be "as much of a public liar" as former President Donald Trump.
- newrepublic.com JFK’s Grandson Drags RFK Jr.’s White House Bid as Embarrassing “Vanity Project”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being criticized by all his family members.
- • 100%www.mediaite.com RFK Jr. Tells Congress He’s Not Anti-Vaxx, Then Pushes False Claims Suggesting Covid Shots Killed People En Masse
The same day after claiming he was not anti-vaccine, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested that Covid shots failed to prevent the deaths of a large number of people.
- • 100%www.rawstory.com Voters’ distaste for 'dangerous,' 'nutjob' RFK Jr. is growing: report
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's 2024 White House bid was always a long shot. But the more voters get to know the anti-vax conspiracy theorist, the less they like him, The Washington Post's Aaron Blake reports.The Kennedy conundrum came to a head on Thursday when, despite warnings that it would backfire, the ...
- www.cnn.com Fact check: RFK Jr. claimed he’s never told people to avoid vaccination. He did – less than two years ago | CNN Politics
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed at a congressional hearing Thursday that he has never urged the public to avoid vaccination – but he said less than two years ago that he had approached strangers in public places to tell them not to get their children vaccinated.
- www.pbs.org RFK Jr. appears before Congress as his comments spreading misinformation draw scrutiny
All eyes are on the Republican primary this election cycle, but one Democratic underdog has been getting attention for his controversial comments spreading misinformation on a range of subjects. Lisa Desjardins reports on how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. captured the attention of some voters and Geoff Benn...
All eyes are on the Republican primary this election cycle, but one Democratic underdog has been getting attention for his controversial comments spreading misinformation on a range of subjects. Lisa Desjardins reports on how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. captured the attention of some voters and Geoff Bennett discusses Kennedy's vaccine stances with Dr. Paul Offitt.
- • 100%www.theguardian.com Robert Kennedy Jr’s racist, antisemitic and xenophobic views go back decades, report says
Democratic candidate’s recent false claim that Covid could have been ‘ethnically targeted’ is not an aberration but fits long pattern
- www.motherjones.com RFK Jr. wants to make it easier for doctors to spread medical lies
His war on a California law against Covid misinformation is just the beginning.
- • 100%www.cnbc.com White House responds to 'vile' RFK Jr. comments on Covid and race
The White House response come as Democrats and Republicans rushed to condemn Kennedy's comments.
- • 100%sciencebasedmedicine.org RFK Jr.: A fart-filled argument gives way to an antisemitic conspiracy theory that COVID-19 is an “ethnically targeted” bioweapon | Science-Based Medicine
RFK Jr. endured bad press over a press event, but the fart jokes were mixed with darker side: His antisemitic claim that COVID-19 might have been "targeted."
- www.skepticalraptor.com Vaccines do NOT cause autism — RFK Jr should read this
Despite the false claims from Robert F Kennedy Jr and other anti-vaxxers, the scientific facts is vaccines do not cause autism.
- • 100%www.independent.co.uk RFK Jr says pointing out his own laundry list of conspiracies is ‘unfair’
Kennedy calls calm confrontation ‘very unfair’
- • 100%sciencebasedmedicine.org RFK Jr. resurrects an old antivax half-truth about “saline placebos” in randomized controlled trials of vaccines | Science-Based Medicine
RFK Jr. has resurrected the misleading claim that childhood vaccines have never been tested in randomized controlled trials with a saline placebo controls.
Dr. David Gorski expertly debunks the claim by RFK Jr. that only saline or saltwater placebo controlled trials can be used as evidence for the safety and utility of vaccines. This idea of RFK Jr. would cruelly deny access of already proven treatments on the control group, resulting in totally unnecessary deaths and suffering.
- https:// www.dailymail.co.uk /news/article-12242961/MAUREEN-CALLAHAN-bet-didnt-know-RFK-Jrs-appalling-misogyny-No-one-dares-ask-would.html
A chilling read. RFK Jr. has a history of appallingly sexist behavior, of cruelty to his former wife Mary, and even went so far as to fight her family for the burial rights, only to have her exhumed to a vacant lot. Furthermore, a cousin of RFK Jr. had been convicted of murder, to which RFK Jr. went to great lengths to see his cousin eventually be freed.
- • 100%www.salon.com RFK Jr.'s anti-vaxx views also reinforce damaging autism stereotypes, advocates say
RFK Jr. says he advocates for the marginalized, but built his career spreading harmful lies about autism
RFK Jr. has parroted Kremlin talking points with regards to the war in Ukraine, seemingly oblivious of the fact that all of Russia's narratives do not change the fundamental fact that the war in Ukraine was started by Russia in an attempt to grow it's territory.
- nymag.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job
How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.
Excellent write-up, covering a litany of the conspiracy theories that Kennedy has endorsed.
- www.respectfulinsolence.com RFK Jr. "in his own words": Fiercely antivax
An antivaxxer challenges us to judge RFK Jr. by his own words before deciding if he's antivax. Challenge accepted. He's antivax as hell.
- • 100%www.thedailybeast.com RFK Jr.’s Campaign Manager Can’t Name a Single Vaccine He Supports
Dennis Kucinich, a two-time presidential candidate himself, seemed flustered at what should have been an easy question to answer.
RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer. He may try to hide behind labels like "vaccine neutral" or as a "vaccine safety advocate," but the reality of the matter is that vaccines are safe, and RFK Jr. is an anti-vaxxer.
- • 100%cepr.net Why the RFK Jr., Rogan, Musk Outrage Machine Doesn’t Bother Big Pharma
It’s been hard to miss the screaming on the Internet because Dr. Peter Hotez has refused to debate RFK Jr. over vaccine safety. I think Farhad Manjoo did a good job laying out the case against Dr. Hotez debating Kennedy in a column last week. But I think there is a more fundamental question worth […...
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/Skeptic/t/93767
> .... We know the rhetoric – they want to beat up the Big Pharma shills. That all sounds great except the immediate target of their anger, Dr. Hotez, is about as far from a Big Pharma shill as you can get. Dr. Hotez has devoted his career to developing low-cost vaccines, that are open-source....
