representatives last week, people like steve bannon, among the most obnoxious trump people, they re using this to cause problems for president biden. i honestly don t know what the motivations are or if those motivations are even rational, but the other members of the family clearly don t want to speak out against a fellow kennedy. the kennedys are rightly known for their unity and loyalty to one another. but they had to take action, and i m going to be surprised if there aren t additional kennedys when take action as long as rfk jr. remains any kind of visible it won t be serious but any kind of visible primary challenger for president biden. it s last thing president biden needs. and this week, republicans invited rfk jr. to capitol hill to testify at a hearing on government censorship, weaponizing government. rfk jr. has not been censored.
about the kennedy half century. is there something that ties the tragedies of the kennedy assassinations in the 1960s to what has become of rfk jr. s life, or is that just being too charitable? he s a man, he should be held responsible for what he says. could it be it was such an awful experience being rfk jr. that he became this person with all of these theories. like you said earlier, not a psychiatrist. but does it somehow tie to these tragedies of the kennedy family? well, it might very well, but he s 69. and you know, he has a lot of brothers and sisters and cousins. we ve heard from some of them. we ll hear from others, and most of them seem to have turned out quite well. so i don t know why that would be a specific reason why he is doing the outlandish things he s doing. you know, normally when you come across someone like that, you should feel sympathy for them and then you should ignore them.
i d probably be able to give you a better answer. i don t know what s going on with rfk jr., i think he s had some of these strange theories about covid and vaccines and other things for quite some time. and let s remember, he s got his first amendment rights to express himself. and the kennedys are a very big family. there are a lot of them. i thought president kennedy s grandson did an excellent job in summarizing from a democratic perspective how people look at rfk jr. s candidacy. it can only hurt president biden, and while i haven t polledamct if a poll were done, the overwhelming majority of them would be supporting president biden s re-election and the overwhelming majority would be upset and probably embarrassed by what rfk jr. has done. and larry, jfk s grandson wasn t the only kennedy to speak out. rfk jr. s sister kari kennedy condemned comments he made suggesting that the coronavirus was, quote, ethically targeted
to spare jews and chinese people. what do you make of this pushback that rfk jr. is receiving not just from the public but from his own family? and i guess to put your political hat on, i m asking two questions at once here. how is it that he has been able to attract not a significant or large number of democrats in certain polls, but even a slim number, enough that it shows up in the polls. i suppose it s just the kennedy name. it s the kennedy name because not many republicans are going to be voting in democratic primaries and caucuses. and look, some of it is residual affection for his father, former senator the late senator robert f. kennedy, and of course the late president kennedy. but i think it s also true and he must know this the republicans are using this daily, not just that hearing, that ridiculous hearing that the republicans held in the house of
and vaccine safety. rfk jr. is, however, an overwhelming source of misinformation and disinformation, a purveyor of vial conspiracy theories. he s linked chemicals in our water supply to gender dysphoria and insisted covid vaccines were a tool to control people via microchips. he s that guy. he s not a person who can claim the high ground on the topic of race, having just recently suggested covid-19 might have been genetically engineered to target, quote, caucasians and black people, end quote, and to spare jewish and chinese people. rfk, jr., is someone who has recently been rebuked by some of his own very famous and highly regarded family members. finally, and perhaps most alarming of all, rfk jr. is a candidate for president on the democratic side. he is second for president