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RFK Jr. says he ‘should've been more careful' after Covid comments

2023-07-26

[Politico] Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acknowledged that he "should’ve been more careful about what I said" after he received backlash for suggesting that Covid-19 could have been genetically engineered to reduce risks to Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

Hundreds of attendees — supporters, protesters and onlookers — came to hear Kennedy speak Tuesday evening in New York City on fighting antisemitism and supporting Israel with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, an author and commentator. The two-hour conversation was part of a presidential candidate series hosted by The World Values Network, which Boteach runs.

Kennedy, who’s running a longshot campaign against President Joe Biden, said that there are interests who want "to damage my candidacy and want to silence me," adding that anything he says is "going to be weaponized against me."

Earlier this month, the New York Post reported that Kennedy claimed without evidence that there is "an argument that [Covid-19] is ethnically targeted" at white and Black people, and that "the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese." Jewish organizations criticized Kennedy for the comment, as did members of his family and the White House.

Kennedy denied the comments and called the report a "mainstream media playbook to discredit me as a crank." In a congressional hearing last week — one that more than 100 House Democrats tried to get him uninvited from, saying that he has "repeatedly attacked two groups that have long been subject to deadly discrimination" — he denied being anti-vaccine, antisemitic or racist.

Posted by:Besoeker

#11 ^ Exactly

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-26 13:29

#10 #8 I don't understand how the assertion that covid did not affect Jews is anti-Semitic. It might have been a stupid thing to say but it doesn't mean that Jews were in on the gain-of-function effort at WIV. Democrats are going after RFK Jr. and ignoring the real villain here: Dr. Anthony Fauci. But then, that's just how Democrats operate.

I could go and look up what RFK/Jr. actually said as opposed to what it was reported he said and even if I win, I lose because the Everyone Who Disagrees With Me Is Hitler mechanism kicks in and y'all will ignore the actual massive crimes committed thanks to Fauci and Daszak's gain of function and sequelae.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-07-26 13:19

#9 RFK Jr. Maintains Highest Favorability Rating Among Presidential Candidates In New Poll

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-26 12:32

#8 I don't understand how the assertion that covid did not affect Jews is anti-Semitic. It might have been a stupid thing to say but it doesn't mean that Jews were in on the gain-of-function effort at WIV. Democrats are going after RFK Jr. and ignoring the real villain here: Dr. Anthony Fauci. But then, that's just how Democrats operate.

No, I have no emotional investment in RFK Jr's candidacy. I don't think he stands much of a chance just because listening to his voice grates on my ears. Maybe it's just my ears. I dunno. But I don't think we need another Kennedy in the White House anyway. I do believe it would be funny if he beats the crap out of Biden/Harris/Newsom in the Democrat primaries. I'm stocking up on popcorn for that.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-07-26 12:05

#7 81 million "voters' in America say "We don't need no steenkin' answers..."

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-26 10:26

#6 RFK Jr seems to makes statements of fact where it might be more appropriate to ask the questions that Americans want asked? Why were we funding research in a CCP Military associated lab that would have been illegal in the US? What were we studying in the labs in Ukraine that Sen Rubio has no curiosity about?

RFK thinks that he has a fact pattern from his research that allows him to make the statements that he makes. He has followers that are familiar with the information that backs up his statements. I am not one of his followers so, to me, he seems to be teleporting ahead where I need to see the flagstones of a path. What he is saying seems outrageous, but I need a believable expiation for the Ukraine labs to discount his assertion.

In short, RFK Jr has followers but he needs the American people to understand and support him if his aim is to get elected and not just screw Biden.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-07-26 10:12

#5 Number of times I've been reminded by rantburg about what a horrible antisemitic thing Robert Kennedy Jr. said: One zillion.

Number of times I've seen on rantburg over the past four years that Ecohealth Alliance's Peter Daszak's father was staff at the Janowski Concentration Camp?

(You know, this guy:

BTW, I have a cleaner version of this on my home comp, as well as the whole damn hearing on CSPAN this was taken from.)

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2023-07-26 08:49

#4 A lot of people who should know better are getting emotionally invested in this guy's run.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-07-26 07:46

#3 Without the Juice, no good conspiracy theory.

He could, of course, just have apologized instead of whining that stupid and antisemitic things he says are "going to be weaponized" against him.

Posted by: European Conservative 2023-07-26 07:44

#2 "claimed without evidence" is their new favorite phrase, even though, as with the Russia Collusion hoax, there is evidence.

RFK Jr is off his rocker on this one, though

Posted by: Frank G 2023-07-26 07:17

If elected, Kennedy offers to use tax payer dollars to fund massive National Mall statue to the Haganah.

Definite proof he is a Democrat. Still, many remain skeptical.

(sarc off)

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-07-26 06:38

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