After 18 years of being canceled by the corporate legacy media, then targeted specifically for social media censorship by the Biden administration for promulgating “misinformation” during the pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing a remarkable end run around the long media blackout by forcing discussion of officially verboten issues with a presidential run. Now, with renewed interest in his views as a result of that run, the blackout is collapsing. And it’s driving the legacy media, as well as their handlers in the Democratic Party, insane with desperation.
Kennedy’s surprising strength in the polls and robust fundraising numbers have led to an abrupt change in tactics on the part of Democratic strategists, who until recently had been advising party leaders to treat RFK Jr.’s presidential run as if it didn’t exist. This shift was reflected in the recent concerted denunciations of Kennedy as a “racist anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist” by former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the wake of a piece about remarks he made about the danger of existing ethnically-targeted bioweapon research.
Interestingly, none of the coordinated smear jobs or ritual denunciations of Kennedy as a “conspiracy theorist” appear to be working anymore, to the great consternation of a D.C. establishment that has long used the slur as a way of shutting down debate about useful but unfounded orthodoxies they don’t wish to see challenged. The problem is, after all the manifest gaslighting and propaganda of the last three years on the part of media, medical authorities, and government officials, the “conspiracy theory” trope has become, for many, a clear sign that those with power and influence in Washington are seeking to shut down debate and impose an official narrative. Rather than working as an effective smear, it has almost become an endorsement.
This mood of profound skepticism is seen in a recent Harvard/Harris poll showing RFK Jr. with the highest favorability (and by far the lowest unfavorability) ratings among all the declared candidates seeking the presidency. When the most trusted and admired candidate is the one who has been subject to the most concerted effort at character assassination and blackballing in modern political history, you know that the official narrative has not only failed, it’s become the kiss of death for anyone foolish enough to adhere to it.
Fears their own telling on them !
RFK, Jr. is currently grabbing some attention from conservatives under the ‘enemy of my enemy is my friend’ concept since he’s saying some unkind but accurate things about Biden, and could be a speed bump for his reelection campaign. But aside from that, he’s a life-long Dem Kennedy with a past with drugs and women that has much in common with Fredo Biden. So let him irritate Biden but keep your distance unless you think Harry Logan is worth considering.