From Yahoo:
“Robert Kennedy Jr. praised by Republicans, attacked by
Democrats at House hearing”
The long-shot Democratic presidential candidate faced a
grilling from members of his own party while testifying before a GOP-led House
committee. Rep. Connolly criticizes RFK Jr. for appearance at House hearing. Republicans
in Congress brought Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to
Capitol Hill Thursday to help them amplify one of their core political
messages: They have been victimized by a conspiracy between shadowy forces in
the government and Big Tech. Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy and the
nephew of President John F. Kennedy, had long been a critic of vaccines before
the COVID-19 vaccine was developed. But during the coronavirus pandemic he
became a hero to those who questioned the vaccines. Kennedy’s vaccine-critical
group, Children’s Health Defense, saw its revenue double in 2020 to nearly $7
million, and visits to its website went from fewer than 150,000 a month
pre-pandemic to more than 4.5 million a month, according to an AP
investigation. He appeared Thursday before the House Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government.
Lauded by Republicans Kennedy was welcomed to the hearing with a lengthy, almost
reverential introduction by Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas. Committee Chair Jim
Jordan, R-Ohio, began the hearing by claiming that Kennedy had been censored by
the White House just a few days into President Biden’s term. He pointed to an
email sent Jan. 23, 2021, by a midlevel staffer in the Biden White House to a
Twitter official. Biden aide Clarke Humphrey wrote that she “wanted to
flag” a tweet that Kennedy had written the previous day calling the death of
baseball legend Hank Aaron at age 86 “suspicious” because he died a few weeks
after receiving the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19. Aaron's death was
ruled by the Fulton County, Ga., medical examiner's office to have been due to
natural causes. Humphrey asked Twitter to “get moving on the process for
having [the tweet] removed ASAP.” Jordan, the Republican committee
chair, used this as an example of “Big Government” colluding with “Big Tech” to
silence views they don’t like. Kennedy claimed he was “the first person,
as the chairman pointed out, censored by the Biden administration.” He said he
had also been “censored by the Trump administration,” though he did not provide
an example. It took hours for any Democrat on the committee to point out that,
in fact, Kennedy’s tweet about Aaron was never removed. It remains on Twitter
to this day. “How can the government actually censor anyone if there's enough
freedom within these companies ... that they reject whatever request that
government makes?” asked Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y.
Kennedy has spread debunked claims about links between some
childhood vaccines and autism. His personal Instagram account was suspended in
February 2021 for “repeatedly sharing debunked claims about the coronavirus or
vaccines,” and the Facebook and Instagram pages for Children’s Health Defense
were suspended in August 2022. Both have since been restored.But Kennedy told
the New Yorker recently that his Instagram account was “taken away from me … at
the behest of the White House.”
Under fire for
'despicable' comments Democrats, meanwhile, castigated Kennedy for comments he made recently in
which he said that the COVID-19 virus was “ethnically targeted to attack
Caucasians and Black people” while sparing “Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” “We
don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted or not,” he said at a dinner in
New York City, as first reported by the New York Post. There is
disagreement inside the U.S. government over whether the COVID-19 virus escaped
from a Chinese lab due to an accident or whether it emerged on its own. But
Kennedy was speaking about work that he claimed was ongoing by both the U.S.
and Chinese governments to develop “ethnic bioweapons.” He later
backtracked, saying, “I certainly don't believe that they were deliberately
engineered.”
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., called Kennedy’s
comments “despicable” and lambasted Jordan for giving him the platform of a
congressional hearing to amplify his views. She made a motion to move the
session into a private setting, which Republicans said was an attempt to
“censor” Kennedy. Wasserman Schultz also mocked Kennedy’s past comparisons of
government mandates meant to limit the spread of COVID-19 to the totalitarian
controls of Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you
could cross the Alps to Switzerland. You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank
did,” Kennedy said last year. He later apologized for the remark. “Was it as
hard to wear a mask during COVID as it was to hide under floorboards or false
walls so you weren't murdered?” Wasserman Schultz asked. Kennedy grew flustered
under her questioning. “That’s ridiculous,” he said. “I never made that
comparison.”
A Democratic lament The most bracing critique of Kennedy came from Rep. Gerry
Connolly, D-Va., who told the environmental lawyer that he got into politics
because of Kennedy’s father, who ran for president in 1968 and was assassinated
that year after a campaign speech in California. “I revere your name,”
Connolly told Kennedy. “I began my political interest with your father.” But
Connolly said the hearing made him “profoundly sad.” “You are here for
cynical reasons, to be used politically by that side of the aisle, to embarrass
the current president of the United States,” Connolly said. “You're an enabler
in that effort today. And it brings shame on a storied name that I revere.”
^ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not the great Man his Father
(Robert F. Kennedy) and his Uncle (John F. Kennedy) were.
It just goes to show you Family Name and lots of money aren’t
everything.
There’s no way he will win the Presidency (luckily.)
He doesn’t believe that Sirhan Sirhan fired the shot that
killed his Father, Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 (despite it happening in a Hotel
with hundreds of Witnesses and that Sirhan Sirhan made a videotaped confession
to the murder.)
In 2021 RFK Jr. and his Brother Douglas even openly supported
Sirhan’s Parole from Prison (his 6 other Siblings and his Mother Ethel all opposed
him ever being Paroled.)
He is against Vaccinations of any kind (for Covid, Measles, Shingles,
the Flu, Polio, etc.) and is the Chairman of Children's Health Defense, an Anti-Vaccine
Advocacy Group that spreads False Information about Vaccines.
In 2015 he called Autism and “Epidemic Holocaust.”
He is also an HIV/AIDS Denialist (I didn’t even know that was
a thing.)
Back in 2022 he apologized after Critics, including members
of his own Family, blasted him for implying that Anne Frank had more freedom in
hiding from the Nazis than People had under
U.S. Vaccination Policies.
"His opinions are not a reflection of my own," said
his Third and Current Wife, Actress Cheryl Hines.
To use the name of Anne Frank - a 15 year old Girl who was
hunted down by the Germans for being Jewish, who was sent to the Auschwitz
Death Camp where all her hair was shaved off and she was tattooed – branded like
cattle – and witnessed Men, Women and Children being tortured, murdered and
gassed before she herself died a horrible and painful death just shows how
out-of-touch with reality he really is.
Today he went to a Hearing at the House of Representatives
and claimed he wasn’t Anti-Semitic while some Republican Lawmakers praised him - anyone who praises him (Republican or
Democrat) is just plain wrong.
The irony in all of this is that while he is seen as an
Anti-Semite (ie. Anti-Jewish) his Father Robert F. Kennedy was killed by Palestinian
Sirhan Sirhan who thought RFK was too Pro-Jewish. ^
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