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Bobby Kennedy can’t tune out his delusions
He calls the media a right wing conspiracy, but ...
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

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What planet is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. living on?

He was interviewed on the Internet last week by some squirrelly guy with what now seems to be the obligatory English accent. And so Kennedy, a convicted felon (heroin possession, 1983, South Dakota) pointed the finger at a new vast right-wing conspiracy:

“(It’s) the right wing control of the American media starting with Fox News. Ninety-five percent of talk radio in our country is right wing ... so a whole section of our country that’s what they’re hearing.”

You don’t say, Junior.

If you subtract Fox News from the TV mix, 100 percent of the television networks, cable and broadcast, are liberal. If you don’t include a handful of metro newspapers, including this one, the New York Post and the Washington Times, approximately 98 percent of the print press is liberal.

As for talk radio, Bobby, do you realize that most of the free speech that so offends you is on the AM band? AM, as in Ancient Modulation, as it’s called on the Internet. Only one-fifth of the population ever listens to AM anymore. The vast majority of people under the age of 30 are about as likely to listen to AM radio as they are to tune in to a shortwave broadcast.

AM radio is dying. Why do you think I’m so desperate to escape the AM band?

And yet ... despite its inferior, outdated technology, AM radio hangs on, with conservative talk its sole raison d’etre. When you’re driving, what’s the alternative — NPR? More snotty English accents delivering more slanted left-wing news.

Yet even with the media deck totally stacked in the moonbats’ favor, this spoiled Kennedy punk still isn’t happy. It’s so much easier to blame everything on Fox and talk radio.

“It’s divided our country in a way we haven’t been divided probably since the Civil War.”

You can understand why Kennedy — and other clowns like Joe Scarborough — hate talk radio so much. Remember what it — we — did to Bobby’s uncle Ted, replaying his references to “Sen. Osama bin — er, Obama.” And keeping Teddy on the air as he slurred his words, attacking the host for spewing “dribble” and being a tool of “Rudolph Murdoch.” And then there was his son Patches, who once said, “I myself have educated myself.”

The Kennedys have been very, very good to talk radio.

But Bobby has another problem. Like so many reformed junkies, he’s gotten religion. Unfortunately, the religion is green. These global-warming cultists have no tolerance for anyone else’s beliefs, the First Amendment be damned.

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