Posted on 06/22/2023 8:47:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The sixth installment of Tucker on Twitter dropped Thursday evening amidst a day full of blockbuster news. (The CliffsNotes version in case you’ve spent all day at the pool or ziplining through a remote jungle: Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) are in a tiff over who wore their impeachment articles better, the House Ways & Means Committee released bombshell testimony by two IRS whistleblowers which showed the Department of Justice interfered with the investigation into Hunter Biden, the FBI authenticated Hunter’s laptop back in 2019, and Hunter claimed Joe Biden was in the room with him while he threatened a Chinese official to pay up, wreckage of the lost submersible Titan was located indicating a catastrophic event, and the House voted to send Boebert’s articles of impeachment to committee for further investigation. And that’s just the “big” stories.)
Meanwhile, the 2024 presidential election continues to pick up steam, with yet another candidate entering an already crowded GOP field. The field for the Democrats is far less congested, but one candidate continues to give the incumbent president cause for concern and ambivalent Democrats food for thought.
Which brings us to Tucker Carlson’s latest episode. The premise? “Bobby Kennedy is winning.”
Ep. 6 Bobby Kennedy is winning pic.twitter.com/jW51PYahLV
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 22, 2023
Tucker begins the 18-minute monologue by declaring, “There’s never been a candidate for president the media hated more than Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” In contrast with Trump’s initial announcement, which the New York Times waited a full 17 paragraphs to deride, he explains, Kennedy was maligned from sentence one: “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a presidential campaign on Wednesday built on relitigating COVID-19 shutdowns and shaking Americans’ faith in science.” Tucker wryly notes the average reader might conclude that “Bobby Kennedy just declared war on the Enlightenment.”
But it wasn’t just the New York Times, of course. CBS News denounced Kennedy’s views as “misleading and dangerous,” while the LA Times called him the perennial favorite “threat to democracy.” And then there was NPR:
At the offices of National Public Radio in Washington, a full-blown Category Five hysteria typhoon broke out. NPR devoted an entire segment to savaging Kennedy, not just as a candidate but as a human being. NPR described him as someone who, for his own perverse reasons, has made “debunked and false and misleading claims that undermine trust in vaccines,” and who, in his spare time, provides moral support to crazed extremists who “rally under the banner of what they call ‘liberty’ or ‘freedom.'”
Tucker mockingly characterized the media consensus as: “Bobby Kennedy’s thoughts alone are evil enough to hurt people.” He traces the genesis of this to 2005 when Kennedy first published a magazine article opining that there might be a link between the ever-expanding schedule of childhood vaccines and the rise in autism diagnoses. Noting that Rolling Stone and Salon both initially ran the article but then caved to pressure from the Pharma lobby and ultimately pulled the story, Tucker asserts that no convincing alternative explanation for the rise has been offered “to this day.” The focus has largely been on discrediting Kennedy.
That continues in 2023, with YouTube recently yanking Kennedy’s interview with Jordan Peterson, citing “misinformation.” Referring to Kennedy as the “most censored famous person in the United States,” Tucker points out that most Americans have likely heard more about Kennedy than from him, as few outlets will give him a platform. Of course, Joe Rogan famously interviewed Kennedy on his podcast last week, a portion of which Tucker shared, expressing his appreciation of Kennedy’s willingness to ask important questions — his curiosity. Tucker goes on to illustrate how these days, asking reasonable questions and describing what one sees right before them can draw the ire of the powers that be, who seemingly won’t tolerate any suggestion that everything is not, in fact, awesome.
Tucker describes the dust-up that ensued following the VICE article criticizing the interview — and Spotify for daring to allow such content on its platform — along with Peter Hotez sticking his nose into the fray, then retreating when invited to participate in a debate on the matter. As Tucker rightly notes, Hotez seems intent on engaging in political attacks posing as science. Tucker then swiftly — and thoroughly — deconstructs the deification of Hotez, ultimately calling him a “partisan buffoon.”
Tucker astutely predicts that Hotez will never debate Bobby Kennedy but maintains that it doesn’t matter — Kennedy has already won. How?
He’s more honest than Dr. Peter Hotez, and that’s obvious to anyone who’s paying attention. A new Economist poll shows that Kennedy is more popular and far less hated than either major party front-runner. After almost 20 years of being silenced, Bobby Kennedy Junior is being heard, and why wouldn’t he be? Kennedy’s theories about vaccines may be right, they may be partially right, they could be even utterly wrong — no one’s proved it either way. But what we can say with certainty is that America’s medical establishment has beclowned itself for all time. Its official positions on vaccines, psychiatric drugs, puberty blockers, reassignment surgeries, a long list of other politically facile priorities, have no connection whatsoever to legitimate science. It’s all effectively witchcraft. At the annual meeting of the American Medical Association in Chicago last week, for example, delegates issued a statement attacking the Body Mass Index as a tool of “racist exclusion, which has caused historical harm.” Next year, they will denounce thermometers and stethoscopes. They’re insane. Compared to them, Bobby Kennedy is a mainstream figure, and people understand that — that’s why he’s winning. And you know he’s winning by how his critics are doing.
After providing a brief biographical background on Anna Merlin (the author of the aforementioned VICE article) and noting the rapid decline of the outfit over the past four years in terms of its solvency, Tucker observes:
Nobody wants to hear from Anna Merlin anymore. The gatekeepers are transparently ridiculous. Everyone can see that. People have started to notice.
In other words, Bobby Kennedy Jr. is no longer the lone voice pointing out the Emperor’s got no clothes — or sense.
‘Kennedy-democrats’ finally have their type of candidate.
Like ANY of this will matter. If he’s not the chosen one, none of this matters. (Ref. see Bernie Sanders).
God willing.
“No one’s proved it either way”?!?
You are probably correct. However the significant difference between Bernie Sanders and RFK Jr is that Bernie’s base is a bunch of far left communists. Kennedy’s following is obviously liberal, but they are more mainstream, normal people who obviously give damn about children.
And to whom it has been made painfully clear that being liberal does not protect you from the totalitarian state, especially when the far left is running said totalitarian state.
All this poll proves is that the Democrat voters want anyone but Joe Biden.
But it’s moot because the Democrats will never let a populist be the nominee. Period.
So, RFK has to run as a third party or join Trump’s ticket (which would be kind of interesting).
Just talked toa friend this past weekend who told of a kid they know whose parents managed to put off any vaccines for years and he was perfectly normal. Got a vaccine and within a couple weeks was autistic.
He said it was so blindingly obvious what caused it because most autism charges are dismissed because it happens when the child is so young that the parents are told they just missed the symptoms.
He said in this case, the change was so dramatic that there was no way it could not have been a missed autism diagnosis.
Kennedy looks like he’s a dead man walking. His eyes have a strange quality to them and his voice sounds like he’s about to perish of thirst.
Even Biden looks healthier, which is a very low bar.
But it’s fun trolling the Dems with him so go right on ahead crazy Bobby!
He wouldn't be the first Kennedy in that department
LOL!!
Meanwhile he’s got forearms like Popeye, perfect posture, seated or standing, bespeaking health, and can do a three-hoir podcast in person, straight, no breaks, as easy for him as falling off a log. Are you not cherry picking his faults?
The difference though is that Sanders is and was a straight up fraud and a whore.
Kennedy is a dumpster fire on most things, but he isn’t the slimy commie fraud that Sanders is.
And at this point, the old ideological framework that drove the conservative/liberal debate is rather moot. We “conservatives” need to to band together with real “liberals” on our common footing: anti-statism. We can argue over welfare programs and supply side economics another time. The bigger picture is far more important. Perhaps we can then convince liberals that the policies they were supporting for years were just incremental steps towards the unabashed marxist/statist overhaul we are seeing today. But for now, a majority of Americans don’t want their government to have unbridled power over them. Lets make that our collective rallying point.
Yes the totalitarian Left detests liberals much as conservatives detest rino’s.
Kennedy is 69 and in good health. He has a rare voice disorder called dysphonia which he acquired as an adult. In my view, conservatives have an obligation to keep informed about current events. Expressing ignorant opinions, a popular pastime here these days, just makes us all look ignorant.
Sometimes Tucker Carlson hits a foul ball instead of a home run.
Medical research conducted or funded in this country is not credible anymore. Everything is hopelessly politicized and/or corrupted. Honest MDs will admit this.
On the globalist side, yes.
But there is plenty of evidence of the harms, despite Big Pharma having bought control over many medical journals.
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