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Victor Davis Hanson: Why the Kennedys Really Turned on RFK Jr.
The Daily Signal YT Channel ^ | Sept 8 2025 | victor davis hanson

Posted on 09/09/2025 3:00:42 AM PDT by texas booster

Democrats attacked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hard during his congressional testimony last week, launching personal attacks on the health and human services secretary.

But it’s not just congressional Democrats on offense, as his own family is blasting him as an “embarrassment.” Victor Davis Hanson breaks down the Kennedy family’s hypocrisy—especially considering their silence on Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal and JFK’s infidelities—on today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: rfkjr; tedkennedy; vdh; victordavishanson
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“ This is the irony. What is an embarrassment to the Kennedy family was not Bobby Jr. working for Donald Trump. It really wasn't. It was Ted Kennedy in 1969: a U.S. senator driving off a bridge with Mary Jo Kopechne, allowing her to drown in the car, and then for 24 hours, trying to fabricate a narrative that was completely a lie so he could get out of responsibility. And then using the Kennedy money and leverage in Massachusetts to get off with this, with no criminal exposure at all. A woman was killed. And yet, no one—none of the Kennedys said that he was a predator or he embarrassed them.

“ You know what else is an embarrassment right now that Caroline Kennedy should be worried about? Her son, Jack Schlossberg. What has he done? He gets on social media, he made fun of Melania Trump's voice the other day and tried to wear a wig and ridicule her.”

1 posted on 09/09/2025 3:00:42 AM PDT by texas booster
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

(0:00) Introduction
(1:28) RFK Jr.’s Controversial Past
(2:11) Healthcare Spending and Longevity
(3:08) Kennedy Family Hypocrisy
(4:31) Political Viability of the Kennedys
(4:58) Jack Schlossberg’s Embarrassments
(6:08) Final Thoughts

A little truth telling from the great Prof Hanson about the entire Kennedy clan. What really embarrasses them?

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2 posted on 09/09/2025 3:03:18 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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All the Kennedys are absolute pigs. At least RFK Jr. is trying to do some good.


3 posted on 09/09/2025 3:24:37 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: texas booster

The High Priests of a grifting esoteric religion are always fanatical in their denouncement and persecution of a apostate high priest who has left the reservation and who is exposing the lies and corruption of his previous order


4 posted on 09/09/2025 3:28:05 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead.)
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To: texas booster

Because he hasn’t murdered anyone yet?


5 posted on 09/09/2025 3:34:11 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: texas booster

From the WayBack Machine, one of the best sites on the Internet back in the day for taunting Leftists. Long defunct, but still available.

Y Ted K .com
- Featuring -
US Senator Edward M Kennedy
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ted Kennedy *
* ( and he was afraid you’d ask )

https://web.archive.org/web/20090227025756/http://www.ytedk.com:80/

Tons of pictures, diagrams, other evidence related to Ted K’s Chappaquiddick event.


6 posted on 09/09/2025 4:02:32 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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7 posted on 09/09/2025 4:09:02 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: texas booster

Another great analysis by VDH. Yes, RFK Jr. is definitely no angel, but VDH correctly states that Ted was a worse embarrassment!


8 posted on 09/09/2025 4:21:15 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: texas booster

The Kennedy family is Deep State.

And appears totally cool with Deep State whacking errant members of their family.

And anyone else in the way.


9 posted on 09/09/2025 4:23:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: texas booster

Let’s not forget the Hart-Cellar Act.


10 posted on 09/09/2025 4:31:34 AM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: texas booster

Thank you.


11 posted on 09/09/2025 4:38:38 AM PDT by EliRoom8
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A few years ago, a movie named "Chappaquiddick" was released. It was a fairly hard-hitting chronicle of the events before and after Teddy drove off the bridge. Recommended.

Had it not been for Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy probably would have been elected president at some point. What happened at Chappaquiddick didn't bother the people of Massachusetts much, but there were enough voters elsewhere who it did bother, enough to sink Teddy's presidential hopes.
12 posted on 09/09/2025 5:22:52 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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“Meet RFK Jr., Trump’s controversial Cabinet pick”

https://www.businessinsider.com/robert-f-kennedy-rfk-jr?op=1


13 posted on 09/09/2025 5:25:34 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The bridge was torn down, you know.


14 posted on 09/09/2025 5:26:04 AM PDT by combat_boots
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Good video. I’d like to add that RFK Jr. is now prominent. It’s well deserved. He’s a “success.”

The other Kennedys haven’t amounted to much. They are Democrat party straphangers. They go after RFK Jr. and Trump so as to have some relevance. They want to be invited to right cocktail parties, movie openings, get laid, and perhaps be appointed to some official position.


15 posted on 09/09/2025 6:10:17 AM PDT by ChessExpert (Infidels of the world unite against the evil that is Islam.)
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To: mewzilla

Maarilyn Monroe.


16 posted on 09/09/2025 6:43:50 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I couldn’t get over how friggin huge Ted’s head was.


17 posted on 09/09/2025 7:05:41 AM PDT by sgt_lau (Reject islam. They really do want to kill you.)
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To: Dan in Wichita
We conservatives should all be thankful to Mary Jo. She made the ultimate sacrifice of her life that kept Teddy from being POTUS.

As a side note I sat right next to the big fat swimmer at a marina/bar in Soper’s Hole on the island of Tortola. This was about 24 years ago.
He was sitting at the table next to us with his wife and another couple. He eventually got up and literally waddled away. They got into their dingy and motored back out to their sail boat in the harbor. It definitely listed to the side he was sitting.

He also had some bandaging on his former bulbous gin blossomed nose. There is a famous plastic surgery clinic on Tortola that caters to the wealthy. They come in for a nip/tuck and hang around in a villa healing for a few weeks.
Teddy must have had some work done on his nose based on the Sterri-Strips he had across it.

When the young black waitress picked up their tab I asked her IF she knew who he was and did he leave her a good tip?
She did not know who he was, but left a decent tip.
She showed me the AMX slip was signed by Theodore Kennedy. I told her that was JFKs younger brother and current US Senator from the Commonwealth of MA.

18 posted on 09/09/2025 7:13:53 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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Interesting story! What was the waitresses’ reaction when you told her who she had just served?


19 posted on 09/09/2025 7:32:13 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Dan in Wichita

She was surprised.
But not that all impressed.
I suspect that place gets a fair amount of wealthy yachting crowd types.

It is on the very west end of Tortola. Toward the St Thomas side. It is only a couple miles north of Saint John, USVI.
I was told Teddy vacationed down there almost every winter.
He would rent a house on Tortola, but kept a sailboat there in one of the marinas too.

The only good thing I have tot say about Teddy was that he almost single handedly kept that stupid wind farm from being built to the west side of Nantucket. That was because it was one of his favorite summer sailing spots. Plus you would be able to see them from the family compound in Hyannisport. On the south side of Cape Cod. As soon as he kicked the can, they started building the big ugly towers.


20 posted on 09/09/2025 7:45:42 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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