Posted on 04/28/2023 11:37:04 AM PDT by thegagline
An ABC News host admitted the network edited statements Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made about the COVID-19 vaccine out of an exclusive interview it conducted with the longshot Democratic presidential candidate.
“We should note that during our conversation, Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines,” anchor Linsey Davis said in a disclaimer when the interview aired Thursday. “We’ve used our editorial judgment in not including extended portions of that exchange in our interview.”
“Data shows that the COVID-19 vaccine has prevented millions of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease,” Davis added. “He also made misleading claims about the relationship between vaccination and autism.
“Research shows that vaccines and the ingredients used in the vaccines do not cause autism, including multiple studies involving more than a million children and major medical associations like the American Academy of Pediatrics and the advocacy group Autism Speaks.” *** ABC’s segment on vaccines briefly featured Kennedy’s response to past comments he made on links between vaccines and autism, before cutting to questions about the candidate’s famous political family. *** I don’t believe that we should be the party of war; I don’t believe that we should be the party of Wall Street; I don’t believe that we should let neocons dictate our foreign policy, and I don’t believe in censorship,” Kennedy said. “And those are all values that are traditional Democratic Party values that this White House has departed from.”
Kennedy’s extended family have said they are unlikely to support his 2024 run, given his attacks on former White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci and calls for his father’s convicted assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, to be paroled by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. ***
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You can run for president, and you might have some facts and opinions as to why.
You just can say them on ABC News.
They do this with a democrat named Kennedy.
Imagine the censoring and the continued outright lying they will do will Donald Trump!
Too bad RFK Jr is a Climate Change Activist.
Still waiting for the Board to rescind the Pulitzer from NYT and WaPo for the Russian election interference lies.
The media have gone all-in to censor free speech and supporting other Leftists’ censorship. It began to be in the news and on rising Democrats’ lips about the time Barry hit the national scene.
Socialists had their librarians “curating” what publications should be purchased, kept and catalogued, versus those they would denigrate and toss from availability. (Those would be conservative viewpoints, of course.)
They said it would improve the quality of libraries and help streamline all manner of research when in actuality, their anti-Constitutional inclinations “painted lipstick on pigs” at every turn.
The effect of such ugly censorship will continue to express itself within library collections and elsewhere (e.g., Wikipedia-type locations) for decades to come. We must make our libraries great again!
ABC News censors RFK Jr. interview remarks on Covid vax problems, may have violated federal law:
47 USC 315 makes it illegal for TV networks to censor Presidential candidates but Thursday, ABC showed its contempt for the law, democracy, and its audience by cutting most of the content of my interview with host Linsey Davis leaving only cherry-picked snippets and a defamatory disclaimer. Offering no evidence,
ABC justified this act of censorship by falsely asserting that I made “false claims.” In truth, Davis engaged me in a lively, informative, and mutually respectful debate on the government’s Covid countermeasures. I’m happy to supply citations to support every statement I made during that exchange.
I’m certain that ABC’s decision to censor came as a shock to Linsey as well. Instead of journalism, the public saw a hatchet job.
Instead of information, they got defamation and unsheathed Pharma propaganda. Americans deserve to hear the full interview so they can make up their own minds. How can democracy function without a free and unbiased press?
As President, I will free FCC from its corporate captors and force the agency to follow the law by revoking the licenses of networks that put the mercantile ambitions of advertisers ahead of the public interest. #Kennedy24
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