Under the right circumstances, even an unsuccessful Presidential campaign can serve as a powerful lens for focusing public attention upon issues normally avoided by the mainstream media. I think that the success or failure of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s longshot Democratic Party primary challenge to President Joseph Biden should best be considered in such terms.
Kennedy bears the name of the most famous political family in modern American history and that legacy, together with his leadership role in criticizing our controversial Covid public health policies and his #1 Amazon best-seller in 2022, quickly established him as a serious candidate in the race. The early polls gave him roughly 20% support, an absolutely astonishing achievement for someone who had never previously held public office, even against a relatively weak and unpopular incumbent.
During recent election cycles the Democratic Party has become quite adept at seeing off anti-establishment challengers, and virtually its entire political and media apparatus has lined up against Kennedy, whom it has heavily demonized, so he must be considered an extreme underdog. However, even if Kennedy’s political quest doesn’t ultimately place him in the White House, he has already notched some important achievements at this very early stage.
The 60th anniversary of the assassination of Kennedy’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, comes in just a few months, and last year Tucker Carlson’s top-rated FoxNews show ran a segment highlighting the compelling evidence that our 35th President had died at the hands of a conspiracy, probably involving elements of the CIA.
Carlson’s show had a regular live audience of 3 million and that segment attracted another 1.6 million views on Youtube, so taken together his JFK revelations probably reached more Americans than any other such account in many years, perhaps since Oliver Stone’s Oscar-winning 1991 film JFK was playing in the theaters three decades ago. Kennedy praised Carlson’s courageous effort and his remarks were Retweeted more than 32,000 times.
That sudden burst of coverage came eight months ago and there was little if any media follow-up to Carlson’s breakthrough declaration. But as a Presidential candidate, Kennedy himself can now command considerable media attention and three weeks ago he gave a long interview to Bill Maher, describing the overwhelming evidence that a similar conspiracy had been behind the assassination of his own father, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.
The 1968 RFK Assassination has attracted only a small fraction of the attention received by his elder brother’s death in Dallas five years earlier, and Kennedy’s interview segment drew 1.5 million views on Youtube, so it’s quite possible that more Americans have now learned the shocking facts from the candidate’s own words than had ever been aware of them. In late 2021, Kennedy had already declared his views in a major San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece.
Sirhan Sirhan didn’t kill my father. Gov. Newsom should set him free Robert F. Kennedy Jr. • San Francisco Chronicle • December 8, 2021 • 1,000 Words Soon after publishing that piece, Kennedy became the target of a wave of media vilification, yet strangely enough almost all of those insulting attacks completely avoided any mention of the strikingly conspiratorial claims he had just presented in a major newspaper. In January 2022, I reviewed and summarized the main sources of information on that assassination, and the likely reasons for that strange media silence.
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