No sooner than 69-year-old Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced he would run in 2024 against 80-year-old President Joe Biden for the Democrat nomination, pro-Biden forces already brand him as a conspiracy theorist. Kennedy has spent his career not as a politician but as an environmental lawyer trying to preserve the planet and prevent nuclear war. Biden’s attack dogs are out in full force saying RFK Jr. is a wacko conspiracy nut, much like they did to 76-year-old President Donald Trump when he said April 30, 2020 that the deadly novel coronavirus came from a Wuhan Institute of Virology lab. Trump was subjected to relentless attacks from the mainstream press, all believing Dr. Anthony Fauci’s rubbish that the virus occurred naturally, without supplying any evidence. What’s more a conspiracy theory Fauci’s idea or a lab leak from Shi Zhengli’s bioweapon’s lab?
When it comes to Kennedy’s he’s barely started his campaign when he accused of being a wacko conspiracy theorist. Nothing could be further from the truth. If he supported the families with autistic children with the latest research, that’s not conspiracies. It’s easy for the medical community and drug industry to brand anyone a conspiracy nut when they’re trying to deny accountability. Kennedy followed the work of British Dr. Andrew Wakefield who published a 1998 groundbreaking article in the British Medical Journal Lancet about the link between autism and Measles, Mumps and Rubella [MMR] vaccines. While Wakefield’s article was eventually retracted by Lancet, it doesn’t mean that he wasn’t onto something or that his conclusions are false. Retracting the article only means that based on arcane research technicalities, the article was retracted.
RFK Jr. isn’t the favorite among the status quo crowd because he would shake up the war-mongering going on in the Biden administration. Imagine that, a candidate for president that promotes the environment and peace on earth, how novel is that in the Biden era? All anyone hears from the White House is how Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying take over Europe. Biden and Ukraine’s 45-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky continues to sell the fake rationale for the Ukraine War, often shifting explanations whenever convenient. Zelensky says he’ll defeat the Russian Federation with new U.S. and NATO weapons. Yet Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Miley said last week that the war won’t be finished in 2023, stretching on into the Election Year and beyond. Many voters are looking for an antiwar candidate, like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Biden’s spin department is already denigrating Kennedy as a conspiracy nut, when, in fact, the Biden’s White House has sold the country a bill of goods on Ukraine. Biden won’t admit that the Russian oil embargo and all his economic sanctions have fueled the worst inflation in over 40 years, prompting International Monetary Fund Chief Kristalina Georgieva.to say that worldwide economic growth has been slowed to three percent. Georgieva cites the Ukraine War as a main contributing factor in slow economic growth around the g lobe, except in countries like China and India. RFK learned his economics at the London School of Economics, before attending University of Virginia Law School. Far for a conspiracy theorist, he’s well schooled in Keynesian economics, where a government spending must be balanced with a stable monetary policy from the Federal Reserve Bank.
Drug companies and vaccine makers don’t like Kennedy exposing in 2005 their use of mercury-based Thimerosol, a toxic preservative used in common vaccines. Today, vaccine makers routinely tout their vaccines a thimerosol-free, something the press call as conspiracy theory. Any time a drug company wants to discredit any charge, they refer to critics as conspiracy theorists. When it came to Covid-19, anyone that didn’t accept Fauci’s natural occurrence theory is considered a conspiracy theorist, like Trump when he said the deadly virus leaked from a Wuhan lab. Now the Biden White House and press brands RFK Jr. as a conspiracy theorists for his unproven beliefs about vaccine safety. Whatever RFK Jr.’s views of vaccines, they have nothing to with Biden’s failed economy and foreign policy. Trump said at a Mar-a-Lago rally that Biden pushed the world to WW III.
Throwing his hat in the ring, Kennedy must be prepared to silence his critics with facts, not the kind of gossip-mongering that goes with the media. Accusing RFK of pushing conspiracy theories is preposterous, he’s simply giving an alternative view to the medical and drug industry. Why isn’t Fauci now considered a conspiracy theorist for pushing the idea that Covid-19 emerged from a seafood market in Wuhan? China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zhao Linjian said March 13, 2020 only two days after the World Health Organization [WHO] declared a Global pandemic March 11, 2020, said the virus was made in America and exported to Wuhan by the U.S. military. Fauci ignored completely the official Chinese position on the origin of the deadly virus. Calling Kennedy a conspiracy theorist is today’s way of discrediting the messenger, someone bringing real information to the public.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
