The Media Research Center is still serving up its longstanding ironic support for Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign — because they want him to mess with President Biden’s re-election, not because any MRC employee would be caught dead voting for him. Christian Baldwin bestowed victimhood on Kennedy once again in a May 7 post:
Meta has once again deemed Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ideas too dangerous to be allowed on Facebook and Instagram.
Kennedy’s Super PAC American Values 2024 (AV24) announced Sunday that it will file a lawsuit against Facebook and Instagram’s parent company after the platforms suppressed links to Kennedy’s newly released documentary, “Who is Bobby Kennedy?”
“Facebook is putting its thumb on the scale this election,” Kennedy posted on X. “Please help me understand how this Woody Harrelson film about my life violates Facebook’s community standards?”
Kennedy uploaded the 30-minute film to Facebook on May 3. But when Facebook users tried to share links to the film’s website, the platform claimed the content violated its “Community Guidelines” and would not allow users to post. Instagram users had a similar experience when trying to post the link in Instagram stories, according to screenshots included in a TikTok video that Kennedy’s team posted on May 5.
[…]Meta has since claimed that the video being labeled spam was a mistake rather than overt censorship.
“It was mistakenly blocked and corrected within a few hours,” said Meta spokesman Andy Stone told The Times.
Baldwin failed to mention that the video was filled with lies and misinformation about vaccines — so, yes, those lies are “dangerous” and arguably justifying being blocked, accidentally or otherwise.
Nicholas Fondacaro went into deflection mode over Kennedy’s revelation over having been diagnosed with a worm in his brain in a May 9 post:
Masters of the subject, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View kicked off their Thursday show by sounding off on independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his past diagnosis of having a dead worm in his brain. The irony that they, of all people, were going to mock someone else for having a parasite in their brain was completely lost on the cast.
Following a soundbite of Kennedy explaining that he got the parasite while in India and that he had made a full recovery, moderator Whoopi Goldberg scoffed at his confidence. “Really? But he insists he’s still up for the gig, and even tweeted – and I don’t know why – that he could eat five more worms and still beat you-know-who and Biden in a debate,” she said.
Co-host and “comedian” Joy Behar suggested – without evidence – that the brain worm was “the reason for his irrational behavior,” but wanted to know: “what is Trump’s excuse?” “Does he also have a worm in his brain?” she quipped. “We know he suffers from narcolepsy. He’s always falling asleep.”
[…]Kennedy might have a dead worm in his brain, but how does The View cast explain the things that come out of their mouths?
Then again, none of the hosts are anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists like Kennedy is, something Fondacaro failed to point out.
A May 29 post by Sarah Butler sorta admitted the truth about the MRC’s promotion of Kennedy:
On Tuesday, CNN This Morning host Kasie Hunt asked former White House correspondent Margaret Talev which major party candidate would suffer the most damage if Robert Kennedy Jr. were on the ballot in November. With the presidential election drawing near, RFK Jr. Kennedy was at 15 percent in the polls. Hunt described RFK Jr. as “dangerous” for the Biden team after he reportedly met the requirements to get on the Michigan ballot, a critical state President Biden was faltering in.
Former President Donald Trump and Kennedy attended the Libertarian Party’s convention last Saturday as they worked to potentially win over third-party voters. Talev noted that Trump “has made inroads into the Libertarian Party just as he has made some inroads into every facet of American politics” but followed that by saying Kennedy has the potential to be a “spoiler” in the upcoming presidential election.
When Hunt asked Talev which majority party candidate would suffer the most damage if Kennedy was on the ballot, her answer speculated that both candidates would be affected. Talev stated that he was seen, by swing voters, as a middle ground between Trump and Biden’s policies. Describing him as a “fascination to many” who may not know his policies or stances on certain issues outside of knowing the “Kennedy” family name.
Of course, Butler offered no information about Kennedy’s “policies or stances on certain issues” — that’s because the MRC largely opposes what he’s actually running on, as Tierin-Rose Mandelburg admitted in a May 9 post:
It’s absolutely jaw dropping to me that people openly support what can be summed up as nothing less than infanticide.
In an interview with podcaster Sage Steele, Democratic Presidential nominee Robert Kennedy Jr. was asked about his ideas when it comes to abortion restrictions. Kennedy, very confidently, insisted that all abortion decisions should be made by a mother and that he supports abortion “even if it’s full term.”
[…]Steele pushed back in order to get Kennedy to clarify his stance: “Even if it’s full term?”
What Kennedy said next shocked me. “Even if it’s full term,” he said, meaning that he’d support a woman’s decision to abort her child, even if it is fully formed and merely a few inches up the birth canal.
LifeNews.com did indicate that even though Kennedy claims that he “may not support late-term abortions personally, his answer makes it crystal clear that his political policy would allow late-term abortions with no limits.”
In response to the clip, many pro-lifers were stunned and heartbroken.
[…]I pray for the day that pro-aborts either wake up or stop ignoring the realities of what abortion is. Until then, that population, the most vulnerable population in our society, is under eminent risk with mindsets like Kennedy’s.
Mandelburg wouldn’t explain why her employer continues to promote a candidate whose actual views — as opposed to his Biden spoiler potential — it finds so abhorrent. Indeed, Mandelburg appears to be so detached from anything beyond her anti-abortion extremist activism that she bizarrely, and falsely, called Kennedy the “Democratic Presidential nominee,” apparently oblivious to the fact not only that Biden has sealed up the nomination but that Kennedy stopped running as a Democrat months ago.)