When a lesser person goes “off”, nothing. But Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is important enough to get a NYT article quoting his circle’s wailing about the change.
The title sounds like a village newsletter:
A Kennedy’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccines Anguishes Family and Friends
Some enlightening excerpts:
Mr. Kennedy, 68, began inveighing against vaccines well before the arrival of the coronavirus, contending that they cause autism — a notion that has been soundly rejected by medical experts.
… he was drawn into this issue when the mother of a child with autism brought stacks of studies purporting to show a link between vaccines and the condition to his Cape Cod home and stayed there until he reviewed them.
“I realized the huge delta between the official narratives promoted by Pharma and public health regulators on one side and the published science I was then reading,” Mr. Kennedy wrote. He said he tried to raise his concerns with top federal health officials and that “those conversations made me angry enough that I got drawn into this battle.”
Hmmm, have any readers ever tried to raise your personal concerns on XYZ with “top XYZ officials“? What? You couldn’t get an appointment?! How strange! Almost sounds undemocratic.
Once a top environmental lawyer who led the charge to clean up the Hudson River in New York, the third eldest child of Robert and Ethel Kennedy has emerged as a leading voice in the campaign to discredit coronavirus vaccines and other measures being advanced by the Biden White House to battle a pandemic that was, near the end of February, killing close to 1,900 people a day.
Mr. Kennedy’s rise as the face of the vaccine resistance movement has tested as never before the solidarity of a family that has for decades remained resolute in the face of tragedy and scandal. It has rattled the Hollywood and entertainment circles that he inhabits, while showing how the vaccine debate is upending traditional political alliances.
Wait, what “debate“, exactly?! I’m not aware of any debate. All I see are voices crying in the wilderness, if not being actively persecuted, with anything they have to say deemed well beneath notice.
Five of his eight surviving siblings — two of his brothers have died — have publicly rebuked him over the past two years for his campaign against vaccines, a remarkable development in a prominent American family that tries to manage its problems in-house.
What’s “remarkable” about that? He’s way over the line of nice, acceptable scandal!
From his earliest days growing up in Virginia, to his years at Harvard University, to his work as a co-founder of Waterkeeper Alliance, created in 1999 to battle water pollution, Mr. Kennedy has been known as someone with obsessive energy, passionate to the point of being exhausting. For nearly 40 years, he has made a mission of warning about mercury contamination — first from coal-powered plants and now as a preservative in some vaccines. Even his most prominent critics say they do not doubt his sincerity, even as he has become one of the most prominent spreaders of misinformation on vaccines.
Imagine that…
“I don’t think he worries much” about his vaccine stance marring his reputation, “because he believes in whatever he says,” said Mr. Green, who sought Mr. Kennedy’s support when he ran for mayor of New York as a Democrat in 2001.
Oh, you think?
Kerry Kennedy said she continued to treasure the memories of growing up with Bobby, and will always admire her older brother.
“We have much more in common than our differences on vaccines, but on that subject we are diametrically opposed,” she said. “I can’t say enough how much I love Bobby. It’s so heartbreaking. It’s so tough.”
Cry me a river!
Kerry sounds like Haman:
ויספר להם המן את כבוד עשרו ורב בניו ואת כל אשר גדלו המלך… אף לא הביאה אסתר המלכה עם המלך… וגם… וכל זה איננו שוה לי…
Will they choose Haman’s solution as well (יעשו עץ גבוה…) or does it end with an article?
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