"If I believed the stuff that's written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy said.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blamed the media for dragging his campaign Sunday, saying he has been slammed “even more than President Trump was slammed” by mainstream media outlets.

“I’ve been really, you know, slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented,” Kennedy said during an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”

Kennedy, a longtime vaccine skeptic who is running a longshot primary campaign against President Joe Biden, is more popular among Republicans than Democrats, according to polling.

The nephew of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, Kennedy Jr. has been hit with backlash for his stances on vaccines, particularly recent comments he made suggesting that the coronavirus could have been “targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,” while sparing Jewish and Chinese people. Kennedy denied allegations of racism and antisemitism, saying on Twitter: “I have never, ever suggested that the Covid-19 virus was targeted to spare Jews.”

“I mean, listen, if I believed the stuff that’s written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I would definitely not vote for me,” Kennedy told host Maria Bartiromo. “I would think I was a very despicable person.”

  • Blackbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You’re not making a great case to mandate over 30 vaccines for kids without proper testing.

    ALL vaccines are properly tested. Stop implying they’re not.

    Nobody is arguing that. But rigorous testing in line with most western nations, seems fair.

    ALL vaccines are properly tested. Stop implying they’re not.

    Yeah, I don’t like when the government forces every child to get a shot from a big pharma organization

    And I don’t like when my toddler gets measles from your un-vaxxed kid before they’re old enough to be inoculated. Don’t want a government mandated vaccine? Then don’t interact with the general public. Problem solved.

    that pays the FDA to get through the testing with shitty made up science.

    Bullshit. Source your claims. I’d bet my life savings you couldn’t even read the findings of a Phase III clinical trial without relying on quora.com for support.

    I think there should be rigorous testing, which there are good trials

    There is and there are. Next.

    but just to be more in line with most of western europe, as opposed to safeguarding big pharma companies.

    Done. Next.