"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.”

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    Thiomersal is in almost no vaccines at this point, and you get more mercury from a can of tuna than you would from a vaccine with thiomersal in it.

    So maybe start scaremongering about tuna salad sandwiches instead.

    • zephyrvs@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Do you know if Thiomersal was removed from most vaccines before or after the issue was brought up?

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.mlEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            Ok? How is that relevant to the fact that there is far more mercury in a can of tuna than there ever were in any vaccine? Shouldn’t your dire warnings be tuna salad-based? Shouldn’t you be telling the world that they’ll get mercury poisoning from tuna salad?

            • zephyrvs@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              I was asking a question, hoping you’d know before I’d have to research it on my own, since you seem to have done some research on this.

              I don’t get why you’re being so passive aggressive so the vegan reply was meant as a joke.

    • MasterOBee Master/King@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Thiomersal is in almost no vaccines at this point

      Thanks to those who fought it!

      and you get more mercury from a can of tuna than you would from a vaccine with thiomersal in it.

      And they recommend limited how much tuna one eats…because of…that’s right! Mercury!