August 06, 2023
The Washington Examiner Reports:
After 18 years of being canceled by the corporate legacy media, then targeted specifically for social media censorship by the Biden administration for promulgating “misinformation” during the pandemic, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is doing a remarkable end run around the long media blackout by forcing discussion of officially verboten issues with a presidential run. Now, with renewed interest in his views as a result of that run, the blackout is collapsing. And it’s driving the legacy media, as well as their handlers in the Democratic Party, insane with desperation.
Kennedy’s surprising strength in the polls and robust fundraising numbers have led to an abrupt change in tactics on the part of Democratic strategists, who until recently had been advising party leaders to treat RFK Jr.’s presidential run as if it didn’t exist. This shift was reflected in the recent concerted denunciations of Kennedy as a “racist anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist” by former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in the wake of a piece about remarks he made about the danger of existing ethnically-targeted bioweapon research.
Interestingly, none of the coordinated smear jobs or ritual denunciations of Kennedy as a “conspiracy theorist” appear to be working anymore, to the great consternation of a D.C. establishment that has long used the slur as a way of shutting down debate about useful but unfounded orthodoxies they don’t wish to see challenged. The problem is, after all the manifest gaslighting and propaganda of the last three years on the part of media, medical authorities, and government officials, the “conspiracy theory” trope has become, for many, a clear sign that those with power and influence in Washington are seeking to shut down debate and impose an official narrative. Rather than working as an effective smear, it has almost become an endorsement.
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