Few figures within the Democratic Party have been more thoroughly rejected by the party than Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
He has been repeatedly excoriated by the left — including members of his dynastic family — in recent years for remarks about vaccines and other hot-button issues.
Most recently, multiple media outlets seized on his remarks at the Food and Drug Administration headquarters, taking one word out of context and depicting it as an anti-handicap slur.
As Breitbart reported:
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out establishment media attacks against him in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, saying that he believes “it’s always ironic how the liberal media weaponizes woke cancel culture to safeguard the interests of Big Pharma and Big Food.”
Kennedy was responding to a baseless onslaught after several publications misquoted him Friday in his use of the word “retarded” to evoke the proper name of a New York state mental facility.
The deluge of condemnation came after reports of the Secretary’s remarks to a gathering of the staff of the Food and Drug Administration at the agency’s headquarters in White Oak, Maryland.
Mediaite spun his appearance with the headline: “FDA Staffers Dish on Unhinged Meeting With RFK Jr. Where He Called Special Olympics Athletes ‘Retarded.’”
The Daily Beast headlined it: “Staffers Walk Out of RFK Jr.’s Slur-Ridden Speech About Deep State.”
Kennedy told Breitbart News the coverage is yet another demonstration of the axiom by 17th century satirist Jonathan Swift: “Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.”
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