Propped up by Donald Trump acolytes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is humiliating himself as a candidate to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for President. Let’s not forget, this is the same man who likened common sense life-saving public health measures to the slaughter of six million Jews.
But RFK Jr. wasn’t always a “liar, grifter and menace to public health” as CNN’s Jake Tapper has so aptly described him. Before he became a super spreader of deadly misinformation, Kennedy did great work and seemed to be a good and decent man.
RFK Jr’s father was one of my three heroes growing up in the 1960s—Martin Luther King, RFK and Mickey Mantle. Given how I had always felt about his father, I was in awe of meeting him when I was a student and he was an environmental law professor at Pace Law School.
I knew all too well the unimaginable family tragedies he endured as a child. I had read about his struggles with drug addiction. The RFK Jr. I met though was a dynamic and magnetic force to be reckoned with back then in the late 80s and early 90s.
But RFK Jr. wasn’t always a “liar, grifter and menace to public health” as CNN’s Jake Tapper has so aptly described him. Before he became a super spreader of deadly misinformation, Kennedy did great work and seemed to be a good and decent man.
Kennedy had founded the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace in 1987 and for 30 years was the co-director and supervising professor. He had the Clinic filing scores of lawsuits against polluting corporations and local governments and the Clinic won hundreds of settlements in the fight to protect our environment. He also worked heroically with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and the Hudson Riverkeeper.
I got to know RFK Jr well enough to know that he lived by a code back then. He was a mentor and someone I knew who would go out of his way to help others. He was a man of honor who preached and practiced living an honest life where you tell the truth and live with integrity. He literally preached to always tell the truth. And you do good. With his drive and relentless energy, his passion and his intense commitment, RFK Jr. did a tremendous amount of good. He seemed to exemplify the best of what the Kennedy name stood for.
I cannot pretend to understand what happened to the man I once knew.
Now, tragically, RFK Jr. pours all of that passion and intensity into building an “anti-vaccine juggernaut”, spreading deadly lies about the Covid 19 vaccine. How many people are dead because they swallowed the falsehoods and conspiracy theories spewing from RFK Jr?
How many people are dead because they swallowed the falsehoods and conspiracy theories spewing from RFK Jr?
The world could really use the Bobby Kennedy I knew 30 years ago...Instead, we have this fraudulent pathetic, hollow shell of the man he used to be. Of the man he could have been.
Propped up by Donald Trump acolytes, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is humiliating himself as a candidate to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for President. Let’s not forget, this is the same man who likened common sense life-saving public health measures to the slaughter of six million Jews.
But RFK Jr. wasn’t always a “liar, grifter and menace to public health” as CNN’s Jake Tapper has so aptly described him. Before he became a super spreader of deadly misinformation, Kennedy did great work and seemed to be a good and decent man.
RFK Jr’s father was one of my three heroes growing up in the 1960s—Martin Luther King, RFK and Mickey Mantle. Given how I had always felt about his father, I was in awe of meeting him when I was a student and he was an environmental law professor at Pace Law School.
I knew all too well the unimaginable family tragedies he endured as a child. I had read about his struggles with drug addiction. The RFK Jr. I met though was a dynamic and magnetic force to be reckoned with back then in the late 80s and early 90s.
But RFK Jr. wasn’t always a “liar, grifter and menace to public health” as CNN’s Jake Tapper has so aptly described him. Before he became a super spreader of deadly misinformation, Kennedy did great work and seemed to be a good and decent man.
Kennedy had founded the Environmental Litigation Clinic at Pace in 1987 and for 30 years was the co-director and supervising professor. He had the Clinic filing scores of lawsuits against polluting corporations and local governments and the Clinic won hundreds of settlements in the fight to protect our environment. He also worked heroically with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) and the Hudson Riverkeeper.
I got to know RFK Jr well enough to know that he lived by a code back then. He was a mentor and someone I knew who would go out of his way to help others. He was a man of honor who preached and practiced living an honest life where you tell the truth and live with integrity. He literally preached to always tell the truth. And you do good. With his drive and relentless energy, his passion and his intense commitment, RFK Jr. did a tremendous amount of good. He seemed to exemplify the best of what the Kennedy name stood for.
I cannot pretend to understand what happened to the man I once knew.
Now, tragically, RFK Jr. pours all of that passion and intensity into building an “anti-vaccine juggernaut”, spreading deadly lies about the Covid 19 vaccine. How many people are dead because they swallowed the falsehoods and conspiracy theories spewing from RFK Jr?
How many people are dead because they swallowed the falsehoods and conspiracy theories spewing from RFK Jr?
The world could really use the Bobby Kennedy I knew 30 years ago...Instead, we have this fraudulent pathetic, hollow shell of the man he used to be. Of the man he could have been.