NYT: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Power of Playing the Preppy Card

[edhopper]

Don't tell me that the Times publisher isn't in the bag for Trump when they do this puff piece about RFK Jr.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/style/rfk-jr-fashion.html?searchResultPosition=6

You don't send a fashion reported to do an article about how cool a candidate is unless you want to give him a push.

I threw up a little when I read it.

[marble falls]

1. To be fair: the only way to write about RFK Jr is with a puff piece. There's no scintilla of gravitas about him at all.

[edhopper]

2. What you should write

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is there is no scintilla of gravitas. Not promote him as young a virile, to juxtapose him with "old Biden".

[marble falls]

5. I've read no serious pieces on ol' worm brains. And not many of us anywhere, even in TFG world put much ...

... credence to what comes out of prepidom. So RFK Jr a 50 plus year old is reduced to activating the preps, a niche political group if ever there was.

Aberzombie and Fitch.

[unc70]

6. Kennedy isn't that young; he is 70.

[Ocelot II]

3. But if he's taking more votes away from Trump, let them go for it.

Fluff him all they want. Make him out to be the less creepy alternative to Trump (brain worm notwithstanding) - younger, not so bloated, but still full of the batshit conspiracy theories so beloved of at least some of the MAGA contingent.

[mahina]

4. Same. Here's a better interview w Bob

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/robert-f-kennedy-jr-isnt-going-away

New Yorker radio hour