Dr. Fauci Says RFK Jr. Is a Shame for the Kennedys: 'He's a Very Disturbed Individual'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fauci has addressed attacks made on his career and reputation by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who last month released the book “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health.”

Speaking to Yahoo News, the director of the NIAID said, “it really is a shame that he is attacking me in my career,” when asked about RFK’s book not being “a flattering portrait of” his career.

“I think if you look at my career there are not a lot of people that would be attacking my career, but he seems to do that,” Fauci continued in the comments published earlier this week. “It’s very unfortunate because I don’t think he is inherently malicious. I just think he’s a very disturbed individual. And I … I don’t like to have to say that, but it’s very, very clear. And it’s a shame because he comes from such an extraordinarily distinguished family, many members of whom I know personally, and I was very close to Senator Ted Kennedy, who was such an extraordinary person and a real warrior for public health. And to have RFK Jr. just spouting things that make absolutely no sense.”

Fauci said that RFK’s comments, which have included unfounded and unsupported claims like Fauci is an investor in Moderna, something RFK claimed to Newsweek earlier this year, and which Fauci called “unequivocally and completely incorrect,” have a wider impact than on just the doctor.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/dr-fauci-says-rfk-jr-is-a-shame-for-the-kennedys-hes-a-very-disturbed-individual/ar-AAS4eaW

[Lovie777]

1. Oh snap . ....

[FakeNoose]

2. Do I smell a lawsuit?

[Goonch]

3. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., second left, with

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., second left, with former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, left, anti-vaccine profiteer Charlene Bollinger and former President Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, right.

[TNNurse]

12. Guess you can judge someone by the company they keep.

Ugh.

[Midnight Writer]

14. What's stunning is that this picture will RAISE RFK Jr's credibility with a lot of people.

[MustLoveBeagles]

16. Wow

I don't even know what to say.

[Joinfortmill]

18. I think RFK just rolled over in his grave.

[SunSeeker]

19. OMFG

[electric_blue68]

30. Omg, that's... that's... Blarg!

[pecosbob]

4. A doctor shouldn't demean someone with special needs.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Huge fan of Tig Notaro and her podcast with Cheryl Hines called "True Story"

But Cheryl is married to this jackass, so it makes it hard for me to listen now.

He is killing people.

[XanaDUer2]

7. Love, Tig! Nt

[Elessar Zappa]

6. His father would be ashamed of him.

[womanofthehills]

24. As an environmental lawyer, he did win hundreds of lawsuits against water polluters

in the USA and South America. He really worked hard to clean up the Hudson River and was on the team who recently won a 2.2 billion class action suit against Monsanto for Roundup cancer cases.

[NoRethugFriends]

29. And that relates how to his idiocy now?

[NNadir]

8. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is proof that heroin is bad for you.

He's always been a dickhead.

Little known fact: His Godfather was Joseph McCarthy, that Joseph McCarthy.

[electric_blue68]

11. Uh, his father RFK was on McCarthy's HUAC committee for a while.....

so let's put that where that belongs.
Now I would have campaigned for Bobby had he made it
to our NYS Primary. 😔 June 5,6 devastated me)

Joe Kennedy (father) hated young RFK's gentleness so he eventually hid it. It emerged after JFK's assassination.

Why do you say RFK Jr was always a dick?

He was the part of Riverkeeper's lawyer.
A friend took me to a conference ?20+ yrs ago (he was not yet full steam anti-vax) where he spoke on women developing leadership.
He wasn't always this terrible person.

[NNadir]

28. You're entitled to your opinion of course.

I emphatically disagree.

I was not old enough in 1968 to have voted for Robert F. Kennedy, but were I then, I might have considered doing so.

Of course, the realities of the Kennedy's were not known to me in 1968. I was a very naïve child and basically bought into popular wisdom.

Since that time, I've had lots of time to read lots of histories of the era, of some interest to me, since as a child, I went to school one morning convinced that I would die in a nuclear war in the afternoon.

I consider JFK to have been the worst Democratic President of the 20th century with the possible exception of Woodrow Wilson because I'm older now and have read my history. Hiring his brother, like him an old cold warrior himself, is to me, only slightly better than hiring Jared Kushner to run foreign policy.

(There is a reason JFK almost stumbled into a nuclear war. He's been called heroic for his actions at the time, which rather like an arsonist being declared a hero for rescuing a family from a fire he helped start. In particular, his unprepared behavior at the Vienna Summit in 1961 marked him to Khrushchev, who had after all, survived Stalin, as a lightweight. )

JFK watched the "I have a dream" speech on television, just down the street from all the action.

JFK was also the only Democrat in the Senate who did not vote to censure McCarthy, a close family friend, but a drunk who viciously destroyed the careers of artists, scientists, and people in Government service. I think I am putting that where it belongs.

As for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his notion of environmentalism disgusts me, but then again, I take energy and the environment very seriously. Although I oppose the wind industry, I don't do so because it might be in my backyard. I do so because so called "renewable energy" is neither renewable nor sustainable nor green.

Robert F. Kennedy Fr., a poorly educated lightweight brahmin flaky kid with no conception of human poverty and zero scientific background has never had a remote interest in technical environmental issues. He knows as much about environmental science as he knows about the the science of vaccines.

He is an ass and has always been one. His contempt for science didn't start a few years back. It's been the story of his life, including his life as River Keeper. His attitudes on energy kill as do his attitudes on vaccines, but one would need to have engaged in a serious study of energy to know that.

I'm an Eleanor Roosevelt type Democrat. Ms. Roosevelt, to the day she died, held the Kennedy family in contempt because she, and her husband, has long experience with them. I suggest reading Beschloss's Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance to get a real feel for who the Kennedys, both John and Robert F. were.

The most riveting part of the book was when Eleanor describes her mortification when FDR summoned her to his office to tell her to kick Joseph Kennedy out of the house during a visit to Hyde Park because he never wanted to speak "to that son of a bitch," again.

This would be the same Joseph P. Kennedy who spent much of his time in the late 1950's during his son's rising political career running around telling everyone who would listen, accurately as it turns out, that his son was no liberal.

As it happens, Roosevelt sent Joseph Kennedy Sr. to England during the Blitz (where Kennedy was convinced that Hitler would win and agitated against supporting the British, although FDR undercut his ambassador through other channels) to get him out of the country for the 1940 election.

Ironically, the only one of the Kennedy family who mellowed with age - because he lived a long time - and became a true liberal was Ted Kennedy, although it appears he was off to a bad nepotistic start. He was the "kid" in the family, and somewhat removed from the rest of them.

In this case the sins of the father were well reflected in the sins of the sons.

That's my opinion. You're entitled to yours.

[electric_blue68]

31. I'll reply further tomorrow to certain things, but I wasn't old enough...

to vote for RFK in '68. I was 15. But I would have done volunteer work as I eventually did for Hubert Humphrey in '68.

As far nuclear war fears goes...
Hey, I'm a NYC'r like target #2, after ?DC. Those damn monthly air raid siren drills. I know all about them.

I lived in quite Northern Manhattan below and above the GW Bridge.
We were (when I was 6, 7) living near the top of the hill of our pretty quiet street on the sixth floor.
At night we sometimes could hear in the distance the Volunteer Firefighters Sirens go off in the NJ towns.

Those sirens sounded like the nuclear sirens. I'd lie in bed wondering if the sirens were going to start going off here in NYC, and This was It - Nuclear Conflagration.
So, yeah, I know all about that feeling of terror as well.

Later for more.

[womanofthehills]

25. However, his team of lawyers are killing it against Monsanto

Winning billions for the Roundup injured.

[barbtries]

9. i believe the belief

that the delta variant was precipitated by the introduction of the vaccine originated with RFK jr. A friend's daughter told me that and I had to google high and low to find it, on his webpage (or a page quoting him). RFK's son, anti-vax asshole. very sad.

[electric_blue68]

10. It's a Serious Shame he went Anti-vax along way back.

[UTUSN]

13. Another home run by Fauchi !

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. It's very sad that RFK Jr. turned out like this

It's unbelievable he would slander Dr. Fauci in this way. I'm not excusing his anti-vax views but did his father's assassination screw him up this badly or did something else trigger it?

[electric_blue68]

22. What ever might be in his personality that might have made him more vunerable...

to that horrific (!!!) event in his family's (and our country's) life...
Maybe even carrying the same name a small factor.


It's a serious shame bc it's hurt people!

[MustLoveBeagles]

23. I feel pity for him but I can't excuse his actions

[electric_blue68]

26. I don't excuse them either.

[JHB]

17. Accurate assessment.

[SunSeeker]

20. RFK Jr. suffering from mental illness is the kindest explanation for his anti-vaxx crusade. nt

[dchill]

21. People can be poisoned by bad information...

ESPECIALLY from poisoned people.

[Doremus]

27. There's always one in every family ...