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tenderfoot

(8,982 posts)
Sat Sep 21, 2024, 01:28 PM Sep 2024

That guy is a Rhodes Scholar - his Foghorn Leghorn/Mr. Hainey bullshit needs to be called out

Kennedy earned the highest honors at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and he was executive editor of the Virginia Law Review at the not-too-shabby University of Virginia law school.

So how does a certified nerd – one of the elites of the elite – end up peddling Russian-backed disinformation on national television not once, but twice? And more importantly, what can the sane population of democracy-loving citizens do about it? (Apart from voting him out of office, which may be tricky in a state that Donald Trump won by a margin of 20 points in 2016.)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/03/think-fake-news-isnt-a-real-problem-look-at-senator-john-kennedy
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