RFK Jr. apologizes to family for Super Bowl ad

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized for a Super Bowl ad that aired Sunday from the super PAC backing his presidential campaign after it sparked backlash from his own family members.

The $7 million ad seen by tens of millions of viewers drew direct parallels between the independent candidate and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy. It also used the exact same ad template as a JFK ad from the 1960s.

Kennedy posted an apology to X late Sunday night, saying that he was “sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in my family pain.”

“The ad was created and aired by the American Values Super PAC without any involvement or approval from my campaign,” he said in the post. “FEC rules prohibit Super PACs from consulting with me or my staff. I love you all. God bless you.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/12/rfk-jr-super-bowl-ad-00140922

[MiHale]

1. Saw that ad...was a little dumbstruck...then got on with it.

[Rebl2]

30. Turned

the channel when it came on. Cannot stand him and now what I heard about the ad dislike him even more.

[CaptainTruth]

2. A non-apology "apology"

“sorry if the Super Bowl advertisement caused anyone in my family pain"

But apparently not sorry it aired?

[MissMillie]

8. He is apparently sorry that it aired

But if he was following election law, he had no part in airing it.

As I watched it, I wondered where he would have gotten enough $ to buy ad time during the Superbowl. A super-pac certainly answers that question.

[NoRethugFriends]

28. Not sure you understand the non-apology part

Check the word "if"

[MissMillie]

35. I do understand it.

And I am no fan of his.

But he can't be sorry for airing it IF he didn't air it.

If you want to accuse him of airing it, that is your prerogative.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

42. Bull

He kept it pinned to his Twitter after apologizing.

[MissMillie]

45. That's a fair critique (nt)

.

[TomSlick]

50. A classic non-apology apology.

I'm sorry it you are so sensitive that I have offended you.

[Chainfire]

3. The Republic an Party's other candidate.

They think that we are so dumb that we will vote for the reincarnation of JFK instead of Biden.

[FakeNoose]

34. It's weird that they think he's a "reincarnation of JFK"

RFK Jr. was born in 1954, and his uncle was killed in 1963. We can do the math and it doesn't add up.

[slightlv]

37. Not to mention that

reincarnation is anathema, heresy, and damnation to these people. But then, they really don't know their own theology, let alone understand it! (LOL)

I was headed to the kitchen when the ad came on. I was flabbergasted. I don't know why, but I guess I just wasn't expecting a political ad during the Super Bowl. AND I thought the ad was in such bad taste, as well as being a flat out lie, ala republican-like.

BTW, while I bowed out and turned on Star Trek before the end of Super Bowl, I figured by all the M80's and the rest of the fireworks going off, that the Chiefs won. Lexie, my big scaredy-cat of a dog, came running into the bedroom, jumped into bed and glued herself to me. Such noise! All I could think of at the time was, "I wonder why they're shooting off the cannons at the Fort THIS late at night!" (LOL)

[FakeNoose]

39. Yes I did the same

I turned it off at halftime because I'm watching the mini-series Monsieur Spade.

But my doggy would have also gone crazy for all the noise at the end of the game. I'm glad I changed channels.

[PufPuf23]

46. I find the prospect of a "No Labels" third-party candidate of

more concern than RFK Jr, jerk that he is.

[NNadir]

4. Given that it was surely funded by fascist interests, it offends me.

I couldn't care less if it offends his family.

[Lovie777]

5. And it was strange...................

something that shithole's cult would love.

[ificandream]

6. I hope RFK Jr. helps pull Trump down.

[Chainfire]

53. I don't know how that would work. Which Trump supporters would vote for a Kennedy? Any Kennedy?

[Murphyb849]

7. He lies.

Link to tweet

?t=8MU58ZHFPr5Y6gWtoqs69A&s=19

[Aviation Pro]

9. How about apologizing to us, you worthless oxygen thief?

Profile in cowardice.

[underpants]

10. I was very surprised to see that ad

I thought there was an understanding that political ads wouldn’t be in the Super Bowl.

[Stargazer99]

15. Money buys anything in this country

[relayerbob]

11. While I can't stand him ...

I hate Super PACs more. These entities should not be allowed to operate, and are a legacy of “Citizens United” (aka fascists united.)

[BootinUp]

12. He uses Xitter to apologize to his family?

[FakeNoose]

33. I think the Kennedy clan aren't speaking to him anymore

I wonder if his own kids are even speaking to him.

Hmmmm.....

[womanofthehills]

47. He recently said all or most of his kids work for him

With Cheryl’s daughter there are 8 kids.

He said his family (lots of cousins etc) is huge and only a few are upset with him.

Sounds like he’s pulling from both parties pretty equally.

[Puppyjive]

13. Money in politics is ridiculous

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Shameful what people spend to gain power.

[twodogsbarking]

14. Erin Brockovich: Did they teach you how to apologize at lawyer school? 'Cause you suck at it.

[TeamProg]

24. +1 😆

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. He can just add that to the list ...

... of things he needs to apologize to the family for.

[appleannie1]

17. We already had an "independent" president.

We sure as hell don't need another one. Having said that, I hope RFK draws enough Republican votes that it helps to keep the other Republican candidate from even coming close to winning. RFK is not fit to be a dog catcher and the orange one hates dogs.

[oldinmtdem92]

18. seen it

we were not impressed hes a trump rube that s that ,just a real stupid human. pos

[ashredux]

19. It was just plain bizarre. Incoherent and seemed designed to give one a headache.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. RFK Jr is still promoting this ad on his website

Link to tweet

[PortTack]

21. Oh I'm sorry...so typical of a good republican fascist! It had it's affect, now apologize after the fact.

Shitty!!

[TeamProg]

22. I thought it was a really crappy ad anyway. Rough old film

look and feel as though going back to a time of obvious white power kind of like when TSF guy’s America was “Great”. In my opinion, RFK Jr ‘s advert was very MAGA.

RFK Jr can’t even pass CIA security clearance these days.

[SCantiGOP]

23. RFK Jr

When MAGA just isn’t crazy enough for you.

[keithbvadu2]

25. "...without any involvement or approval from my campaign," --- Yeah! Right!

[catbyte]

26. Uh huh...

[sop]

27. What the hell happened to RFK Jr.?

When he first came into the public eye he seemed to hold the same liberal, socially conscious, progressive and enlightened views as his father and the rest of the Kennedy family. When he was on Mike Papantonio's 'Ring of Fire' radio program they mostly focused on exposing Wall Street's excesses, corporate environmental criminality and the sort of political backstories not covered by the mainstream media.

Then he went off the rails deep into a series of conspiracy theory rabbit holes. He's wandered so far into loony left territory RWers are now bankrolling him as a stalking horse to attack mainstream Democrats. Let's face it, if his initials were not "RFK" no one would pay any attention.

[LakeArenal]

29. That age old canard: Easy to ask forgiveness than permission.

Every Republican employer I had said that.

[twodogsbarking]

31. We lose JFK jr and keep this. Life is cruel.

[Marcuse]

38. Indeed.

[BWdem4life]

48. There's a reason he's still around

It’s because he didn’t follow in their footsteps

[MorbidButterflyTat]

32. Oh. Right. Oopsie!

Just a simple misunderstanding. Totally out of his control.

Anyone who missed it yesterday during the game, are now wondering what all the fuss is about, and will seek it out on social media, re-post it, e-mail it to their friends; he'll make an appearance on the Rupert Murdoch bullshit show, probably an interview for him to explain and "apologize."

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

[SunSeeker]

36. Where did his super pac get the $7M to buy the ad time?

Fuck you Republicans on SCOTUS for allowing that info to be secret.

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. A lying "apology" - as Wonkette points out, he still has the ad pinned to the top of his Twitter page

https://www.wonkette.com/p/a-tale-of-two-sundays

It's been there for 18 hours now. I think this may be worse than if he'd just said nothing about it.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

41. Didn't see it

Sounds like I didn't miss much

[flying_wahini]

43. RFK jr is a hot smelly turd.

Talk about nepotism baby,

[LudwigPastorius]

44. Shamalot

[prodigitalson]

49. was there a time when he was just a normal guy? I mean not a conspiracy freak. Obviously he's always been a Kennedy

which is per se more rarified than the norm? But he's married to Cheryl Heins and is close to Larry David indicating a not batshit crazy point in his life.

[LudwigPastorius]

52. His father's murder fucked him up, which is understandable.

I think that, and JFK's murder, kind of embedded the conspiracy theory mindset in him. The irony is those events, which actually have a lot of unanswered questions and questionable official explanations, set him down the path to ridiculousness that he is on now.

He certainly didn't help his critical thinking abilities by shooting up heroin for over a decade starting when he was 15 years old.

[RockRaven]

51. He posted & pinned the ad on his social media only a few hours before

he publicized his "apology" to his family, rendering that a FUCKING NOTPOLOGY.

[The Grand Illuminist]

54. Only one path to forgiveness

End your campaign and withdraw now so we can have a fair and just one on one contest.