RFK Jr. Attack Backfires on Dems
The hypocrisy is so thick it's like the fog that often envelops San Francisco...
Phoenix, AZ July 21, 2023… Few critical thinkers will disagree that the radical left has lost its collective mind. “I am being censored here,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democratic presidential candidate, told lawmakers directly at the nationally televised congressional hearing on what? Censorship. Democrats objected to the content of Kennedy’s testimony and wanted it behind closed doors. Perhaps it was just a little too close to the truth.
Even the propaganda purveyors got in on the act of censorship via innuendo, with NBC saying,
“Republicans invited Kennedy to appear before their new Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. They praised his career as an environmentalist and held him up as a martyr of censorship by an alleged cabal of “big government, big tech and big media,” as the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, a top ally of former President Donald Trump, put it.”1
Exactly what does Rep. Jim Jordan’s affinity to President Trump have to do with the conversation? Nothing, and that’s the point.
But what of the content of his testimony? “After I announced my [campaign for the] presidency, it became more difficult for people to censor me outright. So now I’m subject to a new form of censorship, which is called targeted propaganda, where people apply pejoratives like ‘anti-vax’ ... ‘antisemitism,’ ‘racism,’" Kennedy said. He went on to say, “These are the most appalling, disgusting pejoratives, and they’re applied to me to silence me.”
Rep. Jim Jordan’s pithy response to the top Democrat on the panel, Delegate Stacey Plaskett of the U.S. Virgin Islands, demanding that, “extra time be removed from the clock,” was perfect. Rep. Jordan said, “If you want to cut him off and censor him some more, you’re welcome to.” It is just a bit funny to see Republicans and RFK Jr. trolling Democrats, the hunters become the hunted.
Then there is “This itself is evidence of the problem that this hearing was convened to address,” he said, holding up the letter against him led by Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Judy Chu (D-Calif.). “This is an attempt to censor a censorship hearing.”2 Oh the irony of it all, Dems loosing the minds not over censorship, but being called out for it.
Whether we call it censorship, shaming-culture or cancel-culture, the concept is abhorrent to one of our most cherished and fundamental rights, the freedom to speak freely. If a government can silence opposition to public policy, we have indeed descended into tyranny.
And how about Jason Aldean…
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