ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
I realize news outlets are sensitive about defamation lawsuits but this is a pretty clear case. He’s flatly lying about recent history if he says he’s not an anti-vaccine activist. There’s video!
"Incorrectly denies" is such a fucking wild phrase. What a fucking hellscape mainstream journalism is today.
Believe me, in this matter today’s journalism is the same as 60 years ago. Neither Walter Cronkite nor print journalists ever dare call government officials liars about Vietnam, though they definitely were.
"Journalism." US Journalists are basically prostitutes who will write anything for a paycheck
Ya say this responding to an independent US journalist that is dead broke because he doesn't just work for anyone. Also, nothing wrong with sex work.
Don’t insult sex workers like that!
So it's not 'definately a lie', because, maybe, he really doesn't remember saying it?
One hunnert percent.
Trump has made "lies" a non-useful phrase, because for his side, facts don't matter and saying something is a "lie" is just an assertion about him not liking it, not anything factual. So we have to keep reminding Trumpers that their Fearless Leaders are speaking actually untrue stuff.
They can't say "lies" and "liar" can they?
Do you remember that scene in Watership Down when they go to the creepily prosperous warren with the Nazi bunnies and they could never ask "where" anybody or anything was?
i was talking about the book for my podcast and my friend told me to look up the 70s animation image of woundwort. i’d never seen it before and managed to catch myself on camera experiencing the horror in real time!
That stuff damaged me
terrifying, even upon first seeing it at 39 years old
Wait, are you talking about Efrafa or Cowslip’s warren where Bigwig gets caught in the snare?
Sorry! I misread you! Cowslip's warren. I can't remember what it was called
That’s not at the Nazi warren, that’s the dystopian one. But yes.
I swear this question makes sense if you've read the book and I didn't have a stroke
I remember it. Or maybe both of us had a stroke.
Well I'm in good company at least
lotta ifs there, brooke. lotta ifs
I always know I've found a fellow traveler when I can mutter "this is like 90% Watership Down," and they nod appreciatively and we high five over the shared important knowledge and then everyone claps
More like you high Fiver with them...
there's something very queer about the warren this evening
I'm clapping right now!
Those were more like lotus eater bunnies—kinda the Brave New World warren? The 1984 warren and its leader turn up later in the story as the Big Bad
I read it as an early stage of fascism - all the rabbits went through kind of were. That was the disinfo stage
All of that British postwar fantasy stuff dealt with fascism and its patterns one way or another though
Was a movie ever made of watership down?
Oh god Oh god you just set off a million childhood nightmares of 1970s animated rabbits
I’m so sorry to everyone affected by my ignorance 😔
Yes! Several. Two were creepy and uncanny and not very good and the other one permanently damaged me emotionally
Everyone who has seen that one is also emotionally damaged
Damn it, Brooke. The bunny fight still messes me up.
For example lol www.reddit.com/r/horror/com...
Yep, that “never ask where somebody is” warren is a dysfunctional, decadent society built on artificial prosperity, denial, distraction etc. The later-encountered Efrafa warren is a fully consolidated authoritarian state built on militarism, secret police, and deprivation—a never-ending emergency
Yes!
*wistfully gestures@thread* my ppl! (who never forgot the allegorical bunnies)🖤
The constant lying appears to either be contagious or a prerequisite to be in pedofelon34's orbit. Either way, it is destructive and hurts millions.
This guy beheads roadside whales with his bare hands , all while fighting off brain worms. He is tough. He has more brains than his uncle did, especially after the assassination.
Don't give them a pass due to potential lawsuits. We all know now that they are happy to pay millions to settle nuisance lawsuits. Remember when news organizations really stood up to this nonsense? Some of us still remember Watergate & the Pentagon Papers.
Also, last time I heard, the "public figure" defense was still available. Motion to Dismiss would be granted in short order.
They should be calling him a pro-death activist - from vaccines to medication to health for disabled and underprivileged, women, children and minorities - he’s against it all.
'incorrectly denies' joins 'economical with the truth' as a new euphemism for lying
Guessing the host didn’t challenge his assertions
We fled the destruction in search of safety, only to find a pain greater than war... My only daughter can't walk, and every glance in her eyes is an indescribable pain.💔😭
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Most media outlets have always struggled with bad faith actors that use mott and bailey arguments. It's like Charlie Brown and that football. They always fall for it.
He’s actively trying to kill all of us 😐
I think killer is most accurate
A vaccine skeptic has questions about vaccines, go to the experts with the questions and LISTEN to the answers. An anti-vaxxer has no questions, because they are already made up their minds, ignore the science and never listen to experts. RFK Jr is an anti-vaxxer.
He's a murderer.
"The Most Trusted Name In News." They are fire hose-pissing that reputation away. It's sad.
Or, anti-science
When the president puts a crown on and is hailed 'Emperor' by the gerousia they'll be like 'unitary executive-adjacent non-explicity authority granted to elected official." It's cowardly.
THIS! bsky.app/profile/vict...
And should ‼️‼️‼️‼️
ABC News? sure.
He and his children and the entire family are vaccinated. He is a wing-nut with worms in his brain and an unusually crispy orange skin tone.
Extremist is actually a more accurate word than activist. He’s an anti-vaccine extremist
Yeah
This is biased reporting. Here they are ignoring this:
He’s a anti-vax zealot who seems to be implementing cull-the-herd policies.
Little Bobby must be sexting a reporter at ABC.
Fire Kennedy. He's a murderer.
Using the word skeptic makes things neutral. Good way of not wanting to get sued.
“Skeptic’s” been doing far too much heavy lifting these last few years.
And forcing his conspiracy theories on the rest of us from a position of power.
“RFK is on the fence on vaccines” - MSM (probably)
@papst-ny.bsky.social
The media needs to make things like that clear. They are still washing a lot of information
He should be in charge of trumps healthcare too .
Absolute IDIOT !
This is why the mainstream media is of no use. My TV stays off most days. I'll be looking to cancel some stuff off of my cable bill and might just take it down to the internet
And Trump/Putin put him there.
American taxpayers are paying for RFK Jr. to dismantle healthcare. Get whatever medical vaccines and appointments in now while you can. You can expect: Return of measles, polio, etc Rise in COVID deaths Brain drain to other countries Stoppage of research into curbing cancer, AIDS, etc.
there is no such thing as a vaccine skeptic, only severely uneducated idiots who don't believe in science scientific tests and results are not open for alternative interpretations, scientific facts are exactly that - proven, verifiable facts
Quack works too.
Word.
Call him a lot more than just that! Psycho is putting it mildly!
I hate this type of non-verbal coverage! They may as well just mime the news.
I’d prefer we call him ‘Harbinger of Doom’ But that might just be me
The MSM is a POS
Disney protects their current detente with Trump by playing the both sides are equal game.
Obligatory: defector.com/what-the-fuc...
You mean the same @abcnetwork.bsky.social that gave Trump millions because they’re pussies?
MSM avoiding brutal honesty, which is literally their job
ABC is protecting their ass.
Eugenics
or just call him a fraud, crook and quack/liar/qanon idiot (like his boss)...
Pro-measles activist
ABC “News” is failing.
He’s an absolute nutter
Mass murdering piece of shit, you mean?
a more accurate descriptive term would be "pandemic eugenicists."
RFK JR IS A VACCINE DENIER!! He shouldn’t be allowed in that office.
*cough* Bill Cassidy *cough*
How does he explain the disappearance of certain diseases after vaccines were introduced for them? And how do people buy his bullshit?
I mean, what does 'vaccine skeptic' even mean other than he's a legit crank on par with pyramid power and magic crystals.
Mainstream media is center-right and is complicit. We need more independent media.
Considering what he has said about autistic people, I'll continue to call him a genocidal maniac.
ABC sucks
You can call him anti-science too.
If he's profiting off anti vax views why not say that instead of making it sound like he has some moral reasoning behind his case
Stop watching ABC news? it's not that difficult.
Anti-science profiteer, more accurately.
Journalists & media saying they must do better in 2016 is so quaint now 👇🏼
Why would you listen to stations that gave Trump money because he got mad they said something about him? Any such company is state media.
ABC News is no longer any outlet I pay attention to….
I can remember Ed Murrow when he spoke out about the communist BS in the 50’s. All the national media was dancing around it just like they are today. Shameful on national news to not speak the truth! Be an Ed Murrow not a bunch of pussies.
Let's not forget that he's not a doctor but a lawyer, and he PROFITS from it. Elizabeth Warren was right:
Call him a murderer Call him modern day GQP Dr Mengele who flew to Samoa&encouraged people not to vaccine against measles.Children died.And he was conducting his own experiment to determine the mortality/morbidity of a measles infected population. Call him liar Call him a Ghoul &NOT qualified
And FUCK MSM ABC,CBS, NBC, FOX WaPo, NYT, Wall Street Journal all owned by billionaires These established rag /media outlets are sucking up to twump and lying for Donnie and these murderers for their own ends. The 4th Estate and courage is dead in these big storied news outlets
Couldn’t agree more.
He is threatening the health and lives of millions but the MSM is too cowardly to call it out.
www.protectourcare.org/experts-say-...
the dude's only qualification is that he's done more drugs than all of the 'experts' combined.
ABC is still shell shocked from paying an exorbitant amount for nothing 😡
They simply cannot bring themselves to report the simple truth out of fear of actually doing what everyone expects them to do.
He should be called what he is, a promoter of mass death. Undermining vaccines is just one of the techniques he uses to accomplish mass death. He's got many others.
That would be liberal bias
Hell, go with anti-vaccine conspiracy wacko. People appreciate straight talk these days
Why don’t they refer to him as “former Heroin user” as well? No lies detected with that description
Cult of Death
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines The number of infected people, measured over 70 years across all states & DC, generally declined after vaccines were introduced The heat maps below show number of cases per 100,000 people graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
Good you're calling out ABC news #SaneWashing #RFKJr You're correct, #RFKjr is not a vaccine skeptic, he IS an #AntiVaccineActivist He's also a bullshitter. See this What The Fuck Is A “Vaccine Skeptic”? archive.is/9dt5z
Media fail # 17,097 (approx)
ABC is bending the knee and kissing the ass.
People need to learn that "skeptic" means "requires evidence," not "refuses to accept evidence."
If he's the result of a vaccine...I'd be against them too.
@facethenation.bsky.social
Anti-vax conspiracy theorist would be more accurate.
Let’s not forget how he went to Samoa in 2019 to spread lies on the measles vaccine which caused on outbreak and how many children died. He’s not a skeptic at all. He’s a conspiracy theorist and anti vaccine activist. Call him out for what he actually believes in and advocates for.
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Pre-bootlicking/setting himself up for...
A idiot will do just fine
The Mitochondrial Whisperer.
will some one cough on him real hard-- in the face !
Yes! You are so right. Sick of "weasel words," esp. when you have proof that a thing is a thing.
We could call him an anti-science menace.
Our media is broken beyond repair.
That's like calling a drunk a "sobriety skeptic."
Vaccine 'skeptic'. Indeed, tell us how it is.
I wish there were an equivalent of "flat-earther" for these people
MSM has a massive right-wing bias and it’s literally bringing fascism to this country
That’s MSM for you! Pussyfoot around reality. Use generic terms. Put lipstick on the pig.
MSM is not trustworthy anymore.
Fuck ABC News! Boycott Trump sympathizers!!
This proud antivaxxer knows that most of the people reading this are also antivaxxers. They just haven't thought about it enough to know this. ANY pushback at all against vaccines draws this word. Question even ONE vaccine or mandate and you are an antivaxxer. We are ALL antivaxxers now.
You can call him a pro-death activist.
Much of the wealthy portion of the MAGA movement is focused on the reduction of human population. Source: I know a couple
I prefer “anti-vaccine crank.”
It’s like calling Trump a civil rights skeptic, or an arsonist a fire safety skeptic
Funny, his own kids are VACCINATED!! Fuqn fraud and lunatic are fitting as well.
Dumb!!
“Reality skeptic.”
He’s not a skeptic, he’s a true believer. A believer in shit.
ABC like all legacy media is complicit in this disaster.
You have to remember ABC NBC CBS CNN are all controlled by the Trump‘s terror block! They are blocking the information on Trump’s full-blown dementia mental health issues, and health issues! They are never gonna report that Robert Kennedy Junior is a psychopath unfit to be in charge of health
Media is spineless
If they'd done their job we almost certainly would not have this murderous regime in power.
WHADD YOU SAY?? HEHEHEHE
He is not a skeptic. That in itself is misleading. I hate how media does it so fkn much.
The problem precedes RFK Jr. Republicans hate science. (COVID19 proved that.) Whether it's climate change, EVs, or vaccines, Republicans fight science to the death, and have been for a long time. The only difference now is that they have a shaman.
The clip of him saying, no vaccine is safe: #RFK www.cnn.com/videos/polit...
He's not an effing Doctor. He's a drug addict!
I now have to drive 120 miles to CT to get a vaccine because CVS and others won't give it to us in our state (NY) without a prescription... Granted I had to do that at the beginning of COVID in 2020 too (going to north PA) but that was a supply issue, not an idiocracy issue.
And the media completely ignores that Kennedy has made millions from his anti vaccine propaganda.
politicalamericans.com/rfk-defunds-...
ABC is a news skeptic. It's too afraid to take a stand for fear of offending someone.
He's a science denier and a grifter, and both of those statements are journalistically accurate; he realizes millions of dollars in income from spreading disinformation about vaccines. Why pharmaceutical companies haven't taken note is beyond me.
ABC News must be truth skeptic, that or just afraid to speak the truth.
call him a vaccine denialist
But that would offend the anti-vaccine acitivists and they can't have that because then they'll get a bunch of angry phone calls and emails.
‘Cooker’ is the correct term
You can call him an amoral sociopathic quack
Antivax manslaughter-er
networks all take it easy on saying “denier” and “lying”.
It would be simpler and more concise to just call him a lunatic.
Tell it to Samoa
they're still calling child rape victims "underage sexworkers"
Last time I checked RFK JR. is NO DOCTOR PERIOD
"Insane, pathetic excuse for a human being", didn't come to mind, eh?
Outrageous. He’s demonstrated that he’s a virulent vaccine opponent based on very thin evidence.
If your actions and rhetoric directly caused the death of dozens, then we’re way past skeptic. Especially when you double down, express zero remorse, deflect blame, and refuse to change your ways.
The National News media is complicit in our nation’s downfall.
They know they’ll be sued And they’ll lose
Call him what he is - a junkie.
Vaccines are the silver and RFK is the werewolf. The sooner they meet the better! 😠
There’s also video of him saying IN PUBLIC that all vaccinated kids are clearly unhealthier and worse off than unvaccinated kids.
Vaccine skeptics are filling up cemeteries.
Agreed. bsky.app/profile/john...
Or you can call him a dumb ass jerk.
"Vaccine sabateur" or "Anti-vaccine extremist" are more accurate. But networks can only pay out so much every year to bribe [that man].
No doubt abc considers the violent rioters on 1/6 election skeptics spinning is the name of their game
MSM is chickenshit.
He’s a medieval nutjob.
Vaccine denier is more accurate.
You can also call him a fucking idiot.
I'm more comfortable calling him a HEROIN ADDICT. He'll always be an addict, even if he's in recovery for years.
Agreed. It drives me crazy when people refer to those who reject science as "skeptics." This is not skepticism. This is the rejection of hard-won knowledge.
I prefer to call him a "dangerous kook"
Disney is afraid of being sued again. They have decided to alter their news to please Dear Leader.
He was also in Germany during the Covid-19 pandemic. He spoke at very dubious rallies.
You see, ABC News has zero credibility because they paid off the president. Stop paying attention to them.
He's also a 15-year heroin addict. I don't understand why that isn't mentioned more. Yes people can recover from addiction, but they shouldn't be directing public health policy
Or just pro disease
Quack. --Simple, easy to understand and repeat.
He literally founded Children’s Health Defense to lobby against vaccines and spread misinformation. He is the definition of an anti vaccine activist
He isn’t “skeptical.” He’s DERANGED!
"Ignorant crank" works just as well.
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I know people who have campaigned the ABC for decades regarding anti-vaxxers. Always convince ABC journo's to stop calling them "skeptics" and using them as sources, then over a 2-3 year period they slowly default to calling them "skeptics" and using them as sources. It's the ABC's natural state.
They are cowards.
He's an evil anti-science profiteer. And much, much more.
Abc is owned by trump
Ypu know trump owns abc and cbs
He’s neither an anti-vaccine activist nor a vaccine skeptic. He’s a Crackpot and should be called that.
Or how about avid measles collector. Lifelong polio proponent and shingles aficionado. Smallpox-curious advocate
I'd call him an anti-vaccine dumb shit
He’s more of an anti-vaccine evangelist than a skeptic.
Has he reconciled this with his kids having been vaccinated?
"Vaccine Skeptic" is at least better than what other orgs are doing.
Trump is a genius at picking the worst and least qualified people for his cabinet and bureaucratic functionaries. Just look at the worst ever HHS with unqualified RFK Jr., misnomered MAHA and decapitated CDC. More of DJT's intentional sowing of chaos (KAOS?).
He murdered kids in Samoa with his anti-vaccine bullshit.
Was looking here for this. I’m so mad that the major reporting on this was end of 2019 and it immediately fell off people’s radar due to the pandemmy. He’s so freaking dangerous and should never have gotten a foot in the door in a sane administration.
He can be hauled to the Hague!
They haven’t learned much, they’re still both sides-ing everything.
Like the rest of the "liberal media" ABC is owned by billionaires and serves billionaire interests. Which right now means serving Trump.
He is not a vaccine skeptic. He is an uninformed and dangerous lunatic, the kind of which has become so much more influential now that internet and algorithms allow for massive disinformation. He nor his sorry, silly, and seriously delusional claque coterie of quacks should never have been confirmed
That's right! He wrote an article in Rolling Stone mag decades ago claiming the thermosil to preserve the VAX ingriedents caused autism. Now he is empowered by his appointment. #depopulation #eugenics
A skeptic would have accepted that study as confirming that vaccines are safe. A denier would refuse to accept it and attempt to have it over turned.
I can think of a few other things to call him as well. 🤷♂️
I call him a nut.
RFK has active financial interests in the anti- vax movement. Legal partnerships and book sales. POLITICO Pro | Article | RFK Jr. expects millions in fees from publisher of his anti-vaccine books share.google/nEghUT8Qiy6c...
yet he lies that the CDC and Medical organizations are putting profits before health🙄
IMPEACH RFKJR “Democrats need to focus. The way to attack flooding the zone is to have a single message each day… “I think we need to use impeachment now… impeach RFK Jr.!” You get a debate, and we can talk about the outrageous things that this monster is doing…” www.rawstory.com/impeachment-...
Yip but RFK said that he wasn't 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥵
Vaccine denier
I call him a worm brained, heroin addicted moron that no one should ever listen too.
That’s because all mainstream media is controlled by MAGA. It is fucking sick!
Of all the dangerous m-fers in the Trump Administration, he is by far the most dangerous. And that is saying something.
Next up on ABC the citizens of Latin America are begging the US to save them from all the communist dictatorship. Rubio bravely sends navy and marines with nuclear subs.
He was an anti-vaxxer back in Air America days
I've seen him talk about how he yells, "Don't get that baby vaccinated!" at couples with an infant.
They should at minimum call him a "vaccine denier" or "vaccine disinformationist", if they don't want to use less polite language for professionalism reasons.
Or just a nut.
The media continues to downplay everything related to maga, to appease their corrupt masters.
You're STILL being too charitable. He's no activist; he's a freaking antivaxx lunatic - full stop.
Definitely
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UK rightwing press called rabid europhobes "eurosceptics" for decades up until Brexit. Meant to make them sound intelligent Don't hear the word so much now.
I prefer science denier or death panelist.
It's also a misuse of the term "skeptic", which means to seek evidence. RFK jr denies evidence.
Idiot is more accurate.
ABC already caved to this administration before any of them were even in charge. There’s no hope there.
