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A Super Bowl ad touting the independent presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and invoked President John F. Kennedy drew the ire of the Kennedy family.“My cousin’s Super Bowl ad used our uncle’s faces- and my Mother’s. She would be appalled by his deadly health care views,” Bobby Shriver, the former mayor of Santa Monica and the son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “Respect for science, vaccines, & health care equity were in her DNA. She strongly supported my health care…

In an age where communal experiences are becoming almost extinct, the Super Bowl stands as a rare exception to the rule. For one glorious Sunday, most Americans are glued to their television and phone screens at the same time. This is an opportunity that advertisers pay big money to seize upon every year. But how do we know if it’s worth it? One metric by which to measure the success of a commercial campaign is social media engagement. According to Sprout Social, data from this year’s game shows how surprise…

An organization backing the independent candidate spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad, after collecting $15 million from a major Trump donor The super PAC backing anti-vaxxer Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign spent a reported $7 million to air a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday.  The ad is a retro-looking remake of a famous spot aired by President John F. Kennedy, called “Kennedy for Me” — using photos of RFK Jr. in place of pictures of his uncle. The ad comes after JFK’s…

Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (Getty Images)Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn’t the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr., we believe you as much as you believe Big Pharma. Will Banning TikTok Solve Privacy Issues? | Future TechThe reply happened in Sept. 2022 on Tyler Idol’s account, which she now has pinned to her page, and was unearthed by some right-wing dork on X…

Robert Kennedy Jr. and a super PAC backing his 2024 presidential campaign have raised $50 million, according to new federal election records released Wednesday. Half of that staggering cash haul has come from two people.  Timothy Mellon, a Republican megadonor who backed Donald Trump’s failed 2020 reelection campaign, has donated $15 million to the pro-Kennedy super PAC, American Values 2024. Mellon is an heir to the Mellon banking fortune. Gavin de Becker, who leads Kennedy’s private security team, has…

Ahead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing government surveillance of the civil rights leader. The presidential hopeful told Politico on Sunday that his father, Robert F. Kennedy, who authorized the wiretapping of Martin Luther King Jr. while attorney general, and President John F. Kennedy had a “good reason” for doing so. In the interview, Kennedy Jr. claimed the administration permitted the wiretapping because they were “making big bets on King, particularly…

For reasons yet to be explained, a super PAC supporting Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s presidential campaign falsely advertised a forthcoming fundraiser featuring a performance from famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and several other celebrity guests. At the end of December, the Daily Mail reported — citing unspecified “organizers” — that Kennedy’s campaign would throw a “multi-million dollar” fundraiser later this month for the anti-vax candidate in Indian Wells, a resort town in the California desert. Supposedly, this…

"If I believed the stuff that's written about me in the papers and reported about me on the mainstream news sites, I ... would think I was a very despicable person," he said on Fox News Robert F. Kennedy Jr., notorious purveyor of anti-vax conspiracy theories who claims he has “never been anti-vax,” believes that the media has “slammed” him more than Donald Trump. “It’s interesting to me because I’ve been really slammed in a way that I think is unprecedented, even more than …

Thursday Morning, fresh off controversy after claiming that Covid-19  was “ethnically targeted” towards certain races, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. testified before The House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.  Earlier this week, more than 100 Democrats filed a letter to the Judiciary Committee calling for Kennedy to be excluded from the hearing. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy himself said he disagreed “with everything said,” but to exclude him would undermine the topic…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hasn’t exactly been towing the Democratic Party line since announcing his presidential run in April. The scion has been vowing to seal off the U.S.-Mexico border, siding with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, and pushing a host of outlandish conspiracy theories — most notably about Covid-19, including a claim this weekend that it was ethnically targeted while noting infections were lowest among Jewish and Chinese people. It should come as no surprise, then, that RKF is raking in cash from GOP…