#325 — A Few Thoughts About RFK Jr.

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Sam Harris discusses Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent appearances on other podcasts.

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0:50.6	Okay. Well, in the last housekeeping, I said I would say something about the RFK phenomenon.
1:00.5	I'm not going to spend too much time on this. At the moment, I don't think it merits,
1:05.2	especially deep treatment, but I think there's something that should be said, because RFK has been
1:13.6	everywhere, of late. And I declined to have him on this podcast. I have one point of mutual friend
1:19.6	reached out, offering to put us together, and I declined for the time being. You know, perhaps I will
1:26.6	talk to him at some point, but I hope it doesn't come to that. But he's spoken to Rogan and Jordan
1:33.1	Peterson and Barry Wise and Bill Marr and Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson, I think. He was on the
1:40.2	All-In podcast and some of the hosts there through a fundraiser forum for his presidential campaign.
1:47.2	All of these people are friends or friends of friends or former friends, except for Tucker Carlson,
1:54.7	who, as I pointed out a few podcasts back is just a well-established liar. I don't know how anyone
2:04.1	is holding him up as an honest broker of information. But all these people, to one or another degree,
2:11.0	failed to understand the problem with platforming a person like Robert Kennedy's Jr.
2:19.2	And this term platforming is now stigmatized as somehow being at odds with a commitment to free
2:25.8	speech. Only someone who doesn't support free speech or who doesn't understand that sunlight is
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