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The Documentary Podcast

Trending - The anti-vax candidate?

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

How is Robert F Kennedy’s long record of spreading anti-vaccine misinformation impacting on his bid to be elected US President in 2024? In 2024 yet another Kennedy is making a bid for the White House. Robert F Kennedy Jr - nephew of the late President John F Kennedy - is enjoying strong polling numbers for an independent candidate. He’s running on a platform of promising to take on powerful vested interests to create a better life for the average American. But away from his Camelot-infused stump speeches, he is facing questions about his long and controversial record of spreading misinformation about the safety of vaccines. In this episode, the BBC’s Health and Disinformation Reporter Rachel Schraer investigates how Kennedy is building a base from across the political spectrum, in spite of, or because of, his views on public health policy.

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0:00.0

Hi Namalanta Combo here with some very exciting news.

0:04.0

Dear Daughter is back for a new series.

0:07.0

I'm putting together a handbook to life for daughters everywhere

0:10.0

full of stories and advice to help navigate life.

0:13.0

That's Dear Daughter from the BBC World Service.

0:16.0

Find it wherever you get your BBC podcast. From this and they called me anti-vax, but I've never said anything to anybody, to make anybody think I'm anti-vax.

0:39.0

To this, I recently declared myself an independent candidate for President of the United States.

0:45.0

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. son of one of the most famous political dynasties in America, independent candidate for the 2024 US presidency,

0:58.7

and depending on who you listen to, a noble opponent of corporate evils.

1:03.8

The tsunami of money has poured into Washington from the pharmaceutical companies,

1:08.5

from the military contracts, from the oil industry, the coal industry,

1:12.0

the chemical industry.

1:13.0

Or one of the worst spreaders of misinformation across social media.

1:18.0

He lives in an amazing world of denialism where he simply denies the facts that are in front of him and

1:24.3

children die around him and he continues to ignore that. He's a dangerous

1:29.4

dangerous man. He's the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, both

1:36.3

were assassinated when Kennedy Jr. was a child. Kennedy started his run as a

1:41.6

candidate for the Democrats but switched to be independent in October last year.

1:46.0

In a system that favors the two main political parties, pundits say he's polling better than an independent candidate has in decades.

1:54.8

He seems to be appealing to a group fed up with what feels like the same old choices.

2:00.0

So we have money for wars, and we have money for wars and we have money for bankers that need bailouts.

2:07.5

But what happens to the American people when there on hard times.

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