Tucker Carlson praised the Democrat who is running for president on Friday – extreme anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (See the video below.)
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and the son of late 1968 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, this week announced his long-term bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination in 2024.
The right-wing Fox News host had Kennedy on the show and blasted him as if he were a hardline Republican.
“If you’re an honest person, you know that this is exactly the time in our history when we need a serious adult conversation about the world, the world that will destroy us and how we should respond to those changes.” Carlson effused after the airing of clips of Kennedy’s opposition to US policy in helping Ukraine repel the Russian invasion.
“Bobby Kennedy would love to have that conversation,” Carlson said. “He didn’t run away to get rich. He walks to make things better. But he wasn’t allowed to have that conversation. They have been censored. Other media won’t talk to him.
Carlson then cuts to a montage of TV reporters showing Kennedy’s harassing campaign against the COVID-19 vaccine.
“Remember nothing, nowhere, is a point-by-point argument,” Carlson said. “He never engaged in reality. He can’t. He will lose. Instead, they impugn his character. Now the person who is called dangerous is the main opponent of Joe Biden and his view remains the same: ‘Silence you are not allowed to speak.’ We don’t agree with that. We’re not Democrats, but Bobby Kennedy is one of the most remarkable people we’ve ever met and we’re proud to have him on our show tonight.
Kennedy’s presence on Fox News, a famous spreader of vaccine skeptics, was no surprise.
He blasted the coronavirus vaccine — found to be safe and effective in preventing hospitalizations and deaths — and ordered it, drawing extreme comparisons to Nazi Germany, the outlet said. His Instagram account was suspended for “repeatedly sharing false claims about the coronavirus or vaccines.” He provided a book to discredit White House infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci. (He’s also “pushing” unproven COVID-19 treatments like hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin in the book, The Associated Press noted.)
The brother and sister themselves have denounced anti-vax activism as “part of a misinformation campaign that has painful — and deadly — consequences.”
And this is one of the second types of careers he has built on vaccine skepticism – promoting the discredited assertion that childhood vaccines are responsible for autism.
Fast forward to 7:00 for Carlson’s introduction: