Jen Psaki Breaks Down 2 Reasons Why Republicans Adore 'Long-Shot' RFK Jr.
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday knocked Republicans’ “fixation” and “obsession” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., criticizing conservatives — and especially Fox News — for giving attention to “a candidate enamored with conspiracies.”
The host highlighted the amount of airtime that Fox has provided the conspiracy theorist and “long-shot” Democratic presidential candidate, who she referred to as a “new favorite Democrat” for the GOP.
Psaki slammed Republicans for their “eager” platforming of Kennedy, who bashed censorship at a recent House hearing and made headlines with claims that COVID-19 “ethnically targeted” certain races.
“I couldn’t even cover all these outlandish, crazy claims ... but RFK Jr. has a long list of them, and I’d like to know which ones make House Republicans so eager to platform him,” Psaki said. “Or maybe it’s really not about RFK Jr. at all, but instead about Joe Biden. Like the saying goes the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
“That may make more strategic sense,” she continued. “But it would be incredibly cynical if Republicans were elevating a conspiracy theorist who spews false and inaccurate lies — some that could even be damaging to the public and public health — just to create trouble for their political opponent.”
Psaki, who pointed out the GOP’s embrace of other “candidates enamored with conspiracies” in Donald Trump, declared that there are two explanations for the right’s love of Kennedy.
“One is that they genuinely believe in him and that his conspiracies deserve to be amplified in the national conversation,” she said. “The other explanation is that they don’t believe RFK Jr., but believed that it would be beneficial to them if they help boost his megaphone anyway.”
“So, no matter how bizarre and dangerous his conspiracies may be, it doesn’t matter,” she said. “One explanation is ignorance. The other is cynicism. Both are a pretty embarrassing look for the right-wing machine trying to prop up this man’s campaign.”
Kennedy trails President Joe Biden in polls by over 50 percentage points, according to The Washington Post.
