I Feel Irresistably Compelled By My Hatred Of Little Bobby To Explain That 20 Year Old Citation

I WAS WELL OVER THE KENNEDY CULT by the 1990s, though I would admit that the then Senator Edward Kennedy,  "Ted" was the best of the Kennedy men who had gone into politics.  I was never, despite being an Irish Catholic from New England young enough to catch it,  all that gone on the Kennedys.    Not that JFK had been the worst president of my lifetime, nor his brother who he had made his Attorney General in such an open, plain and bald act of nepotism the worst democratic AG.  By then Bobby Kennedy sr.'s sandbagging of Lyndon Johnson happened, which played a big part in getting Nixon elected and Ted Kennedy doing the same with Carter,  losing to Reagan a dozen years later had opened my eyes to the irresponsibility and sense of entitlement that seemed to be a family trait.   There have been other examples since then,  Patrick Kennedy trying to do the same to Ed Markey in the Senate and, of course, Little Bobby doing the same to the only Democrat of my lifetime who could rival LBJ's political effectiveness,   Joe Biden.   See what I mean about that being a family trait.  I do not find the sense of entitlement that pervades the Kennedy men anything but irresponsibly discrediting. 

Of all the Kennedys,  there are none who I despise more than RFK jr.  Little Bobby.   Though I cited that article he wrote with Greg Palast in 2006, I never really trusted him and not only because he was a Kennedy.  Hardly because of that.   In his highly touted role as an environmental lawyer, I always had the feeling he was a bit too much of an ambulance chaser,  someone who always seemed to me to want to use issues to promote HIMSELF.   I can't remember if it was with a feeling of unease that I cited Kennedy along with Palast but I can say I think it's the only thing from him I ever cited,  I never relied on what he said.   I have always been allergic to celebrity lawyers and those who trade on their family name. 

Those on the left, those who were caught up in the post 50s (McCarthyite) Bobby Kennedy or the post JFK assassination make-over into some kind of anti-war, lefty and those who bought his son's image as a crusading environmental lawyer, especially thosein the media who worked with him asked what happened to him in the past five or so years.  A lot of them attributed his present corruption to his claims of having a brain worm,  and that might have something to do with it.  

One of the best who worked with him,  Greg Palast in the most complete account of observing his transformation closely leans on that in the end.   I'm going to give you a lot of this piece he wrote about that in 2024 because it goes a lot farther into what makes Little Bobby tick than any other thing I've read about him AND BECAUSE RFK JR. IS A CONTINUING DANGER TO THE LIVES AND HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF LITERALLY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HERE AND AROUND THE WORLD.  

It was truly scary.  In 2012, Bobby had arranged a press conference about the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Eleven oil rig workers were incinerated in the blow-out of a British Petroleum drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Palast investigations team discovered that, 17 months before that oil rig blew out in the Gulf, British Petroleum suffered an identical blow-out in the Caspian Sea.  The oil company—with the connivance of then-Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice—covered it up.

[Note:  Condoleeza Rice is someone whose vileness has never been taken as seriously as it should be.  She was one of the worst of the worst in the Bush II regime.  She should be prosecuted for crimes against humanity. ] 

It was a hell of a story, which I broadcast on prime time in Britain and Europe.  I wrote a book about it, Vultures’ Picnic.

Here’s where Bobby comes in—and it gets weird.  On the second anniversary of the blow-out, Bobby, a professor of environmental law, arranged for a major press conference to expose this story of BP’s blood-encrusted perfidy.

But then, Bobby cancelled the press conference, saying he heard the story had been told previously.  Well, yes it had.  You told it.  Bobby, I was on the radio with you for an hour discussing the blow-out and its cover-up.  Bobby had a national radio/TV show, Ring of Fire.  He reviewed my book about the story.  And strangest of all, Bobby was on my Democracy Now! Report about the blow-out.    That Bobby had forgotten all these things was frightening—as if Leonardo DiCaprio had forgotten he was in a film about the Titanic.

Our investigator Leni Badpenny was listening in and she began making frantic cut-off gestures, to end a call with him. End it now!  “Something’s wrong with him, or he’s just a jerk.  I don’t know.  But something’s really wrong and you don’t want your reputation destroyed by standing next to him when it goes wrong in public.  Promise me we will never work with him, never see him again.  I think he’s dangerous.  I really do.”

This was difficult for her to say as she never got over being a bit star-struck in his presence.  “Look,” she said, “I’m just a little kid from the Swiss Alps and I got to tell my dad I just had dinner with a Kennedy!”

But she insisted, “Stay away from him. He’s become untrustworthy and he’s getting crazier and crazier.”

This was not the first incident.   Bobby was a strong guy in his late fifties talking like a 92-year-old in a nursing home trying to remember his first date.

Since then, we’ve found out that Bobby had a worm in his brain—a real, live physical critter that somehow got inside his skull.  I’m not sure about the connection because I’m not a brain surgeon and I don’t speak worm.

That's useful information but I think the rest of the article gives even greater insights into how he was already well on his way to being a dangerous lunatic well before then.   And I will say from a lifetime of observation of the American left that what I think may be the key to understanding him,  a willingness to believe unevidenced and sensational accusations, is one of the worst things many on the left have in common with those on the lunatic right.  

THAT may well give a clue into how his father could go from an acolyte of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s (he wanted the job McCarthy gave to Roy Cohn) to the would-be (I believe) opportunistic lefty of 1967.   There has been an old and very well trodden road going the other way,  from would be "far left" to fascist and even Nazi right.  Little Bobby has just been one more traveler on that road. 

And, note.  THAT WHAT HE WANTED TO PEDDLE AS FACT on the basis of conspiracy theory, without evidence to support it,  exactly melds with Trump's election conspiracy theories which he sold to his gullible fascists. 

Palast continued:  

What I liked about Bobby—and Bobby about me—was that we were always skeptical of “official” stories. After all, his own dad famously admitted to making up cockamamie lies about Vietnam to waltz us into that war. We bonded over rejecting bullshit from the government and its servile punditocracy.

[RFK sr. and JFK were both way gone cold warriors,  I doubt that he would have ended America's involvement in Vietnam, after the issue had served to get him elected.  I've seen too much of that kind of thing to believe his last minute conversion was real.  I do think that Eugene McCarthy (who I also didn't much like and whose much braver anti-war campaign RFK hijacked) may have made good on that, though I doubt he would have won the election.] 

But there was a big difference between us. He thought every official story was bullshit. But I needed to see the bull. I was, and remain, a big-time believer in show-me-the-facts. But facts didn’t seem to get in the way of Bobby’s attraction to plain whacko conspiracy theories.

Example: We co-authored articles for Rolling Stone about racial vote suppression. [The one I believe I referenced in 2006.  Though I hadn't learned how to do links that early in my blogging so I'm not sure.]  In my book Armed Madhouse, my chapter “Kerry Won” described the physical evidence of ballots disqualified—enough rejections of Black voters’ ballots in Ohio to re-elect George W. Bush. This is hard evidence.

But Bobby jumped into an evidence-free crazy-world in a cringeworthy article for Rolling Stone speculating about voting machines that magically switched Kerry votes to Bush. I checked these stories to a fare-thee-well. Nothing to them. Bobby mistook the “potential” to cheat with actual evidence. I bit my tongue and said nothing.

Later, his knee-jerk reaction against Covid vaccines was the result of the attack on his reasoned questions raised in the film Vaxxed about MMR vaccines laced with mercury. The film successfully got Big Pharma to remove the mercury. But Bobby, having been savaged by the industry, now became Mr. Anti-Vax, opposing anything injected by a needle (except, it appears, steroids to build muscles). Sorry, I’m no fan of Big Pharma—but I need proof before I tell people not to wear a mask during a pandemic. I need the proof—and his only proof was to accuse Big Pharma and the FDA of being liars. They are. Still, that’s not proof.

I think that point about Little Bobby's anti-vaxxer lawyer career may have an enormous motive of self-enrichment in it, as well.  I think that's his motive in wanting to get control of entities like the CDC, to create bogus scientific and policy documents that he and his ambulance chasing law firm can spin into profits for themselves.  

A couple of weeks back I went into the use of lies by celebrity lawyers, especially the Epstein-Trump-porn-wife killer's liar-lawyer Dershowitz, concentrating on both his documented use of some truly putrid lies and how he knows he lies as he lies them.   I noted Norman Finkelstein's theory that such lawyers can lie knowing their lies are lies and believing their lies as they lie them.   

Thinking about that more,  I don't buy Finkelstein's theory that they really believe their lies are true,  I think they're just so used to lying and getting away with it EVEN IN WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A RIGOROUS METHOD FOR SORTING OUT LIES, BEFORE A JUDGE IN A COURT  that they lie out of habit knowing they will suffer no consequences for it.   Greg Palast isn't a lawyer, he has, as he noted, a requirement to see sufficient evidence before he claims something is true.   I think RFK's life of growing up among the trained lawyers that just about all the men in his father's generation were, imbibing the same training in an elite law school - and his Harvard years among the rich boys wouldn't have done much to get him out of that habit of lying - AND HIS HISTORY AS A DRUG ADDICT would if anything reinforce that.   I've known addicts, to drugs, to alchol, to other things and there is one thing all of them have in common,  they lie to themselves and to others as easily as a celebrity "civil liberties" lawyer does.   AS MUCH AS A TRUMP DOES.    

And here we come to a connection between RFK jr and Trump that goes back almost to the beginning.   I mentiond that RFK sr. wanted the job that Roy Cohn got,  well, that world champion class lawyer-liar is where Trump developed not only his continuing education in lying BUT IN HOW TO GET AWAY WITH BLATANT LYING AND CHEATING AND AMORLIAITY.   He learned how to manipulate courts, judges, the law and the lazy-work-shy habits of all of them to get away with everything that he's gotten away with from Cohn.    While there are entirely more moral lawyers than Cohn or RFK jr.  that permisson to lie with impunity - so long as you are rich and white - is endemic to the profession.  When you get an entitled, rich, white, straight, male who is also an Ivy leaguer lawyer, one who has a history of a drug addict and, as his cousin,  JFK's daughter pointed out, a destructive manipulator of others, the big surprise would be if he hadn't turned out to be the psychopathic criminal he is.  

I strongly urge you to read all of Greg Palast's post on this, especially the hatred of RFK jr. for Palestinians and the ease with which he supports the Israeli genocide of them.   I may go into that but will just recommend what he says about it.