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Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War
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Posted on 12/08/2012 8:33:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War By Noel Sheppard Created 12/08/2012 - 11:13am

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War."

This occurred during an online video interview with the Huffington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR: There’s two things happening. One is the influence of big money in politics, and the other is the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News. 95 percent of talk radio in our country is right-wing, and you need, according to Pew survey, and you, so a whole section of our country that that’s what they’re hearing. They wake up in the morning, when they go to bed at night.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. I think that that has, that has, it's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and that it’s empowered these large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United States Congress elected - the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

This is pretty hysterical considering President Obama met with representatives from MSNBC Tuesday to discuss tax policy.

It seems a metaphysical certitude Kennedy doesn't see anything wrong with that.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elitists; foxnews; kennedyfamily; rfkjr
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To: Sub-Driver

Bobby Jr’s a uniter, not a divider. Especially when it comes to babysitters.


41 posted on 12/08/2012 9:02:02 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: geo40xyz

Yeah, if it wasn’t for FOX news, we’d all be communists now.


42 posted on 12/08/2012 9:03:44 AM PST by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: Sub-Driver

If Fox News and Talk Radio are so powerful, why did Obama get reelected? Kennedy shouldn’t worry aabout Fox and talk radio because he has those millions of Morons on his side.


43 posted on 12/08/2012 9:04:00 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Gay State Conservative

What is with some people’s obsession with the kennedy loser family? Obviously, the kennedys have some sort of deteriorated or abnormal dna. Who cares what these kennedy mutants say.


44 posted on 12/08/2012 9:04:19 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: geo40xyz

Robert is ignorant of our history. I mean really ignorant.

There have been a number of times when the split has been really vicious. All of my older relatives died convinced that FDR was a communist, a tool of Stalin. They were small businessmen and they lost fortunes during FDR’s Depression.


45 posted on 12/08/2012 9:06:59 AM PST by buffaloguy
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To: Sub-Driver
Kennedy: the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

Robert, I wish that were the case. If you'd just look at what Boehner is doing right now, you'd realize what a totally idiotic statement that is.

46 posted on 12/08/2012 9:07:02 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Since the MSM propaganda machine I’d trying to unite us under an unamerican socialist banner I say bully for fox. Celebrate diversity of thought and beliefs.


47 posted on 12/08/2012 9:07:49 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Tau Food

“He just left his wife hanging around.”
Nice.


48 posted on 12/08/2012 9:08:23 AM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Sub-Driver

I wish people would quit posting this crap.


49 posted on 12/08/2012 9:08:51 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Sub-Driver

LOL!
I would say this assclown is an embarrassment to the Kennedy family, but that’s not really possible.


50 posted on 12/08/2012 9:09:35 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Sub-Driver

The Kennedy retard clan is about as dumb as a stump. They are dumber than back woods residents.


51 posted on 12/08/2012 9:13:55 AM PST by bmwcyle (Women reelected Obama)
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To: Sub-Driver

This man is an idiot....I would hate to see what it would be it were the left wing controlling the media.....


52 posted on 12/08/2012 9:15:37 AM PST by rxtn41
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To: Sub-Driver

I am guessing the interview was on Huff Post Live. Well in 07 he went on with Glenn Beck on Headline News to debate him on Global warming and he just made no sense and sounded bad. He sounded like a clown. Robert Kennedy Jr is a nutcase.

http://archive.glennbeck.com/news/07132007.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slVYhws7jWY


53 posted on 12/08/2012 9:17:35 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: Sub-Driver

Hey Bobby your boy Barry is inciting CWII. Fox News just reports it.


54 posted on 12/08/2012 9:20:15 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Sub-Driver

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2951629/posts

RFK Jr. and late wife didn’t pay for many of renovations to make Westchester mansion eco-friendly
NYTimes ^ | Oct 28, 2012 | ISABEL VINCENT and MELISSA KLEIN

Posted on Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:50:02 PM by Baynative

For the Kennedys, it was easy being green.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his late wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, didn’t pay a penny for the high-end kitchen appliances, dual-flush toilets, solid brass and zinc faucets, hardwood flooring and hypoallergenic rugs when they created their eco-friendly Westchester mansion. Even the bamboo hangers and the cleaning products were free — a $1.3 million bonanza of swag.

Now five months after Mary Richardson Kennedy’s suicide at the sprawling estate in Bedford, her husband is set to make a windfall.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com

Contractors and vendors donated their services or slashed their rates for the promise of free publicity. There were offers of “platinum sponsorships” and talk of tours to showcase the mansion and its products. Home-improvement TV host Bob Vila started filming a show chronicling the construction, “Our Green House,” for NBC. It does not appear the show ever aired.

“He didn’t think he should pay for anything; even the suits he wears were donated,” a source said of RFK Jr. “He felt people should pay for him. He had an enormous sense of entitlement.


55 posted on 12/08/2012 9:20:36 AM PST by COUNTrecount (Clear eyes. Full hearts. Can't fail .But We Did.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Thursday, September 06, 2007
Glenn Beck versus Robert F. Kennedy, Jr
http://apologiesdemanded.blogspot.com/2007/09/glenn-beck-versus-robert-f-kennedy-jr.html


56 posted on 12/08/2012 9:22:51 AM PST by Mozilla
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To: Sub-Driver

Favorite thread in months. Thanks!


57 posted on 12/08/2012 9:24:59 AM PST by unsycophant
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To: Conservative4Ever
like maybe his wife...
58 posted on 12/08/2012 9:25:09 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Sub-Driver

Go back home and chug down a bottle of Chivas, you spoiled, hypocritical, elitist! I can never remember - was it little Bobby that molested his babysitter? Or did he just get his marriage “annulled” after having a couple of kids? Doesn’t matter. All the Kennedys are drunken, perverted scum. Its Bobby boy and his left wing cabal of Communist America-haters that have used racial politics to divide this country, not Fox News.


59 posted on 12/08/2012 9:25:25 AM PST by Astronaut
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To: Sub-Driver

Up yours, RJK, Jr.


60 posted on 12/08/2012 9:25:32 AM PST by izzatzo
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