Political Observer reads this crap, so you won’t have too!

I recall Joe Conason calling Ralph Nader a ‘spoiler’ during the 2000 Presidential Election, in that once very trendy, salmon pink newspaper, The New York Observer. Also look at the treatment, in a word defamation, of Jeremy Corbyn, in the British Press, as an object lesson, about the possibility of the power of American Corporate Media, to message an American Electorate, into believing that candidates like RFK Jr., Marian Williamson, and Cornel West represent a threat to respectable bourgeois politics.

‘Jack Shafer is Politico’s senior media writer’ follows the lead of others:

Headline: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Real Motive

Sub-headline: He’s not actually trying to become president.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/07/10/rfk-jr-has-already-won-00105442

Mr. Shafer brings a talent that @mtomasky nor @joanwalsh can’t quite equal! Mr. Shafer reads the mind of his protagonist, RFK Jr. This essay is what used to be called ‘a hatchet job’, so as such, I offer The Reader some samples of the Shafer Methodology. Shafer trades in a dull-witted pastiche of a Borscht Belt Comic.

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If Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s three-month-old presidential campaign were a newly opened restaurant, it would have already succumbed to its negative reviews and closed its doors.

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Kennedy — and this comes as a surprise to nobody — is about as likely to win the Democratic Party’s nomination as, say, Donald Trump.

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A sharp CNN piece last month by the network’s analyst Harry Enten attached an anchor to Kennedy’s chances and sunk it into the depths of the Mariana Trench.

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This inevitable defeat is self-evident to everybody, including Kennedy, one suspects. But RFK Jr. doesn’t care about losing because there’s little evidence he was very interested in becoming president in the first place.

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Some people give more forethought to picking a dressing for their salad than Kennedy seems to have given to his run for president.

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Or, to give him the benefit of the doubt, it could be that Kennedy has always craved power but wanted to start at the top.

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The political gene, which often comes bundled with the one for narcissism, never adequately thrives until fed by some form of adulation. Even the negative adulation of the recent profiles can be read as “I must be doing something right because they’re all knocking me” for somebody as thirsty for attention as Kennedy. He’s winning there, too.

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The current Kennedy moment will soon be swamped by the Biden machine. But every day this final heir to America’s second greatest political dynasty spends on the hustings, he will continue rolling up winnings like an undetected card counter in Las Vegas.

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