Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher
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What does Bill Maher say about the legacy media's opposition to RFK Jr.'s candidacy?
I pulled myself away from Justin Verlander is blanking the Yankees, which is very important to Mets fans on two levels. Do you follow this? Do you care? Are you still with the Red
Sox? Yeah, I'm still Red
Sox. Okay. Well, they stink, so good luck with that. But I can't tell you how thrilled I am that you came here to do this. And I know you are a believer that podcasts are going to be the medium that television was for your uncle. President Kennedy, radio for FDR, right?
Yeah, I mean, I was thinking that there's kind of a battle now between legacy media and all of these kind of news sources of content and information and that this campaign is kind of Armageddon potentially for the legacy media. And I'm in my own... The legacy media is fiercely, ferociously opposed to my candidacy and every article is a nightmare. But somehow there was an article that came out today, a poll that came out today in Forbes that showed that my favorability ratings are better by far than any of the other candidates. And I'm not bragging about that, but it's just curious
because all of that. ED HARRISON I hate to interrupt you, but if you're running for president, you should brag. People lose elections sometimes because they're too modest. You know who is not very modest? Donald Trump. Yeah, that's a good point. It kind of works for him. I mean, not to that extent. Self-promotion works. Democrats are very often, I mean, the people are very often with them more on the issues, the voters, and yet the voters don't vote for them. Because I feel like they're not real, they don't make the connection, oh, you did this for me. Like, I'm alive because I have this health care program. or this poverty program that didn't exist before Medicare, Social Security, whatever. I think when LBJ took office,
senior poverty rate was something like 35% and we took it down to nine. You know, those are like real things. But they don't, I don't think they touted it. They don't get the message. There are people, they always say, we didn't get our message out. Well, I think that's part of it. You didn't connect what, why this person has this benefit to a we did that. You think, you don't think that's true? I do think,
I mean, I don't know if it, has to do with promotion, but I think most of the people who got the advantage of that probably were not saying thank you to LBJ every night. Well,
I know you hated him, right?
No, I didn't hate him. He was actually very kind to me. He was? Yeah, I mean, the one night that I had this very sort of frightening, I suppose, confrontation with him, we went to, when my father, when after my uncle was killed, LBJ was very jealous of my father. But my father remained friends with a lot of people who were in the administration, like Bob McNamara and many, many others, Dick Goodwin. And all the New Frontiers people were in the administration. My father would have them come to Hyannisport for the weekend. And when they were there, LBJ would always call them. And he would call them to let them know that he knew that they were at my house, which he considered an act of disloyalty. But one night, we went over.
My mom and I and my two elder siblings and I think a couple of my younger ones went over to McNamara's. And McNamara was the Secretary of Defense or President Kennedy. And then he stayed on with Johnson. Former head of GM, wasn't he? Ford. Ford. And my father was very close to him. My father would call him every night and tell him you've got to publicly condemn the Vietnam War. And McNamara would say, if I leave here, he'll drop an atom bomb. And I got
to
stay here and stop him from doing
that. Similar to Colin Powell, who said, I stayed in the Bush administration because without me, there wasn't going to be an adult in the room. Same thing, right? Yeah.
Yeah.
It may be valid. Anyway, my father talked to him every night. The last thing he did before he went to bed, he always called McNamara and told him, you got to go public and we got to get out of Vietnam. One night we went up but he remained very close to McNamara.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Bill Maher say about the legacy media's opposition to RFK Jr.'s candidacy?
0:01–22:05
2
How does RFK Jr. describe his childhood accident and its impact on his life?
22:05–43:54
3
What is the story behind LBJ’s unusually large head?
43:54–1:02:21
4
Why does RFK Jr. claim vaccines are the number‑one killer and what evidence does he cite?
1:02:21–1:20:45
5
How does the conversation address Elon Musk’s political stance?
1:20:45–1:40:45
6
What arguments are presented about the effectiveness of COVID‑19 vaccines?
1:40:45–1:52:17
7
How does RFK Jr. view the upcoming Democratic primary debate with Joe Biden and Donald Trump?
1:52:17–1:56:10
8
What personal anecdotes does RFK Jr. share about his family’s history and the Kennedy assassination?
1:56:10–1:58:14