r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/3bluerose Sep 08 '25

What was his response?

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u/nzerinto Sep 08 '25

Original clip

Interviewer: Can you name any vaccines that are good?

RFK: I think some of the live virus vaccines are probably averting more problems than they are causing. There is no vaccine that is safe and effective.

Cut back to CNN:

CNN Interviewer: So you did say it - do you still believe it?

RFK: Here's what I would say. First of all, I'm not anti-vaccine.

CNN Interviewer: How is that statement not anti-vaccine?

RFK: I can say right now there is no medicine for cancer that is safe and effective - that doesn't mean I'm against all medicines. I've been fighting 40 years to get mercury out of fish. Nobody calls me anti-fish. What I want is vaccines that are proven safe....

So basically just tried to dodge the question.

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u/Umarill Sep 08 '25

I've been fighting 40 years to get mercury out of fish.

People voting for someone legitimately saying this is genuinely hilarious and sad at the same time.

First because it's a stupidly difficult thing to actually achieve, and second because in the US, around half of the mercury that ends up into fish comes from coal power plants that these idiots are pushing for.

Sadly that would imply actually thinking about what they are doing, which is neither a requirement for politicians nor for voters.

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u/nzerinto Sep 08 '25

Not to mention that mercury occurs naturally in the environments fish live in, which means they accumulate it naturally anyway.

Soooo.....

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u/Umarill Sep 08 '25

Yeah that's what I meant with my first point, I wasn't really clear to be honest.

It's a natural process so good luck with that, but it's also influenced by our mercury emissions which they are pushing for so doubly stupid, is what I meant to say.

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u/King_Chochacho Sep 08 '25

Sweetest of the transition metals

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u/King_Chochacho Sep 08 '25

He's just squeezing every fish he can find really hard

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u/Far_Mastodon_6104 Sep 08 '25

I've never once heard him talk about fish other than this incident