ABC heavily edited its interview with Democrat presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday because it didn't like what he said about vaccines.
ABC's Linsey Davis poisoned the well from the start, introducing Kennedy as "One of the biggest voices pushing anti-vaccine rhetoric, regularly distributing misinformation and disinformation about vaccines, which scientific and medical experts overwhelmingly say are safe and effective based on rigorous scientific studies." Then ABC cut Kennedy's own words about the vaccines, not allowing him to make his case.
The network did did show a part of the interview where Kennedy was discussing opposition among his own family to his views on vaccines.
We should note that during our conversation, Kennedy made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Kennedy's own website, The Defender, features an April 14 article with the headline: "45 Times as Many Deaths After COVID Shots in Just 2 Years Compared With All Flu Vaccine-Related Deaths Since 1990, Data Show." The subtitle: "The authors of a peer-reviewed meta-analysis of national and international COVID-19 vaccine adverse events during the first two years of the rollout said their findings highlight the importance of reevaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups." Did Davis offer any specific refutation of these claims? Of course not.
In the portion of the interview that aired, according to a report in the Daily Caller Friday, Davis challenged Kennedy "Over his claims that there is a correlation between vaccinations and autism." Davis asserted that what Kennedy was saying had been "Debunked." Kennedy asked: "Wait a minute, who debunked it?" Davis replied: "We have not seen any kind of scientific connections from the CDC, the World Health Organization" Kennedy said: "They're captured agencies." Indeed.
47 USC 315 makes it illegal for TV networks to censor Presidential candidates but Thursday, ABC showed its contempt for the law, democracy, and its audience by cutting most of the content of my interview with host Linsey Davis leaving only cherry-picked snippets and a defamatory disclaimer.
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