Continuing Broadsides Buffet RFK Jr.

The Washington Post and New Yorker throw shade on candidate's assassination claims

Insurgent Democrat vs. Mainstream journos.

In a week that saw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appearing for the first time as a presidential candidate on the mega-popular “The Joe Rogan Experience,” voices of the establishment (some say “legacy”) media continued a critical barrage against the insurgent Democrat who is drawing support on the right and in Silicon Valley, his turbulent personal life notwithstanding.

Is RFK Jr. the first “podcast presidential candidate?” asks the New Yorker. The venerable magazine notes his strategy of bypassing legacy media reporters in favor of yakking it up with the audio influencers of the Internet. RFK Jr., writes Antonia Hitchens, is “a practitioner of a paranoid, conspiratorial, and only occasionally fact-based brand of politics.”