(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) In a Monday tweet, CNN’s Chris Hayes accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of taking steroids or some other performance-enhancing drugs in order to achieve his current physique at age 69.
People realize that *no one* is the most jacked they've ever been at the age of 69 without some…help, right?
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 26, 2023
“People realize that *no one* is the most jacked they’ve ever been at the age of 69 without some. . . help, right?” the soft and pudgy CNN host wondered aloud.
Of course, Kennedy, who is currently running as a Democrat challenger to President Joe Biden, is well known for his opposition to putting harmful chemicals into the human body, so the odds that he would be taking pharmaceuticals to aid his workouts are extremely low.
Despite being the scion from one of liberal Left’s most notorious political dynasties, Kennedy’s vaccine skepticism and distrust of the deep-state have helped him to win over conservative supporters, while drawing a rare level of contempt for a fellow Democrat from mainstream media outlets.
Hayes was mocked on Twitter for his RFK Derangement Syndrome, with some suggesting he was jealous of the older man’s physique.
Just go to the gym, Chrissy. JFC🤦♀️
— STFU (@tme_toni) June 26, 2023
Others suggested that Hayes was pushing the same sort of conspiracy theory that critics have often tried to pin on Kennedy.
There are lots of ways to get jacked besides taking steroids. Yet this has suddenly become progressives favorite new conspiracy theory. https://t.co/piau1f02HY
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 26, 2023
Some mocked Hayes and the Left more generally for its relative ugliness and lack of concern for decent hygiene and health.
This is the left we're talking about. Most of the men look weak and their women look as if they have higher testosterone levels than they do.
— ChickenHead (@ChickenHead4U) June 26, 2023
“You’re pathetic,” another Twitter user wrote. “A guy works hard and takes good care of himself, and you insinuate there must be something wrong.”
CNN—following the lead of the media as a whole—has gone out of his way on numerous occasions to try to show Kennedy’s presidential campaign in a poor light.
The mainstream media has been particularly offended by Kennedy’s anti-vaccine stance and affirmation of the need to protect the health of Americans from predatory corporate practices.
Last week, for example, CNN host Jake Tapper said that he would not host a Town Hall event with Kennedy because of the dangerous “misinformation” that he spreads.
“[Kennedy] spreads dangerous misinformation about childhood vaccines,” Tapper noted, calling RFK “dishonest” and accusing him of promoting he lies about “how the media is co-opted by Big Pharma.”
Tapper, who spent years promoting an utterly false Russia-collusion hoax, previously labeled Kennedy an “anti-vaccine quack” who was a “healthcare menace.”
