Newly unearthed video has revealed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) defending America’s corporate media class and claiming the “biggest lie” that the “right-wing has been able to promote” is that “there is a liberal media in the United States of America.”
In a 2005 speech where he also openly insulted “red state” voters, RFK can be clearly heard defending the corporate media apparatus in the United States, already whittled down to just a handful of left-liberal leaning firms by then:
“Well, the biggest lie that the right-wing has been able to promote in our country over the past 10 or 12 years has been the lie that there is a liberal media in the United States of America. There is no such thing as a liberal media. There is a right-wing media. And if you look where people are getting their news, you know, [an] overwhelming number of Americans are getting it from right-wing media. Thirty percent of Americans say that their principal news source is talk radio. which is primarily 90 percent controlled by the right. Another 22 percent say that their principal news source is one of three cable channels, CSNBC [sic], MSNBC, or Fox News, all dominated by the right.”
CNBC and MSNBC were not, in fact, “dominated by the right,” while Fox News at the time was dominated by the neoconservative uniparty.