RFK Jr. sat on CNN and said something that should not have been controversial. He said the government’s first duty in any future pandemic is to protect constitutional rights. Not balance them against expert opinion. Not temporarily suspend them. Protect them.
Dana Bash reacted as if he had just committed a category error. She told him she did not want to “allow” him to say things that were not entirely true. Allow. That is the word she chose. Not “challenge.” Not “disagree.” Allow.
Watch that moment carefully and the entire posture becomes clear. This is not a journalist testing a claim. This is a gatekeeper deciding which premises are permitted on air. The substance of Kennedy’s argument ... that the last response got almost everything wrong ... barely registered. What registered was the unacceptable suggestion that rights might rank above the public-health machinery.
That is the scandal that never ended. A large part of the media and the expert class still treats constitutional rights as optional equipment that can be powered down whenever the right people declare an emergency. They do not say it in those words. They simply act as if the Bill of Rights is a set of guidelines that apply only when the experts find them convenient.
Bash’s performance was not an outlier. It was a clean demonstration of the surviving mindset. The lockdowns are over. The mandates are gone. The emergency declarations have expired. But the assumption that experts outrank rights never left the building. It just learned to speak more politely until someone like Kennedy forced the issue back into the open.
The Constitution was not written as a suggestion for calm weather. It was written to restrain power precisely when fear is highest and the people in charge are most certain they know better.
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@kinsellawarren Lockdowns, quarantine of healthy exposed individuals, 6 feet distancing, and facemasks were NEVER part of the pre-COVID pandemic playbook.
Fauci made this stuff up out of thin air with no empirical evidence and unleashed it onto the world.
We were building a swimming pool in early 2020 when the lockdowns started.
One would think, when TheScience™️ was deciding which businesses weren’t essential, that pool building would be the first to get nixed.
Nope. We were swimming by early summer and the pool company went on to have a record year that year.
Too bad scores of other mom and pop places in the area were not as lucky and had to lay people off and too often had to close their doors for good
FoLLowtHeSciENce!
@damonsotomayor@TheBabylonBee Is he still playing? Did he graduate with a degree in something that is marketable? I’m gonna go out on a limb and say he went into…..sports science or education.