‘What the Hell?!’ Chris Hayes Incredulous After RFK Jr. Claims Ability to Diagnose Kids With Health Issues by Looking at Them
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes railed against Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., repeatedly calling him “a crank.”
The nation’s top public health official – who has no medical training – has a long history of baseless and false beliefs about vaccines, Covid, AIDS, and other health topics. He also has a history of collecting dead wild animals – and sometimes just their heads.
On Wednesday, Kennedy facilitated the ouster of Susan Monarez as director of the Centers for Disease Control after she reportedly clashed with him. Monarez was confirmed to the position by the Senate last month. At least three top CDC officials resigned in protest.
Hayes blasted Kennedy on Thursday’s All In, where he homed in on comments the secretary made about being able to tell if children are suffering from “mitochondrial challenges” by looking at them.
“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like,” Kennedy said. “I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street. And I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation. You can tell from their faces, from their body movements, and from their lack of social connection. And I know that that’s not how our children are supposed to look.”
The MSNBC host did not hold back:
What on Earth are you on about?! You can see the kids have mitochondrial problems? Their lack of social connection? You can see that? Their faces aren’t healthy, to you, RFK Jr.
Should you bring your kid to RFK Jr. with their face and say, “What do you think, Bobby? Healthy or not?”
I know it’s kind of a cliche at this point, but imagine if the guy sitting next to you at the bar, or at a PTA meeting, or at your kid’s basketball game, started opining about the mitochondrial inflammation in the kids in front of you. You would move away because the guy seems nuts. Well, that guy is in charge of our entire public health infrastructure, influencing policy that impacts your health, your family’s health, whether your kids are gonna be able to get vaccines.
Hayes went on to say that while federal health agencies are far from perfect, they are much better off without being directed by “the whim of one crank.”
Watch above via MSNBC.
