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In reply to the discussion: CNN Tonight: The Assassination of JFK [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)who carried a lot less baggage than RFK Jr:
1. 1983 - arrested for heroin possession
2. divorced his first wife in 1984 after 12 years of marriage and remarried his pregnant paramour TWO WEEKS later
3. filed for divorce from his second wife, Mary, in 2010
4. Mary discovers RFK Jrs diary that details 37 sexual escapades he had in 2001 alone. The diary uses a number code for various sex acts, with "10" being intercourse (16 out of 37 women earned a 10 from Jr.) When confronted about his diary by a reporter, he claims "I have no diary from 2001."
5. Mary hangs herself on the couple's estate in 2012, despondent over their bitter divorce struggle and his serial unfaithfulness
As far as Rolling Stone "seeing fit to print" Jr's latest article - which you claim makes Jr's claims legit":
"An outspoken opponent of vaccination, in June 2005 Kennedy authored an article in Rolling Stone and Salon.com alleging a government conspiracy to cover up connections between the vaccine preservative thimerosal and childhood autism. The article contained a number of factual errors, leading Salon.com to issue five corrections and ultimately to retract the article completely on January 16, 2011. The retraction was motivated by accumulating evidence of errors and scientific fraud underlying the vaccine-autism claim. Previous to this retraction, sometime in 2010, Rolling Stone had also deleted Kennedy's article from their archives without explanation. As of January 2011, the original, uncorrected, version of the article was still posted on Kennedys website, including his factual errors which Salon had corrected." - Source Wikipedia