{"id":1921055,"date":"2023-04-29T01:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-candidate-rfk-jr-slams-abc-news-after-they-admit-to-censoring-his-interview-illegal\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T01:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T05:44:05","slug":"democrat-candidate-rfk-jr-slams-abc-news-after-they-admit-to-censoring-his-interview-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-candidate-rfk-jr-slams-abc-news-after-they-admit-to-censoring-his-interview-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Candidate RFK Jr. Slams ABC News After They Admit To Censoring His Interview: \u2018Illegal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-candidate-rfk-jr-slams-abc-news-after-they-admit-to-censoring-his-interview-illegal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921055&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>RFK Jr. Slams ABC News for Censoring His Anti-Vaccine Views<\/h2>\n<p>Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., a Democrat presidential candidate, has criticized ABC News for censoring parts of his interview with journalist Linsey Davis. Kennedy, who has been known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-earned-praise-from-anti-vaccine-extremists\/\" title=\"Newsom Earned Praise from Anti-Vaccine Extremists\">anti-vaccine views<\/a>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-eyes-expanding-welfare-state-overturning-clinton-era-reform\/\" title=\"Biden Eyes Expanding Welfare State, Overturning Clinton-Era Reform\">gaining popularity<\/a> in the Democrat primary polls, with almost 20% support despite his recent announcement of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Davis had stated before the interview aired that Kennedy regularly distributes misinformation and disinformation about vaccines, which scientific and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-candidate-rfk-jr-slams-abc-news-after-they-admit-to-censoring-his-interview-illegal\/\" title=\"Democrat Candidate RFK Jr. Slams ABC News After They Admit To Censoring His Interview: \u2018Illegal\u2019\">medical experts overwhelmingly<\/a> say are safe and effective based on rigorous scientific studies. After the interview, Davis revealed that the network decided to censor some of Kennedy&#8217;s remarks about vaccines, citing the American Academy of Pediatrics and the advocacy group Autism Speaks to say that Kennedy made misleading claims about the relationship between vaccination and autism.<\/p>\n<p>Kennedy responded to the censorship by citing a statute that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/olympics-committee-loosening-rules-on-athletes-ability-to-express-political-social-justice-views\/\" title=\"Olympics Committee Loosening Rules On Athletes\u2019 Ability To Express Political, Social Justice Views\">claims makes<\/a> it illegal for TV networks to censor presidential candidates. He said that Americans deserved to hear the full interview so they could make up their own minds and that democracy could not function without &#8220;a free and unbiased press.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Kennedy&#8217;s Response to ABC News<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kennedy cited a statute that makes it illegal for TV networks to censor presidential candidates.<\/li>\n<li>He said that Americans deserved to hear the full interview so they could make up their own minds.<\/li>\n<li>Democracy could not function without &#8220;a free and unbiased press.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As President, Kennedy promised to free FCC from its corporate captors and force the agency to follow the law by revoking the licenses of networks that put the mercantile ambitions of advertisers ahead of the public interest.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">47 USC 315 makes it illegal for TV networks to censor Presidential candidates but Thursday, ABC showed its contempt for the law, democracy, and its audience by cutting most of the content of my interview with host Linsey Davis leaving only cherry-picked snippets and a defamatory\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1652034575554453506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat presidential candidate Robert Francis Kennedy Jr. slammed ABC News on Friday after the network admitted that it censored some of its Thursday interview with him. RFK Jr., who has faced criticism for years over some of his staunchly anti-vaccine views, is surging in Democrat primary polls, amassing nearly 20% support despite having only recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1921056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7261,4737,4076,8297,4912,4207,6234,9883,4133,23694,3944],"class_list":["post-1921055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-abc","tag-admit","tag-candidate","tag-censoring","tag-democrat","tag-illegal","tag-interview","tag-jr","tag-news","tag-rfk","tag-slams"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}