Most Offensive Play at the Super Bowl

Last night, a Super Bowl ad for RFK Jr. shamelessly misappropriated John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign. To my mind, the pairing does nothing but highlight RFK Jr.’s inadequacy:

Experience

• When JFK, 29, ran for Congress, he’d served in the military. By the time he ran for president, he’d served in Congress for over a decade.

• RFK Jr., 70, is running for president with no experience in the military or Congress.

Honors

• JFK had been awarded the Purple Heart and won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.

• RFK Jr. has received no comparable honors.

@todayshow#JackSchlossberg speaks out about the video he posted being critical of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s run for President and some of his political views. “I’m very glad I did it. I stand by what I said in my video,” he told #SavannahGuthrie. #TODAYShow

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It’s not the first time that RFK Jr. has misused his family’s legacy, inspiring a rare rebuttal from the Kennedys.

RFK Jr. has already issued a lame apology with a dubious defense: He had no involvement with the super PAC that made the ad. On Friday, the DNC filed a complaint against RFK and the super PAC for illegal coordination. (As many have pointed out, the super PAC has received $15 million from Timothy Mellon, a Republican who has also given $10 million to another super PAC backing disgraced former President Donald J. Trump.)

RFK Jr. lacks all the qualities of a great leader and at least two key ingredients of a successful nepo baby: Hard work, common sense, and service. Let’s hope he makes his inevitable retreat soon.

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