It's legacy media hysteria time again: news outlets from The Washington Post to The Atlantic hyperventilate about what they spin as the latest scandale. Presidential candidate RFK Jr made comments at a dinner about ethnically targeted bioweapons. Mainstream media commentators claim that these comments are in themselves anti-Semitic.

Some articles are going back in time, cherry-picking remarks RFK Jr has made in the past about the Holocaust, and about other aspects of historic totalitarianism, to strengthen the case for imprinting the "Anti-Semite" label forever on Mr Kennedy's candidacy and campaign. With the (now AI-driven) global smear campaign in full mode, we see the way that bad press today quickly becomes circular and self-referential.

Look at who is most upset! It is the Democratic political establishment — which is directly threatened by RFK Jr's potential success — that is beside itself.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison called RFK Jr's remarks "deeply troubling."

A group of Democrats ask the White House to disinvite Kennedy from appearing on Capitol Hill. Kyle Herrig, Executive Director of the [Democrats'] Congressional Integrity Project, wrote a letter to Congressman Jim Jordan, calling Kennedy "a total whack job whose views and conspiracy theories would be completely ignored but for his last name." Herrig asked Mr Kennedy to be disinvited from a planned appearance at the White House due to "video evidence of his horrific antisemitic and xenophobic views which are simply beyond the pale."