OPINION:
Welcome to the craziest election since the invention of electricity. I’m starting to think that maybe America would be better off if Al Gore had never invented the internet.
A highly revered New York Magazine journalist has been suspended from further coverage of the 2024 presidential election after an alleged affair with one of the candidates, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
But wait! It appears there is more to the story. It turns out that the affair may have been a tad one-sided, if you know what I mean. And it was entirely conducted “digitally,” according to the press. Or over the texting device.
Mr. Kennedy says he met Olivia Nuzzi only once in person for an interview that resulted in a published story he described as a “hit piece.” After the story ran, Mr. Kennedy asserts, Ms. Nuzzi developed a Marilyn Monroe complex and began bombarding him with nude photos of herself, at which point he supposedly blocked her online.
He said “hit piece,” and she said, “hit this piece!”
How profoundly humiliating.
In a situation like this, you have to give Mr. Kennedy the benefit of the doubt. After all, he is kind of a reigning adultery expert. And he comes from a long line of experts on serial philandering.
Mr. Kennedy has hired a security firm to get to the bottom of the virtual affair. We are far more likely to get the truth from Mr. Kennedy’s security firm than we ever would from reading New York Magazine — with or without Ms. Nuzzi on staff writing about her fantasies from the 2024 election.
Anyway, this is worth mentioning only as a reminder of how deeply dishonest, delusional and incestuous the political press is. (Ms. Nuzzi was until recently engaged to another highly regarded member of the political press.) These people really are corrupt, demented liars.
I mean, America has been infected with the curse of Kennedy men going back the better part of a century. They have forever defined the modern Democratic Party and, as such, always enjoyed messianic love from the political press.
In addition to relentless adultery — including the famous “waitress sandwich” — Kennedy men have lobotomized a daughter, left a woman trapped in a car to drown and peddled a teenage White House intern to perform sexual favors on senior staff in the White House swimming pool — which, fittingly, has since been converted to the White House Press Briefing Room.
The lionized and revered Kennedy men have survived every sort of disgusting scandal. That is, until one of them decided to support a Republican presidential candidate. Then all bets are off.
Welcome, Mr. Kennedy, to the American political press. This is what these vermin have been doing to people not named Kennedy for a hundred years.
Speaking of the current Democrat running for president in the 2024 election, Kamala Harris just two months ago was the most unpopular vice president in polling history. Today, after relentless spin cycles from the political press, she is within striking distance of winning this election.
And that is entirely based on her “personality,” such as it is. On the issues that matter to voters — the economy, crime, the border and world peace — she loses badly to former President Donald Trump, according to extensive polling.
Making matters worse, Ms. Harris has such a loathsome personality that her campaign actually forbids her from laughing in public. Yet thanks to the glorification of the political press, she could very well become the next president.
Please, Mr. Gore, take back your internet. And all the texting devices. There are just some things nobody wants to see.
• Charles Hurt is the opinion editor at The Washington Times.
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