Cornel West Goes After RFK Jr.: 'Needs to Really Get Off the Crack Pipe'
People's Party Presidential candidate Cornel West criticized Robert Kennedy Jr. on Thursday while speaking about the Democratic presidential candidate's stance on Israel and Palestine and said, "He needs to really get off the crack pipe."
"You want a presidential candidate, and I think you just want this in any human being, to have backbone, to have integrity, to have consistency, not to check what you deeply believe after you've had some dialogue or discourse with a group of people or community that's going to be shaping and molding how you perceive the world," West said while speaking on the Bad Faith Pod. "If he [Kennedy Jr.] thinks somehow that each [Palestinian] baby who was killed somehow was never in any way, intentional, deliberate, they didn't know what they were doing...he needs to really get off the crack pipe."
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Vid. It has 1970s-ish funk music in the background because of course it does.
Thanks for that. I was thinking to myself that I really like the words coming out of his mouth in this video, but I seem to remember him being very npr friendly, and I wouldn't expect that from someone with coherent politics.
When I was a liberal - I used to sort of hate watch Real Time. Maher always seemed very obnoxious and arrogant. But I used to nod my head when he had guest like West on. Years later I finally realized people like West are performative. He's quite a performer and he knows how to amp up his genuine charisma to much higher level. He's like a "radical" in a Sorkin story.