Comedians Line Up to Help RFK Jr.’s Misinformation Campaign
At a Washington, D.C., rally in January 2022, the anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. drew an interesting comparison between COVID-19 vaccine mandates and the Third Reich. “Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he said at the time. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”
It didn’t go well for him. Kennedy’s comments earned condemnation from the Auschwitz Museum and his own wife, actress Cheryl Hines, who described his invocation of the Holocaust as “reprehensible and insensitive.” (As Vice reported, this was far from the first time he likened vaccines to the systematic murder of six million Jews.)
Among those unbothered by the comparison, however, was his old friend Mike Binder. “Time will prove him right,” the comedian and filmmaker wrote on Twitter, calling for his fellow comics to spread Kennedy’s message. “[U]se your platforms. It’s not too late. Have Bobby on your shows ASAP. Read his book. Read that speech. And pls@pass [sic] this on.”