It took a decade, but the man who left a dead bear cub in Central Park finally regretted it in a social media post Sunday.
why now? Because he wanted to get ahead of the New Yorker profile that included the bear story. The magazine also obtained a photo of the culprit posing with his finger in the small creature’s bloody mouth, pretending to bite him.
“Maybe that’s where I got the brainworm,” joked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to New York writer Clare Malone.
Listen, I know that Democrats enjoy calling former President Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, weirdos — an insult popularized by the not-so-weird Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is running mate Kamala Harris on Tuesday. . But I’m not sure Trump and Vance can top Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate who is the very embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson’s famous aphorism, “When you want to be weird, be weird as a pro.”
“Weird” hardly describes Kennedy, a dangerous demagogue who shamelessly traded on his family name, associated himself with right-wing figures while masquerading as a liberal and lying to the American people about vaccines.
No wonder his family had disowned him. Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, said on Instagram last month that his brother’s candidacy was “shameful.”
“He trades in Camelot, celebrity, conspiracy theories and conflict for personal gain and fame,” said Schlossberg, Vogue’s political writer. “I don’t know why anyone thinks he should be president. … Don’t get confused, again, with other people’s vanity projects.
Kennedy seems to make the news only when he’s done something, well, weird.
The New York Times reported in May that Kennedy said doctors had found a parasitic worm died in his brain in 2010, when he experienced brain fog and memory loss. He originally disclosed this information in a deposition taken when he filed for divorce for the second time, from Mary Richardson Kennedy. He testified that a worm “entered my brain and ate part of it and then died,” which is relevant to the divorce proceedings as he claims his powers have been reduced by the parasite.
At the same time, the Times reported, Kennedy also suffered from mercury poisoning, which can affect cognition, and atrial fibrillation, which he described in his divorce deposition as making him feel like “there was a bag of worms in my chest.”
Another recent report noted that Kennedy posed with barbecued remains that were eventually claimed to be goats during a trip to South America in 2010, although some veterinarians said the animal appeared to be a dog.
But when you’re generating news leads like “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been forced to deny that he took a bite out of the carcass of a dog,” how much detail really matter?
The New York Times published a heartwarming story in June about two feral crows that Kennedy tamed at his Los Angeles home. The newspaper reported that the birds had replaced his pet emu, Toby, who regularly attacked his wife, actor Cheryl Hines, and was later killed by a mountain lion.
Not surprisingly, because?
But back to the bear. In the video Kennedy posted, he told the story to Roseanne Barr, who won by about 70,000 votes when she ran for president on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket in 2012. It’s not clear why Barr was in the video, but my theory is that there was a meeting of the Club of Weird Presidential Candidates .
As Barr listened, Kennedy told the story: On his way to a falconing outing in upstate New York, he saw a van hit a bear cub. He picked up the carcass, was going to skin it and put it in the fridge later. But he was running late for dinner at Peter Luger Steak House in New York City, so he didn’t have time to stop at his home in Westchester County. Then dinner was late, and he had to get to the airport, so he came up with a plan: “I said, ‘Let’s put a bear in Central Park and we’ll look like we got hit by a bike. It’ll be funny to people,'” Kennedy said. He also explained, “I don’t drink, of course, but people drink with me who think it’s good.”
Harvesting street kill and dumping it in Central Park as a prank, he said, might have “turned red on me.” Kennedy is a redneck the way Donald Trump Jr. is. as every blue collar person. No, this is the behavior of a scion of a rich and famous American clan.
In any case, many headlines were made when an inexplicable bear was found in the park the following day, including in this newspaper. The New York Times commissioned a young environmental reporter named Tatiana Schlossberg for the story: Yes, another Kennedy accidentally revealed the fate of her brother:
“A call was made to retired Bronx homicide commander Vernon Gerberth,” Schlossberg wrote. ” ‘It won’t be a police problem,’ he said, ‘unless someone killed the bear, or someone kept the animal and brought it into the park. Crazy people.’ “
And, of course, it’s weird.
