In yet another crash-out of a television appearance coming after Republican voters in his state humiliatingly ousted him from office during the primary process, United States Senator from Louisiana Bill Cassidy totally lost it going on the attack against Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Particularly, Cassidy appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” with host Margaret Brennan on Sunday, June 28, attacking the well-liked and somewhat eccentric HHS Secretary by claiming that he has not been working to make Americans healthier, but is rather building public health policy “upon a foundation of lies.”
That angry tirade about Mr. Kennedy came as Margaret Brennan went on a rant about vaccines. First, she admitted, “Well, I mean, the current CDC autism and vaccines page has a heading that says vaccines do not cause autism. Very clearly, but there’s an asterisk next to it.”
Continuing, she noted, “And it says it’s up there due to an agreement with you, the chair of the committee, you go to lower down on the page, and there are some confusing things said there, including that there’s no scientific foundation to rule out a linkage, a linkage. Do you think there will be strong oversight after January? Do statements like that disappear?”
The senator then argued that Kennedy had betrayed him by putting up that disclaimer, saying, “I cannot tell you that it’s going to disappear. I can tell you that that broken agreement that I had with the secretary, that that was not supposed to happen. So, once you lose trust in somebody, you’re not quite sure what to trust going forward.”
He added, keeping up his attacks on the HHS Secretary and making the “foundation of lies” remark, “In fact, you don’t trust anything. It should go away, because the evidence is that that is not the case. That is a prejudice being brought. And by the way, if you build public health upon a foundation of lies, then you’re going to have the absence of adequate public health.”
Then, rambling about doctors and truth for a bit, the senator angrily insisted, “You need to build everything in life on truth. I go back to being a doctor. You got to search for the truth and use the truth for your solutions. That sounds kind of, oh my gosh. No.”
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Continuing with that in a near-incoherent screed about the truth, he then said, “That’s the only way you make the correct diagnosis and the correct this is not truth, and there’ll be a consequence of it, and that consequence, unfortunately, will be borne by those who actually are influenced by it.”
Concluding, the senator admitted that the hubbub, even if justified on the facts, wasn’t justified in that no one reads the CDC website and os this doesn’t matter, saying, “I will say, except for news anchors, very few people read the CDC website. And so I’m not sure how much influence that has, how much negative influence that has.”
Watch him attack Kennedy here: