Sep 24, 2024
RFK Jr.'s Allies Accuse Olivia Nuzzi Of Being OBSESSED With Him
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is accusing reporter Olivia Nuzzi of sending him seductive images.
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I was very sad that this story broke
when I wasn't on the show,
and so now I get to comment on it.
So thanks God. Thank God.
All right. So,
after news broke last weekend
regarding the digital affair between New
York Magazine journalist Olivia
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Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Kennedy's camp
is now trying to essentially save face
by painting Nutsy as the villain.
They're trying to make it seem as though
she tried to get him, essentially set some
sort of trap by bombarding him with nudes.
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Yeah. Okay.
Okay.
So friends of RFK Jr
spoke to a very trusted source,
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the New York Post, over the weekend.
They say that Nuzzi was obsessed
with Kennedy following their interview
back in November.
Additionally, they say that she allegedly
instigated the digital relationship,
which was known to be tense.
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Now, one person who spoke to the New
York Post and didn't do so anonymously
to her credit is Jessica Krauss, who
identifies as an independent journalist.
She claimed that RFK Jr. Actually
cut contact with Nazi after she
made a flirtatious remark, saying.
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A few weeks later, Olivia Nazi emailed
him asking to be unblocked,
claiming she had urgent information about
a hit piece being prepared against him.
He unblocked her for that conversation,
but later that night he she
sent him a provocative picture,
prompting him to block her again.
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That's nonsense.
I don't believe that for a second.
The on again,
off again blocking apparently took place
in the span of eight months.
Blocked.
Unblocked. Blocked.
Unblocked. Oh, I saw it again.
I saw it again. Oh, what am I going to do?
She instigated it and my eyes
were forced to watch it repeatedly,
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over and over again and respond positively
over and over again.
Exactly, exactly.
Now, friends of cross believe that Nazi
did set up RFK set up RFK Jr. For what?
Like. For what?
Okay, but this is what they're saying.
She went after him aggressively.
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She targeted him pretty hard.
Bobby was blocking her continually.
It was.
- Why did he.
- Continue to unblock her then?
It's so funny. It was a little scary.
Can someone scare me like that, please?
She was obsessed with him.
I think she still is.
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- Get out of here.
- Okay, look.
I. He's trying to save his marriage.
Like, that's the way
that I read this, right?
Because, like.
But also, I'm super disappointed in Nutsy.
I really am.
Okay. For two different reasons.
Number one,
and this is the most important reason.
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Yes, it is unethical to have
the kind of personal relationship
that she had with RFK Junior when she is
in fact writing a feature piece about him.
- Okay, that is a problem I will.
- No, that was after the piece came out.
They had the affair.
She did have one positive quote
about him afterwards, but just one.
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- Okay, that timeline matters.
- Certainly matters a lot, but.
She should have disclosed
the personal relationship to her boss.
It's the right and ethical thing to do.
Okay, so that's the most important thing.
Number one.
Number two, and don't judge me too harshly
for saying this,
but I am angry with her for squandering
her beauty on people like RFK Jr.
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And apparently back in 2014, she had
a tweet out thirsting for Rick Perry.
Olivia, what are you doing, girl?
What are you doing?
Do not squander this moment in your life.
Beauty doesn't last forever.
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Use it or lose it. Okay.
No, she is using it.
No, but she's overusing it.
Like when I. When I say use it,
I mean, like, not on RFK Jr. Okay.
- On someone worth it?
- No, I hear you.
Look, guys, I hate getting into people's
personal lives, and people are human.
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So she found him attractive or whatever.
That's her business.
She was engaged. He was married.
I get it, people are human, but don't.
RFK Jr. Throwing her under the bus.
It's. It's really bad for him.
Super gross. Super.
Yeah.
Like, it makes me like
that's the first time.
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And you could say, hey, Jay,
you're way late to the party,
and you should have been there already.
But that's the first time
it made me actively dislike him.
So, look, somebody has a decency
at 31 years old
to send your pics when you're 70. Okay.
Don't then come throwing them
under the bus and go, oh yeah.
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After enjoying them for eight months.
Yeah.
Oh, she was harassing me. Okay.
It gets better. It gets.
Oh, God. Okay, so there's more quotes.
This is security expert Gavin de Becker
who supposedly investigating this.
Okay. Really working hard to invest.
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I'm sure spending a lot of time
really honing, honing in on those images,
investigating them closely.
This is what he said.
This has nothing to do with romance.
He was being chased by porn.
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It's one of the best lines ever.
Oh, man.
I feel like it's like a Benny Hill skit.
Dit dit dit dit dit dit dit.
And the porn is chasing
Benny Hill around this set.
So. So while you know the New York Post
is like regurgitating the quotes
of RFK loyalists
who want to help him save his marriage,
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what's really going on is it
turns out he was going around
like bragging about the images.
Oh, of course.
And that's how they got caught.
Okay, so apparently Kennedy
was bragging to his friends
about receiving the images from
a journalist 40 years younger than him.
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You see, Olivia. You see?
What are you doing, girl?
What are you doing?
That bragging actually ended up tipping
off New York magazine's editor in chief,
David Haskell,
who is, you know, Olivia, Nazi's boss.
And it's not suspected that Nazis
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ex-fiance now ex-fiance Ryan Lizza is the
one who like Tattled on his now ex-fiance.
- Is that right?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- All right.
So, Oliver Darcy, the reporter
who actually uncovered this story,
claims that.
No, no, no.
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Look, this story isn't like I don't
care about the salacious details.
This story is about
a conflict of interest.
Right? A violation of journalistic ethics.
So I want to talk about that briefly,
because I do notice
a little bit of a double standard.
Again, to be clear, Olivia Nuzzi
absolutely should have disclosed
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her personal relationship
with RFK Jr. Not doing so was wrong.
But the way that people are raining
terror on her over this is interesting
when you consider all the conflicts
of interest that currently play a role
in our media ecosystem.
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System. Okay, so what do I mean by that?
Why don't we start off with, I actually
want to go to the last video here.
Because if you ever watch Morning Joe,
Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
literally cannot stop talking about their
personal relationships, including their
personal relationship with Joe Biden.
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And that personal relationship,
you know, led to, let's just say, quite
a bit of disinformation on their program.
Here's an example.
I've spent a good bit of time
with Joe Biden.
I've spent a couple of hours
with Joe Biden sitting, talking, going
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around the world as far as talking issues,
talking the economy, talking inflation.
And I must say, when I was talking to him,
my thought wasn't, oh, poor guy.
My thought was, oh my God,
I wish Doctor Brzezinski were off
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on the other side of the table right now.
I've said it for years now.
He's cogent, but I undersold him
when I said he was cogent.
He's far beyond cogent.
In fact, I think he's better
than he's ever been.
Intellectually. Analytically.
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Start your tape right now
because I'm about to tell you the truth
and f you if you can't handle the truth.
This version of Biden intellectually,
analytically is the best Biden ever.
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- Ha ha ha.
- Is it?
Is it? That video was from March 6th.
Of this year. Okay.
So guys, to me that's why this big to do
about Olivia Nazi thing.
Number one.
Yeah it has a smidge to do
with journalistic ethics,
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but it's all about the titillation.
Keep it real.
If it was like like, yeah, yeah.
And there were pics exchanged, etc.
If this was not about nude pictures
and sex and digital relationships, etc.,
instead it was you know,
a story about money
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which sounds salacious enough, right?
Or something else? No one would care.
Like it'd be a blip
and then we'd be done with it.
But because it has to do with sex,
everybody's obsessed
and everybody's pretending.
Like Olivia Nuzzi had the biggest
conflict of interest in in media history.
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Right?
That that tape we just showed you
is a thousand times worse
than what Olivia Nuzzi did.
In fact, Olivia Nuzzi told
the truth about Joe Biden.
That's why a lot of people hated her.
And so the Morning Joe Crew,
The View people, etc., all the hatchet men
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of Joe Biden and his administration,
all the people who know him personally
and because they benefited from that
friendship and relationship, would lie
brazenly about him on air a thousand times
worse than anything Olivia Nuzzi did.
Yeah.
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And you know that Joe Scarborough thing?
Not a big scandal.
- Not considered, not a scandal at all.
- At all.
Like Morning Joe, like Joe Scarborough
walks on water in Washington.
They're like, oh, the epicenter
of the establishment has arisen.
Yes.
What do we what propaganda would
we like to sell to the American people
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while we're pretending
to get a hold of this journalist?
Oh, the real problem is Olivia Nuzzi.
Okay, so she told the truth about Biden.
That's a real problem.
I mean, I mean,
she sent the wrong pics to RFK Jr.
That's why I'm mad at Olivia Nuzzi.
Yeah, maybe.
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Okay. All right.
But I just want to clarify one earlier
story that was made clear by this,
which I hadn't thought of earlier.
Now we know why RFK Jr
dumped a dead bear in Central Park.
Because he had to go.
Because he was being chased by porn.
He was being chased by porn. Everybody.
Yes.
God, I can't believe anyone would say
any of that with a straight face.
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- But here we are.
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