NY Post Attacks RFK, Jr.

Following the early articles posted here about the sudden and mysterious death of Mary – the wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an autopsy was done and the results made public – death by asphyxiation by hanging, a suicide. The NY Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, took the opportunity to attack Kennedy and blame him for the death. Investigative journalist, who worked with Robert on exposing voting fraud in the last national election, writes this response –

What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak.

I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress.

I will not answer, and thereby repeat, the cruel libels thrown at Kennedy by the Post.

But let me get this on the record: Kennedy is, and this is no exaggeration, the most committed family man I know. Every single day, he shuts down work, no matter the flood of urgent demands from around the world, for family time, for his kids. He is deeply religious, with a piety and intelligence he communicates with his family so impressive it makes me doubt my atheism.

Kennedy uses his family name, not to further his career, but to widen his children’s understanding and involvement in the world and to try to teach our ignorant nation lessons in moral conduct that his kids have already learned well.

To blame Kennedy for his wife’s illness is just further proof of the conclusion of Britain’s Parliament that Murdoch is “unfit to run a newspaper.” But then, no one would say the NY Post is a newspaper.
Again, I want to extend the condolences of the entire Palast crew to Mary Richardson Kennedy’s family.

When Bobby’s grief and mourning pauses––because it will never end––we look forward to resuming our partnership with him.

– Greg Palast

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?

…O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne’er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep.

– Gerard Manley Hopkins

Journalist Greg Palast, with Bobby Kennedy Jr., investigated the threat to voters’ civil rights for Rolling Stone magazine and BBC Television. www.GregPalast.com