NY Times Has Wackiest Fact Check Regarding RFK, Jr And Fruit Loops

I’m not a big fan of RFK, Jr. He is, in fact, kind of a crank and into conspiracy theories. Still, now that he supports Trump and was nominated to be HHS Secretary the Credentialed Media has now decided to do silly hit pieces

Spitting out my coffee after reading this NYT “fact check” of RFK Jr. pic.twitter.com/sqL9jaeUR1

— Brad Cohn (@BradCohn) November 17, 2024

It’s an interesting piece with the title “Kennedy’s Vow to Take On Big Food Could Alienate His New G.O.P. Allies”

Boxes of brightly colored breakfast cereals, vivid orange Doritos and dazzling blue M&Ms may find themselves under attack in the new Trump administration.

In excoriating such grocery store staples and their mysterious ingredients, Robert F. Kennedy tapped into a zeitgeist of widening appeal for healthy foods to curb obesity and disease that helped propel President-elect Donald J. Trump to select him to oversee the country’s vast health agency.

“We are betraying our children by letting these industries poison them,” Mr. Kennedy said at a campaign rally on Nov. 2, to raucous applause.

Anyone else get the idea that this is a Bad Thing in NY Times World, simply because Trump supporting RFK, Jr. is saying it? A lot of the article is about “clean food”, without all the extra chemicals and dyes and such, leading to

Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” Mr. Kennedy asked.

He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label.

So, the Canadian version is much cleaner without all the chemicals, and we’re supposed to oppose RFK, Jr on this? This is full on Trump Derangement Syndrome

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