Jack, I want to follow-up on Markos's email from last week.

It's fun to poke holes in the inane arguments that anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., is using in his suit against Daily Kos, but the case itself is serious—and the costs are adding up. Daily Kos has had to bring on multiple law firms to represent us in the case, as the fight now spans two states (California and New York), and might expand even further given the trajectory of the case. As you can imagine, this is getting expensive.

Please, if you haven't already, take a minute to chip in $5 right now to help offset the cost of our defense against this wealthy anti-vaxxer?

This is a righteous fight. Kennedy bet on swamping us with legal expenses to win by default. You are allowing us to fight with every tool at our disposal.

Thank you again,
Michael Langenmayr, Daily Kos

P.S. Please check out Markos's email if you missed it, or his post about it on our website.

Jack, you may have seen my stories about Robert Kennedy Jr.’s lawsuit against Daily Kos. The first one is here, and the follow-up is here. His organization now fires back here. I had a good laugh reading that drivel, and now I’ll share my reaction with you.

But before I do, I have to ask: Fighting this lawsuit against a wealthy anti-vaxxer is getting expensive. Can you donate $5 right now to help offset the cost of our defense?

The Daily Kos’ malicious article claimed that Kennedy spoke at a Nazi rally in Berlin “organized by right-wing extremist organizations, including the AFD party and various anti-Semitic conspiracy groups as well as the neo-Nazi NPD party.”

He did. Totally. All the evidence is here. Actually, it’s not even all the evidence. I got repetitive with the evidence, so I had to make an editorial decision to spare you all thousands of more words of evidence.

Public Citizen has a long and noble history of advocating against corruption in the pharmaceutical industry. Kennedy himself has fought alongside Public Citizen during his well-documented history of battling regulatory and industry corruption.

So … maybe Kennedy should rethink this ridiculous crusade? Maybe the fact that a noble organization with a long history of fighting corruption says he’s gone too far, means that he’s gone too far?

Kennedy’s speech in Berlin was a part of his crusade against Pharma’s growing power over government agencies and public policy. Kennedy says that the industry’s claims about COVID vaccines merit heightened scrutiny during their rollouts.

“Unlike other drugs,” he argued, “vaccines are given to healthy individuals. We therefore should be far less tolerant of risk.”

98.9% of 107,000+ COVID-related hospitalizations in May were among the unvaccinated.

99.2% of 18,000+ COVID-related deaths in May were among the unvaccinated.

What is that about “risk”?

“Those fundraising letters have the poisonous, nasty, baiting tone of a schoolyard bully,” said Holland, “and by school, I mean elementary school — they are shockingly childish. It’s almost beyond comprehension that this low-level diatribe is coming from one of the most revered exemplars of the liberal intelligentsia, one of our Democratic Party’s superstars.”

Now they’re writing our own fundraising letters for us!

If you want to help fund our legal efforts against this dangerous, murderous, conspiracy theorist, please click here.

Also consider a donation to Public Citizen, for having this community’s back. They are a great ally to have in this fight.

Thank you,
Markos Moulitsas, Founder
Daily Kos

P.S. You can read even more of my responses to Kennedy's attacks here.

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