It took a decade, however the man who left a lifeless bear cub in Central Park lastly fessed up in a social media put up Sunday.
Why now? As a result of he needed to get forward of a New Yorker profile that included the bear story. The journal additionally obtained {a photograph} of the wrongdoer posing with his fingers within the little creature’s bloody mouth, pretending it was biting him.
“Possibly that’s the place I obtained my mind worm,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joked to New Yorker author Clare Malone.
Pay attention, I get that Democrats are having a whole lot of enjoyable calling former President Trump and his working mate, JD Vance, bizarre — an insult popularized by the entirely-not-weird Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who turned Kamala Harris’ working mate Tuesday. However I’m unsure Trump and Vance can prime Kennedy, the unbiased presidential candidate who’s the very embodiment of Hunter S. Thompson’s well-known aphorism, “When the going will get bizarre, the bizarre flip professional.”
“Bizarre” barely begins to explain Kennedy, a harmful demagogue who shamelessly trades on his household identify, associates with far-right figures whereas masquerading as a liberal and lies to People about vaccines.
No marvel his household has disavowed him. Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, stated on Instagram final month that his cousin’s candidacy is “a humiliation.”
“He’s buying and selling in on Camelot, superstar, conspiracy theories and battle for private acquire and fame,” stated Schlossberg, a Vogue politics author. “I don’t know why anybody thinks he ought to be president. … Let’s not be distracted, once more, by somebody’s vainness undertaking.”
Kennedy appears to make information solely when he’s executed one thing, nicely, bizarre.
The New York Occasions reported in Could that Kennedy stated medical doctors had discovered a lifeless parasitic worm in his mind in 2010, when he was experiencing mind fog and reminiscence loss. He had initially disclosed that info in a deposition taken whereas he was searching for his second divorce, from Mary Richardson Kennedy. He testified {that a} worm “obtained into my mind and ate a portion of it after which died,” which was related to the divorce proceedings as a result of he claimed his incomes energy had been diminished by the parasite.
Across the identical time, the Occasions reported, Kennedy additionally suffered from mercury poisoning, which might have an effect on cognition, and atrial fibrillation, which he described within the divorce deposition as making him really feel as if “there’s a bag of worms in my chest.”
One other latest report famous that Kennedy posed with the barbecued stays of what he ultimately claimed was a goat throughout a 2010 journey to South America, although some veterinarians stated the animal seemed to be a canine.
However while you’re producing information leads like “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pressured to disclaim that he took a chunk out of a canine carcass,” how a lot do the main points actually matter?
The New York Occasions printed a puffy story in June about two wild ravens that Kennedy had type of tamed at his Los Angeles residence. The newspaper reported that the birds had succeeded his pet emu, Toby, who usually attacked his spouse, the actor Cheryl Hines, and was later killed by a mountain lion.
Completely not bizarre, amirite?
However again to the bear. Within the video Kennedy posted, he’s telling the story to Roseanne Barr, who acquired about 70,000 votes when she ran for president on the Peace and Freedom Occasion ticket in 2012. It’s unclear why Barr was within the video, however my idea is that it was a gathering of the Bizarre Presidential Candidates Membership.
As Barr listens, Kennedy recounts the story: On his solution to a falconing outing in upstate New York, he noticed a van hit the bear cub. He scooped up the carcass, meaning to pores and skin it and put the meat in his fridge later. However he was late for dinner at Peter Luger Steak Home in New York Metropolis, so he didn’t have time to cease at his residence in Westchester County. Then dinner ran late, and he wanted to get to the airport, so he hatched a plan: “I stated, ‘Let’s go put the bear in Central Park and we’ll make it appear like it obtained hit by a motorcycle. It will be humorous for individuals,’ ” Kennedy stated. He additionally defined, “I wasn’t ingesting, after all, however individuals have been ingesting with me who thought this was a good suggestion.”
Harvesting highway kill and dumping it in Central Park as a prank, he stated, may need been “slightly little bit of the redneck in me.” Kennedy is a redneck the best way Donald Trump Jr. is a blue-collar everyman. No, this was the conduct of a ragingly entitled scion of a wealthy and well-known American clan.
In any case, many headlines have been generated when the inexplicable bear was found within the park the following day, together with on this newspaper. The New York Occasions assigned a younger environmental reporter named Tatiana Schlossberg to the story: Sure, one other Kennedy unknowingly chronicled her cousin’s misadventure:
“Calls have been made to a retired Bronx murder commander, Vernon Gerberth,” Schlossberg wrote. “ ‘It wouldn’t be a police matter,’ he stated, ‘except the bear was killed by an individual, or if any person was conserving it as a pet and introduced it to the park. Persons are loopy.’ ”
And, after all, bizarre.
