How Olivia Nuzzi Covered RFK Jr. After Their ‘Personal Relationship’ Began
(Did Mediaite edit the picture of Kenneny?look at his eyes and right hand side of his face. I think they did. BS hit piece).1/2
New York magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi was placed on leave this week after she confessed to having had a “personal relationship” with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after writing a profile on him.
In a note to readers on Thursday evening, New York magazine announced Nuzzi had “acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures.”
The note added, “Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign. An internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review.”
Oliver Darcy’s Status newsletter confirmed that the “former subject” was Kennedy, whose presidential campaign Nuzzi had covered, but reported that the relationship “did not begin until after a November 2023 profile she wrote on Kennedy had been published.”
In her November 2023 profile of Kennedy, Nuzzi acknowledged the presidential candidate’s wife, Cheryl Hines, and reported on their life together in Brentwood, California.
“Bobby, as he’s known to friends, walked through the French doors dressed for his morning hike in blue jeans, a black hoodie, Keens, and an unfriendly expression,” she wrote. “He said little as he led his three enormous canines to the van, though I don’t know what he could have said that would have prepared me for the sight of the thing.”
Nuzzi detailed the filthy state of Kennedy’s van, writing, “Rearview mirror smashed to bits, seat belts chewed off, cushions gnawed open, filth and dog hair covering every surface. The death machine smells so bad I thought I might pass out after about 15 seconds riding shotgun.”
Nuzzi also wrote about “Kennedy’s chill disposition” and claimed “fear — and denial — is what Kennedy seems to inspire among the staid Washington Establishment supporting the incumbent president and the gangland anti-Establishment Establishment supporting the former president.”
In another section of the piece, Nuzzi wrote about hiking with Kennedy and his pets, painting a vivid picture of the presidential candidate shovelling “the astounding amount of waste produced by his dogs.”
“‘That’s coyote shit,’ he said, as he flung the object in question off his shovel and into the trees,” she recalled.
In one interview with The New York Times from March that went viral on social media following the latest news, Nuzzi argued Kennedy should be taken more seriously:..
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