Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted at Oprah that her overeating is a choice, not genetics, and accused her of selling surrender as science. The segment discusses GLP-1 drugs that reduce food cravings and examines whether Kennedy's criticism would land the same way if aimed at someone else.
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Obesity causes you to overeat, right? Obesity causes you to have all of that food noise. And what the GLP-1s have done for me, and I know a number of other people, is to quiet that noise.
But you know, RF Kennedy Jr., because now he is over the FDA and what goes in our bodies and things like that, decided to get out here and drag Oprah. And this is what he had to say. Let me put on my little reading glasses. Where they at? Hold on for a second because the shade is on thick. I was— I'm glad he decided to, um, to tweet this because Lord knows I didn't want to it come from his voice. Yes, you were overeating for years, and it wasn't some mystical obesity gene puppeteering your fork. It was your choices. Stop selling surrender as science. Our kids deserve the truth, the real. Change starts with personal accountability and no excuses. That's exactly what he said, okay? So I'm gonna say it in my voice. He said, "Dear Oprah, you were overeating, okay, for years, and it wasn't some mystical obesity gene puppeteering your fork." The drag. He just snatched that lady's lace front off. "It was your choices. Stop selling surrender as science. Our kids deserve the truth that real change starts with personal accountability and not excuses," okay? And so, you know, normally I would be inclined to believe that if he were speaking to any other race but our race,
