# RFK Jr Files to Run for President (Dropped Out on August 23, 2024) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [April 6, 2023, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260 "2023-04-06T16:36:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 45
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/881 "2024-09-18T13:49:46Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Heck, they’re migratory critters. Or maybe a shitload of swallows and a lot of string… ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2024, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/882 "2024-09-18T20:15:44Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Oh, no. Not again! That comment seems somewhat improbable. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2024, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/883 "2024-09-19T13:48:45Z")
Infinitely so, you might say. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/884 "2024-09-20T02:58:51Z")
If you know Olivia Nuzzi, this will come as no huge surprise, even though she’s 31. > **[Olivia Nuzzi on leave from New York magazine after RFK relationship](https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine)** > > "Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have been assigned to cover the presidential campaign," a spokesperson for the magazine said. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/885 "2024-09-20T03:53:08Z")
Good Grief. Why? No really…he’s so gross. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/886 "2024-09-20T03:58:15Z")
From July; > And from March; > ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/887 "2024-09-20T12:19:09Z")
Olivia Nuzzi? I thought she covered the economy in her news reporting. Oh, wait, that was Olivia Munn’s character in _Broadcast News._ (Seriously, it’s before my coffee. For a moment I thought that’s who you folks were talking about). (And now that I’ve had my coffee…it’s _The Newsroom_, not _Broadcast News_.) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/888 "2024-09-20T15:41:29Z")
According to Nuzzi the relationship was not physical, but even sexy text flirting or whatever they did seems gross. And yeah, her reputation as a reporter and any credibility her writing might have had is probably shot at this point. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/889 "2024-09-20T16:23:09Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > [Olivia Nuzzi on leave from New York magazine after RFK relationship](https://www.status.news/p/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-new-york-magazine) > [@Jackmannii](#): > > MAGA Jr.\* previously was [ready to announce a faux separation from his wife](https://variety.com/2023/tv/politicians/cheryl-hines-robert-f-kennedy-jr-separation-offer-vaccine-1235639704/), to “shield” her from the consequences of his remarks. > > Maybe now he’ll go ahead with it. Hmmm…well, that proposed separation may become less faux any day now. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/890 "2024-09-20T19:44:44Z")
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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/891 "2024-09-20T19:59:04Z")
I used to see Olivia Nuzzi occasionally as a talking head on MSNBC, but I hadn’t seen her in ages. I didn’t miss her, because her commentary was always superficial, and she played to the camera in a very inappropriately coquettish manner. Ick, but not especially surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/892 "2024-09-21T19:05:20Z")
Yeah, that was my experience. Nuzzi is a self-promoter with no insight to offer, was my assessment. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/893 "2024-09-21T22:34:24Z")
I do wonder how she must be feeling right now. This got out because RFK Jr was bragging about nude photos of her that he had. A 70 year old married man who behaves like a stupid teenager. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/894 "2024-09-22T02:13:36Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I do wonder how she must be feeling right now. This got out because RFK Jr was bragging about nude photos of her that he had. A 70 year old married man who behaves like a stupid teenager. If anyone needs a cite for that it is below. I think the lesson here is never send nudes to a man with a worm in his brain. > **[RFK Jr boasted over ‘nude pics’ of NY Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi](https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/olivia-nuzzi-rfk-jr-relationship-photos-b2616700.html)** > > Olivia Nuzzi, 31, profiled the independent presidential candidate in November ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/895 "2024-09-22T02:58:31Z")
Or a whale head on his car, or a dead bear in his trunk … ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/896 "2024-09-22T03:02:53Z")
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/897 "2024-09-22T05:45:20Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Or a whale head on his car, or a dead bear in his trunk … With, and I hope this isnt important- his fly undone. Please gawd, tell me it was just an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/898 "2024-09-22T16:28:47Z")
The bear’s fly was undone? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/899 "2024-09-22T18:11:38Z")
_I’m beginning to think you aren’t coming up here to hunt._ ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2024, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260/900 "2024-09-22T21:10:04Z")
My Italian brain automatically reads Nuzzi as rhyming with Bootsy, and I cannot evaluate the likelihood of Americans rhyming it with fuzzy. I can never predict what will happen to Italian names in the mouths of Americani. [![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Pinocchiofunk.jpg) ](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6c/Pinocchiofunk.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rfk-jr-files-to-run-for-president-dropped-out-on-august-23-2024/982260.md?page=46)