🗞️ Story file #1053
RFK Jr faces backlash over anti-Arab remarks
Oct 28, 2 AM ET to Oct 28, 6 AM ET
📰 7 outlets carried it ⚖️ 🫏6 · 1 · 0🐘 left · center · right ⏱️ 4 hours on the front pages 📈 7 front pages at once, at its peak 📺 23 min of TV captions
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through
TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is
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📰 Spread the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
Oct 28, 3 AM 4 AM 5 AM 6 AM 4 7 left center Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 2 AM to Oct 28, 6 AM ET (peak 7), by the outlets' lean:
Oct 27, 6 AM 12 PM 6 PM Oct 28 6 AM MediaiteMediaite Mediaite, Oct 26, 11:00 PM ET: RFK Jr. Goes on Stunning Rant Against Arabs: ‘They Don’t Produce Literature,’ Only ‘Hatred’ and ‘War’ The New RepublicThe New Republic The New Republic, Oct 27, 12:00 PM ET: RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World The IndependentThe Independent The Independent, Oct 27, 1:00 PM ET: RFK Jr blastest for ‘blatant bigotry’ after claiming Arabs ‘don’t produce science or literature’ HuffPostHuffPost HuffPost, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: RFK Jr. Just Insulted 500 Million Arabs, And Boy, The Fact-Check Is Brutal The Washington PostThe Washington Post The Washington Post, Oct 27, 6:00 PM ET: RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature The Washington Post, Oct 28, 4:00 AM ET: RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature - The Washington Post ReutersReuters Reuters, Oct 27, 11:00 PM ET: US health chief RFK Jr faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks NBC NewsNBC News NBC News, Oct 28, 2:00 AM ET: RFK Jr. faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks 📺 TV CNN, 2:20 AM ET: RFK JR. FACES BACKLASH OVER HIS ANTI-ARAB REMARKS CNN, 2:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:21 AM ET: RFK JR. FACES BACKLASH OVER HIS ANTI-ARAB REMARKS CNN, 2:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:22 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:22 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:22 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:24 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:24 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:26 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:27 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:46 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 2:48 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:19 AM ET: RFK JR. FACES BACKLASH OVER HIS ANTI-ARAB REMARKS CNN, 4:20 AM ET: RFK JR. FACES BACKLASH OVER HIS ANTI-ARAB REMARKS CNN, 4:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:21 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:22 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:22 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:23 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:24 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:24 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:26 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:27 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:46 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:47 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 4:48 AM ET: EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline
from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not
rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it
(bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.
📡 wire copy: 1 outlet ran the Reuters headline nearly word for word (NBC News)
📌 linked by aggregators: Political Wire
💬 quoted: “blatant bigotry” “don't produce science or literature” “Hatred” “They Don't Produce Literature,”
✏️ 1 outlet ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature” → “RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature - The Washington Post”Every outlet's first headline (7), left to right by AllSides rating
RFK Jr. Just Insulted 500 Million Arabs, And Boy, The Fact-Check Is Brutal Oct 27, 6 PM ET RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World Oct 27, 12 PM ET RFK Jr. Goes on Stunning Rant Against Arabs: ‘They Don’t Produce Literature,’ Only ‘Hatred’ and ‘War’ Oct 26, 11 PM ET RFK Jr. faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 28, 2 AM ET RFK Jr blastest for ‘blatant bigotry’ after claiming Arabs ‘don’t produce science or literature’ Oct 27, 1 PM ET RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature Oct 27, 6 PM ET US health chief RFK Jr faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 27, 11 PM ET
📡 Broadcast TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
EL-SAYED CAMPAIGN CONDEMNS "RACE-BAITING" REMARKS FROM RFK JR CNN, 20 min RFK JR. FACES BACKLASH OVER HIS ANTI-ARAB REMARKS CNN, 3 min
🧶 Retelling what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Arab countries U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv
🔎 Checking what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.
HuffPost
RFK Jr. Just Insulted 500 Million Arabs, And Boy, The Fact-Check Is Brutal Oct 27, 6 PM ET
The New Republic
RFK Jr. Faces Backlash After Trashing 500 Million Arabs in the World Oct 27, 12 PM ET
Mediaite
RFK Jr. Goes on Stunning Rant Against Arabs: ‘They Don’t Produce Literature,’ Only ‘Hatred’ and ‘War’ Oct 26, 11 PM ET
NBC News
RFK Jr. faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 28, 2 AM ET
The Independent
RFK Jr blastest for ‘blatant bigotry’ after claiming Arabs ‘don’t produce science or literature’ Oct 27, 1 PM ET
The Washington Post
RFK Jr. falsely says Arab Muslims don’t produce prizeworthy science, literature Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Reuters
US health chief RFK Jr faces widespread rebuke over his anti-Arab remarks Oct 27, 11 PM ET