CNN on Thursday aired a number of old Fox News clips showing network personalities slamming Michelle Obama’s nutrition initiative years before hyping up the views of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
“There was another person who, many years ago, tried to raise concerns about the health of the food that we feed our children and our families,” said CNN’s Abby Phillip, who tossed to a supercut of Fox News figures bashing the former first lady.
The 2010 clips showed personalities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity calling on Obama — who pushed for new nutrition standards for children in an effort to fight childhood obesity — to get her “damn hands” off their fries and claimed the government could start “fining” Americans for using salt.
“Does every American family need a dietitian appointed by the government to tell them that this food is going to make you fat and this food is not?” Hannity asked on his show back in 2010.
“Make America healthy again,” Phillip said in a reference to Kennedy’s post-Trump endorsement slogan.
Fox News has tried to whitewash Kennedy by calling him a public health advocate while largely ignoring his outlandish anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and COVID-19 views on the air, Media Matters for America reported in August.
That same month, Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt praised Kennedy for calling out “corruption in health care” and referred to it as “music to every mom’s ears.”
Kennedy has called for a ban on hundreds of food additives and chemicals in food, said he would take away the Food and Drug Administration’s nutrition departments, and declared Trump’s second administration would advise against using fluoride in drinking water.
The president-elect has said he’d let Kennedy “go wild on health” during his administration.
