Bestselling author Stephen King has likened independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to an empty-headed character from the classic British comedy show Monty Python’s Flying Circus in a viral social media post.
On Monday, King weighed in on Kennedy recently admitting to dumping in New York City’s Central Park the body of a bear cub that had been killed by a car he was riding in during a 2014 falconry trip. Kennedy made the revelation in a video he shared online before an upcoming New Yorker article that is purportedly set to describe the incident.
“[RFK Jr.] was late for dinner after falcon hunting, so he left a dead bear cub in Central Park,” King wrote in a post that had over 140,000 views X, formerly Twitter, on Monday evening. “This is a perfect example of what Monty Python’s Flying Circus called ‘an upper-class twit.'”
RFL Jr. was late for dinner after falcon hunting, so he left a dead bear cub in Central Park. This is a perfect example of what Monty Python’s Flying Circus called “an upper-class twit.”
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 5, 2024
King’s “upper-class twit” remark is a reference to a Monty Python sketch called “Upper Class Twit of the Year,” which features a group of wealthy but dimwitted aristocrats competing in a series of unusual Olympics-style events like “waking the neighbors,” “shooting the rabbits” and “kicking the beggar.”
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Newsweek reached out for comment to the Kennedy campaign via email on Monday night.
Kennedy posted a video sharing his recollection of the incident on Sunday with the following caption: “Looking forward to seeing how you spin this one, @NewYorker.” The video shows Kennedy having a friendly conversation with former sitcom star Roseanne Barr, who is an outspoken supporter of former President Donald Trump.
In the video, Kennedy tells Barr that a woman driving his van during a falconry trip ran over and killed the young bear in New York’s Hudson Valley. He then recalls that he placed the dead animal in his vehicle because he wanted “to skin the bear” and “put the meat in [his] refrigerator.”
However, Kennedy says, he was unable to skin the bear because had a dinner date to keep at New York City’s Peter Luger Steak House and needed to go directly to the airport soon after dining.
After the dinner concluded, Kennedy concocted a plan alongside friends to dump the carcass in Central Park and attempt to make it appear as if the animal had been killed upon impact by a bicycle.
“Everybody thought that’s a great idea to do that, and we thought it would be amusing for whoever found it or something,” Kennedy says in the video. “But the next day it was, like, on every television station.”
“And it was the front page of every paper,” he continues. “And there were helicopters flying over and I was like, oh my God, what did I do?”
Kennedy goes on to say that he was worried about getting caught by police because his fingerprints were “all over” the bicycle. The story eventually died down until The New Yorker recently “somehow found out about it” and decided to do a “bad story,” according to Kennedy.
King was far from the only person to mock Kennedy over the story on social media, with many others joking and creating less-than-flattering memes about the independent candidate in the hours after the video was shared.
The bear incident follows a series of other bizarre stories involving Kennedy and animals, including his claim that a worm once “ate a portion of” his brain and allegations that a photo shows him posing while eating a barbecued dog.
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