When you hear liberals complaining about how the media today are in urgent danger of "bending the knee" to President Donald Trump, point and laugh and think about the Kennedy family. Journalists bending the knee to the Kennedys has been mandatory since the 1950s. That's their most obvious form of white privilege.
It's still happening. In the last few days, CBS and CNN have offered puffy profiles of John Bouvier Kennedy (Jack) Schlossberg, the only grandson of JFK. At 33, he's running for Congress in New York City to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler.
The CBS show "Sunday Morning" operates like an assembly line of Democrat puff pieces. In this case, Mo Rocca channeled all the Camelot energy and then noted that Trump put his own name on the Kennedy Center. Rocca asked Schlossberg an unserious question: "Do you think that Trump is going to have it razed to the ground?"
Schlossberg compared the president to an assassin: "I think he could easily demolish it. He`s trying to kill JFK. JFK will never die because he's kept alive by the people who are fighting, organizing and rising up now to remove Trump from power."
CNN host Dana Bash promised she'd put her Schlossberg piece on her Sunday show "State of the Union," but war in Iran changed that plan. This was Bash's idea of a tough question: "I heard you say that you're an outsider in this race. To people who are on the outside, they hear you say you're an outsider, and they're like, come on."
Schlossberg easily answered: "I know. It's ironic coming out of my mouth, with the Kennedy legacy and what I represent. It might be hard to believe, but it's absolutely true."
It's true that Nadler would rather be replaced by somebody else, but no one else in this primary is going to get gushy press clips from national TV. CBS and NBC each launched morning-show gush when he announced his campaign last November.
Bash also briefly noted that some people say Schlossberg "never had a real job." That argument is true. The Washington Free Beacon reported Schlossberg received no "earned income" in 2025 but holds millions of dollars' worth of assets in four trust funds. He told Bash that creating content for his social-media followers is a "full-time job."
Rocca's toughest question on CBS was about that content. "Some of it`s very funny, but I`ll tell you one that made me wince," Rocca said. It was about Vice President JD Vance's wife, Usha. "Specifically, the one where you superimposed your face on one of her kids. The joke being that you and she had a love child. Now, she's not elected. Is that crossing a line?"
Schlossberg didn't flinch: "I think what's crossing a line is the propaganda that we see issued every single day by the White House and — and Vance, OK? So what are we going to do? Hold back on our sense of humor and not tease them?"
Schlossberg creepily joked about Mrs. Vance: "I'm having a son!! I'm so excited about this. Cannot wait for the birth of my next child because today was the best day of my life," he wrote on X, adding, "Out of wedlock, yes. But we might get married."
This primary election might demonstrate that being a Kennedy means that you can be a completely shameless and hateful troll on social media and still get elected by Democrats. Or this will be another sad chapter about how the Kennedy magic isn't working with voters — even if the media's still bending the knee.
Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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