An adviser to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called out food industry lobbyists and the mainstream media for their narrative on the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Calley Means schooled Dasha Burns at Politico’s Health Care Summit in a fiery interview that radio host James Golden thought would “most likely not get the attention it deserves.”
The talk radio producer and radio host known to his many fans as Bo Snerdley highlighted a video clip of the interview on social media, noting that “this is truly a monumental take down of the MSM narrative on RFK, HHS, and Politico’s hostile ‘journalist,’ as well as the lobbyists in the room.
🔥 MUST WATCH: Calley Means GOES OFF on Politico and a Room Full of Anti-MAHA Lobbyists
“When you turn on CNBC, it’s just a nonstop infomercial for pharma. It’s a Skyrizi commercial followed by Scott Gottlieb saying how Bobby’s k*lling people followed by a breathless coverage… pic.twitter.com/bAJmdflnSJ
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 2, 2025
“You know, when you turn on CNBC, it’s just a nonstop, um, it’s a nonstop infomercial for pharma. It’s a SKYRIZI commercial followed by Scott Gottlieb saying how Bobby’s killing people followed by a breathless coverage of the measles outbreak and no mention of mental health crisis and a bunch of HHS,” Means said, defending RFK Jr.
“It is insane. It is insane for you to insinuate that the thing standing between us and better health is more government bureaucrats like that is what everyone’s saying. It is absolutely insane to insinuate that at some crime, not all bureaucrats, it’s a lot of scientists, it’s researchers, it’s people who are making sure that those scientists fundamentally have overseen just demonstrably a record of utter failure of utter failure,” he added, turning to an audience member. “It would be insane. Is that funny?”
Means called out the “attitude” of lobbyists “in this room laughing,” as he boldly continued, in what Golden said was a “profound discussion that deserves to be widely seen.”
“And the hostility from the ‘audience’ is notable,” he added on social media.
Calley Means Debunks the Media’s Narrative on Research Funding Being Cut
“Research funding has not been cut … The [Trump] administration has put out guidance that they want to cut indirect funding. That fundamentally means more money is going to researchers …The rank and… pic.twitter.com/Efhw7aiCZU
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 2, 2025
“Like the idea that Bobby Kennedy should not come in and make dramatic changes to the leadership and the personnel at these authorities that have overseen an abject devastation of American health, which the lobbyists in this room do not have the humility to admit that we have gone completely wrong,” Means said. “The lobbyists in this room laughing when we have the sickest children in the developed world. If you guys, if that is your attitude and your attitude is to tell the maha moms that their, their votes and their voice is not legitimate, that we need dramatic changes to American healthcare.”
“Fundamentally, what Bobby has done is taken over a department that has utterly failed,” he added as he touted the new leadership at the agency under the Trump administration, which includes FDA Commissioner Marty Makary and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya.
“One thing Bobby Kennedy is not going to do is entertain comments from food industry lobbyists using food prices as an excuse to continue poisoning children. Like, that’s not going to work. And I know a lot of you guys are doing that,” Means said.
.@calleymeans: “One thing Bobby Kennedy is not going to do is entertain comments from food lobbyists using food prices as an excuse to continue poisoning children. That’s not going to work … We have 10,000 chemicals in our food that are not allowed in any other country.” pic.twitter.com/giI7J4Xahj
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) April 2, 2025
Means pointed to Trump’s executive order on the Maha Commission, “which is not going to talk about policy.”
“It’s just going to lay out the truth of why kids are the sickest in the world, something that lobbyists here are hissing at, something that lobbyists here for some reason have no self-awareness or humility for the state of American children’s health. What Maha is trying to do is there’s obviously going to be a lot of work and a lot of lobbying on the Medicare, Medicaid reimbursement rates, but there’s something fundamentally, and I think everyone can agree, fundamentally broken with the incentives of our health care systems.” he added.
