{"id":384326,"date":"2026-04-17T14:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384326\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T14:21:10","slug":"rfk-jr-chuckles-when-asked-about-stunning-raccoon-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/384326\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr chuckles when asked about stunning raccoon admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. blasts RFK for anti-vaxx messaging while &#8216;hanging out shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was questioned by lawmakers during a congressional hearing about his vaccine policies and proposed budget cuts. <\/p>\n<p>During a break, a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TMZ\/status\/2044804605322625243?s=20\">TMZ reporter asked<\/a> Kennedy about a report that he once severed a dead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/raccoon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raccoon<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/penis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">penis<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Kennedy laughed at the question but did not provide a response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/reporter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Post had earlier reported on a 2001 diary entry by Kennedy detailing his collection of roadkill for study. <\/p>\n<p>In the diary entry, Kennedy described cutting the penis from a road-killed raccoon on I-684. <\/p>\n<p>In full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. blasts RFK for anti-vaxx messaging while &#8216;hanging out shirtless in a hot tub with Kid Rock&#8217; HHS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":{"0":"post-384326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}