Bigots in the Republican Party? Yeah Baby! Latest example is Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced widespread rebuke from civil rights groups, health care advocates and Democrats on Tuesday over anti-Arab comments that the Council on American-Islamic Relations cast as “a textbook display of unvarnished racism and bigotry.” In his remarks Monday at a campaign event in Michigan where Republican Mike Rogers is running for the U.S. Senate against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, Kennedy falsely claimed that Arabs had not won major international awards and “don’t produce” science and literature.