Guest Post by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
Apparently, appalled by robust sales of my bestseller, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper — in lieu of critically reviewing the work — used his Twitter feed to unleash a barrage of ad hominem insults against me.
Breaking with the traditional restraints of journalistic neutrality, professional propriety and intellectual rigor, he branded me “dangerous,” a “menace,” a “liar,” a “grifter,” a fraud, “unhinged” and more.
But Tapper’s defamations hang in the atmosphere without substantiation or citation. If I’m a liar, then what was my lie? If I’m a grifter, then what is my personal profit or advantage? If I am a fraud, then where is my inaccurate statement?
I concede that I’m a dangerous menace, but only to the pharmaceutical industry, its captive technocrats and its media toadies.
When I responded to his slander with a respectful tweet inviting him to debate me, Tapper declined, explaining he would not debate a “conspiracy theorist.” Characteristically, he neglected to cite any conspiracy theory he believes I promoted.
And is it credible to dismiss me as a conspiracy theorist unworthy of debate? After all, I am founder and former president of the world’s largest water protection group, and founder and current chairman of one of the largest children’s health advocacy groups.
I’ve won hundreds of successful lawsuits, including milestone victories against Monsanto, DuPont, Exxon, Smithfield Foods and leading polluters from the chemical, carbon, pharmaceutical and agricultural industries. (Many of these also initially dismissed me as a “conspiracy theorist.”)
My current book, “The Real Anthony Fauci,” may be the most heavily footnoted volume to ever sit atop global best-seller lists for six consecutive weeks. With 500,000 copies sold, it has attracted a whopping 5,500+ five-star reviews (92%).
Despite extreme hostility toward this volume from mainstream media and the medical cartel, no one has yet identified a factual inaccuracy in its 250,000 words.
If my book is baseless conspiracy theories, then shouldn’t Mr. Tapper welcome an opportunity to correct me with facts or arguments that go beyond name-calling?
Allow me, then, to offer my own theory for Mr. Tapper’s apoplexy.
Many people make Faustian bargains during their lives, trading personal integrity for material advantage. Oftentimes the metamorphosis occurs as a gradual erosion of moral fiber. Occasionally it happens in an instant; a man stands at a moral crossroads and chooses the dark side.
I happened to have a front-row seat when Jake Tapper had his moment of moral crisis. I’m guessing his fierce vitriol toward me is a reaction to his embarrassment that I was witness to the instant when Mr. Tapper chose career over character.
In July 2005, Jake Tapper was ABC’s senior producer when the network ordered him to pull a lengthy exposé on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) secret 2000 Simpsonwood conference.
Here is the background:
In 1999, in response to exploding epidemics of autism and other neurological disorders, CDC decided to study its vast Vaccine Safety Datalink — the medical and vaccination record of millions of Americans, archived by the top HMOs — to learn whether the dramatic escalation of the vaccine schedule, beginning in 1989, was a culprit. CDC’s in-house epidemiologist, Thomas Verstraeten, led the effort.
Verstraeten’s initial data run suggested that mercury-containing hepatitis B vaccines — administered during the first month of life — were associated with a wide range of neurological injuries, including a dramatic 1,135% rise in autism risks among vaccinated children.
Verstraeten’s findings propelled CDC into DEFCON 1. The agency’s top vaccine officials summoned 52 pharmaceutical industry leaders, the foremost vaccinologists from academia and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and public health regulators from the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), CDC, World Health Organization (WHO) and European Medicines Agency to a secret two-day meeting at the remote Simpsonwood retreat center in Norcross, Georgia, to strategize about how to hide these awful revelations from the public.
In 2005, I obtained the explosive transcripts of this meeting and was about to publish excerpts in Rolling Stone (Deadly Immunity, July 18, 2005). Those recordings, ironically, portrayed these leading kingpins of the vaccine cartel poised at their own moral brink, and chronicled their collapse into corruption over two sickening days of debate.
Most of these individuals were physicians and regulatory officials who had committed their lives to public health out of idealism and deep concern for children. Verstraeten’s data confronted them with the fact that the cumulative mercury levels in all those new vaccines they had recommended had overdosed a generation of American children with mercury concentrations over a hundred times the exposures the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considered safe.
In recommending a vast battery of new vaccines for children, public health regulators had somehow neglected to calculate the cumulative mercury and aluminum loads in all the new jabs.
Dr. Peter Patriarca, the then-director of the FDA Office on Vaccine Research and Review, expressed the general feeling of horror when he asked why no one had calculated the cumulative mercury exposure to children as policymakers added this cascade of new vaccines to the childhood schedule: “Conversion of the percentage thimerosal to actual micrograms of mercury involves ninth-grade algebra. What took the FDA so long to do the calculations?”
In the tense days leading up to the Simpsonwood conclave, children’s health champion Dr. Ruth Etzel of the EPA pleaded with her fellow public health leaders to publicly admit they made a terrible mistake by inadvertently poisoning American children, and to repair the damage.
Dr. Etzel urged AAP and the government regulators to handle the crisis with the same honesty and public remorse that Johnson & Johnson had demonstrated on discovering toxic chemicals in its Tylenol formulations:
“We must follow three basic rules: (1) act quickly to inform pediatricians that the products have more mercury than we realized; (2) be open with consumers about why we didn’t catch this earlier; (3) show contrition. If the public loses faith in the Public Health Services recommendations, then the immunization battle will falter. To keep faith, we must be open and honest and move forward quickly to replace these products.”
Confronted with scientific proof of their role in the chronic disease calamity, the cabal did exactly the opposite. The shocking Simpsonwood transcripts show Dr. Patriarca and the other public health panjandrums warning each other of their reputational liabilities, their vulnerability to litigation by plaintiffs’ lawyers and potential damage to the vaccine program.
Dr. Patriarca cautioned that public disclosure of CDC’s explosive findings would make Americans feel that the FDA, CDC and vaccine policymakers had been “asleep at the switch” for decades in allowing Thimerosal to remain in childhood vaccines.
Over two days of intense discussion, these Big Pharma operatives and government technocrats persuaded each other to transform their disastrous error into villainy — by doubling down and hiding their mistake from the public.
Tapper saw an early draft of my Rolling Stone story and proposed that, in exchange for exclusivity, he would do a companion piece for ABC timed to air on the magazine’s publication day.
Tapper spent several weeks working on the story with me and a team of enthusiastic ABC reporters and technicians. During his frequent conversations with me over that period, he was on fire with indignation over the Simpsonwood revelations. He acted like a journalist hoping to win an Emmy.
The day before the piece was to air, an exasperated Tapper called me to say that ABC’s corporate officials ordered him to pull the story. The network’s pharmaceutical advertisers were threatening to cancel their advertising.
“Corporate told us to shut it down,” Tapper fumed. Tapper told me that it was the first time in his career that ABC officials had ordered him to kill a story.
ABC had advertised the Simpsonwood exposé, and its sudden cancellation disappointed an army of vaccine safety advocates and parents of injured children who deluged the network with a maelstrom of angry emails.
In response, ABC changed tack and publicly promised to air the piece. Instead, following a one-week delay, the network duplicitously aired a hastily assembled puff piece promoting vaccines and assuring listeners that mercury-laden vaccines were safe.
The new “bait and switch” segment precisely followed Pharma’s talking points. “I’m putting my faith in the Institute of Medicine,” ABC’s obsequious medical editor, Dr. Tim Johnson, declared in closing. Two pharmaceutical advertisements bracketed the story.
After that piece aired, I called Jake to complain. He neither answered nor returned my calls.
During the 16 intervening years, Pharma has returned Mr. Tapper’s favor by aggressively promoting his career. Pfizer shamelessly sponsors Tapper’s CNN news show, announcing its ownership of the space — and Mr. Tapper’s indentured servitude — before each episode with the loaded phrase: “Brought to you by Pfizer.”
Under the apparent terms of that sponsorship, CNN and Tapper provide Pfizer a platform to market its products and allow the drug company — a serial felon — to dictate content on CNN.
This arrangement has transformed CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper into a propaganda vehicle for Pharma and effectively reduced Mr. Tapper to the role of a drug rep — shamelessly promoting fear porn, confusion, and germophobia, and ushering his audience toward high-yield patent pharmaceuticals.
Tapper’s main thrust during the pandemic has been to promote levels of public terror sufficient to indemnify all the official lies against critical thinking.
All that Pharma money naturally requires that Mr. Tapper kowtow to Dr. Fauci, and the CNN host’s slavishness has helped make Tapper’s show the go-to pulpit for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director.
It’s a safe place for Dr. Fauci to hit all Jake’s reliable softballs out of the park.
“The bootlicking competition at CNN is pretty nauseating,” observed investigative journalist Celia Farber who has chronicled Dr. Fauci’s mismanagement at NIAID for more than 25 years. “It’s ruinous for both democracy and for public health.”
Another journalist has compared Tapper’s mortifying on-air servility toward Dr. Fauci to the adulation of a loyal and obedient canine. “It’s like a dog watching a chess match,” says former New York Times reporter Alex Berenson. “So much intensity and so little understanding.”
Tapper has gone two years without asking Dr. Fauci a single tough question. He has covered up Fauci’s involvement with Wuhan, suppressed news of vaccine injuries, gaslighted the injured, and defended every official orthodoxy on masks, lockdowns, social distancing, vaccines, remdesivir, ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
He has never asked about the public health, mental health, and economic costs of lockdown, about the disproportionate burdens of Dr. Fauci’s policies on minorities, the working class and the global poor.
He has never asked Dr. Fauci to explain why countries and states that refused Dr. Fauci’s prescription have consistently experienced dramatically better health outcomes. For example, why are U.S. death rates 1,000x the death rates of African countries like Nigeria and Indian states that widely use hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin? Mr. Tapper simply never allows contrary views on his show.
He continues to extol COVID vaccines as a miracle technology that individuals can take four times and still both get and spread the illness.
“He never calls Dr. Fauci on his vacillating science-free pronouncements,” said Farber. “Dr. Fauci seems to be able to paralyze the curiosity features of Tapper’s brain.”
Tapper has to ask Dr. Fauci why, under his direction, America suffered the world’s highest body count. With 4.2% of the global population, our nation suffered 15% of COVID deaths.
Instead, he functions as high priest of every official orthodoxy, working to deify Dr. Fauci and anoint all his absurd, vacillating and contradictory pronouncements with papal infallibility. The sure way to earn Tapper’s indignation is to criticize Dr. Fauci.
Here are just a few examples of Mr. Tapper’s brazen deceptions:
On Feb. 2, 2021, Tapper “debunked” claims that baseball great Hank Aaron may have died from a COVID shot. The home run king submitted to a CDC-staged press conference 17 days earlier. Tapper assured his audience that the Fulton County coroner had determined Aaron to have died from “natural causes.”
When the Fulton County coroner subsequently denied ever having seen Aaron’s body, much less performed an autopsy, Tapper refused to correct his story.
In August 2021, Tapper gave Dr. Fauci a platform to spread the rumor that deluded Americans were poisoning themselves with a “horse medicine” called ivermectin.
In an Aug. 29, 2021 interview, Dr. Fauci told Tapper, “There’s no evidence whatsoever that that works, and it could potentially have toxicity… with people who have gone to poison control centers because they’ve taken the drug at a ridiculous dose and wind up getting sick. There’s no clinical evidence that indicates that this works.”
Tapper never corrected Dr. Fauci. He never pointed out that there were by then 70 peer-reviewed studies demonstrating ivermectin’s miraculous efficacy against COVID.
He didn’t dispute Dr. Fauci’s characterization of ivermectin as a horse medicine by noting that the drug had won both a Nobel Prize and WHO’s listing as an “essential medicine” for its miraculous efficacy against human illnesses, and that people have consumed billions of doses with no significant safety signals.
Mr. Tapper never thought to ask Dr. Fauci if he was trying to discourage use of a cheap, effective drug that might compete with his experimental vaccines.
Instead, Tapper abjectly parroted Dr. Fauci’s talking points: “Poison control centers are reporting that their calls are spiking in places like Mississippi and Oklahoma, because some Americans are trying to use an anti-parasite horse drug called ivermectin to treat coronavirus, to prevent contracting coronavirus.”
It mattered not to Tapper that both Mississippi and Oklahoma officials quickly denied that anyone in their state had been hospitalized for ivermectin poisoning. Tapper never corrected his false story.
On Sept. 14, 2021, Tapper obligingly gave Dr. Fauci a platform to dispute rapper Nicki Minaj’s worry that COVID vaccines may affect fertility. Dr. Fauci simply declared, “The answer to that, Jake, is a resounding no.”
As usual, Tapper did not ask Dr. Fauci to cite a study to support this assertion. He never pointed out to Dr. Fauci that all of the COVID vaccine manufacturers acknowledge that their products are not tested for effects on fertility, or that recent data has shown dramatic upticks in miscarriages and pre-eclampsia in vaccinated women.
Nevertheless, based upon Dr. Fauci’s word alone, CNN rushed on to defame and discredit the rapper and to assure the public that Minaj was wrong. Dr. Fauci, after all, had spoken!
It’s easy to see how two years of such obsequious deference emboldened Dr. Fauci in November 2021 to declare that “I represent science.”
There are too many other examples of Tapper’s uncritical promotion of government and pharma falsehoods to even summarize. These are not harmless lies. Each of them has potentially disastrous consequences for public health.
The term “psychological projection” describes the uncanny precision with which a certain sort of person applies the very pejoratives to others that most accurately depict their own shortcomings.
When Mr. Tapper calls me “unhinged,” a “menace to public health,” a “fraud,” a “liar,” is he falling victim to projection?
The critical functions of journalism in a democracy are to speak truth to power, relentlessly expose official corruption, and to forever maintain a posture of skepticism toward government and corporate power centers.
What Jake Tapper does is the opposite of journalism. Tapper, instead, aligns himself with power, and makes himself a propagandist for official narratives and a servile publicist for powerful elites and government technocrats.
No wonder his fury at those who challenge their narratives.
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The very cool thing about Kennedy’s book is that he really lays into Fauci, Gates, and the rest of the cabal calling them criminals and liars. He uses words like hoax, profiteering, and fraud that invites lawsuits which is what he is hoping for. However, there is no way they’d ever start a suit because their deceit and chicanery would be laid bare in the discovery phase. So they have to sit back and stew while Bobby pummels them. Oh yes, then send in a corporate blow job like Tapper to fling shit balls at him.
I am currently reading the book, albeit in small doses for now, as it raises my ire to an unhealthy level. I knew Fauci was a POS, but the things he has done, and the number of people he has intentionally murdered is astounding. There is nothing Fauci won’t do to enrich himself and his cohorts, and yet, the government will do nothing to put a stop to the atrocities committed by this evil, black-hearted, soul-less scum bag. He needs to swing from a lamp post, and that right soon.
My sentiments exactly. No matter how much I hated these bastards in the past it just wasn’t enough. The good news is that I’m getting closer to God but only because I see the hand of Satan at work here.
The saved know how to handle this. Let us continue.
Fauci is a mass murderer.
An evil a man who as ever lived.
The fact he is still ALIVE, much less listened to and respected
in certain circles is an abomination.
That’s because the government itself is an evil, black-hearted, soulless sum bag. Birds of a feather and all that.
The other very interesting thing about his limited hangout ( also know as a fallback plan), is that the same shills say the same praises each time an article appears.
RFK maybe speaking some truth, but keep your ears open to what the Angels of the churches are saying.
Another big pharma-controlled news puppet. How shocking.
May these evil people (demons) rot in hell.
I have given copies to several Branch Covidians in the fam, the tide is turning.
Me too. Even for a life-long government hater like me, the book astounded me. The federal government is completely lawless and corrupt.
Honestly, CC, sometimes the book leaves me seething with rage like I haven’t known…..This is not the country you and I grew up in, sir….I don’t know where we go from here…
Big pharma bought a pig in a poke, because Tapper sold his soul to the Devil long ago
Mr. Kennedy, I just finished reading your book on fauci ( I don’t preface his name with doctor because he has shamed all of us that really are doctors). I thank you for this book. I was aware of many of the facts surrounding the HIV/AIDS theory having worked for years on the feline counterpart virus. It is shameful that fauci has been able to continue to spin his evil web of lies and destruction but you may have just put the stake through this particular vampires heart. Thanks again. Herman Hansen
Thank you Mr Kennedy. So effective because CNN has no answer. Putting their own words and actions before the people for all to see. Sometimes I feel that all is not lost and that my personal resistance to these demons means something.
I wonder what kind of man my son would be if his mother and I knew that the onslaught of vaxxines he got as a baby were poison, delivered by his doctor who also probably didn’t know either.
I want to choke the life out of Faucci till his eyeballs explode.
Take a number
Sad is how few people have jumped on this bandwagon because so many are so corrupt. It’s Evil.
Maybe the death toll from the jab will end up killing more people than Hitler and Stalin did combined. Think of the millions all over the planet who have taken multiple jabs and will be dying much faster than they would have. They say the German people, in general, knew about the death camps but were good at ignoring it and going along with the Government line.
Maybe it was an article here but There was something about population reduction and mass greening of the earth. The Reset? Thin out the herd.
In 1946, a military tribunal constituted by the United States government put
twenty-three physicians and medical support staffers from the recently defeated German
Nazi regime on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity consisting of
participation in medical experiments conducted on concentration camp inmates. The trial
produced sixteen convictions, seven acquittals, and the Nuremberg Code, which remains
to this day a founding document in biomedical ethics.
https://getd.libs.uga.edu/pdfs/srader_doyle_w_200308_phd.pdf
Of course, I’m sure that many of these guilty today will rush to their doctors to get Mass Formation Psychosis waivers.
Jake Tapper is a c***.
One second spent thinking about that c*** is a wasted second.
Everyone going along with this enormous crime is an enemy of humanity.
Yes, Tapper is a cunt, without all of the asterisks. Got my first taste of soap when I was 7 years old so saying that word is like saying somethong like fuck. Just say what you mean. No one is going to wash out your mouth with soap. You are an adult.
My mother and father raised a gentleman.
As a mannered man, I think of the sensitivities of others and don’t
wish to offend them unnecessarily. You and everyone else read the word correctly
without my having to antagonize some who find obvious spelling of the word repugnant.
I certainly don’t or I wouldn’t have used it at all.
Capisce…Maam?
Clit also works. Soap didn’t clean up my potty mouth.
so does cuck…
Clearly not.
That is one of the most’ serious beat downs I have ever read. It’s just amazing what some will do for a cushy lifestyle ain’t it? To have the power to do so much good and to blow off doing the right thing for money???
I can’t say anymore, the evil, it’s amazing.
As Dr. Robert Malone recently said, when he first heard the wild claims that the evil fuqueres stole the election and invented or caused the plandemic in order to subjugate and control while making billions off the “vaccines” he considered it ridiculous. 18 months later he says that based on what he has seen that it is probably true.
Dear Mr Kennedy.
Small correct sir. Its jake Tapeworm. FIFY
Its better to call a parasite by its true name. Your welcome…
Thank you RFK for risking all to save the world. There are others who reinforce your work but have not had so much exposure. I have ordered a copy of your book from Waterstones, the only supplier to admit to stocks – still waiting. Amazon etc say they are out of stock, which may be true given the global excitement.
I am just finishing this book and recommend it to anybody as a work of honesty from a doctor (psychiatrist). His descriptions of malfeasance in mental health are agonizing to read:
The crucial question I need to solve once and for all: Is this Covid nonsense by design by an evil cabal, as much evidence points this way, or is it the result of classic greed and bureaucratic FUBAR? Because if it transpires, as Reiner Feullmich evidences, then this battle is far from over.
For Fauci er al to remain in place for such a long period portends corruption in USA of depths that, for me, are beyond comprehension; it means the whole edifice of the American empire is rotten to the very core. The implications are of unbelievable proportions and indicate a global retribution unimaginable.
Where does China stand in all this – they are locking down 100% for a common cold it seems = what do they know? Too many questions this early on a Monday morning – I’m getting a cup of coffee and will lie down for a while to absorb all these revelations.