RFK Jr. Steamrolled Dana Bash Over Fauci’s COVID Lieshttps://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/08/02/rfk-jr-steamrolled-dana-bash-over-faucis-covid-lies-n4955723Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. obliterated CNN's Dana Bash during a fiery interview Sunday morning on State of the Union, and it was brutal.
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Bash spent much of the interview pushing Kennedy to look "into the camera" and tell parents to vaccinate their kids against measles. Kennedy did it. He said exactly what she wanted him to say. Then Bash kept going, and the interview went off the rails.
The conversation curdled into a fight over how the media treated skeptics and anyone who dared question the Biden administration's COVID-era public health guidance during the pandemic. Bash opened with an accusation. "You are the HHS secretary, and you are talking about things that lead to vaccine hesitancy in this country," she said. "And it's something that causes problems for people when there is not anything."
Kennedy wasn't having it. "Let me ask you something," he said. "Do you see your job as ending vaccine hesitancy or do you see your job as telling the truth to the American people?"
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Kennedy pounced. "You're repeating it like a parrot," he said, twice for emphasis. Bash shot back, "So are you." Kennedy wasn't buying it. "I've actually read the science," he said. "You don't want to come back here and debate the science."
From there, Kennedy dismantled the premise CNN built its entire segment on: that trusting government "experts" is the same thing as trusting the truth. "All you know how to do is repeat things that people told you and say, trust the experts," he said. "That's what you did during COVID. Now we know that Anthony Fauci, who was the ‘expert,’ was lying about everything, about masks, about social distancing, about natural immunity, about the transmission from the vaccine, about the source of COVID. He was lying, and you were punishing people for not trusting the experts. And now you're rolling out the ‘experts’ again to talk about something that you have no personal knowledge of."
1. RFK Jr. a month or three ago urged people to get measles vaccinations. Bash deployed a straw man argument, dishonestly and unsurprisingly.
2. I'm not sure what "the transmission from the vaccine" means. Live virus Covid vaccines were never used in the US, not even in clinical trials. My guess is that it's a transcription error or that RFK Jr. meant the whole time span from January 2020, when earliest Covid cases were detected in the US, through mid December 2020, when the first two Covid vaccines were authorized. That latter would be true, as the MSM was systematically deceiving and lying that entire tie and beyond about Covid and Trump's efforts to fight Covid.
3. As for RFK Jr. being responsible for the measles outbreak, while he is a vaccine skeptic, the actual causes are more complex - illegals bringing measles into the US, broad distrust of vaccines (in which RFK Jr. has played a part), and Covid-era restrictions on medical procedures and events (plus people's lingering wariness of going into public places). Then there's Canada's concurrent and worse measles outbreak to which RFK Jr. lacks ties.
4. There is no way in Hades an MSM talking head would have dared play Gotcha! with a LIEden or OhBummer official.
5. MSM folk still have not noticed that Trump officials come prepared and loaded for bear.
