Robert F. Kennedy Jr. locked horns with Howie Mandel over the COVID vaccine and reminded the comedian that he’s “supposed to tell the truth” about valid statistics and history.
The environmental lawyer and 2024 presidential candidate repeatedly tried to clarify the numbers behind the vaccine and aimed a laser light on the claims about its efficacy as Mandel pushed back with the accepted narrative on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast.
Kennedy recounted how the COVID vaccine was touted as “100 percent effective” because of the way clinical trials were conducted when Mandel interjected to say, “That’s a misnomer.”
“They never said you won’t get COVID. They just said it’ll kind of pull back the severity of it,” the television host and actor asserted. “So the fact is, that’s well proven.”
Kennedy reminded Mandel how vaccine proponents continued to push it as 100% effective while Mandel rejected the claim. The two sparred over Mandel’s apparently short memory.
🔥 Howie Mandel Tries to Rewrite History on the COVID Vaccine & Immediately Gets Schooled by RFK Jr.
HOWIE: “They never said you won’t get COVID”
RFK JR: “I saw a tape yesterday of them all saying it…Can I play it for you?”
HOWIE: “Well, wait wait wait…It doesn’t matter… pic.twitter.com/Z7jgxSL0rV
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 17, 2024
“The word effective…I never heard ‘you won’t get COVID,” Mandel said as Kennedy reminded him of the names and faces of those – still readily found online – who said otherwise.
“I saw a tape yesterday of them all – Biden, Fauci, Gates…all of them saying, Rachel Maddow, ‘if you take the vaccine, you can’t get COVID,’ ” the presidential hopeful said, adding “Can I play it for you?” when Mandel said he had seen no such thing.
“They never said you won’t get COVID”pic.twitter.com/eaFhK8101T
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 17, 2024
When Kennedy began to pull up the evidence on his phone, Mandel cut in, “Well, wait wait wait…It doesn’t matter what Rachel Maddow said.”
The discussion continued as Kennedy plainly laid out the problem with the metric used in determining the effectiveness of the vaccine that was thrust upon Americans in the wake of the global pandemic. When the show’s host attempted to explain away the stats because of his experience with television ratings, Kenndy reminded him, “You’re playing with people’s lives here.”
“You’re supposed to tell the truth,” he added, eventually leaving Mandel momentarily without a rebuttal after he laid out a detailed statistical argument.
Social media users weighed in after Kennedy’s reality check.
Wow! Howie made a big mistake.
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) January 17, 2024
He poked the wrong bear 😂
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 17, 2024
Howie getting schooled
— William Brown (@FocusProb) January 17, 2024
It’s very hard to argue with people with selective memories and who are deliberately ignorant of counterfactuals and opposing arguments.
Howie Mandel demonstrates such obtuseness here it’s actually the most unintentionally hilarious thing he’s ever done.
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) January 17, 2024
Yea. Howie’s arguments and rebuttals had zero logical basis. He’s clearly not thinking through this like a scientist or engineer — with a focus on an objective analysis of the data (aka the truth). RFK Jr. does just that.
— RPG Discord (@x_rpg_discord) January 17, 2024
god that was painful to listen to my head literally hurts
when he didn’t wanna watch the evidence of them all saying it prevented covid a part of me died inside
— A̸̬͌a̶͛͜r̸̟͗ō̵̟ň̷͎ ̵̬̋B̸̧̌ò̴̱w̷̤̎ĺ̵͓ě̶̜y̸̺͛ (@TheAaronBowley) January 17, 2024
Well, Howie’s right, we all know it doesn’t matter what Rachel Maddow says.
— Albert Latham (@albert1776) January 17, 2024
