Jake Tapper pulled no punches in a detailed evisceration of a “wild and false story” that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told about the CNN anchor in a recent podcast, blasting the Democratic presidential candidate as someone who “mangles the facts and wildly misrepresents what actually happens” as part of a “reign of error.”

As Tapper described in his article on CNN’s website, Kennedy brought up a story involving Tapper from 2005 while he was on Jordan B. Peterson’s podcast, an anecdote that Tapper framed as “small potatoes” in comparison to Kennedy’s long history of “so many false and wild claims about any number of vital topics – most dangerously about childhood vaccines, per his own siblings.”

Kennedy had mentioned Tapper as part of his claim of “evidence” that news outlets were “trying to censor the truth when it came to vaccines,” wrote Tapper, but the actual reality of the situation was “instructive because of how untethered [Kennedy] is to facts.”

In 2005, Tapper explained, Kennedy wrote an op-ed co-published at Salon and Rolling Stone that contained “spurious since-disproven claims about autism and vaccines.” The story went through “five significant corrections” at Salon before it was taken down by both outlets.

“Among the many, many errors,” wrote Tapper, Kennedy claimed that the link between thimerosal and childhood neurological disorders like autism was “real,” but the study he presented as proving that link had been retracted and then later revealed not “merely a...

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