The Wayward Journalist
The Fury and Failure of Jake Tapper
There are few who would claim that any semblance of objectivity in news reporting remains. The public is becoming aware of the ensuing consequences, as ethically compromised journalists shape the truth to satisfy the dictates of their masters.
Challenging a reporter’s veracity usually serves their interest in gaining attention. However, after reading an interview with Jake Tapper, CNN’s Washington news anchor, I felt compelled to examine and disassemble his biased commentary.
Tapper’s latest rhetoric inspired this effort to reveal how his news coverage is a ruse for indoctrination; the damaging effects of his propaganda are important to consider.
As he increasingly misinforms and misdirects the public, Tapper’s obsessive slander of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becomes more deranged; revealing more about himself than the presidential candidate. In a desperate attempt to discredit Kennedy, he suggests that readers examine the story of the Samoan measles outbreak of 2019. An investigation into this healthcare calamity reveals the depth of Tapper’s dishonest journalism. His methods of manipulating information are analyzed herein.
Jake Tapper’s smug observations in a recent rant epitomize a pattern of distorting and limiting news coverage with falsification and innuendo. Rather than fair and responsible reporting about a legitimate presidential candidate, Tapper conducts an Inquisition — and Kennedy is his blasphemous heretic. As the following excerpt demonstrates, he makes his nefarious agenda and vicious methodology quite conspicuous.
Well, just to touch on the Robert Kennedy Jr. thing, one thing I’ll say is his entire being and prominence, his entire public position, is based on lies about childhood vaccines that have saved the lives of tens, if not hundreds, of millions, if not billions, of children throughout the years. And one can see a direct cause and effect of what he says about MMR vaccines and the like breaking out every now and then. Just anybody listening, go Google: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samoa, and measles — and you can read something about, that’s what I’m talking about.
This single outburst exposes the array of Tapper’s devices, frustrations, and failures; evidenced by the repetition of insults without substantiation. By promoting the vaguest generalities, the defects of his arguments are on full display.
He fails to present confirmation of allegations made against RFK Jr., and in this void begins by invoking the “Robert Kennedy Jr. thing” — while the Kennedy campaign platform is entirely ignored.
Incredibly, Tapper holds himself up as an irrefutable sanctimonious authority by declaring Kennedy’s “entire being and prominence” is “based on lies about childhood vaccines.”
He relies on a narrow range of information to state the broadest, baseless assumptions. In the realm of factual data, he demonstrates that his mathematical and analytical skills are worthless, conspicuously blurting out that vaccines have saved “the lives of tens, if not hundreds, of millions, if not billions, of children.”
An absurd estimate of lives saved reflects considerable ignorance or deceit, or more likely, both. This ludicrous statement exemplifies how Tapper willingly applies irrationality in his malevolent personal attacks on Kennedy.
His pompous use of character assassination is the same primary technique applied by propagandists to minimize dissent in totalitarian states.
Tapper’s ravings against Kennedy culminate in a command to “go Google…” — further indicating that he has no semblance of the foundations of impartial, insightful, and plausible news gathering. He urges those who have doubts to rely on an internet search engine with acknowledged subjective algorithms to back up his gratuitous obnoxious sentiments.
Those who do search for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samoa, and measles, won’t be surprised at the initial results. They include an array of articles that repeat inaccuracies and attempt to assure readers that the Samoan measles outbreak in 2019 was due to a reduction in the number of children receiving a vaccination. These hit pieces cover the predictable talking points of Big Pharma’s vaccine promotional playbook. Numerous accounts and editorials blame those who doubted vaccine efficacy and safety.
The articles include a relentless unfounded criticism of Kennedy in an endeavor to make him look dangerously ignorant and responsible for the suffering. They deride his reasonable comments and exclude his detailed letter to the Samoan Prime Minister, suggesting possible causes of the strange, virulent outbreak of measles.
Tapper, perhaps recognizing the correspondence is a reasoned analysis, never mentions it. (Download available below)
He fully expects readers to look no further than he suggests and simply agree with his misleading evaluation and patronizing assurances. Assuming there wouldn’t be any questions about his veracity, Tapper continues to rely heavily on his absolute dismissal of Kennedy’s “entire being.”
With the ruse of protective guidance, the star reporter distracts rather than informs. This strategy does the worst kind of damage; victims of this subterfuge succumb to his slick narrative and give up their own moral and medical autonomy.
For the last few years, Tapper has been repeating the same misleading instruction suggesting that Kennedy’s faults can be confirmed online by examining the Samoan tragedy. Unwittingly, he directs us toward details that demonstrate how governments and news media blindly peddle Big Pharma’s sales pitch, while ignoring all risks.
Tapper’s fateful error is pointing towards Samoa, and by doing so, he has assisted in verifying his artifice.
The Inquisitor Fails
In striving to limit knowledge when urging readers to go Google with only his terms, Tapper has diminished the probability of finding the complete story. But simply searching beyond his constraints and looking at results for — Samoa, measles, and "under attenuated vaccine" (in quotes) — the articles that come up are informative.
The Killing Fields Of Samoa is an overall analysis by a local scientist that points to problematic inconsistencies in the mainstream narrative. It includes many details including how Tonga and Fiji had measles outbreaks at the same time, although their vaccination rates were over 90%. The author points out that there is no data suggesting any measles vaccine reduces disease symptoms or outcomes, so the higher death rate in Samoa, where vaccine rates were much lower, remains an unexplained discrepancy.
Another key article easily found using the above search terms is titled Vaccines and The Suffering Children of Samoa, one of the very few detailed investigative reports about what actually occurred during the outbreak. (full article below). The protagonist of this illustrative tale is a farmer, Edwin Tamasese, who questioned his government's health policy and doubted the safety of the measles vaccination. During the outbreak in 2019, he was concerned about the unprecedented number of sick and dying Samoan children and began to assist families whose children were very ill; supporting the distribution of vitamins A and D, and providing dietary advice. He recognized that most of the cases occurred after a measles vaccination campaign had begun.
Mr. Tamasese describes what he and his colleagues observed:
What I was seeing personally on the ground was that six to seven days post vaccination huge outbreaks were occurring in the villages that the vaccination vans were entering. We were very careful to take statistics when we were going in to try to identify trends. When we assessed our numbers, 98 per cent of those that were getting ill had been vaccinated consistently six to seven days prior to illness. The excuse was that the vaccine did not have time to become effective. However according to an immunologist on the team assisting, the six to seven-day period was also the length of time it would take an under-attenuated vaccine to make the recipient sick.
Ignoring this possibility, the Samoan government continued to assure the public that infection spread because the vaccine was not given in time to prevent transmission. Although health authorities switched to a different source for the vaccine, there was no other accounting for the high rates of illness and death. Mr. Tamasese was blamed for exacerbating the outbreak as an anti-vaccine campaigner. He was ultimately arrested and charged with treating children without a medical license.
If they dared to mention him, Tapper and reporters of his ilk would say Mr. Tamasese was a criminal with no appreciation for the wonders of vaccines. His arrest was hailed by the press around the world, though most news coverage neglected to report later that all charges were dismissed. The Samoan prosecutors failed to provide any evidence against Mr. Tamasese.
CNN and Tapper’s award-winning journalism missed this telling account of his trial:
When his case came to trial in December 2020, the judge was also the coroner presiding over the inquests. The prosecution put up a single witness against Tamasese, a nurse with a sick child. He had entered a hospital ward to offer the child vitamin A and vitamin C. Tamasese says the judge started questioning the witness herself.
It emerged that the witness had given her child the vitamins recommended by Tamasese, and had stopped giving it all the hospital medication — and her child had recovered.
‘The judge dismissed the witness after my lawyer said she didn’t have any questions,’ said Tamasese. ‘When the witness left the room, the judge turned to the prosecution lawyer and asked her: ‘This is your witness? That witness may as well have represented the accused!’
The judge dismissed the case, saying Tamasese had no case to answer. The public health authorities, on the other hand, have plenty.
If the details Mr. Tamasese presented were fully evaluated, an insightful news story could have been developed and reported. A full-scale, on-the-ground, CNN investigation of the Samoan measles outbreak would have verified his allegations. This didn’t happen because efforts to reveal the truth don’t serve the interests of Tapper and his collaborators.
He has simply ignored the many important details and studies available to evaluate both the Samoan outbreak and the COVID-19 fiasco.
Throughout the pandemic, Tapper consistently churned out infomercials for Pfizer and Moderna and attacked those who countered the flawed conventional wisdom asserted by the government. He continues to ignore the risks versus benefits studies that confirm the incidence of serious complications and possible long-term effects of the mRNA vaccines.
Strikingly similar to the meager coverage of events in Samoa, the travesty of the pandemic response can be associated with the failure of journalists to fully evaluate dictates and data. Scarce reporting on vaccine risks and injuries betrays an allegiance to an unprecedented sales campaign.
You Shall Not Spread A False Report
What we do know about the Samoan measles outbreak supports Kennedy’s contention that any vaccine development and application needs to be independently evaluated and monitored to prevent damage and death. His presidential candidacy is giving him increased opportunities to present this reasonable perspective.
Tapper is recognizing that his own central mission — to repress the Kennedy campaign — is collapsing. Thus we witness his increasing resentment and vehement personal condemnation of Kennedy at every opportunity.
Rather than searching for any truth that might support the good health of his audience, he has persisted in attempting to sway and mislead the public. Tapper is trapped in his own lies; he continues to rely on the ignorance of those who won’t look any deeper into the stories that serve his masters.
It is indisputable that Tapper is a well-paid actor in this travesty; and that his role is to crush those with opinions or facts that get in the way of his employer’s agenda.
Examining his omissions and unwillingness to expose the sins of his benefactors, Americans should be very concerned about what they haven’t been told — thanks to CNN’s star reporter.
It is becoming obvious that Tapper is responsible for much suffering and death — rather than any of those to whom he directs his venomous tirades. The repercussions of what he has done are immeasurable. We will never know how many millions of people Tapper has harmed with his blind promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Tapper’s holier-than-thou approach to news coverage doesn’t stop with glossing over distressing information about vaccines. During the Trump impeachment trial, one of the president’s attorneys departed the Senate hearings early to observe the Jewish Sabbath. Tapper immediately sent out a tweet with a Biblical quote, revealing his inquisitional mindset:
At synagogue tomorrow, he will hear the reading from the Torah of: Mishpatim — Rules: You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil…
Tapper’s pretentious assumption that he can morally demean those with whom he disagrees is evidence of his extremism; his judgment is best self-applied. A brilliant reply to this bold tweet captured its ego-driven attempt to humiliate:
Why go to your chosen house of worship when you can just get your spiritual dictates from some dude on CNN?
Tapper’s indenture to the most dangerous humans on the planet has skewed his worldview. He is deeply compromised by the darkest forces motivating his manipulations. He lies on behalf of political and financial interests that provide his scripted falsifications. And rather than engage in debate, he insists on ex-communication for anyone who questions the corporate dictates he exudes.
Tapper is certainly not naive, thus his subjective stream-of-consciousness narrative is undoubtedly disingenuous — and central to a fraudulent scheme. His shameful pretense has no bounds; he makes no attempt to fully understand events with fair analysis.
Tapper’s work is certainly not journalism.
This is the full text of a comprehensive article on the Samoan measles outbreak, from The Conservative Woman on 4 January 2023.
Vaccines and the suffering children of Samoa
Before Christmas Paula Jardine reported for TCW on the strange case of the South Pacific island nation of Samoa’s 2019 ‘lockdown’ and compulsory mass measles vaccination programme over a period which saw the deaths of 76 under-fives. Since then she has interviewed the Samoan businessman Edwin Tamasese who reported widespread measles outbreaks six to seven days post-vaccination, and who was subsequently arrested for distributing the Vitamin A the children needed to cope with either the vaccine or a measles infection. As Paula explained in her previous article, the high mortality was more likely to be due to a combination of malnutrition and an under-attenuated vaccine – that is, a vaccine where the virus had not been sufficiently weakened before being administered, as opposed to the disease itself. Here she reports Edwin Tamasese’s story.
SAMOA had suspended its measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccination programme in July 2018 following the the internationally reported deaths of two babies given a vaccine incorrectly mixed by nurses with a muscle relaxant instead of saline solution. Tamasese invited Robert Kennedy Jr, chairman of the activist charity Children’s Health Defense, to Samoa in July 2019. As Kennedy would come only at the invitation of the government, Tamasese organised an invitation directly with the Samoan Prime Minister so that Kennedy could speak to him about vaccine safety. International health agencies, eager to hit MMR coverage targets after the programme was restarted in April 2019 are understood to have been pressuring the Samoan health ministry to restore confidence in the vaccine programme, fearing low uptake would otherwise remain the norm.
Two suspected measles cases reported in late August 2019 catalysed the government’s programme. Yet the first patient was a child returning from New Zealand who fully recovered. When a one-year-old boy died in hospital on October 15 a week after being admitted with a suspected case of measles, public health authorities declared an outbreak, blaming low vaccine uptake. The Samoan Ministry of Health began encouraging vaccination in earnest, disregarding the inconvenient fact that the victim had previously received a first dose of measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.
Other victims are known to have been previously vaccinated, some twice, but unlike neighbouring Tonga, which also had a measles outbreak in 2019, Samoa never released any data on the vaccination status of the patients; in Tonga which Unicef reported had a 99 per cent measles vaccination coverage rate in 2018, 31 per cent of patients were twice vaccinated and a further 7 per cent had received a first dose, indicating that primary and secondary vaccine failure were factors in that outbreak.
Samoan businessman Edwin Tamasese realised there was a problem when an employee whose children were sick came to speak to him. Five children on the island had already died. Tamasese, on the parents’ behalf, took advice from doctors outside Samoa and was particularly concerned that the hospital had given paracetamol and antibiotics, both of which the scientific literature suggests can increase the complications in measles patients. The employee’s children were the first to be given vitamin A and vitamin C and recovered.
In an interview he told me: ‘There was another family I visited. The youngest kid, a nine-month-old boy, was very sick. They’d taken him to the hospital twice and been sent home. I gave the parents Vitamin A to give him and then Vitamin C to give him, 1 gram every two hours. The next day the kid was sitting up and eating. It was just amazing. Then the coconut wireless went crazy and I started getting phone calls from people asking for help.’
Knowing that there could be repercussions for his entire family for challenging the authorities, Tamasese first spoke to his parents asking for their permission to get involved, then had a discussion with his business partners. They all supported him.
‘The atmosphere definitely felt like the authorities wanted to make an example of Samoa,’ said Tamasese. ‘They just didn’t expect me to get in the middle of it.’ He began gathering data and as the vaccination campaign rolled out, the numbers of patients increased.
‘What I was seeing personally on the ground was that six to seven days post vaccination huge outbreaks were occurring in the villages that the vaccination vans were entering,’ said Tamasese. ‘We were very careful to take statistics when we were going in to try to identify trends. When we assessed our numbers, 98 per cent of those that were getting ill had been vaccinated consistently six to seven days prior to illness. The excuse was that the vaccine did not have time to become effective. However according to an immunologist on the team assisting, the six to seven-day period was also the length of time it would take an under-attenuated vaccine to make the recipient sick.’
Tamasese kept a screenshot of the Samoan Ministry of Health press release that preceded the official outbreak declaration on October 16, 2019. Of the first 36 samples taken from patients suspected of having measles, only seven were confirmed to be measles.
Samoa stopped laboratory testing of samples on November 22. The Ministry of Health had never actually stated that any of the deaths to that point were from confirmed measles cases, only that measles was suspected, but it certainly suited it to allow the idea to take hold that the deaths were due to measles.
In the end, nearly 39 per cent of laboratory-tested samples were found not to be measles, yet the children were still presenting with symptoms that doctors identified as measles. The symptoms of measles, rubella (German measles) and atypical measles (which occurs when vaccinated people are exposed to wild measles virus) are known to be difficult to distinguish from one another during an outbreak. A 2019 study found that the measles vaccine does not neutralise the D8 strain publicly linked to the Samoan outbreak very well.
‘Many of the sick children had throat swelling more consistent with mumps,’ said Tamasese. It looked as if a bad batch of vaccine was causing the sickness. On November 22, following the lead of nearby American Samoa, the government of Samoa declared a state of emergency, and made the vaccination programme compulsory. In the haste that followed, even children who were already showing measles symptoms or who were sick with other things were vaccinated, a factor that may have contributed to the unusually high mortality rate.
Nearly three-quarters of Samoans were vaccinated during the 2019 outbreak, including many adults and teenagers who had already had two doses of MMR. Originally an MMR vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India was used. Unicef reported that 100,000 doses of a vaccine which contained only measles and rubella were also supplied to Samoa. Tamasese says that the second vaccine was sourced from Belgium, giving rise to the suspicion that the authorities either suspected or knew there was a problem with the original vaccine.
A 2018 nutrition study in Samoa found that while Samoans have plenty to eat, they are malnourished due to a poor diet, with vitamin A deficiency being a particular problem. Almost without exception the children who died came from poor families, living in crowded substandard housing with poor sanitation. Vitamin A is meant to be administered alongside measles vaccines, but this did not arrive in Samoa until mid-November, and little of it was actually used. Even in industrialised countries it is given in large doses to measles patients.
The local medical staff were giving the sick children Panadol and putting them in wet nappies and cold baths to reduce their fever. Tamasese says one child was given so much paracetamol it vomited blood. Antibiotics were given in an attempt to ward off secondary infections, a practice that may have made it more likely that complications would set in. ‘By the time the children were handed over to doctors from Australia and New Zealand it was too late,’ says Tamasese. ‘They were being primed for failure.’
By the time Samoa was locked down on December 5 and 6, journalists were flying in from around the world to cover the outbreak. Amongst them, filing for the Telegraph, was Brian Deer, the journalist whose campaign concerning Dr Andrew Wakefield led to the doctor being struck off in 2010.
Edwin Tamasese’s arrest on the first day of the lockdown gave the assembled journalists additional fodder. Having twice been warned by the local police to stop speaking out against the vaccination campaign, he was charged with incitement against the government after posting on Facebook, ‘Enjoy your killing spree. I’ll keep mopping up after you.’
When his case came to trial in December 2020, the judge was also the coroner presiding over the inquests. The prosecution put up a single witness against Tamasese, a nurse with a sick child. He had entered a hospital ward to offer the child vitamin A and vitamin C. Tamasese says the judge started questioning the witness herself.
It emerged that the witness had given her child the vitamins recommended by Tamasese, and had stopped giving it all the hospital medication — and her child had recovered.
‘The judge dismissed the witness after my lawyer said she didn’t have any questions,’ said Tamasese. ‘When the witness left the room, the judge turned to the prosecution lawyer and asked her: ‘This is your witness? That witness may as well have represented the accused!’ The judge dismissed the case, saying Tamasese had no case to answer. The public health authorities, on the other hand, have plenty.
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If you look at the MMR side effects you will eventually come across a Japanese doctor's study proving that if the MMR is given separately there are no side effects and I believe it's more effective,