Presidential contender Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a Democrat who’s running as an independent, shut down podcaster Howie Mandel after the comedian tried to rewrite history on the establishment media’s checkered coverage of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Kennedy made the remarks in a wide-ranging interview Tuesday on the “Howie Mandel Does Stuff” podcast, during which he slammed the pro-vaccine peanut gallery for spewing the lie that if you got the coronavirus vaccine, you wouldn’t contract or transmit the disease.

As a reminder, this was a key talking point that vaccine bullies used to browbeat everyone to get jabbed multiple times.

Mandel, who co-hosts the podcast with his daughter, Jackelyn Schultz, tried to whitewash history by implying no one said the jab actually prevented infection.

“I never heard you won’t get COVID” if you got the vaccine, he said.

Kennedy retorted, “I saw a tape yesterday of them all [Joe] Biden, [Anthony] Fauci, [Bill] Gates … Rachel Maddow saying if you take the vaccine, you can’t get COVID, you can’t pass COVID.”

“I didn’t see that,” Mandel said.

Kennedy said: “Can I play it for you?”

A few seconds later, Mandel backpedaled — perhaps because he suddenly remembered that MSNBC host Rachel Maddow had fervently declared that the “virus stops with every vaccinated person.”

“A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them. The virus cannot use that person to go anywhere else,” she said on the March 29, 2021, “Rachel Maddow Show,” according to a transcript. “It cannot use a vaccinated person as a host to go get more people.”

“Well, wait wait wait … It doesn’t matter what Rachel Maddow said,” Mandel stammered.

Below is a video montage of other left-wing vaccine evangelists vociferously asserting the vaccine prevented viral infection:

It’s laughable that Howie Mandel is now shamelessly trying to gaslight the public by claiming this was not the top pro-vaccine talking point.

By now, more than 270 million Americans (or roughly 81 percent of the population) have gotten the COVID-19 vaccination — either voluntarily or under threat of getting fired or socially ostracized.

The dust has settled a bit and it has become clear how destructive the authoritarian vaccine mandates were, especially now that the truth is emerging about the jab’s flawed efficacy and potential safety hazards.

Many physicians and other scientists who pointed out these risks early on were abruptly thrown off social media, fired or otherwise silenced over the past three years.

As we approach another presidential election, hopefully, the pendulum will swing toward the elevation of free speech and open inquiry so that mass hysteria and media gaslighting won’t suppress public dialogue once again.

Having a public voice like RFK Jr. smack down history revisionists is a step in the right direction.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.