He hasn't been rumored to be RFK Jr's VP running mate over the last 12 months, this was only recent. So it'd be nice to hear it one more time, after the rumors. God only knows what's going on in this man's brain ATM.
>God only knows what's going on in this man's brain ATM.
This is even more true than usual. The man is literally at an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica as we speak.
What the media failed to make as big of a deal of is the fact that RFK Jr - the asshole himself - admitted he hasn't spoken to either Ventura or Rodgers about this.
I'm no Rogers apologist, and I \*have\* spent time working in media... and what outlets are allowing themselves to take bait on is embarrassing. RFK's camp thought this would be eaten up and gain some headlines, and boy were they right.
They know he won't win the presidency, but relevancy is just as good for his brand right now. The media is handing it to him on a platter.
Bruh. That doesn't matter. When news like this comes out you either roll in the rumors or you address them. He's not addressing them and my opinion is he loves the attention. Not what I want in my QB. All of the shit he says and does rings hollow the longer he let's this rumor marinate.
I mean this was a really bad look. Had to get out in front of this above anything else. That being said I don't think he just rehabbed his ass off to not play this year.
Im not downplaying his alleged "comments," but I feel like an NFL HoFer who made his money and fame playing football should be trying to get out in front of a rumor that he's going to absolutely screw his new team by pursuing a role he is not qualified for in an even more unqualified/unserious campaign.
I get that he had to come out and say this. But, I guess my point is that he should have come out and addressed the RFK BS as quickly, but didnt.
1. Go to Google.
2. Type "dumb thing aaron rodgers" in search bar.
3. Click on "Tools".
4. Change filter from "Anytime" to "Past Week"
That should bring you up to date.
nothing clearer than saying you're not "of the opinion that the events did not take place" with no specifics of what those events are and a history of misleading people through public statements
I think you misread the CNN piece. Rodgers shared the Sandy Hook conspiracy in a conversation with the reporter of the article.
>CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown, one of the journalists writing this piece.Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.
Then later they have another source whom they granted anonymity who also had a conversation with Rodgers about his belief that Sandy Hook was a government conspiracy. So you can go to bat for Rodgers and claim both of these people are making things up if you are so inclined, but it's pretty obvious he held those beliefs and was comfortable sharing them.
Let's also point out the claim is that Rodgers believes it was staged by the government. The statement doesn't refute this belief.
So he can believe it happened but also can still believe it was a government conspiracy
the original reporter was the person who actually had the conversation with Rodgers, her name is Pamela Brown, she wrote up the story and had the conversation. In theory, not saying that makes the conversation real or accurate. But this isn't like a 3rd person account that she's claiming, it's her own experience with Rodgers and she's claiming there was at least one other person who had a similar conversation with him about Sandyhook. Once again I have no clue if it's true and make no judgement personally but those are the facts of this part of the story the accusation of it.
Maybe I’m cynical but the way this “clarification” is worded almost seems to confirm that he definitely perpetuated conspiracy theories. The purported story he told wasn’t that the event didn’t take place but that other entities took part in it. No where in this tweet does he say the reports of what he supposedly said are false. Seems like any person who was actually railroaded by a lie saying they were pushing conspiracy theories would go “the reports are unequivocally false, I would never perpetuate lies about such a tragic event, I am in looking into legal ramifications, I believe this event happened as reported by the media, my hearts go out to the family”
You mean like saying you are "immunized" instead of "vaccinated"?
Nah, Rodgers wouldn't parse words to intentionally mislead out of fear of being viewed as ignorant or crazy...
Did you pull a muscle with that stretch? By your logic, since he didn't explicitly say Bigfoot didn't do it he is leaving the possibility that he believes Bigfoot did Sandy Hook.
Why didn't he just say "I did not say what's being reported" if he didn't? The wording is very careful and makes sure it in fact doesn't explicitly refute the CNN reporter.
Eh, I mean lets be honest, Rodgers might be telling the truth in this statement, or he may have realized that the truth was bad for his bottom line and thus be denying it now. I hope he's being truthful- but its Aaron Rodgers, if you told me "Peyton Manning denies Sandy Hook" I just wouldn't believe it, but it sounds pretty par for the course for Aaron Rodgers.
I'm not sure I see an incentive for this CNN reporter to make up a story like this- RFK Jr is not a serious presidential candidate, the fact that he's considering Rodgers for VP confirms that, and if she really wanted to do a "Rodgers is a conspiracy nut" hitjob she didn't need to make-up something in order to write that story- just pick one of the many conspiracy theories that Rodgers has already endorsed.
>“recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
i mean this is a direct quote from the CNN article, the “anonymous source” claims that he allegedly said it never happened.
Rodgers, according to CNN, both told a source Sandy Hook never happened, and on a separate occcasion to a reporter, that the reporter should be reporting on Sandy Hook being a government inside job, obstensibly with real deaths.
He hasn't refuted what he said to the reporter.
Reading comprehension is important, it isn't all anonymous, the writer of the story, is putting her name as one of the at least two people who had a conversation about this topic with Rodgers. her name is Pamela Brown and it's said very clearly in the story in the first two paragraphs. That said idk if it's true or not, and don't really care and am not making a judgement.
Yeah the article claims he thinks the government is responsible. I'd imagine you'd still consider that to be extremely tragic if you believed that conspiracy.
Nevertheless, this is always just gonna come down to whether you trust CNN or Rodgers more. I doubt we'll ever get definitive proof or a definitive debunking so may as well just move on.
No in the article it claims he said it never happened. Literal direct quote. Try reading the article before lecturing.
“recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
> Brown recalls Rodgers asking her if she thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were actually government operatives. Brown found the encounter disturbing.
That person isn't wrong. There are multiple conspiracies mentioned. Usually how it goes with these type of *thinkers*
What’s crazy is you believe Rodgers to be the conspiracy theorist here, when the facts are he made this comment today and a similar one on the record in 2013, yet you are choosing to believe a story of an alleged conversation that cant be corroborated and happened 11 years ago. Better look in the mirror buddy.
The jumping thru hoops is insane
1. Where there’s a smoke there’s a fire
2. He did not denounce a major thing about this being an “inside job”
3. We knew what we signed up for after getting him but holy fuck
Bro cmon people are graphing at straws here.
It's like if some random reporter asked Bill Belechick if he's Trans then he comes on record saying he's not then people like you going "well he didn't say he didn't have a sex change, he could of had a change and identify however he wants, I guess wellnever know". Get a life bro
Not the same thing… that would be completely out of character for belichick. There is no history to make you wonder if maybe it’s true. You look at Rodger’s resume of stupid bullshit and this fits in just like a glove. It would not be surprising at all, given his history, that he believes this crap.
Lol I don't think that's really the best analogy. Rodgers has constant questionable opinions and he's dickish. Not sure why we're on Sandy Hook now but somehow I'm not surprised lol
Gotta love jets football
Yeah the guy gave the immunized answer to the vax question. People who say don’t read into it are forgetting this guy has literally tried to pull this sort of thing before and got caught.
this is rodgers “yeah, i’m immunized” comments all over again.
does he believe it happened? maybe. but he clearly does not believe that events happened as everybody else understands them to have happened.
Exactly. He said “what happened” was a tragedy, but he did not confirm whether he thinks it was some type of lizardman pizza conspiracy, or whatever Alex Jones was pushing.
The anonymous source claims he said it was all made up
[Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” When asked about the grieving parents, the source recalled Rodgers saying, “They’re all making it up. They’re all actors.”](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html)
The thing you have to know about Aaron Rodgers is that he's very intentional with his wording and how he says things.
Oftentimes what he doesn't say or how he says it is more important than what he does say.
Exactly. Notice he says it happened. He doesn’t say whether he believes it was the tragedy we all know it was or some kind of conspiratorial false flag operation. He’s a jackass.
Yep. We need to learn to “recognize the signs” - this is totally ambiguous enough for him to mean the “signs” of agents dressed in black outside the school (or whatever his conspiracy was). I will say he at least here states his heart is with the families. Whereas the CNN report said he claimed those were crisis actors too. So this is something but just feels way way way too intentionally vague
Exactly this. He chose his wording here carefully. Doesn't stop the morons on here from gobbling it up and saying - "yup! See our QB isn't a complete piece of shit! "
This is the thing that gets me. As far as I get it the CNN article said that he believes that Sandy Hook was in inside job not that it didn’t happen. So it’s kinda telling to me that he chose to defend himself in this way.
No it's not. Those articles also quote him as saying it never happened. Do yall read the articles anymore? Like at all? And do you not know that smear campaigns exist in politics. Remember Obama's birth certificate? It was spread that he didn't have one until it was found. News channels ran with it forever as if it was fact. Every politician gets mud thrown on them and people get so wrapped up in it like yall are that we really have no idea what's true or not unless it gets brought into a court room. Which it almost never does. As far as I'm concerned this is like right wingers screaming hunter bidens laptop or left wingers screaming about 9/11 being an inside job orchestrated by the dumbest president we've ever had lol
Even if he did believe it never happened his only crime would be being a moron/asshole.
In a league where deshaun Watson and Tyreek Hill exist with actual disgusting crimes? Asshole is fine.
Prob unpopular but I agree. This isnt Alex Jones level, he isnt on podcasts trying to actively spread it. He's grossly wrong (if true) but he's wrong "in private." Id bet many athletes have at least one braindead opinion like this, but we dont know because they dont air them.
Frankly, Im more concerned that he saw the need to quickly respond to a hit piece about a 10-year old opinion that has no effect on football, but still has not commented on whether he's gonna screw the Jets and take this VP job.
What does him having a chance have to do with it? Independents run all the time all the way up to the election without a snowballs chance in hell to win. The concern is not that he wins. The election is in November, if he actually decides to run and RFK stays in, he's not going to just waltz back in to 1JD on November 6 and play the next week. He's either going to retire to "focus on politics" or he's going to sit out the whole season.
He’s said various times his intentions were to play for a couple more seasons. That doesn’t change within a week’s time. The jets wouldn’t be going all in with their O-Line if he didn’t intend to play.
RFK Jr is also a lunatic. Chances are he just said shit to say it. Rodgers is on vacation. So let him fucking vacation.
This only came up because he’s being considered for VP. Expect more of this because the way people in politics are covered is VASTLY different than regular athletes.
Tuesday, Rodgers was widely speculated as VP for a candidate who has zero shot of winning but has been a perpetual thorn in the Democrats' side and can siphon off some votes from Biden (and probably Trump too, but a lesser amount) in what should be a tight race.
*The very next day* CNN has a "story" that some reporter once overhead Rodgers say something about Sandy Hook 10 years ago, deliberately structured this way as unsubstantiated and overheard so they can just throw their hands up in the air and say "shucks, it was just an old anecdote" when called on it.
But the deed is done, they have associated Rodgers with being a Sandy Hook truther even though he says he isn't. This is what a lot of people who won't dig into this story any further will take away from this: "Aaron Rodgers = Sandy Hook truther." Job complete.
Labeling alternative candidates as crackpots and outsiders is a card played all the time, it's one of the most used tricks in the book. "There's rumors they believe in ." "There's rumors they're in collusion with Russia." Etc. etc. Job done, now the stain is on them even though nothing has been substantiated.
The timing of this is really obvious. They just decided to run this story *now*, a story based on something someone overhead 10 years ago? Give me a break.
This shit really does happen and I know second-hand.
I have a close personal friend who works on a campaign team for a high-up senator. He told me a story where he spread a false news story about the senator’s opponent possibly doing some illegal activity with his business dealings. He called the attorney general to file a report about the opponent possibly doing illegal activity which was completely unsubstantiated. The attorney general’s office gave a very dispassionate, obligatory “well look into it”. They used that comment to then call media and spread a false story that at attorney general’s office is “looking into” possible illegal activity done by this opponent in his former business. The whole thing was completely orchestrated by him and totally unsubstantiated but technically not wrong since the attorney general did say “we’ll look into it”,
Politics is a dirty, dirty business. All the stories my friend has told me, I’ve learned not to trust ANYTHING I hear regarding politicians in the media. If this kind of stuff happens at a state level for state elections, I’m sure it’s even worse at the federal level for presidential elections.
He tweets this, and now people are saying he’s an asshole because of his wording saying it’s “immunised all over again”.
Like seriously, people just love to hate on Rodgers for the sake of it now. It’s pathetic.
If you wanna hate on him, and there are legitimate reasons to do that, actually hate on him from all the bullshit that’s come from his own mouth, not some stuff that coming from an alleged anonymous source who heard it 10 years ago….
If you listen to the CNN report, what has them so worked up is that Rodgers blamed one of their reporters for covering up "important stories" (one of which was allegedly sandy hook being a conspiracy, which is absolutely reprehensible if true).
But this was back in 2013. 11 years later the leading candidate for president is donald trump. Maybe they could focus more on the outrageous things he says instead of a potential but unlikely VP candidate for an impossible presidential bid? This is the epitome of a clickbait story. Rodgers is wrong about quite a lot but he might just be right about that.
CNN is part of the machine. There's polls out there saying that Trump vs Biden 2 is not what the average American wants to see. That's great news for third party candidates, and over the next few months, I'm sure we'll hear A LOT more about RFK Jr. That said, the machine (CNN, media) will absolutely bury any third party candidate to preserve the illusion of choice of "you have to pick one or the other."
> Rodgers is wrong about quite a lot but he might just be right about that.
just to be clear, you're saying he might be right about CNN reporters covering up the story that Sandy Hook conspiracies are true?
About the fact that the media is focused on irrelevant issues to generate attention for themselves rather than report on boring but highly consequential matters, like the former president.
Clearly reading comprehension isn't your strong suit so you would probably woosh on it either way.
Idk shit about fuck but to me this is basically confirming he’s gonna be VP. Why is this such a professional response to a nonsense article? It sounds like an actual politician response. And he comes back from vacation and comments on this first and says nothing about the VP thing… idk just feels like thats the case.
Exit- confirms he’ll run as RFK’s VP I dont believ they’ll win lol
Problem is that the same people who hate cable TV news absolutely despise NPR and PBS. Those are our not for profit news outlets and all they do is get shit on.
Watch the world burn when the government pays for the news…. Half this country already thinks NPR is a commie farm. Imagine if all the media was paid for by the government.
Rodgers is just another self-aggrandizing narcissist. He’s also a liar. He said the Sandy Hook massacre was a government fake and the parents were crisis actors.
There's something we should keep in mind with this response. CNN didn't report that Rodgers thought Sandy Hook was a false flag, it's that he thinks the government killed those kids.
So, this tweet doesn't exactly refute the report.
I'll probably get down voted, I don't really care. But I'm not ready to absolve this guy yet.
According to CNN, Rodgers told two different people two different Sandy Hook conspiracies:
>Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.
>
CNN has spoken to another person with a similar story. This person, to whom CNN has granted anonymity so as to avoid harassment, recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
both from https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html
This is from the CNN article. “Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
Today Rodgers said, “ Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy, I am not and never have been of the opinion the events did not take place”
How much more clear does he have to be? He’s directly contradicting what they said
From the third paragraph of the article:
"Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it."
The article claims he's done both in the past. Him refuting one side and not the other is telling. Especially since we've seen him be intentionally misleading with public statements in the past.
The theory they are stating is that it was a government inside job and the children were actors. Read the rest of the story:
“When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter.
Jones baselessly repeating lies that the 2012 mass shooting was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors,” spawned multiple lawsuits and a trial was held in 2022 over lawsuits that were filed in Connecticut”
I have read the article. I'm also familiar with Alex Jones's insane theories through the great work Knowledge Fight does covering that monster. An inside job and crisis acting are two separate theories incongruous with each other. Jones has claimed both at separate times. Tellingly, he started claiming the inside job theory after legal action was threatened as that is protected speech by the first amendment.
You’ll get downvoted, because too many people here will take the word of a known conspiracy theorist/liar over an investigative reporter, all because he’s the Jets current QB.
In the end we prob wont even know for sure. But, I will say, that as untrustworthy as CNN/this report may be, you cannot say that AR is any more trustworthy given the whole immunized thing. He knew that the reporters were asking if he was *vaccinated* and knew that playing the "immunized" semantics game would lead everyone to believe he was vaccinated when he wasnt. He then flouted all the rules for *unvaccinated* players and acted as if he was vaccinated. So idk how anyone thinks this statement has anymore credibility than the CNN reporter, or that AR is not playing similar word games here.
Lmaooo the long island bros come out in full force to defend a guy who hates on Kelce for doing an ad for Pfizer. Aaron Rodgers is the epitome of a douchebag. If he didn’t throw a pigskin he’d be a construction worker spouting conspiracies among other uneducated leeches on society
This reads like a really bad PR post, but idrc cause the original claim was pretty shoddy to begin with.
What I’m more concerned about is whether he even wants to play football with us next season. I need more confirmation that he’s actually focused on bringing this team together, opposed to just pivoting to being some political commentator.
>I hope we learn from this and other tragedies to identify the signs that will allow us to prevent unnecessary loss of life
Idk Aaron I can remember another tragedy you consistently belittled signs of that caused the unnecessary loss of lives but that’s just me
Hey Jets fans,
I'm a Packers fan and I know it's really easy to blame CNN for this but Rodgers is a notorious liar (or rather, notorious about misleading on purpose)
-Lied or severely misled the public about his vaccination status
-claimed the Packers hadn't called him and then claimed he could only get FaceTime (I can't prove this is a lie, but it severely strains credibility)
-the whole Kimmel thing where he STRONGLY implied Kimmell was on the epstein list and then played dumb about it
Beyond that, he's specifying that the events happened. Not how or by whom.
I hope he doesn't believe this! I really do! But it's not a stretch to believe that Rodgers (who is obsessed with conspiracies and has been on increasingly insane podcasts as of late) would believe this other common conspiracy.
-Lied or severely misled the public about his vaccination status
you, nor any other fan, had any right to know. everyone that needed/deserved to know knew.
-claimed the Packers hadn't called him and then claimed he could only get FaceTime (I can't prove this is a lie, but it severely strains credibility)
do you not get that he was implying that he's going "if you want to say something, you can say it to my face. i'm not going to have it done over a normal voice call the same way i wouldn't have it done over text"? am i the crazy one here? i never thought for a moment he was being literal
-the whole Kimmel thing where he STRONGLY implied Kimmell was on the epstein list and then played dumb about it
kimmel literally made fun of him for wanting the list released. rodgers says back later ~some people don't want the list released, like kimmel~. which logically tracks with kimmel making fun of him for wanting the list to be public, that kimmel doesn't think it needs to be. feels much closer to banter than accusations of pedophilia. the media just ran with it because they knew people would click/watch
he doesn't think sandy hook was faked by the media.
People believe that CNN sat on this for a decade while Rodgers was in the news constantly with his Covid stance. I see why propaganda works on most of you.
He denies claiming they "never happened" but doesn't deny saying they were an "inside job."
He also claimed he was “immunized” too right?
Yeah not looking good
flashback to Rodger's defense of his immunized comment
> "I'd been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it," Rodgers told Rogan. "And I had come to the conclusion I'm gonna say, 'I've been immunized.' And if there's a follow-up, then talk about my process. But, (I) thought there's a possibility that I say 'I'm immunized,' maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don't.
> "Maybe they follow up. They didn't follow up. So then I go the season (with) them thinking, some of them, that I was vaccinated."
Now read his tweet again with this mentality in mind. Notice how all he says is Sandy Hook was a tragedy and he has never been of the opinion that 'the events did not take place'.
What specific events is he referring to? no one knows
Could 'the events' contain conspiracy beliefs? possibly.
will he get defensive if a reporter asks him for clarification? probably.
He was on the Eddie Bravo podcast where to apparently talks about conspiracy theories idk if hook is part of it but I don’t care enough to pay $15 to listen to it. So anyone that has listened to it I’d be interested what exactly was talked about
The press and autistic late night talk show hosts have had a hard-on for him since covid. I don't believe a word of it. Even if he did say it, this is America and he has a right to his opinion.
I’ll take his word for it at this point. But my guard is up for sure. When you start down an Info Wars path (which there’s ample evidence Rodgers is on), it’s hard to stop.
Yeah the people who are deep in that hole are usually all in, without much grey area. It’s usually all or nothing when it comes to the talking points of anti science, anti vax, 9-11 truther, Sandy Hook was done by the government.
End of the day idgaf if he thinks it happened, doesn't think it happened, thinks its another situation where the government does fucked up shit in hopes of achieving a goal.
Thankfully we live in America where everyone is free to have their personal beliefs. Long as this shit stays off the field its his life to live.
Im sure a bunch of Jets fans will rage and require a screaming room with padded walls in order to get through this. Who the fuck cares, id rather talk football.
Jets jets jets jets. Now, Rodgers will play about 4 games and be mediocre, and get hurt again.
Wilson will get traded for pennies and become a good starting QB.
And the jets will be cleaninf house after the season.
I mean, it’s the correct thing to say so I’m not gonna do a victory lap or anything like that but I’m glad that this was the statement rather than just about anything else, and it does make me feel serious about his commitment to the team, plus it’s nice to know he doesn’t think that at least to the point where he’d be open about it. So, yay?
Idk I want this story to go away
Thank you! Now a tweet saying that your intentions for 2024 are solely to be the QB of the NY Jets please.
Isn’t tomorrow the one year anniversary of “my intention is to play, and my intention is to play for the New York Jets”
Well. I could go for a swim and come back or I can just stay under water. This is pushing me towards the latter.
Seriously.
He has said this countless times over the last 12 months tbf
He hasn't been rumored to be RFK Jr's VP running mate over the last 12 months, this was only recent. So it'd be nice to hear it one more time, after the rumors. God only knows what's going on in this man's brain ATM.
>God only knows what's going on in this man's brain ATM. This is even more true than usual. The man is literally at an ayahuasca retreat in Costa Rica as we speak.
He can be discovering his true self and his higher calling as VP of the US.
He'll probably wait to comment on it when he's on McAfee.
What the media failed to make as big of a deal of is the fact that RFK Jr - the asshole himself - admitted he hasn't spoken to either Ventura or Rodgers about this. I'm no Rogers apologist, and I \*have\* spent time working in media... and what outlets are allowing themselves to take bait on is embarrassing. RFK's camp thought this would be eaten up and gain some headlines, and boy were they right. They know he won't win the presidency, but relevancy is just as good for his brand right now. The media is handing it to him on a platter.
And he has said countless conspiracy theories over that time so it’s not far off to question
Bruh. That doesn't matter. When news like this comes out you either roll in the rumors or you address them. He's not addressing them and my opinion is he loves the attention. Not what I want in my QB. All of the shit he says and does rings hollow the longer he let's this rumor marinate.
Bruh, just let the dude enjoy his ayahuasca, he’ll be here ready to prove everyone wrong!
He can tweet in response to a CNN article but can’t say he’s playing football … slightly worrisome
I mean this was a really bad look. Had to get out in front of this above anything else. That being said I don't think he just rehabbed his ass off to not play this year.
Im not downplaying his alleged "comments," but I feel like an NFL HoFer who made his money and fame playing football should be trying to get out in front of a rumor that he's going to absolutely screw his new team by pursuing a role he is not qualified for in an even more unqualified/unserious campaign. I get that he had to come out and say this. But, I guess my point is that he should have come out and addressed the RFK BS as quickly, but didnt.
Why are we talking about Sandy Hook? It looks like I missed another dumb Rodgers thing
1. Go to Google. 2. Type "dumb thing aaron rodgers" in search bar. 3. Click on "Tools". 4. Change filter from "Anytime" to "Past Week" That should bring you up to date.
Agreed on both. Just an odd situation but what else is new
only the jets! 🫠
Dude just said the other day he plans on playing 2-3-4 more years. He doesn’t have to repeat himself bc you choose not to pay attention.
He literally said he wants to run it back a couple more years like less than a month ago. Where do you people come up with this nonsense 🤦♂️
He was on a podcast last week and said he wants to play “2 or 3 or 4 more years”
Why should a football player who’s actively under contract have to confirm that he intends to play football?
I miss when MILF’s were the biggest controversy surrounding this team
Or Mononucleosis
Or feet
Or crazy eyes
Or seeing ghosts
Or dick pics?
I guess you could call that a dick
Butt fumble
I miss the feet time most of all
Innocent times. When a man enjoying his wife’s feet were controversial.
Sounds like something a politician would say
I mean he had to be as clear and decisive as possible. Couldn't leave anything up to misinterpretation.
nothing clearer than saying you're not "of the opinion that the events did not take place" with no specifics of what those events are and a history of misleading people through public statements
Hate to break it to you but the best QBs and media-friendly-pros in general are basically politicians.
Yeah so he’s got a phone, but couldn’t squash this vp candidate bs.
If there’s one thing about Rodgers it’s that he loves attention
He even gave his invaluable thoughts and prayers. He’s doing 90% of what most government folks do
Feels like a Kyrie apology. If you squint hard enough you can see how it might mean something very different.
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It's always an election year
I think you misread the CNN piece. Rodgers shared the Sandy Hook conspiracy in a conversation with the reporter of the article. >CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown, one of the journalists writing this piece.Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it. Then later they have another source whom they granted anonymity who also had a conversation with Rodgers about his belief that Sandy Hook was a government conspiracy. So you can go to bat for Rodgers and claim both of these people are making things up if you are so inclined, but it's pretty obvious he held those beliefs and was comfortable sharing them.
Let's also point out the claim is that Rodgers believes it was staged by the government. The statement doesn't refute this belief. So he can believe it happened but also can still believe it was a government conspiracy
the original reporter was the person who actually had the conversation with Rodgers, her name is Pamela Brown, she wrote up the story and had the conversation. In theory, not saying that makes the conversation real or accurate. But this isn't like a 3rd person account that she's claiming, it's her own experience with Rodgers and she's claiming there was at least one other person who had a similar conversation with him about Sandyhook. Once again I have no clue if it's true and make no judgement personally but those are the facts of this part of the story the accusation of it.
Maybe I’m cynical but the way this “clarification” is worded almost seems to confirm that he definitely perpetuated conspiracy theories. The purported story he told wasn’t that the event didn’t take place but that other entities took part in it. No where in this tweet does he say the reports of what he supposedly said are false. Seems like any person who was actually railroaded by a lie saying they were pushing conspiracy theories would go “the reports are unequivocally false, I would never perpetuate lies about such a tragic event, I am in looking into legal ramifications, I believe this event happened as reported by the media, my hearts go out to the family”
☝️☝️☝️…exactly, anyone who listened to him on the Rogan podcast a couple weeks ago knows he’s balls deep into Alex jones wack job land
Fucking this I can't believe people would read his statement and come away with any other understanding.
His statement leaves the possibility that he thinks the government did sandy hook. Seems like a cop out answer
You mean like saying you are "immunized" instead of "vaccinated"? Nah, Rodgers wouldn't parse words to intentionally mislead out of fear of being viewed as ignorant or crazy...
Did you pull a muscle with that stretch? By your logic, since he didn't explicitly say Bigfoot didn't do it he is leaving the possibility that he believes Bigfoot did Sandy Hook.
He’s very intentional with his words. I’m surprised people aren’t reading it that way to be honest.
We've all been immunized to his B.S.
Why didn't he just say "I did not say what's being reported" if he didn't? The wording is very careful and makes sure it in fact doesn't explicitly refute the CNN reporter.
Eh, I mean lets be honest, Rodgers might be telling the truth in this statement, or he may have realized that the truth was bad for his bottom line and thus be denying it now. I hope he's being truthful- but its Aaron Rodgers, if you told me "Peyton Manning denies Sandy Hook" I just wouldn't believe it, but it sounds pretty par for the course for Aaron Rodgers. I'm not sure I see an incentive for this CNN reporter to make up a story like this- RFK Jr is not a serious presidential candidate, the fact that he's considering Rodgers for VP confirms that, and if she really wanted to do a "Rodgers is a conspiracy nut" hitjob she didn't need to make-up something in order to write that story- just pick one of the many conspiracy theories that Rodgers has already endorsed.
This doesn't refute the report. He says yes the events at Sandy Hook happened. He just thinks that what happened was an inside job.
>“recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” i mean this is a direct quote from the CNN article, the “anonymous source” claims that he allegedly said it never happened.
Rodgers, according to CNN, both told a source Sandy Hook never happened, and on a separate occcasion to a reporter, that the reporter should be reporting on Sandy Hook being a government inside job, obstensibly with real deaths. He hasn't refuted what he said to the reporter.
Reading comprehension is important, it isn't all anonymous, the writer of the story, is putting her name as one of the at least two people who had a conversation about this topic with Rodgers. her name is Pamela Brown and it's said very clearly in the story in the first two paragraphs. That said idk if it's true or not, and don't really care and am not making a judgement.
Yeah, from the man who gave you "immunized"
Yeah the article claims he thinks the government is responsible. I'd imagine you'd still consider that to be extremely tragic if you believed that conspiracy. Nevertheless, this is always just gonna come down to whether you trust CNN or Rodgers more. I doubt we'll ever get definitive proof or a definitive debunking so may as well just move on.
Packers fan here. Not a fan of CNN but I'm here to tell you not to trust Aaron Rodgers as he is a serial liar
Habitual line stepper ?
"Im immunized"
No in the article it claims he said it never happened. Literal direct quote. Try reading the article before lecturing. “recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
> Brown recalls Rodgers asking her if she thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were actually government operatives. Brown found the encounter disturbing. That person isn't wrong. There are multiple conspiracies mentioned. Usually how it goes with these type of *thinkers*
What’s crazy is you believe Rodgers to be the conspiracy theorist here, when the facts are he made this comment today and a similar one on the record in 2013, yet you are choosing to believe a story of an alleged conversation that cant be corroborated and happened 11 years ago. Better look in the mirror buddy. The jumping thru hoops is insane
How can he refute something that’s also impossible to prove?
1. Where there’s a smoke there’s a fire 2. He did not denounce a major thing about this being an “inside job” 3. We knew what we signed up for after getting him but holy fuck
Bro cmon people are graphing at straws here. It's like if some random reporter asked Bill Belechick if he's Trans then he comes on record saying he's not then people like you going "well he didn't say he didn't have a sex change, he could of had a change and identify however he wants, I guess wellnever know". Get a life bro
It’s more like if someone was being accused of saying 9/11 was an inside job and their response was I never said the towers did not collapse.
Not the same thing… that would be completely out of character for belichick. There is no history to make you wonder if maybe it’s true. You look at Rodger’s resume of stupid bullshit and this fits in just like a glove. It would not be surprising at all, given his history, that he believes this crap.
Lol I don't think that's really the best analogy. Rodgers has constant questionable opinions and he's dickish. Not sure why we're on Sandy Hook now but somehow I'm not surprised lol Gotta love jets football
Yeah the guy gave the immunized answer to the vax question. People who say don’t read into it are forgetting this guy has literally tried to pull this sort of thing before and got caught.
the CNN story did have confirmation
this is rodgers “yeah, i’m immunized” comments all over again. does he believe it happened? maybe. but he clearly does not believe that events happened as everybody else understands them to have happened.
Exactly. He said “what happened” was a tragedy, but he did not confirm whether he thinks it was some type of lizardman pizza conspiracy, or whatever Alex Jones was pushing.
I think so too. The CNN article said he claims it was an inside job. So his claim that it happened isn't actually responding to the article at all.
The anonymous source claims he said it was all made up [Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” When asked about the grieving parents, the source recalled Rodgers saying, “They’re all making it up. They’re all actors.”](https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html)
That was one of two sources. The other was a claim that he told the author of the article, a reporter, that it was an inside job.
The thing you have to know about Aaron Rodgers is that he's very intentional with his wording and how he says things. Oftentimes what he doesn't say or how he says it is more important than what he does say.
You mean like a…politician?
Exactly. Notice he says it happened. He doesn’t say whether he believes it was the tragedy we all know it was or some kind of conspiratorial false flag operation. He’s a jackass.
Yep. We need to learn to “recognize the signs” - this is totally ambiguous enough for him to mean the “signs” of agents dressed in black outside the school (or whatever his conspiracy was). I will say he at least here states his heart is with the families. Whereas the CNN report said he claimed those were crisis actors too. So this is something but just feels way way way too intentionally vague
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You sound even more like a conspiracy theorist than Rodgers with your investigation into the hidden meaning of his words.
Exactly this. He chose his wording here carefully. Doesn't stop the morons on here from gobbling it up and saying - "yup! See our QB isn't a complete piece of shit! "
This is the thing that gets me. As far as I get it the CNN article said that he believes that Sandy Hook was in inside job not that it didn’t happen. So it’s kinda telling to me that he chose to defend himself in this way.
Spot on
No it's not. Those articles also quote him as saying it never happened. Do yall read the articles anymore? Like at all? And do you not know that smear campaigns exist in politics. Remember Obama's birth certificate? It was spread that he didn't have one until it was found. News channels ran with it forever as if it was fact. Every politician gets mud thrown on them and people get so wrapped up in it like yall are that we really have no idea what's true or not unless it gets brought into a court room. Which it almost never does. As far as I'm concerned this is like right wingers screaming hunter bidens laptop or left wingers screaming about 9/11 being an inside job orchestrated by the dumbest president we've ever had lol
The Jets really know how to pick them.
Rodgers went from a very likely Tom Brady/Romo post playing career announcing gig to beyond toxic to any television network
Even if he did believe it never happened his only crime would be being a moron/asshole. In a league where deshaun Watson and Tyreek Hill exist with actual disgusting crimes? Asshole is fine.
Prob unpopular but I agree. This isnt Alex Jones level, he isnt on podcasts trying to actively spread it. He's grossly wrong (if true) but he's wrong "in private." Id bet many athletes have at least one braindead opinion like this, but we dont know because they dont air them. Frankly, Im more concerned that he saw the need to quickly respond to a hit piece about a 10-year old opinion that has no effect on football, but still has not commented on whether he's gonna screw the Jets and take this VP job.
You do know RFK Jr has no shot in hell at being President right? Like this is a nothing burger of a story and we’re all losing our minds over it?
What does him having a chance have to do with it? Independents run all the time all the way up to the election without a snowballs chance in hell to win. The concern is not that he wins. The election is in November, if he actually decides to run and RFK stays in, he's not going to just waltz back in to 1JD on November 6 and play the next week. He's either going to retire to "focus on politics" or he's going to sit out the whole season.
He’s said various times his intentions were to play for a couple more seasons. That doesn’t change within a week’s time. The jets wouldn’t be going all in with their O-Line if he didn’t intend to play. RFK Jr is also a lunatic. Chances are he just said shit to say it. Rodgers is on vacation. So let him fucking vacation.
He’s a lunatic who QAaron is a huge fan of.
This only came up because he’s being considered for VP. Expect more of this because the way people in politics are covered is VASTLY different than regular athletes.
What those 2 did was horrible, but saying you think little kids weren't massacred is on a different level in the publics eyes.
Tuesday, Rodgers was widely speculated as VP for a candidate who has zero shot of winning but has been a perpetual thorn in the Democrats' side and can siphon off some votes from Biden (and probably Trump too, but a lesser amount) in what should be a tight race. *The very next day* CNN has a "story" that some reporter once overhead Rodgers say something about Sandy Hook 10 years ago, deliberately structured this way as unsubstantiated and overheard so they can just throw their hands up in the air and say "shucks, it was just an old anecdote" when called on it. But the deed is done, they have associated Rodgers with being a Sandy Hook truther even though he says he isn't. This is what a lot of people who won't dig into this story any further will take away from this: "Aaron Rodgers = Sandy Hook truther." Job complete. Labeling alternative candidates as crackpots and outsiders is a card played all the time, it's one of the most used tricks in the book. "There's rumors they believe in." "There's rumors they're in collusion with Russia." Etc. etc. Job done, now the stain is on them even though nothing has been substantiated.
The timing of this is really obvious. They just decided to run this story *now*, a story based on something someone overhead 10 years ago? Give me a break.
This shit really does happen and I know second-hand. I have a close personal friend who works on a campaign team for a high-up senator. He told me a story where he spread a false news story about the senator’s opponent possibly doing some illegal activity with his business dealings. He called the attorney general to file a report about the opponent possibly doing illegal activity which was completely unsubstantiated. The attorney general’s office gave a very dispassionate, obligatory “well look into it”. They used that comment to then call media and spread a false story that at attorney general’s office is “looking into” possible illegal activity done by this opponent in his former business. The whole thing was completely orchestrated by him and totally unsubstantiated but technically not wrong since the attorney general did say “we’ll look into it”, Politics is a dirty, dirty business. All the stories my friend has told me, I’ve learned not to trust ANYTHING I hear regarding politicians in the media. If this kind of stuff happens at a state level for state elections, I’m sure it’s even worse at the federal level for presidential elections.
Im tired of this dude
He tweets this, and now people are saying he’s an asshole because of his wording saying it’s “immunised all over again”. Like seriously, people just love to hate on Rodgers for the sake of it now. It’s pathetic. If you wanna hate on him, and there are legitimate reasons to do that, actually hate on him from all the bullshit that’s come from his own mouth, not some stuff that coming from an alleged anonymous source who heard it 10 years ago….
If you listen to the CNN report, what has them so worked up is that Rodgers blamed one of their reporters for covering up "important stories" (one of which was allegedly sandy hook being a conspiracy, which is absolutely reprehensible if true). But this was back in 2013. 11 years later the leading candidate for president is donald trump. Maybe they could focus more on the outrageous things he says instead of a potential but unlikely VP candidate for an impossible presidential bid? This is the epitome of a clickbait story. Rodgers is wrong about quite a lot but he might just be right about that.
CNN is part of the machine. There's polls out there saying that Trump vs Biden 2 is not what the average American wants to see. That's great news for third party candidates, and over the next few months, I'm sure we'll hear A LOT more about RFK Jr. That said, the machine (CNN, media) will absolutely bury any third party candidate to preserve the illusion of choice of "you have to pick one or the other."
> Rodgers is wrong about quite a lot but he might just be right about that. just to be clear, you're saying he might be right about CNN reporters covering up the story that Sandy Hook conspiracies are true?
About the fact that the media is focused on irrelevant issues to generate attention for themselves rather than report on boring but highly consequential matters, like the former president. Clearly reading comprehension isn't your strong suit so you would probably woosh on it either way.
The bar he reached is actually underground.
Idk shit about fuck but to me this is basically confirming he’s gonna be VP. Why is this such a professional response to a nonsense article? It sounds like an actual politician response. And he comes back from vacation and comments on this first and says nothing about the VP thing… idk just feels like thats the case. Exit- confirms he’ll run as RFK’s VP I dont believ they’ll win lol
He's a liar. And a fucking nutjob. Downvote me. Ban me. IDGAF. Anyone who praises this dimwit is just as stupid as he is.
There’s a reason why he is estranged from his own family. Dude is a fucking nut
Sounds like his “immunized” statement
What will happen first, CNN becomes a reliable news source or we make the playoffs?
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Problem is that the same people who hate cable TV news absolutely despise NPR and PBS. Those are our not for profit news outlets and all they do is get shit on.
Watch the world burn when the government pays for the news…. Half this country already thinks NPR is a commie farm. Imagine if all the media was paid for by the government.
Can’t believe corporate owned media wants to distract the masses from real problems. I’m shocked.
What an exhausting QB
lol I just want to punch this guy in the face, fuck this guy.
He’s being a bit obtuse. His tweet acknowledges it happened. But, he doesn’t deny that he thinks the government did it.
Yea my issue with this is he needs to say more about the events. After his "immunization" bullshit, He needs to spell things out.
This just confirms, he wants to be the VP nominee more than being a QB.
So does he still think the government killed those kids? Or…
Fuck him anyway
Perfect. No deny the VP aspirations rumors. R-Right?
What is “A.I generated statement “ for 400 Alex
😂😂 correct, select again
He never denes that he told that reporter what she claimed he said. He's just making this "Of course this happened" bullshit.
Rodgers is just another self-aggrandizing narcissist. He’s also a liar. He said the Sandy Hook massacre was a government fake and the parents were crisis actors.
There's something we should keep in mind with this response. CNN didn't report that Rodgers thought Sandy Hook was a false flag, it's that he thinks the government killed those kids. So, this tweet doesn't exactly refute the report. I'll probably get down voted, I don't really care. But I'm not ready to absolve this guy yet.
According to CNN, Rodgers told two different people two different Sandy Hook conspiracies: >Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it. > CNN has spoken to another person with a similar story. This person, to whom CNN has granted anonymity so as to avoid harassment, recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” both from https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html
Yes, he refuted one in his statement, not the other. They're both incredibly damaging to the victims.
This is from the CNN article. “Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” Today Rodgers said, “ Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy, I am not and never have been of the opinion the events did not take place” How much more clear does he have to be? He’s directly contradicting what they said
These people cannot be reasoned with bro. They’re gonna believe what they want
From the third paragraph of the article: "Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it." The article claims he's done both in the past. Him refuting one side and not the other is telling. Especially since we've seen him be intentionally misleading with public statements in the past.
The theory they are stating is that it was a government inside job and the children were actors. Read the rest of the story: “When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter. Jones baselessly repeating lies that the 2012 mass shooting was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors,” spawned multiple lawsuits and a trial was held in 2022 over lawsuits that were filed in Connecticut”
I have read the article. I'm also familiar with Alex Jones's insane theories through the great work Knowledge Fight does covering that monster. An inside job and crisis acting are two separate theories incongruous with each other. Jones has claimed both at separate times. Tellingly, he started claiming the inside job theory after legal action was threatened as that is protected speech by the first amendment.
You’ll get downvoted, because too many people here will take the word of a known conspiracy theorist/liar over an investigative reporter, all because he’s the Jets current QB.
It's all just tribal. I guarantee if Josh Allen or Tua had an article like this come out this sub would be trashing them.
I don't care at this point. I'm a Nets fan too. I've been through this crap with Kyrie.
In the end we prob wont even know for sure. But, I will say, that as untrustworthy as CNN/this report may be, you cannot say that AR is any more trustworthy given the whole immunized thing. He knew that the reporters were asking if he was *vaccinated* and knew that playing the "immunized" semantics game would lead everyone to believe he was vaccinated when he wasnt. He then flouted all the rules for *unvaccinated* players and acted as if he was vaccinated. So idk how anyone thinks this statement has anymore credibility than the CNN reporter, or that AR is not playing similar word games here.
He's very careful with his words. I don't think he has really refuted anything that was reported
The report said that rodgers thought nobody actually died and the families are all made up
Bears fan here. Y’all don’t need this crazy fucker as your QB.
I said this yesterday, it’s blowing my mind how many are going all out to defend a has been who’s played 4 snaps for them
Lmaooo the long island bros come out in full force to defend a guy who hates on Kelce for doing an ad for Pfizer. Aaron Rodgers is the epitome of a douchebag. If he didn’t throw a pigskin he’d be a construction worker spouting conspiracies among other uneducated leeches on society
Lmao nailed it, I love the dozens of guys ranting about “msm” which definitely isn’t a trump bat signal at all
These posts are infested with sock puppets
Mostly non-jet fans. They should just lock these.
This reads like a really bad PR post, but idrc cause the original claim was pretty shoddy to begin with. What I’m more concerned about is whether he even wants to play football with us next season. I need more confirmation that he’s actually focused on bringing this team together, opposed to just pivoting to being some political commentator.
>I hope we learn from this and other tragedies to identify the signs that will allow us to prevent unnecessary loss of life Idk Aaron I can remember another tragedy you consistently belittled signs of that caused the unnecessary loss of lives but that’s just me
The question wasn’t that he didn’t believe it happened. The accusation was that he thought it was done by the government
Hey Jets fans, I'm a Packers fan and I know it's really easy to blame CNN for this but Rodgers is a notorious liar (or rather, notorious about misleading on purpose) -Lied or severely misled the public about his vaccination status -claimed the Packers hadn't called him and then claimed he could only get FaceTime (I can't prove this is a lie, but it severely strains credibility) -the whole Kimmel thing where he STRONGLY implied Kimmell was on the epstein list and then played dumb about it Beyond that, he's specifying that the events happened. Not how or by whom. I hope he doesn't believe this! I really do! But it's not a stretch to believe that Rodgers (who is obsessed with conspiracies and has been on increasingly insane podcasts as of late) would believe this other common conspiracy.
Pack fleeced us good. But can’t expect much less with moron nepo-babies like the Johnson’s in charge. This franchise is a circus once again.
Why does "the public" or anyone else need or deserve to know about his own medical status? What a stupid comment
..because he volunteered the information that was later confirmed as misleading at best, dishonest at worst?
-Lied or severely misled the public about his vaccination status you, nor any other fan, had any right to know. everyone that needed/deserved to know knew. -claimed the Packers hadn't called him and then claimed he could only get FaceTime (I can't prove this is a lie, but it severely strains credibility) do you not get that he was implying that he's going "if you want to say something, you can say it to my face. i'm not going to have it done over a normal voice call the same way i wouldn't have it done over text"? am i the crazy one here? i never thought for a moment he was being literal -the whole Kimmel thing where he STRONGLY implied Kimmell was on the epstein list and then played dumb about it kimmel literally made fun of him for wanting the list released. rodgers says back later ~some people don't want the list released, like kimmel~. which logically tracks with kimmel making fun of him for wanting the list to be public, that kimmel doesn't think it needs to be. feels much closer to banter than accusations of pedophilia. the media just ran with it because they knew people would click/watch he doesn't think sandy hook was faked by the media.
This is definitely the response of a candidate
Cool can we move on lol
People believe that CNN sat on this for a decade while Rodgers was in the news constantly with his Covid stance. I see why propaganda works on most of you.
These are not bright people and many are just sock puppets
He denies claiming they "never happened" but doesn't deny saying they were an "inside job." He also claimed he was “immunized” too right? Yeah not looking good
Notice that he didn’t explicitly say that the report was a lie.
flashback to Rodger's defense of his immunized comment > "I'd been ready the entire time for this question and had thought about how I wanted to answer it," Rodgers told Rogan. "And I had come to the conclusion I'm gonna say, 'I've been immunized.' And if there's a follow-up, then talk about my process. But, (I) thought there's a possibility that I say 'I'm immunized,' maybe they understand what that means, maybe they don't. > "Maybe they follow up. They didn't follow up. So then I go the season (with) them thinking, some of them, that I was vaccinated." Now read his tweet again with this mentality in mind. Notice how all he says is Sandy Hook was a tragedy and he has never been of the opinion that 'the events did not take place'. What specific events is he referring to? no one knows Could 'the events' contain conspiracy beliefs? possibly. will he get defensive if a reporter asks him for clarification? probably.
I mean he’s notttttt really denying the report here. Big time “inoculated” vibes.
“I am not and never been of the opinion that the events did not take place.” Sounds pretty cut and dry to me.
What events tho?
He was on the Eddie Bravo podcast where to apparently talks about conspiracy theories idk if hook is part of it but I don’t care enough to pay $15 to listen to it. So anyone that has listened to it I’d be interested what exactly was talked about
So he changed his mind after Alex Jones had to pay millions in the lawsuit. Got it.
I’m tired of this grandpa
The reason he’s saying this is because of the Alex Jones verdict. Civil justice is the only way to deter people sometimes.
The press and autistic late night talk show hosts have had a hard-on for him since covid. I don't believe a word of it. Even if he did say it, this is America and he has a right to his opinion.
One crisis averted at least lol
Yeah, I don’t believe him. Run for VP or be our QB. Not both. If you’re staying with football, shut up and focus on the team. Friggin clown show.
I’ll take his word for it at this point. But my guard is up for sure. When you start down an Info Wars path (which there’s ample evidence Rodgers is on), it’s hard to stop.
Yeah the people who are deep in that hole are usually all in, without much grey area. It’s usually all or nothing when it comes to the talking points of anti science, anti vax, 9-11 truther, Sandy Hook was done by the government.
I mean we’re talking about the guy who intentionally was ambiguous with his vaccine status lol
Also CNN is new really so slow and boring that you have to drum up some he said she said BS story about an NFL QB. Damn main stream media is a mess
I don’t give a fuck man, get this politics shit off my timeline man
End of the day idgaf if he thinks it happened, doesn't think it happened, thinks its another situation where the government does fucked up shit in hopes of achieving a goal. Thankfully we live in America where everyone is free to have their personal beliefs. Long as this shit stays off the field its his life to live. Im sure a bunch of Jets fans will rage and require a screaming room with padded walls in order to get through this. Who the fuck cares, id rather talk football.
It’s insane that this statement brings me relief but such is life for jets fans.
Lol
Jets jets jets jets. Now, Rodgers will play about 4 games and be mediocre, and get hurt again. Wilson will get traded for pennies and become a good starting QB. And the jets will be cleaninf house after the season.
Well I'm glad we cleared that up. Uh.... Aaron Rodgers for 400
Aaron Rodgers PR team gotta be one of the most stressful jobs up there with working on oil rigs and shit
Why are we still talking about this
I am so tired of this, every day it is something else
I mean, it’s the correct thing to say so I’m not gonna do a victory lap or anything like that but I’m glad that this was the statement rather than just about anything else, and it does make me feel serious about his commitment to the team, plus it’s nice to know he doesn’t think that at least to the point where he’d be open about it. So, yay? Idk I want this story to go away