CNN Anchor Pamela Brown Outs Aaron Rodgers as Sandy Hook Conspiracist

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cnn-anchor-pamela-brown-names-aaron-rodgers-as-sandy-hook-conspiracist

CNN Anchor Pamela Brown Outs Aaron Rodgers as Sandy Hook Conspiracist
‘DISTURBING’
Matt Young
Night Editor
Published Mar. 13, 2024 8:45PM EDT

It seems Aaron Rodgers’ conspiracies know no bounds. Just a day after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the NFL quarterback was on Kennedy’s short list for vice-president, a CNN anchor alleged the New York Jets quarterback has shared widely debunked theories questioning whether the 2012 Sandy Hook shootings were faked. In January, CNN’s chief investigative correspondent Pamela Brown described an encounter with Rodgers, who “was spewing a very disturbing, debunked conspiracy theory to me” when she first met him in 2013. She did not name that theory until Wednesday, when Brown described her meeting with Rogers—who was then playing for the Green Bay Packers—at a post-Kentucky Derby party that same year. The report claims that Rodgers confronted Brown when he heard that she was a CNN journalist, claiming the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting—which killed 20 children and 6 adults—was an inside job and that the media was deliberately ignoring the facts. When Brown questioned those facts, Rodgers is said to have spouted examples which have proven to be false, according to the report. “Brown found the encounter disturbing,” it said. Another unidentified source claimed that Rodgers said at another time: “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.” The Daily Beast has contacted Rodgers’ agent for comment.

[hlthe2b]

1. If the media does not likewise confront RFK JR on this, they should close up shop and leave the airwaves.

[NYC2ATL]

27. I wouldn't hold my breath

If I were you.

[SergeStorms]

2. Rogers is a complete asshole.

Can New York Jets fans accept this bullshit from their supposed quarterback?
If Rogers is going to be RFK Jr's. running mate, isn't there quite a bit of conflict of interest there? 🤔

I'm loathe to wish bad fortune on anyone, but in Roger's case I'll make an exception. I hope his leg is broken on the first play from scrimmage this year as well. Asshole! 😠

[lastlib]

19. I wouldn't shed many tears.....

...if he had an Alex Smith/JoeTheisman-type of injury that put him out for good.

[SergeStorms]

25. Ugh....

I still remember Theisman's leg being broken on-field. 🤢 It was sickening to watch. That was back in the days when they'd show stuff like that on TV over, and over, and over again. Now they cut to commercial almost immediately.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

34. I was watching that game.

Seeing that can still make me nauseous.

[brush]

3. Rogers is a foolishly susceptible sponge for the crazier conspiracy theories out there.

Before this denial of the Sandy Hook shootings, he was dis-invited from his regular appearances on “The Pat McAfee Show” for the then remaining part of the NFL season for baselessly suggesting late night television host Jimmy Kimmel had connections to sexual abuser Jeffery Epstein.

He's also a well known anti-vaxxer, and a 9/11 doubter also.

The guy's brain is a hot, susceptible mess. The Jets can't possibly keep this creep.

[Botany]

9. I don't see him as having much of an NFL career left. Good he is anti vax idiot.

The man is 40 years old and that is much older than the average age of a NFL QB,
he has been injured and either out or not playing as well because of his injuries, a
clubhouse cancer, and an asshole too. And he used to be seen endorsing products
and services all the time but not any longer.

[brush]

10. Agreed. Once he started letting people know who/what he really is...

people found out that there's less there than we thought.

[Botany]

17. Jimmy Kimmel's profile of Roger's real biography was brutal

He only got into the University of California as a Jr. College transfer, didn’t graduate,
along with other crap such as his own family doesn’t like him.

Roger’s repeating Russian produced misinformation about vaccines and basic biology
Is just nauseating. My micro biology is years old but Aaron’s information is just pure
crap. I remember he was once speaking about his understanding of “self immunity”
and started almost screaming “that is not the way it works.”

[xmas74]

39. His dad is just as bad

He's a chiropractor who also is a conspiracy theorist. Supposedly the biggest part of the rift was back when he was with Olivia Munn. The family supposedly accused her of being a gold digger and may have made racist jokes about her.

He's a jerk but he seems to have a good reason to distance himself.

[Danmel]

13. Jets ownership is just as bad

Woody Johnson is a full throated MAGA and served as TSF's ambassador to the UK

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/woody-johnson-gets-behind-donald-trump-again

So the Aaron Rodgers thing doesn't surprise me at all.

[brush]

14. Too bad. The Jets are a snake-bitten franchise, like the Clippers in basketball.

Occasionally they show promise but they always flame out.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

35. With people like they have there, I hope they stay that way

[Bucky]

4. Lord in heaven, why do you plague us with stupid people?

Too much ignorance, not enough rolled up newspapers to cure it

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

36. We need to start taking warning labels off stuff

[samnsara]

5. footballers..with all their head injuries..should NEVER

..be any where near the white house.

at least with Ice Hockey all they are missing are teeth

[lastlib]

6. He needs to go back through concussion protocol.....

....and stay there 'til November, or hell freezes over, whichever comes later.....
That is total nuck-futtery, from a total nuck-fut.

(Wouldn't hurt RFKjr to go through it, too.)

I'm coming to LOATHE that guy intensely.

[Crowman2009]

15. And at least baseball players just have joint problems and bad rotator cuffs.

[Swede]

7. ESPN paid $85m to air Aaron Rodgers' conspiracy theories

The broadcaster gave the quarterback free rein to spread misinformation on The Pat McAfee Show. And then he started taking aim at the network itself

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/jan/10/aaron-rodgers-pat-mcafee-show-anthony-fauci-nfl-jimmy-kimmel

[Lonestarblue]

8. The media needs to air RFK, Jr.'s conspiracies and beliefs as well.

I recently heard an interview where the interviewee said that his candidacy could seriously hurt Democrats because some Democratic voters associate the Kennedy name with liberal policies and haven’t really followed the RFK saga of ani-vaccination and other conspiracies.

[NoMoreRepugs]

11. My son, MBA and in his 40's started talking to me about RFK jr as if he

was an intriguing individual with interesting takes on society and its ills, damn, may have to disinherit him.

[Brother Buzz]

30. Sounds like

You like RFK jr

[senseandsensibility]

31. I got that your last comment was a joke

Seriously though, do what you can to reason with your son assuming he is open to it. If not, let it go. Life is too short, as I know from dealing with many difficult relatives.

[surfered]

12. Aaron Rogers was a regular guest...

…on the Joe Rogan’s whacky, right wing radio show. I was initially concerned the RFK, Jr candidacy would siphon off Biden votes. Now, I’m thinking they’re anti-vaccine stance might actually get Trump voters.

[SoFlaBro]

16. Eric Rodgers has always been a dumb ass motherfucker. That fuckface could barely withstand the physical part of sport.

[sop]

18. Rodgers was ridiculed after saying he was "still looking into the science" about Covid-19 years ago.

The guy is notorious for making goofy statements about all sorts of things. Sports media has been covering for him because he won the Super Bowl back in 2011, but that's about to end.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. Every Morning, I Watch The Simulcast...

...of the ESPN radio show Unsportsmanlike.
All three of the crew (Evan Cohen, Chris Canty & Michelle Smallmon) are very rough on Rodgers.
They're equally critical of Jets management for ceding so much power to this loudmouthed know-it-all.
This is their flagship radio show & Rodgers gets no love. The former NFL player of the trio speaks of him with an obvious disgust & loathing.

[bluesbassman]

20. From now on, anyone confronting me with the viability of RFK Jr as President..

Is going to get two words: Rogers and Ventura. Anybody who would seriously consider either these two whack jobs as a vice president is either a whack job themself, or a complete moron. Neither condition qualifies them for President. You are the company you keep.

[zeusdogmom]

32. At least Ventura has some governmental experience as governor of MN

MN survived his term but I can’t imagine him as VP, a heartbeat away from being president

What a goat rope

[returnee]

21. Any who thinks Aaron Rodgers...

…is qualified to be VP (and by extension POTUS) is out of his freaking mind.

[Sky Jewels]

22. JFC...

That guy is just a full-fledged LOON.

[Cha]

23. TY & Pamela Brown!

[Elessar Zappa]

24. And to think I used to think Rodgers was smart.

Boy was I mistaken.

[RockRaven]

28. When his inevitable denials and dissembling starts (actually it has already)

remember the source of those denials is Aaron Fucking Rodgers and pay them no mind.

[jcgoldie]

29. Aaron Rodgers is a complete idiot...

...who thinks he's smarter than everyone else.

[central scrutinizer]

33. Packers fan

“Wow, Brett Favre is a real asshole.”

Aaron Rodgers, “Hold my beer.”

[purr-rat beauty]

37. Maybe assholes like this....

should be exposed to that horrific essay which included the images of the aftermath from many mass shootings

it is absolutely devastating, unbelievable anyone could think otherwise.

fuck him