We reported Thursday on a hit piece from CNN’s Jake Tapper about New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, which was published one day after independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed Rodgers was on his short list of possible vice presidential picks.
The CNN story contained allegations from two sources, one being an anonymous source and the other being CNN reporter Pamela Brown, that Rodgers was a Sandy Hook mass shooting conspiracy theorist, believing it was a government-orchestrated event.
As we noted in our write-up, however, not only was the article thinly sourced and the allegations unverifiable, but the timing of it was quite convenient considering Kennedy’s earlier statement about Rodgers.
Further, there is bad blood between CNN, Tapper, and Rodgers stemming in part from Rodgers’ January comments about late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and sexual…
