Packers defender Aaron Rodgers used one wide, 28 minutes interviewed an ESPN reporter this week to explain a wide range of topics, from his famously “immunized” remarks to his belief that he is being silenced.
He also insists that all of his comments this season come from the unedited version of himself.
“I don’t want to apologize for being who I am,” he told reporter Kevin Van Valkenburg. “I just want to be myself.”
Rodgers spoke to Van Valkenburg by phone on Thursday, two days before the Packers’ NFC preseason playoffs against the 49ers. He said he accepted the reporter’s request for an interview because he thought Van Valkenburg wanted to write a “hit” (Van Valkenburg said he had already sent the Packers questions) and Rodgers wanted against that. A first look at the tone of the interview is presented in the opening of the story when examining Rodgers’ “Atlas Shrugged” moment.
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Rodgers took the Ayn Rand novel off his bookshelf during his Week 17 appearance on ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” Manningcast, after the Manning brothers asked Rodgers what he was reading. The mere fact that the book appeared on the show was enough to infuriate everyone, and Rodgers wasted no time considering their reactions. He told Van Valkenburg that he had never read the book.
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“It’s a book,” says Rodgers. “And it’s a matter of society, is everything causing and causing discomfort. It’s a myth.”
Rodgers is constantly playing his biggest hits about what’s being triggered and how he and other skeptics are “silenced” and “censored” when it comes to COVID-19 and vaccines. He also criticized President Joe Biden for the “pandemic of unvaccinated speech” in December. He did all of this while giving an interview to the self-proclaimed Global Sports Leader.
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“Are they censoring terrorists or pedophiles? Criminals have profiles on Twitter? No, they’re censoring people and they ban people with dissenting views on vaccines,” Rodgers said. Rodgers said. “When you censor and remove anyone who questions what you believe in or what the mainstream story is, it doesn’t make any sense.”
Rodgers’ views on COVID and vaccines have plunged him into boiling water. In August, he was asked about his vaccination status; he replied that he was “vaccinated” against the virus. He told Van Valkenburg that he knew the question to come and had long calculated how he would answer.
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“I had a plan to answer that question,” Rodgers said. “It was a fake witch hunt going on – vaccinated, unvaccinated. I was in a month-long conversation that turned into the appeals process with the NFL at the time. , and my appeal is based on that exact statement [‘immunized’]. So what I said is, number 1, in fact true. I went through a multi-vaccination process. And in the end, I don’t know what you’ll call it, I’ll call it vaccination. “
Rodgers, who regularly violates NFL protocols by not wearing a mask during post-game interviews, test positive for COVID-19 in early November. He had to miss Green Bay’s loss at Kansas City in Week 9.
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