On Tuesday, Robert Kennedy Jr hinted at the possibility of naming New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers as his running mate. He praised the NFL star as a “critical thinker.” The idea seemed a little strange because Rodgers is still playing professional football for the Jets and would be in the middle of his season during the heart of the campaign. But then on Wednesday, less than 24 hours later, CNN released a story in which reporter, Pamela Brown, claimed that 11 years ago at the Kentucky Derby, Rodgers told her that the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School “was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.” CNN, then cited an unnamed source, claiming that Rodgers had told the source that, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”
Aaron Rodgers has been in the public eye for more than 20 years, why haven’t these reporters come forward with these claims earlier? It would have been nice click bait 11 years ago. During Covid, Rodgers was very outspoken against the vaccines. These statements about Sandy Hook would have fit in nicely with his anti-vaccine stance, yet these reporters and sources never came forward with these claims. It was only after Kennedy hinted that Rodgers may be considered to be his running mate, and potentially take some votes away from Biden, did these people suddenly remember Rodgers peddled a conspiracy theory. There are no recordings of Rodgers or social media posts in which he states what they claim he believes. It is strictly hearsay. In a recent post on X, Rodgers flat out denied these accusations.
But this is the way it works. Everything is politicized, so groundless accusations are taken as fact if they serve a narrative or political agenda. E Jean Carroll claimed that she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in 1994 or 1995 or 1996, she can’t decide exactly what year, but sometime in the 1990’s, but she said absolutely nothing to no one about the assault for 20 years until after Donald Trump decided to run for President as a Republican. She has provided zero corroborating evidence, but the media takes her accusations as fact. Donald Trump was a multi-billionaire in the 1990’s but she kept her mouth shut until he ran for President, why? A civil judgement against Trump back then would have made her millions, but curiously, she said absolutely nothing to no one.
Likewise, in 2018, Christine Blasey Ford accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her 30 years before, and we had to hold a public investigation into these accusations during his Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Like Ms. Carroll, Christine Ford could not tell what day, what month, what year, the alleged assault occurred, and provided not a shred of corroborating evidence to support her claim. It was a 30-year-old accusation based on the word of a hyper-partisan leftwing zealot, and the media actually took it seriously.
September 3, 2020, The Atlantic magazine wrote an article, citing an anonymous source, claiming that when Donald Trump was in Paris in 2018 to visit a cemetery where United States fallen soldiers from World War 2 were buried, Trump said, “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” The anonymous source never came forward to put his or her name on the accusation, and not one of the over 20 people who were on the trip to France with Trump, confirmed that he said such a thing, but the media ran with it anyway and reported it as fact, just as they have reported Aaron Rodgers’ alleged statements about Sandy Hook as fact, and the never proven sexual assault accusations against Kavanaugh and Trump as fact. It is never about the facts or the truth; it is always about politics and the narrative.
In early February, the media reported that a “nonbinary” teenager Nex Benedict, was beaten to death in a high school bathroom in Oklahoma by two transphobic bullies. Vigils were held across the nation in Nex’s honor decrying the ongoing violence against the LGBTQ community. But after the autopsy and toxicology report was released this week, it has been determined that Nex died by a suicide drug overdose and was not beaten to death by transphobic bullies. Joe Biden, always willing to exploit a tragedy, issued a lengthy statement immediately after the release of the autopsy saying, “Jill and I are heartbroken… Every young person deserves to have the fundamental right and freedom to be who they are, and feel safe”, and stated “to all LGBTQI+ Americans for whom this tragedy feels so personal, know this: I will always have your back.”
Biden never released a statement after the death of Laken Riley, and only mentioned her murder during his State of the Union address because representative Marjorie Taylor Green called him out on it. Biden has not released a statement about Kaylee Gain, the 15-year-old, Missouri high school student who was beaten into a coma by a fellow student and the entire incident was caught on video tape. Biden never released statements about these tragedies because they don’t fit his narrative. Laken Riley was a white girl murdered by a Hispanic illegal alien who he let into the country, and Kaylee Gain is a white girl who was brutally beaten by a much larger and stronger black girl. Biden said nothing about either tragedy because there was no identity politics angle for him to play. Biden doesn’t care about Nex Benedict; he doesn’t care about Laken Riley; he doesn’t care about Kaylee Gain. He only cares about exploiting the identity politics narratives that boast his reelection chances.
New York governor, Kathy Hochul has said that Republicans are now responsible for the border crisis. Think about that. Under the last Republican President, border crossings were at a 30-year low. The Democrat President takes office, and undoes every single one of the Republican President’s border policies, and number of illegal immigrants entering our country every year increases by 500%. We are being overrun at the border, and Kathy Hochul blames the Republicans because they wouldn’t vote for a Democrat bill that doesn’t close the border, but ensures that 1.8 million illegal immigrants will enter this country every year for eternity. And we wonder why nobody believes anything that any of these people say anymore? Every one of them lies. We can’t scratch our heads and wonder why social media is such a toxic cesspool.
Everybody lies, and we wonder why people are conspiracy theorists. When the media continually lies and lies and lies to the American people on behalf of a political party or on behalf of a political agenda, the seeds of skepticism are sown across the country. People no longer take the news reporting on face value. No body believes what politicians tell us anymore. Our country was torn apart by over 500 riots for 6 months because the politicians and media lied to us about the death of George Floyd. He wasn’t strangled to death by a racist police officer as we were told; he died of a drug overdose. This is the reason why there are conspiracy theories and conspiracy theorists. The media and the people in power lie. They lie over and over and over again. So, most people do not believe the media or the powers to be even when they’re telling the truth. It is not the conspiracy theorist’s fault that he believes in conspiracy theories; it is the fault of every person in the public eye or in a position of power, who have continually lied to the people. So, Aaron Rodgers and Robert Kennedy Jr, are just the product of this deceitful media environment that mocks Rodgers and Kennedy – their creations.
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J Garrett is a graduate from Princeton University. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.
JG - Thank you once again for your brave Patriotic efforts all these years!
I must not forget to add the commie main stream blame-free, brain-free media wackos to the traitors who must be tarred and feathered. Along with myriad other cowardly perverts you have exposed throughout the years. These media freaks should be at front of the tar and feather parade.. for at least 6 months. Then it will be time to punish them all.
Sam DNA Dehne
In sum, we are living in a golden era-- so boasts Brandon and his DemoRat, media, and justice system supporters, e.g., Fani, Garland and Wray... We would all be in seriously deep brown were it not for the invisible fact that we get to leave this sordid play when we pass-- and then the relief will add to our joy in returning home. Personally, I can only take so much happiness, so I'll likely volunteer to come back for more testing in this hard game.