'Broken-down' Aaron Rodgers trashed on Morning Joe for Sandy Hook conspiracy lies

Reacting to reports that New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers — now being considered vice presidential material by fringe candidate Robert Kennedy Jr — has engaged in spreading "deranged" Sandy Hook conspiracies, the co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" thoroughly trashed him on Thursday morning.

On Wednesday, CNN reported the NFL player — who is becoming better known for his anti-vax rants than any exploits on the field — was overheard by CNN's Pamela Brown, "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."

On "Morning Joe," Wille Geist and Jonathan Lemire both launched into diatribes aimed at the athlete, calling him "loathsome" among other things.

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Sports Podcaster Pablo Toirre kicked off the conversation, stating, "I just want to attack this from the perspective of a Jets fan. I have a lot of takes about just what this means. Why is RFK Jr. cornering the market on 9/11 conspiracies, the Sandy Hook Democrats? The story is Aaron Rodgers happens to be a guy who told CNN's Pamela Brown, the whole thing was a conspiracy — that was the reporting. I say all of this to say: If I'm a Jet fan, how do I feel? Even beyond the human horror of what that means."

Co-host Geist then chimed in, "Kennedy and Rodgers, of course, corresponded over their vaccine skepticism, denialism. CNN highlights the conspiracy theory, allegedly shared by Aaron Rodgers about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting not being real. This is Alex Jones stuff. It is disgusting, appalling."

"It is arguably the most disgusting conspiracy theory in all of the QAnon Alex Jones world that has descended on this country the last decade or so," he continued. "John, the question for me is, at this point, if you are the New York Jets, Aaron Rodgers is a broken-down 40-year-old who won one Super Bowl a decade and a half ago. Same number of Super Bowls as Jeff Hostetler and Nick Foles. Is it worth it to have this guy? You have an awful lot of Jets fans in Newtown, Connecticut, I promise."

"Aaron Rodgers, his play was slipping in his time in Green Bay. He played four plays last year before he was injured, suffered an Achilles tendon injury we don't know how he'll bounce back," Lemire replied. "That's just the football context. It is the most loathsome conspiracy theory out there. If he believes it, he is a loathsome human being. We know from his former teammates who have told people he'd float 9/11 conspiracy theories, too, maybe the second worst conspiracy theory in American society."

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