In an article titled “RFK Jr’s VP prospect Aaron Rodgers has shared false Sandy Hook conspiracy theories in private conversations,” CNN anchor Pamela Brown writes, verbatim with a staff writer, “Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began 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. When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times.”
Which is fucked up of course but also weird that Brown waited more than 10 years and after RFK Jr was supposedly drafting Rodgers as a VP pick did they publish this story. Like it needed just a small, tiny sliver of political salience to be printed about a guy who was already pretty famous?