{"id":981514,"date":"2021-11-07T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T21:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=981514"},"modified":"2021-11-07T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T21:14:02","slug":"sports-media-demonize-aaron-rodgers-nearly-silent-on-nfl-player-who-killed-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sports-media-demonize-aaron-rodgers-nearly-silent-on-nfl-player-who-killed-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Media Demonize Aaron Rodgers, Nearly Silent on NFL Player Who Killed a Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsports-media-demonize-aaron-rodgers-nearly-silent-on-nfl-player-who-killed-a-woman%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=981514&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1344660850-1-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The sports media is filled with story after story attacking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers over his vaccine reluctance. Meanwhile, they\u2019ve given only perfunctory coverage to Henry Ruggs III, who killed a woman during a drunk driving crash.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers, of course, has become a target for insisting that he has allergy problems with the various coronavirus vaccines and that he won\u2019t take them for fear of having an adverse reaction. He engaged in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/05\/aaron-rodgers-on-vax-status-im-in-the-crosshairs-of-the-woke-mob-right-now\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> to explain his reasoning on Friday, but his explanations did not mollify the sports media in the least.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Las Vegas Raiders standout Henry Ruggs III was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/04\/video-nfl-player-henry-ruggs-iii-seen-sobbing-at-the-scene-of-fatal-car-crash\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrested<\/a> last week for a drunk driving crash in which a 23-year-old woman was killed when her Toyota RAV4 burst into flames after Ruggs slammed his Corvette Stingray into her car. A police report said that Ruggs was more than twice the legal blood alcohol limit and clocked, going over 150 MPH ahead of the crash.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Not only did Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/06\/aaron-rodgers-dropped-health-cae-sponsor-after-vaccine-comments\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lose<\/a> his sponsorship deal with a Wisconsin health care provider, but the sports media has spent weeks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/05\/leftists-blast-aaron-rodgers-for-consulting-joe-rogan-on-covid-treatment\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attacking<\/a> him over his comments on the vaccine and his decision to pursue alternative treatments.<\/p>\n<p>The headlines covering the two stories are telling.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Denver Post<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2021\/11\/06\/aaron-rodgers-broncos-quarterback-kickin-it\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> Rodgers \u201cwhiny,\u201d multiple stories laughed along with <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i> as the TV series attacked the quarterback, sports reporting legend Bob Costas <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/bob-costas-calls-aaron-rodgers-disingenuous-and-says-his-reputation-will-take-a-hit-064934162.html\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> Rodgers of being \u201cdisingenuous,\u201d the <i>Wisconsin State Journal<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/wsj\/print_only\/columnist\/jim-polzin-aaron-rodgers-misled-us-now-he-and-the-packers-have-an-unnecessary-midseason\/article_79b9edd5-4be2-5ff1-94a5-80eb36607ee4.html\">claimed<\/a> Rodgers \u201cmisled us,\u201d the Ringer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/2021\/11\/5\/22765333\/aaron-rodgers-lied-had-help-doing-it-plus-crt-bogeyman\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calls<\/a> Rodgers a liar. Finally, TV host Michael Strahan <a href=\"https:\/\/thespun.com\/nfl\/michael-strahan-message-aaron-rodgers\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blasted<\/a> Rodgers for invoking the name of Marin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=henry+ruggs&amp;sxsrf=AOaemvLgChnH2rpdboY76spproiPPpx4qg:1636308612612&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiHq-PM7Ib0AhXnnWoFHZIiAagQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1825&amp;bih=931&amp;dpr=2\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coverage<\/a> for Ruggs\u2019 accident is all just straight reporting, despite that he drove drunk and killed a woman. All the headlines for the Ruggs drunk driving story are straightforward. Almost no story features the journalist\u2019s finger pointing, accusing, or attacking Ruggs for his actions that resulted in the catastrophic car crash and death of an innocent woman.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sports media is filled with story after story attacking Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers over his vaccine reluctance. Meanwhile, they\u2019ve given only perfunctory coverage to Henry Ruggs III, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}