Rodgers vs. Bradshaw: Who’s the REAL liar?



In the wake of the nearly universal media condemnation of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, BlazeTV host Jason Whitlock took aim at one particular critic: Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Terry Bradshaw.

On the Fox Sports NFL pregame show Sunday, Bradshaw accused Rodgers of lying about his COVID-19 vaccine status and then catching the virus.

"I'd give Rodgers some advice: It would've been nice if he'd have just come to the Naval Academy and learn how to be honest," Bradshaw said from a temporary set at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. "Because that's what you did, Aaron. You lied to everyone," he added.

Rodgers has been under fire since he tested positive for COVID on Wednesday after saying in August that he is "immunized."

"Bradshaw's rebuke of Rodgers made news everywhere. Bradshaw's cohorts at Fox Sports joined their senior colleague in criticizing Rodgers, who missed Sunday's game while recovering from COVID and following NFL protocols. The Fox Sports gang served as an exclamation point to ESPN's week-long condemnation of the reigning league MVP," began Jason on the latest episode of "Fearless."

"Rodgers is universally hated because he misled the public about his personal health. Rodgers' alleged 'lie' did not harm anyone as far as we know. He didn't pass the coronavirus to a teammate, a secretary, a janitor, a cheerleader, or an assistant coach. He duped the media. That's his crime," Jason argued.

"Kaepernick contributed to a false narrative about policing. He helped foster the lie that American police officers are wildly and randomly killing large numbers of black men during routine stops. Kaepernick increased America's racial divide and politicized the lone area of American culture — sports — that had been relatively free of political polarization," he added.

Jason went on to compare Bradshaw's comments about Rodgers to those he has made about polarizing quarterback Colin Kaepernick in recent years, concluding that "we live in a society defined by the lies supported on social media."

"In this country, medical conditions and procedures were intended to remain private between a doctor and a patient. In a year's time, COVID hysteria erased a long-held standard related to medical privacy. AIDS didn't erase medical privacy. COVID, a disease with a 99 percent survival rate, erased medical privacy," he said.

Former Missouri Tiger wide receiver T.J. Moe joined the show to explain the widespread perception athletes have of COVID and Rodgers' comments about the vaccines.

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Whitlock: Terry Bradshaw and sports media establishment unfairly target Aaron Rodgers



Even at age 73 and four decades removed from his last meaningful game, Terry Bradshaw remains the most important voice discussing America's national pastime, professional football.

From his perch as the lead analyst on the Fox Sports NFL pregame show, Bradshaw is football's Walter Cronkite. For football people, losing Bradshaw's support is the equivalent of Cronkite losing faith in the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson following the Tet offensive.

On Sunday, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers lost Bradshaw. The Hall of Fame quarterback took a massive dump on Rodgers for intentionally misleading about his vaccination status.

"I'd give Aaron Rodgers some advice," Bradshaw said from a temporary set at a military academy. "It would have been nice if he'd just come to the Naval Academy and learned how to be honest. Learned not to lie. Because that's what you did, Aaron. You lied to everyone."

Bradshaw's rebuke of Rodgers made news everywhere. Bradshaw's cohorts at Fox Sports joined their senior colleague in criticizing Rodgers, who missed Sunday's game while recovering from COVID and following NFL protocols. The Fox Sports gang served as an exclamation point to ESPN's week-long condemnation of the reigning league MVP.

The sports media establishment has spoken. Aaron Rodgers is a gutless, selfish liar unworthy of defense or sympathy. He's a pariah. Prevea Health dropped Rodgers as a spokesman. This past Sunday, State Farm Insurance slashed its use of Rodgers in its national TV commercials. After weeks of appearing in 25% of its commercials, Rodgers appeared in just 1.5% of the insurance company's ads.

Aaron Rodgers is well on his way to being the new Colin Kaepernick, a polarizing quarterback taking an unpopular stance. There are differences, however. Rodgers is the main reason the Packers win games. The team was on a seven-game winning streak before Sunday's loss to the Chiefs. Kaepernick lost 16 of his final 19 NFL starts. The other major difference is that Kaepernick never lost the support of Terry Bradshaw or the sports media establishment.

Kaepernick remains beloved by the sports media establishment. Outsiders criticized Kaepernick and were vilified as anti-black racists for doing so. President Trump ripped national anthem protesters. Fox News pundits chastised Kaepernick and his supporters.

The sports world circled the wagons around Kap. NFL owners joined players in taking a knee. NFL owners financed criminal justice vanity projects for players. Roger Goodell arranged a special audition for Kaepernick. The league eventually paid Kaepernick several million dollars to go away. Nike hired Kaepernick as a pitch man and created a signature shoe line. The establishment has hosted a five-year pity party for a quarterback with a career losing record, no Pro Bowl appearances, and no real desire to play football.

If Aaron Rodgers was as mediocre a quarterback as Kaepernick, the Packers would cut Rodgers today and Terry Bradshaw would join Jemele Hill, Bomani Jones, Dan Le Batard, Stephen A. Smith, Skip Bayless, and Keith Olbermann in applauding the decision.

Rodgers is universally hated because he misled the public about his personal health. Rodgers' alleged "lie" did not harm anyone as far as we know. He didn't pass the coronavirus to a teammate, a secretary, a janitor, a cheerleader, or an assistant coach. He duped the media. That's his crime.

Kaepernick contributed to a false narrative about policing. He helped foster the lie that American police officers are wildly and randomly killing large numbers of black men during routine stops. Kaepernick increased America's racial divide and politicized the lone area of American culture — sports — that had been relatively free of political polarization.

When it comes to negative influence on American culture, who or what has done more damage: Rodgers' vaccine status or Kaepernick's knee?

It's not even close.

But we live in a society defined by the lies supported on social media. Jan. 6 was Pearl Harbor. Men are really women if they believe it in their minds. George Floyd is a hero. Black Lives Matter cares about black men. The flu disappeared and 700,000 people died of COVID.

When untruth becomes endemic to a culture, we should not be surprised that good people resort to deception.

Aaron Rodgers is Jack Nicholson in the movie "A Few Good Men." Rodgers misled because he has no faith that the media can handle the truth. In this country, medical conditions and procedures were intended to remain private between a doctor and a patient. In a year's time, COVID hysteria erased a long-held standard related to medical privacy. AIDs didn't erase medical privacy. COVID, a disease with a 99 percent survival rate, erased medical privacy.

Rodgers is unworthy of defense and empathy? He's a pariah. Why?

Because we're being trained and programmed never to challenge government authority. The consequences of disobedience are being spelled out for all to see.

The establishment loves Colin Kaepernick. Even Terry Bradshaw is forced to feign appreciation for Kap and express disdain for Rodgers.

We live in a world defined by lies.

'You lied to everyone': Terry Bradshaw blasts unvaccinated Aaron Rodgers for saying he was 'immunized,' calls ivermectin 'cattle dewormer'



Legendary former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw took current NFL star quarterback Aaron Rodgers to the verbal woodshed Sunday, ripping the unvaccinated Green Bay Packers' signal-caller for saying he was "immunized" against COVID-19 and then catching the virus.

What are the details?

Bradshaw made his statements about Rodgers in front of a cheering throng of cadets at U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, as "Fox NFL Sunday" broadcasted remotely from the military installation in the run-up to Veterans Day.

And Bradshaw can play to a crowd as well as he used to throw a football.

"I'd give Rodgers some advice: It would've been nice if he'd have just come to the Naval Academy and learn how to be honest," Bradshaw said, after which the camera switched to the cheering uniformed cadets, apparently loving the shout-out from the Hall of Famer.

Apparently affirmed, Bradshaw continued to scold Rodgers, telling him he should "learn not to lie because that's what you did, Aaron. You lied to everyone. I understand 'immunized,' but what you were doin' was taking stuff that would keep you from gettin' COVID-19 — you got COVID-19."

Bradshaw then repeated the falsehood that "ivermectin is a cattle dewormer; sorry, folks, that's what it is." What the former QB — and many others boasting large platforms — failed to say is that ivermectin is not a "cattle dewormer" when prescribed for human consumption by medical doctors.

"We are a divided nation politically. We are a divided nation on the COVID-19 — whether or not to take the vaccine — and unfortunately we got players that pretty much think only about themselves, and I'm extremely disappointed in the actions of Aaron Rodgers," Bradshaw added.

Bradshaw's comments begin at the 1-minute mark:

The discussion on FOX about the Rodgers situation\n\nJimmy: "I'm disappointed in his selfish actions."\n\nHowie: "Possibly putting your teammates in jeopardy is selfish."\n\nTerry: "Let me give Rodgers some advice, it be nice if he came to the Navel academy and learn how to be honest."pic.twitter.com/O9rT6kDNXm

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) 1636305317

It wasn't the first time Bradshaw maybe talked just a little bit too much.

In January he implied during a "Fox NFL Sunday" broadcast that co-hosts and fellow Hall of Famers Michael Strahan and Howie Long used steroids during their careers — after which Bradshaw apologized.

In 2019, he apologized to fellow "Masked Singer" judge Ken Jeong for calling him "the little short guy from Japan."

In 2012, Bradshaw apologized for saying during a "Fox NFL Sunday" show that running back Reggie Bush looked "like he was chasing a bucket of chicken" during a touchdown run.

What's the background?

Rodgers last week was barred from playing Sunday's game against the Kansas City Chiefs due to testing positive for COVID-19. The Packers lost to the Chiefs 13-7 in Rodgers' absence.

Arguably the biggest issue was that Rodgers previously said he was "immunized" when he was unvaccinated.

On Friday, Rodgers explained on "The Pat McAfee Show" that he has an allergy to an ingredient in the mRNA vaccines and consulted with doctors on a personal protocol, which is what he meant by "immunized."

Rodgers added to the show's hosts that "everyone on the squad knew I was not vaccinated, everyone in the organization knew I wasn't vaccinated. I wasn't hiding it from anybody." He added that he wanted the issue "to go away" and to avoid ongoing chatter about it.

He also said some media members knew he wasn't vaccinated and were "sitting on it for a couple of months."

'Woke mob' is conducting a 'witch hunt'

In addition, Rodgers blasted leftists for being against vaccines under former President Donald Trump and then loving them once President Joe Biden took office — to the point where the "woke mob" is conducting a "witch hunt."

"When Trump in 2020 was champion[ing] these vaccines that were coming so quick, what did the left say?" Rodgers said. "And I'm talking about every member of the left: 'Don't trust the vaccine, don't get the vaccine, you're gonna die from the vaccine.' And then what happened? Biden wins, and everything flips. Shouldn't that initially give you a little bit of pause ... isn't this s**t about health and not about, like, politics?"

Indeed, the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris and MSNBC host Joy Reid are in that very left-wing camp of vaccine skeptics under Trump turned vaccine promoters under Biden.

Anything else?

During an appearance on McAfee's show last month, Rodgers absolutely destroyed the "woke mob" as well as "cancel culture" that's focused on "silencing" and "shrinking" others.

"Now the rules of the game are that you must acquiesce with the woke mob at all times. You must," he said, before bringing a little zen to the mix. "However, when you live above the game, the game does not exist — and, Pat, that's where I'm at. I'm not a part of this game that's being played. This game is being played out by these individuals. And I see it, I hear it, but to me it's comedy."