Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers useda interview with an ESPN reporter this A.J. Bouye Jersey week to sound off on a host of topics,from his now-infamous "immunized" commentto his belief thathe's being silenced.He also insisted that all ofhis commentsthis season have comefrom the unadulterated version of himself."I don't want to apologize for being myself," he told reporter Kevin Van Valkenburg. "I just want to be myself."Rodgers spoke with Van Valkenburg by phone on Thursday, two daysbefore the Packers' NFC divisional round playoff matchup with the 49ers. He said he granted the reporter's interview request because he thought Van Valkenburg wanted to write a "hit piece" (Van Valkenburg said he submitted questions to the Packers beforehand) and Rodgers wanted to counteract that. The first glimpse into the tone of the interview was presented in the story's opening paragraphs as Rodgers' "Atlas Shrugged" moment was examined.MORE: Rodgers pulled the Ayn Rand novel from his bookshelf during a Week 17 appearance on ESPN's "Monday Night Football" Manningcast, after the brothers Manning asked Rodgers what he was reading. The mere fact the book made an appearance on the show was enough to anger people, andRodgers wasted no time opining on their reactions.He told Van Valkenburg he Matt Corral Jersey has never read the book.MORE: "It's a book. I can read something and not immediately have it overtake my personal ideologies," Rodgers said. "And that's the problem with society, is everything is triggering and offensive. It's wild."Rodgers repeatedly played his greatest hits about things being triggeringand how he and other skeptics are being "silenced" and "censored" when it comes to COVID-19 and vaccines. He Giovanni Ricci Jersey also criticized President Joe Biden for his "pandemic of the unvaccinated" comment in December. He did all this while giving an interview to the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports.MORE: "Are they censoring terrorists or pedophiles? Criminals who have Twitter profiles? No, they're censoring people, and they're shadow-banning people who have di senting opinions about vaccines," Rodgers said. "When you censor and make pariahs out of anybody who questions what you believe in or what the mainstream narrative is, that doesn't make any sense."Rodgers' stanceon COVID and vaccines have gotten him into hot water. In August, he was asked about his vaccination status; he replied that he was "immunized" against the virus.He told Van Valkenburg he knew the question was Carolina Panthers Hoodies Sweatshirts comingand had long been calculating how he'd answer.BENDER: "I had a plan going in for that question to be asked," Rodgers said. "It was a pseudo witch hunt going on who was vaccinated, who wasn't vaccinated. I was in a multimonth conversation that turned into an appeal proce s with the NFL at that time, and my appeal hinged on that exact statement 'immunized' . So what I said was, No. 1, factually true. I went through a multi-immunization proce s. And at the end of that, I don't know what you would call it, I would call it immunized."Rodgers, Marquis Haynes Jersey who routinely violated NFL protocols by not wearing a mask inpostgame interviews, for COVID-19 in early November. He had to mi s Green Bay's lo s at Kansas City in Week 9.MORE: