Aaron Rodgers Gets Roasted by Social Media for Specific Detail During Peyton and Eli Manning Interview

Aaron Rodgers has stirred up social media once again. The Green Bay Packers quarterback recently appeared on the Manningcast of Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli Manning. And while Rodgers didn't talk about his COVID-19 vaccination status, he did raise some eyebrows when he revealed the books he's reading. 

When Rodgers was asked what he's currently reading, he said, "Yeah, a lot of French poetry, and I've got Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand over here." Atlas Shrugged was published in 1957 and contains objectivism, which is a philosophical system created by Rand, who died in 1982. 

Justin Kirkland of Esquire said that Atlas Shrugged is "often referenced as a favorite in libertarian and conservative circles," which is one of the reasons social media went wild when Rodgers mentioned it. The book is 1,200 pages long and was panned by critics when it was first released. Kirkland went on to say that Atlas Shrugged was "the summer reading assignment we skimmed a third of before resorting to SparkNotes. You didn't need to read it, really—Blake, that guy from your junior year literature class who has big thoughts on the free market, wasn't going to let you get a word in edgewise during class discussion anyway." Here's a look at what social media had to say about Rodgers and Atlas Shrugged.