Aaron Rodgers of the New York Jets is shown on the sideline, Sunday December 24, 2023.
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NEW YORK — Aaron Rodgers is clapping back at Jimmy Kimmel
“I think it’s impressive a man who went to Arizona State and has 10 joke writers can read off a prompter,” Rodgers said, firing back at Kimmel after the show host went after Rodgers’ intelligence.
Rodgers also cleared up his comments about Kimmel in which he “insinuated” the host was on the Jeffrey Epstein island.
“He comes out and says I’m an overly-concussed whacko, in my opinion, because I believed there was a list and there were names on it,” Rodgers said. “I was referring to the fact that if there is a list…and there are names on it, then that would be the second time that a soft-brained, junior college student whacko…whatever else he or anyone else in the media have said about me, would be right twice.
“I totally understand how serious an accusation of pedophilia would be. For him to be upset about it, I get it. But did you watch the quote? Because that’s exactly what I said. Verbatim…I’m not stupid enough – even though you think I’m an idiot – I’m not stupid enough to accuse you of that with absolutely zero evidence.”
Rodgers’ response came a day after Kimmel delivered a 7-minute roast of the Jets quarterback, calling Rodgers “too ignorant to know how arrogant he is.”
“I’ve seen guys like him before,” Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” adding “he genuinely thinks that because God gave him the ability to throw a ball, he’s smarter than everybody else. The idea that his brain is just average is unfathomable to him. We learned during covid somehow he knows more about science than scientists.”
“A guy who went to community college, then got into Cal on a football scholarship, and didn’t graduate. Someone who never spent a minute studying the human body is an expert in the field of immunology.”
The Jets QB also called out the media as a whole for misinterpreting his comments last week, ranted about COVID, conspiracy theories, and Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“This is the game plan of the media,” Rodgers said. ““They try and cancel, and it’s not just me… If you look at all the different people who’ve been censored from the Internet, especially during covid, the canceling that went on, the censoring, using the government to try and censor people.”
Both McAfee and Rodgers wrapped up the segment saying they hoped everyone could now move on from Kimmel-Epstein story.
