Aaron Rodgers implies Jimmy Kimmel is a pedophile on national broadcast

One downside to pay increasingly lightly hinged conspiracy cranks to make weekly appearances is that they might commit a little light defmation:

In order to fully understand why Aaron Rodgers told a vicious, despicable lie about late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, saying on the “Pat McAfee Show” Kimmel had a potential connection to the list of Jeffrey Epstein‘s associates, you have to know one of the biggest things that fuels Rodgers. It’s grudges.

I’ve said this before: Rodgers is a world-class grudge holder. Everyone in the NFL knows this. He never lets any slight, no matter how small, go. “He kept grudges close to his chest,” former Packers teammate Jermichael Finley once said of Rodgers. “If you did something, he never really let it go. He always kept it close to his heart.”

There are many layers to this sordid story. How ESPN and ABC are owned by the same Disney company and the fact Rodgers potentially defamed a top star under the same corporate roof. Or how McAfee for a long time has enabled some of the worst of Rodgers’ conspiratorial, ugly instincts. Or how maybe ESPN is finally getting what it deserves having no guardrails for McAfee’s show. All of this is true.

I suspect that Fox News Nation is going to have another reason to be angry at Disney fairly quickly, and Rodgers will be able to spend a lot of time complaining about how because of CANCEL CULTURE you can’t just tell reputation-damaging lies about people you hold random grudges against on your buddy’s shoutfest anymore.

The good news for Rodgers is that in the NFL Hall of Fame voters are at least formally forbidden from considering off-field conduct.