Aaron Rodgers isn’t being cancelled for falsely linking Jimmy Kimmel to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. As former ESPN host Jemele Hill sees it, he’s simply being held accountable.
‘Sir, you are not silenced,’ Hill told CNN on. ‘It’s just that people think a lot of the things that come out of your mouth are stupid.’
The controversy began last week, when the New York Jets quarterback recklessly suggested on the Pat McAfee Show that Kimmel is ‘hoping that list doesn’t come out.’
The list that Rodgers referred to is a 2015 civil defamation suit brought against deceased millionaire Jeffrey Epstein. The deposition was unveiled publicly for the first time this month and contains the names of many alleged Epstein clients, who are accused of having intercourse with underage girls. Kimmel was not named in the deposition and has maintained his innocence.
But despite his clear suggestion to the contrary, Rodgers denied linking Kimmel to Epstein, telling McAfee on Tuesday that he’s being canceled by the mainstream media: ”This is the game plan of the media, and this is what they do. They try and cancel, you know? And it is not just me.’
Jemele Hill (pictured) doesn’t think Aaron Rodgers is being canceled by the mainstream media
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t think he did anything wrong by linking Jimmy Kimmel to Jeffrey Epstein
Of course, Rodgers was accusing the mainstream media of attempting to cancel him during an interview that was being broadcast live on ESPN. What’s more, Rodgers is actually paid $1 million annually for his weekly appearances on McAfee’s show, according to the New York Post’s Andrew Marchand.
The irony of going on a nationally televised show to complain about being silenced was not lost on Hill.
‘Aaron Rodgers complaining about cancel culture and mainstream media while being platformed every week on a mainstream sports network is the most Aaron Rodgers thing ever,’ Hill wrote on X.
As Hill was quick to point out, here own former ESPN show, SC6, was canceled by the network for being overtly political.
‘The Pat McAfee show with Aaron Rodgers is what conservatives thought the SC6 was,’ Hill.
Hill joined the staff at The Atlantic as a columnist in 2018.
She caused national uproar by calling President Donald Trump a white supremacist in 2017. ESPN later suspended her for several weeks after she told NFL fans to boycott the Dallas Cowboys in protest owner Jerry Jones’ demand that his players stand for the national anthem.
Soon after, Hill and Michel Smith were removed from the 6pm edition of SportsCenter, known as SC6, which had become known more for political and cultural discourse rather than actual sports.
Kimmel launched a blistering attack on the ‘hamster brained’ football player on Monday
Aaron Rodgers appeared on Tuesday’s Pat McAfee show to address the ongoing controversy
Rodgers has faced intense criticism since Tuesday’s interview with McAfee, primarily for his continued attacks on what he called the ‘woke establishment.’
Kimmel responded to Rodgers’ latest attack on Tuesday night, telling his ABC audience that Michigan beat Washington in the national championship, adding ’34 to 13 was the score, if you believe the mainstream media..’
The quarterback responded to the uproar over his recent comments by telling McAfee on Tuesday: ‘I totally understand how serious an allegation of pedophilia would be… so for him to be upset about that, I get it.’
He continued: ‘I’m not stupid enough to accuse you of that with absolutely zero evidence, concrete evidence… that’s ridiculous.’
But at no point did he apologize for his insinuating that Kimmel might be a pedophile.
The quarterback responded to the uproar over his recent comments by telling McAfee on Tuesday: ‘I totally understand how serious an allegation of pedophilia would be… so for him to be upset about that, I get it.’
He continued: ‘I’m not stupid enough to accuse you of that with absolutely zero evidence, concrete evidence… that’s ridiculous.’
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