Aaron Rodgers tries to link Jimmy Kimmel to Epstein because he's butthurt over sketch mocking him

Aaron Rodgers should work on his sense of humor. He will never have a sharp enough wit to compete with Jimmy Kimmel, but no one expects that. What would benefit Rodgers would be to learn that slanderous statements and verbal comebacks are not the same thing.

Kimmel has made fun of Rodgers for the injured QB’s take on COVID-19 and the medical profession in general. Dr. Miles Birchbark was a character from a sketch. That person is not a real boy. He is a character played by comedian Frank Caeti. The goal of the Jimmy Kimmel Live! sketch was to mock QAaron.

It was an exaggeration of his medical theories that were so ridiculous that he said in 2021, on the Pat McAfee Show, when he presented the NFL with his independent research about COVID-19 and the vaccine he said on the show, “I think they thought I was a quack.”

Rodgers said that on a national platform. Entertainers are free to make fun of him, especially when he uses the pejorative term “quack” to describe how he believes that his information was received. Responding to jokes about Rodgers’ self-described immunization by linking someone to a convicted sex offender, is not a creative license. That is slander.

Jeffrey Epstein is dead. The registered sex offender was found unresponsive in a jail cell after being arrested a second time for similar charges in 2019 — he pled guilty in 2008 to a count of soliciting prostitution and another for soliciting prostitution of someone under 18 to a Florida state court. Following his death, no conclusion came from the most recent case, but his longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, is currently serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking minors.

In late 2023, a federal judge ordered that a civil suit against Maxwell be unsealed after Jan. 1, 2024. That includes more than 100 names of people with whom she and Epstein associated. Rodgers brought that suit up on his most recent Tuesday with McAfee when he said, “A lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, are really hoping that doesn’t come out.” Kimmel responded on Xwitter by threatening to take Rodgers to court if he continued to make statements like that.

Rodgers did not jest, tease, or mock Kimmel. He associated the comedian’s name with crimes committed for inappropriate sexual interactions with minors. That is not a joke Aaron.

Dr. Birchbark was a joke. A joke that came from a writer’s room, cleared legal, and delivered to illustrate the opinion that Rodgers believed his employer already had of him. Kimmel made another joke when Rodgers previously mentioned the Epstein list when no release date was imminent. However, he did not associate the name Aaron Rodgers in any way with that registered sex offender. Kimmel simply continued to point out more quack-like behavior.

He was teasing, albeit in a more entertaining way than most non-comedians. What Rodgers said about Kimmel is defamatory. No one needs a strong sense of humor to know that baselessly associating someone with a crime is out of bounds.