Aaron Rodgers ‘Needs to Go Away’: Joe Scarborough Has Had Enough of Jets QB’s Conspiracy Theories

Joe Scarborough laced into New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers on Wednesday for continuing to push conspiracy theories during his weekly hits with ESPN’s Pat McAfee.

During Wednesday’s Morning Joe on MSNBC, co-host Willie Geist groaned at the mere mention of Rodgers’ name by Scarborough. Then Scarborough launched into a rant about Rodgers — one  day after the sidelined QB made his return to McAfee’s show in the aftermath of his evidence-free claim that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel had reason to be concerned about the unsealed list containing associates of Jeffrey Epstein:

You gotta ask, a guy who sits out all season… I heard somebody yesterday, I think it was on ESPN radio, comparing [Cincinnati Bengals quarterback] Joe Burrow to Aaron Rodgers. Joe Burrow — every week he gets hurt. What’s he doing? He’s on the sidelines. He’s at practice. He’s helping his backup quarterback. He’s talking about the team. Aaron Rodgers every Tuesday, it’s conspiracy theories with Aaron. Every Tuesday he’s trashing his coach. He’s trashing his GM. I mean, he needs to go away.

Rodgers’ behavior confounded both Scarborough and Geist, who basically painted the star QB as a guy who “lives on the internet”:

Geist: I mean, he did not apologize a week after he completely, completely slandered Jimmy Kimmel, suggesting that he was on the Epstein list. Of course he’s not. He came back on, did not apologize like a decent person would do, and say, “I’m so sorry. It was a flippant joke. I shouldn’t have said it.” He dug deeper and then went back to the Epstein list. You’re right, he’s obsessed with that for some reason. And then totally–

Scarborough: Why is he obsessed with the Epstein list?

Geist: — unprovoked and unsolicited, starts going on a rant about Anthony Fauci and the Covid vaccine, and how it’s this and that. I mean, maybe it’s because he’s had the season sitting around doing nothing. He is so deep and soaked in conspiracy theories. It seems to be all he thinks about. And, you know, he’s one of these guys, I guess, who lives on the internet. And he gets a platform because he’s famous and he says things that are wrong.

He says things that are dangerous, and he keeps getting a platform. He keeps saying it. And when given the opportunity to apologize for saying something truly awful about Jimmy Kimmel, he refused to do it. Which tells you a lot about his character.

Watch the video above via MSNBC.

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