Fox Sports Pundit Nick Wright Completely Torches Aaron Rodgers Over Kimmel Comments: He’s a ‘Malignant Force in the Culture’
Fox Sports pundit Nick Wright once again took aim at Aaron Rodgers after the New York Jets quarterback implied Jimmy Kimmel was an associate of late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Over the last few days, the general public has been awaiting the release of documents related to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Included in those documents is a list of at least 150 people who had some sort of association with him. Many people online assume those mentioned in the documents were somehow involved in the illicit trafficking.
Rodgers appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday where he claimed Kimmel was hoping the list doesn’t come out. It was a clear implication that Kimmel would be mentioned in the documents. Not long after, Kimmel threatened to sue Rodgers for defamation and sending a mob after him and his family.
On Wednesday, McAfee issued an apology to Kimmel on air and claimed Rodgers was merely joking. The internet quickly lit up with fake documents claiming Kimmel was associated with Epstein.
Wright, despite being on ESPN’s rival network, was furious.
“The story is Aaron Rodgers, who is undeniably one of the most famous athletes in America today,” Wright said in a recent episode of his podcast What’s Wright, “arguably the single most powerful players in the single most powerful league we have, has crossed the rubicon from wacky conspiracy theory guy to malignant force in the culture.”
In that same episode where Rodgers made the Kimmel comments, he also talked about his experience with psychedelic drugs. He then accused the “alphabet gangsters” of controlling the medical industry.
Aaron Rodgers warns ESPN’s audience about “the alphabet gangsters” in the medical field pic.twitter.com/znfAjY8w8i
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) January 2, 2024
Confused, Nick Wright said he looked up the term. When he discovered it was a derogatory term used to attack the LGBTQ community, he concluded that Rodgers used it without knowing the meaning and that it got “lumped in” with Rodgers’ conspiracy theory research.
“It all is just one stew of a brain that’s been melted,” Wright said. “We’ve all become numb to the fact that who is saying it and what he’s saying. There was just, flatly, one of the greatest players we’ve ever seen in America’s favorite sport, who plays in the biggest market, who has a bigger platform than any other player in the league, more power over his team than any other player in the league.
“That guy went on national television and casually threw out there to millions of people, ‘Hey, this guy that I don’t like? Probably a pedophile. Now, this morning, when some of those Epstein docs were un-redacted and released, what you have in the same corners of the internet are folks photoshopping documents, putting Jimmy Kimmel’s name in them, and saying, ‘Aaron was right.’ That is happening this morning already.”
He reiterated that Rodgers merely spreads any theory he comes across.
“The issue is one of our prominent voices in sports has become the face, the voice,” Wright said, “and — more importantly — the megaphone for any bat-shit crazy, half-baked theory he stumbles across on the internet.”
