Flashback: Jake Tapper Defends Kimmel’s ‘Jokes,’ but Melted Down When Aaron Rodgers Linked ABC Host to Epstein

Jokes that implicitly call for violence aren’t calling for violence, to hear Jake Tapper tell it. At least, not if they’re told by Jimmy Kimmel.

If they’re told about Jimmy Kimmel, even if they don’t implicitly call for violence, they’re “false, defamatory, wildly irresponsible and not funny.” At least if they’re told by Aaron Rodgers.

Got that?

Well, we really don’t, either, but Tapper is a man who can keep a straight face through his inconsistencies. Heck, he can even sound Very Serious, as if he’s some sort of Walter Cronkite, when he’s 1) defending a late-night host who called the first lady an “expectant widow” just days before her husband faced his third credible assassination attempt in two years and 2) calling for NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers to be taken off the air for joking about Jimmy Kimmel being linked to Jeffrey Epstein.

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