"Jon Stewart Jon Stewart returned to his Monday night Daily Show post fired up about the Super Bowl, and particularly the outrage from conservative pundits such as Megyn Kelly and Benny Johnson over Bad Bunny's half-time show, which he performed, as usual entirely in Spanish. Stewart played numerous clips of Fox News hosts et al complaining that they couldn't understand the Spanish, then cut to a clip of Turning Point USA All-American Halftime Show headliner, Kid Rock, singing his hit Bawitdaba, with its gibberish chorus."
"The host then tore into the rightwing talking point that Bad Bunny's half-time show, whose overarching theme was pan-American unity, was not unifying because it was in Spanish. Why the fuck is it the Super Bowl Halftime entertainer's job to unify the country? Is that their job? he fumed. Isn't there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?"
"Another unifying tip might be to tell your guy to stop tweeting out racist slop during Black History Month, Stewart joked. Then there was the rightwing meltdown over the Olympian freestyle skier Hunter Hess, who said that representing the US brought up mixed emotions because there's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people aren't. Trump called Hess a real loser, among other things."
Conservative pundits complained that Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime performance, delivered entirely in Spanish, failed to unify the country. Fox News hosts said they could not understand the Spanish lyrics, while clips of Turning Point USA's event featured Kid Rock singing a gibberish chorus. The halftime set highlighted pan-American unity as its overarching theme. Criticism of the performance was contrasted with a racist video posted by a former president depicting the Obama family as apes and with attacks on Olympian Hunter Hess for expressing mixed feelings about representing the United States. The juxtaposition underscored accusations of performative outrage and political hypocrisy.
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