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"The U.S. has to accede to having the Super Bowl swallowed by the open borders crowd. The Brits could well have a prime minister wearing a hijab by the end of the year. And the Spanish and French are literally importing foreigners in the millions for the purpose of voting."
"In 2019, the NFL turned its Super Bowl halftime shows over to Jay-Z and his production company, Roc Nation, and something irritatingly predictable has happened ever since.
"You saw a good example of it Sunday night, when Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny put on a show that has torn the country right down the middle and has set Americans at each other’s throats. More on that in a minute — but what should be remembered is that the Bad Bunny spectacle of this year was nothing compared to the one four years ago, in which an all-star cast of hip-hop superstars headed by Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, and 50 Cent put on a paean to gangster rap complete with a glorification of the inmates in the Los Angeles County jail.
"Everybody loves Snoop Dogg, so the outrage was muted, but the NFL is supposed to be an aspirational alternative to prison for lots of underprivileged people. It’s supposed to encourage folks to focus, work hard, apply their talents with discipline and effort, and make something of their lives, and the inmates in that jail generally have done none of those things — and yet the NFL was celebrating street criminals. At halftime of the Super Bowl.
"And that jailbird symphony was highly acclaimed. It begat the mess on Sunday.
"As artistic expression, it must be said, Bad Bunny’s show wasn’t bad. The music was reggaeton, which is generally pretty fun stuff. It’s high-energy, it’s pretty listenable, though the fact that Bad Bunny will hardly utter a word of English on stage makes for a bit of a WTF factor, and the short play encompassing the halftime show — which was something like a day in the life of Puerto Rico — was nothing if not creative. (RELATED: The Counterattack on Bad Bunny Half-Time)
"There was a wedding. There were people chopping sugar cane. Poor folks shopping at a bodega with “We Accept EBT” in neon in the window. And — and if you know a little about Puerto Rico and its problems, this was amusing — a satirical takedown of the putrid performance of the island’s power grid, complete with line workers dangling from power poles and a transformer explosion.
"If this had been a video promoting tourism in Puerto Rico, or if it were a Netflix special, you’d say it was kinda cool.
"Now, the fact that it was in Spanish, as I noted above, cast this whole enterprise in a strange light".
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