Ep. 1731 - That Anti-American Super Bowl Half Time Show Should Be A Wake Up Call For Real Americans
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What controversial message did the Super Bowl halftime show convey?
Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the NFL delivers a huge middle finger to the fans with the most subversive and anti-American halftime performance we've ever seen, all performed in a language that the vast majority of football fans can't understand. Speaking of anti-American nonsense, multiple Olympic athletes have apologized for America on the world stage. Should we even be rooting for these people at this point? And TPUSA counter-programs the Super Bowl with a halftime show of their own, which is now one of the biggest streams in history. Really massive news there. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
Well, it's been seven years and counting since the NFL allowed a white person to headline the Super Bowl halftime show. And when you're talking about a sport where the fan base is roughly 70% white, there's only one way to understand that decision. It is a deliberate effort by the NFL and Jay-Z, whose company Rock Nation has run the halftime show since 2019, to exclude white people from participating in the single most watched musical performance of the year. Now, in previous decades, you'd have Prince perform one year and then Tom Petty the next.
How have Olympic athletes expressed their views on America?
You'd have Aerosmith and The Who, and then you'd have the Black Eyed Peas. But starting precisely the same year that Jay-Z took over the halftime show in 2019, whites have been banned from headlining. And they've been replaced in many cases by non-white rappers who can barely speak English. Of course, they sexualized the whole thing. And in general, they reduced what used to be a significant American cultural event to a trashy, unwatchable display. And in fact, since 2019, over seven years, there's only been one white headliner in that time. And that was Eminem, who performed alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar and a bunch of other black artists. Aside from that, there have been zero white headliners at the Super Bowl since 2019.
Now, in some of these performances, they're fairly explicit about their goal. We're not talking about subtle messaging.
What was the significance of the TPUSA halftime show?
In fact, with each passing year, the subtlety has increasingly gone out the window. They did the Hamilton thing last year when they trotted out Samuel L. Jackson to play Uncle Sam, and they beat you over the head with that message that, of course, white Americans are keeping blacks down and all that kind of stuff. Every few minutes, Samuel L. Jackson would just appear on screen to... really subvert your expectations. But even with this recent history in mind, no NFL Super Bowl halftime show to this point has been anywhere near as overt or as disgraceful as the gigantic middle finger to all Americans that aired last night. The NFL chose to conduct the halftime show for the biggest game of the year,
in a language that almost none of their lifelong fans can understand while waving the flags of countries that none of them are from or have been to. It was, without exaggeration, the biggest FU that I've ever seen a corporation give to its own consumers. It was pretty amazing in that sense. Watch.
Now notice they don't even provide subtitles.
Just really make the experience as uncomfortable and unintelligible as possible for 99% of their audience. Although in fairness to them, if they did give us the lyrics, we would see how retarded the lyrics are. So they didn't exactly want to put that front and center. So while you're watching a production that's all about glorifying third world aesthetics, complete with two men grinding on each other next to a pickup truck at one point, you also have no idea what anyone's even saying. So that was the idea. Again, in addition to being disgusting, it is a massive middle finger to the NFL's actual audience. But in the particular clip we just played, even without subtitles, the meaning is pretty clear.
Bad Bunny is paying homage to several South and Central American countries and all their many citizens who have illegally entered the United States, which raises the question, how often does this kind of thing happen in reverse?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What controversial message did the Super Bowl halftime show convey?
0:00–1:26
2
How have Olympic athletes expressed their views on America?
1:26–2:21
3
What was the significance of the TPUSA halftime show?
2:21–6:19
4
Why is the absence of white performers at the Super Bowl halftime show noteworthy?
6:19–10:42
5
What criticisms does the host have about the NFL's halftime show choices?
10:42–13:29
6
How does the host compare the Super Bowl halftime show to past performances?
13:29–27:22
7
What implications do the host's comments have for national pride and identity?
27:22–33:47
8
What are the broader cultural implications of the TPUSA halftime show success?
33:47–1:22:36
Speakers
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