Obsessed by Kevin Fallon

Obsessed by Kevin Fallon

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Performance Shamed the Whining MAGA Losers

The MAGA crowd was determined to start a culture war. Instead, Bad Bunny's Halftime Show gave us a celebration of an America that is truly great again.

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Kevin Fallon
Feb 09, 2026
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show gave the country something it wasn’t expecting, and certainly wasn’t prepared for: a celebration. More, if you can believe it, in these times, a celebration of America.

You’d be confused, or perhaps even stunned, if you witnessed the bad-faith stoking of a culture war over the booking of the Puerto Rican superstar for the biggest entertainment platform in the country. It was an apparent travesty for him to sing his Spanish-language hit songs during an ostentatious sports spectacle that, somehow, has been bastardized to represent American values.

In what ways would Bad Bunny distract, they’d have you think, from the traditional American morals of commercials, capitalism, and concussions?

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