The Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny, fresh from trashing ICE at the Grammy Awards, organized a highly divisive Super Bowl spectacle that put his leftist Latino identity politics front and center. The ardent adoration it drew from leftists and Democrats underlined its political intent.
MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and news analyst Jorge Bonilla assessed the controversy, or in this case, liberal journalists selling the Kool-Aid that this was all about "love," that it was unifying. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell tried to sell this as a message of unity, which was clearly false.
Don't miss Jorge's breakdown of the halftime show on FoxNews.com. We consider him the conservative movement's expert on all things Bad Bunny and Puerto Rico.
Plus: The racial scolds of the Associated Press broke out the old chestnut that the Winter Olympics are too painfully white before the games began, with a Europe-based sports reporter named Steve Douglas. It wasn't someone assigned to a "race and culture" beat. Let the bean-counting games begin! The headline: “Europe’s rising diversity is not reflected at the Winter Olympics. Culture plays a big role.”
Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy wrote on how Trump’s jabs at Canada and European countries have “turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals.”
Reporters on Friday asked U.S. Olympic athletes at a news conference how they feel representing the country during the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions. Freestyle skier Hunter Hess replied that he had mixed emotions since he doesn't agree with the situation, and that he is in Milan competing on behalf of everyone who helped get him to The Games. "If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I'm representing it," Hess said. "Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S." President Trump slammed Hess as a "loser." But why are the reporters making everything about Trump?
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