Matt Walsh Reacts To The Most RIDICULOUS Super Bowl Halftime Takes
Matt Walsh mocks Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show, citing a 10% ratings drop due to Spanish lyrics and dismissing claims it was "unifying"—Trump called it one of the worst ever, while Piers Morgan mocked globalist assertions. RG3’s claim that Puerto Rican culture is American is refuted by historical disconnects, and Black Twitter humorously agreed with MAGA critics. The episode ends suggesting unity only comes from universally hated acts like Katy Perry, exposing America’s fractured tastes beyond shared disdain. [Automatically generated summary]
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Well, this year's Super Bowl halftime show was a total disaster for the NFL.
The numbers are in.
Whatever they try to claim, the fact is the ratings crashed, probably because the performer, a Puerto Rican rapper named Bad Bunny, sang in a language that most of the NFL's actual viewers don't even speak.
And so that's what the conversation was about this week.
My producers went and found some of the dumbest responses to the halftime show.
We'll go through some of them now.
First up is Megan McCain, daughter of, of course, John McCain, who wrote, quote, been listening to nothing but Bad Bunny since the Super Bowl.
Congrats to all the lunatics who have inadvertently turned me into the biggest Bad Bunny stan on the planet.
My favorite song is TD Me Progunto and Nueva Yol.
Now, look, I'm willing to believe that Megan McCain, that her music taste is actually as bad as she's claiming it is.
Maybe she's not just pretending to like Bad Bunny.
Although I can't possibly imagine how you could listen to nothing but Bad Bunny because this whole catalog is the same song.
It's just one long 143-minute song.
And it's all quite bad.
Like Latin American pop music is terrible.
I used to think that mariachi music in Latin America was the worst kind of music ever made.
But then I heard their pop music and my God, it's like they somehow real innovators there.
And she says that TD Me Progunto is one of her favorites.
And just so you understand what kind of artistic brilliance we're dealing with, the lyrics to that, if you translate them into English, I won't tell you, there's no reason to read much of it, but I really like the Gabriellas, the Patricias, the Nicole's, the Sophias, my first girlfriend in kindergarten, Maria, and my first love's name was Talia.
I've got a Colombian who writes me every day and a Mexican I didn't even know about, another one in San Antonio that still loves me, and the ones from PR that are all mine, a Dominican who's a fresh hottie, fresh, fresh hottie.
So this is just Lou Bega.
This is Mambo number five.
That's what this is.
Now, you kids don't know about that.
You don't know about Mambo number five.
Now, you weren't around back then, but back in my day, back in my day, our pop music slop was like, it was swing music.
It had a horn section.
And the lyrics were much more sophisticated.
You know, a little bit of Monica in my life, a little bit of Erica by my side.
Now, that was music.
That was poetry.
Lou Bega.
He should have, he should have done the halftime show.
You know what else I learned about Lou Bega that I didn't know?
Because when I was thinking about this, this is just Lou Bega.
I looked, as I always do.
I think everyone does this.
Anytime any person at all crosses my into my consciousness, the first thing I do is I look them up to find out if they're still alive and how old they are.
I don't know.
I just have to know that about everybody.
And so Lou Bega is still alive.
And I happen to see that he's German, which I didn't know.
So little Lou Bega fact for you.
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Country music singer Casey McMusgraves wrote, quote, well, that made me feel more proudly American than anything Kid Rock has ever done.
Which is absurd, obviously.
Then again, it's coming from someone who couldn't possibly begin to explain what an American even is.
So maybe it makes sense, I guess.
And I'll also say this in Kid Rock's defense, because I'm taking a beating online right now.
And I have been for the past few days for defending the Kid Rock, the TPOSA halftime show, which I will continue to defend.
I think it was a huge win.
I've already explained why.
But it's also true that Kid Rock is, now, he's not like, I don't listen to Kid Rock.
It probably is not going to shock you to learn.
But he is by far a more talented musician than Bad Bunny.
Now, it's a low bar.
I'll admit that, but he is a better musician.
And he is also more versatile as a musician.
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Now, one person who hated the show was President Trump who called it absolutely terrible, one of the worst ever.
Former TV host Piers Morgan disagreed, writing, couldn't disagree more, Mr. President.
I actually love Bad Bunny's halftime show.
Amazing, best in Super Bowl history, theater choreography, great energy, superbly confident performance, and a very welcome, unifying message.
Yes, it was unifying by trying to claim that all the countries in this hemisphere are all really one big country.
So it's unifying in the sense that globalism is unifying, which is to say that it's unifying in the sense of not being unifying in any meaningful way whatsoever.
You're uniting the country by claiming that it doesn't exist.
That's the kind of unity.
That's also, by the way, all the right-wingers who tried to take the contrarian position on this thing.
I thought the halftime show was pretty good, and I didn't think it was woke at all.
What the hell are you babbling about?
That's actually the wokest thing we've ever seen in the head.
What are you talking about?
Waving all of the flags of the hemisphere and saying we're all one big country.
That's the most aggressive assertion of globalist ideology we've ever seen on that kind of stage.
And as for it being a confident performance, I like he said confident.
It was a confident performance, like as opposed to what?
A bashful performance?
A shy performance?
Yeah, it's the halftime show at the Super Bowl.
Like, yeah, it's got to be confident.
No one would ever claim, no one is claiming that any of these pop stars lack confidence.
That is not among their many foibles.
Robert Griffin III wrote: Many people didn't understand a word Bad Bunny said during a Super Bowl halftime performance, but it was iconic because you could feel the love of people and culture.
Puerto Rican culture is American culture.
Together, we are America.
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
And nobody really believes that.
You say Puerto Rican culture is American culture.
No, it's not.
You know, that's not true.
Puerto Ricans certainly don't believe that.
Let me ask you this.
I'd ask anyone who's Puerto Rican.
If I were to go to Puerto Rico and stop anyone there on the street and say, you know, think about your history.
Think about the history of your people, of your country.
What comes to mind?
Are any of them going to say, oh, you know, George Washington?
Like when they think about the history, as Puerto Ricans, when they think about the history of their country, of their people, does their mind go to George Washington, Thomas Edison, right?
Like Teddy Roosevelt, Neil Armstrong.
Is that what they're thinking about?
Is that Puerto Rican history?
Right?
If American culture is American culture, so then American history is Puerto Rican history.
Does anyone believe that?
Does anyone actually believe that?
No.
Now, over on black Twitter, though, results to Bad Bunny's performance were a little bit different.
Mr. Boogie Watermelon Slice, rather M boogie watermelon slice, writes, hey, man, the MAGA N-words might have had a point.
So there we go.
Finally, a sensible take.
M boogie watermelon slice.
He gets it.
Like I always say, if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times.
Like I always say, M boogie watermelon slice.
He gets it.
And so does this lady.
We'll finish with this video, this grandma's live reaction to the halftime show.
Watch.
I'm like, who is this man?
Get out of me.
I mean, like, what is this?
This is ridiculous.
They got the American flag and all these other flags.
And yeah, God bless you two.
Get off the stage.
Please get off the stage.
Get off.
Put the game back on.
I can't stand this.
Tell me that.
I mean, what in the world is all this foolishness?
Thank you.
Get off the stage, please.
Jesus.
Precisely.
That's it.
See, it doesn't have to be a racial thing.
Black and white people can come together to hate on bad Hispanic pop music.
Unity in hating.
That's what will save us, I think.
That's the only thing.
That's the only thing we have left.
I'm afraid to say.
That's our only hope.
You know, across America, we don't have a lot in common anymore.
We don't agree on very many things.
But maybe, maybe we can find unity in hating the same things.
That would be an actual, you know, like uniting performance.
I saw someone suggest this, actually, I think, and I think it's a good idea, that next year, the halftime performance should be someone we all hate.
Like, we can agree on that, can't we?
Can't we find someone we all hate?
We can all hate together.
Something we all find terrible.
So we can be united in our shared disdain for someone.
So I don't know.
We just need to find a singer.
We need to find a singer that we can all agree at this point really sucks.
Who would that be?
Katy Perry.
That's who it should be.
I think that's that's probably the only one I think at this point that she's probably the only pop star we can all agree we hate.
And probably the only thing in general that everyone can agree on.
So Katy Perry, give her the halftime show and we can all, as one nation, hate it together.