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Congressman Calls for the FCC to investigate Super Bowl Show by going after NFL and NBC Sports

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Republican Congressman Calls for Formal Inquiry Into Bad Bunny's 'Indecent' Super Bowl Show: 'Pure Smut'

Rep. Andy Ogles called for a formal congressional inquiry into Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show, accusing the performance of featuring "explicit and indecent content."
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Republican Rep. Ogles Calls For Congressional Probe Into NFL/NBC Over ‘Pure Smut’ Bad Bunny Super Bowl Halftime Show: ‘Unspeakable Depravities’

Republican Rep. Ogles called for a congressional probe of NFL/NBC over what he called the 'pure smut' in Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show.
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thedesk.net

Congressman issues baseless threat against NBC over Bad Bunny halftime show

The lawmaker, Rep. Randy Fine of Florida, is urging the FCC to issue fines against NBC, the NFL and Bad Bunny over the halftime performance.
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Some of the complaints are not just directed to Bad Bunny but also NBC and NFL. Note NBC is the owner of KNTV San Jose and that the Super Bowl was at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. it would not shock anybody when Chairman carr goes after NBC O&Os where this is going.

Congressman Randy Fine threatened FCC action against the NFL, NBC and Bad Bunny over Super Bowl LX’s halftime show, citing explicit lyrics that were not actually aired.
NBC and Telemundo broadcast a censored performance with no profane lyrics, while the FCC lacks authority to fine the NFL or performers and has limited power over networks.
Past court rulings, including Supreme Court decisions, have curtailed FCC fines for fleeting indecency, undermining Fine’s calls for penalties.
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When you schedule trash instead of real music this is what happens. Too bad the one-sided game was overshadowed by an equally one-sided "entertainment" spectacle. About par for the course for the Stupid Bowl though.

YMMV.
 
gr8oldies said:
How DARE anything but white people MAGA approves of be on TV. Randy Fine? What a joke
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I'm just thinking of how a show in English would do at the soccer playoffs in Mexico or Chile or Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America. I would imagine that much of the stadium would be ripped apart as part of the reaction...
 
davideduardo said:
I'm just thinking of how a show in English would do at the soccer playoffs in Mexico or Chile or Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America. I would imagine that much of the stadium would be ripped apart as part of the reaction...
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Not if it was Taylor Swift or Post Malone.

mexiconewsdaily.com

Taylor Swift thanks 'beautiful and generous' fans after 4 sellout shows in CDMX

The singer sent her thanks to her Mexican fanbase via social media, after four nights of sold-out concerts in the capital.
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This isn't about language. It's about culture. The party in power wants to regulate culture. They're not shy about it either.
 
davideduardo said:
I'm just thinking of how a show in English would do at the soccer playoffs in Mexico or Chile or Colombia or elsewhere in Latin America. I would imagine that much of the stadium would be ripped apart as part of the reaction...
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Didn't most people in Latin America grow up with music in English? Everybody from Queen to Taylor Swift have sold out arenas there.
 
As usual, this is all much ado about nothing, stirred up by a (predictably Republican) Congressman who is flexing his so-called muscle (probably more like a mussel) over something he is offended by ... and I would not be surprised to discover that he didn't even see the halftime show.

That said, whether he (or anyone else) likes it or not, Bad Bunny is a citizen of Puerto Rico, which makes him a U.S. citizen, regardless of the fact that his music has Spanish-language lyrics. While I am not a fan, I find his music to be entertaining and I thought his production of the halftime show was wonderful.

More likely, Rep. Ogles -- what a name for a guy complaining about lewdness! -- is just trying to get some attention for himself before the midterms.
 
gr8oldies said:
Didn't most people in Latin America grow up with music in English? Everybody from Queen to Taylor Swift have sold out arenas there.
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I'm just wondering about the whole "...much of the stadium would be ripped apart as part of the reaction..." thing. I think if Rep. Ogles said something like "well all those people are just hooligans who will rip apart a soccer stadium over nothing" he might be called out for being prejudiced or even bigoted.
 
Deus Ex Machiato said:
I think if Rep. Ogles said something like "well all those people are just hooligans who will rip apart a soccer stadium over nothing" he might be called out for being prejudiced or even bigoted.
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Yeah, but those same claims have been made against the idiot-in-chief and it isn't stopping him. If anything, I think his behavior emboldens the Republican delegation to push things farther than they would in the absence of said idiot.
 
K.M. Richards said:
As usual, this is all much ado about nothing, stirred up by a (predictably Republican) Congressman who is flexing his so-called muscle (probably more like a mussel) over something he is offended by ... and I would not be surprised to discover that he didn't even see the halftime show.

That said, whether he (or anyone else) likes it or not, Bad Bunny is a citizen of Puerto Rico, which makes him a U.S. citizen, regardless of the fact that his music has Spanish-language lyrics. While I am not a fan, I find his music to be entertaining and I thought his production of the halftime show was wonderful.

More likely, Rep. Ogles -- what a name for a guy complaining about lewdness! -- is just trying to get some attention for himself before the midterms.
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When I read that they wanted FCC involvement by investigating NBC Sports that meant KNTV NBC Bay Area is going to have their license questioned over something the local station does not control. It’s coincidental that KNTV just happened to be located where this years Super Bowl took place and another division of NBC happen to have a current contract with the NFL.
 
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Bad Bunny has had roughly a dozen songs make the Top-10 and more than three dozen hit the Hot-100. He's not my cup of tea, but he's broadly popular. You don't accomplish that if you're not.

If you don't get it or think it's dreck, that's fine. You're not the audience that show was trying to reach. Most of us are either outside or on the upper end of the money demo. We're not as relevant as we once were, and the networks and league are trying to reach the people we were 20 and 30 years ago. You don't do that with Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks and Van Halen.
 
That first sentence still isn't making sense to me, Y2k. Sorry.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Could you try adding some punctuation to all that so I can better decipher what you are saying?
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True too given how much some of these elected officials rant that way over the Super Bowl and NBC Sports. I had a hard time deciphering why they think networks can face FCC investigation. We had past threads here that it’s the local O&O that face the brunt of this stuff when Chairman Carr and other elected officials want to go after networks specifically ones they watch.
 
Deus Ex Machiato said:
I'm just wondering about the whole "...much of the stadium would be ripped apart as part of the reaction..." thing. I think if Rep. Ogles said something like "well all those people are just hooligans who will rip apart a soccer stadium over nothing" he might be called out for being prejudiced or even bigoted.
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Ah, the old "hot-blooded Latino" stereotype! Vincent J. McMahon, who ran the wrestling promotion now known as WWE before passing it on to his son Vincent K., famously chose the Philadelphia Arena over Madison Square Garden when it was time for Puerto Rican Pedro Morales to lose his title, fearing a riot by New Yorricans in attendance at MSG. Even with the change of venue, McMahon ordered the finish of the match to be deliberately unclear (both men's shoulders on the mat simultaneously) and the ring announcer not, under any circumstances, to announce the winner. Instead, he said "Let's hear it for a great champion, Pedro Morales." No belt was awarded in the ring, either. No riot ensued.

Of course, McMahon was spooked by an incident in Boston about a year earlier, when a Latino Morales fan rushed the ring with a knife and opened a gash in the leg of Morales' opponent before the match even started. That's the way stereotypes take hold.
 
Kent said:
Bad Bunny has had roughly a dozen songs make the Top-10 and more than three dozen hit the Hot-100. He's not my cup of tea, but he's broadly popular. You don't accomplish that if you're not.

If you don't get it or think it's dreck, that's fine. You're not the audience that show was trying to reach. Most of us are either outside or on the upper end of the money demo. We're not as relevant as we once were, and the networks and league are trying to reach the people we were 20 and 30 years ago. You don't do that with Janet Jackson, Garth Brooks and Van Halen.
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That needed repeating, @Kent - but, therein lies the problem.

The people bitching NOW just can't fathom that "The Shield" is going to do what's in their best interests to drum up business.

Good for them, indeed! (y)(y)
 
Rioting at soccer games isn't just a Latino thing. It has happened all over the world and in such laid back cultures as the UK and Germany as well as more violent ones such as the mid-east and Latin America.

I have officiated and administered in youth leagues in baseball, hockey, football and soccer and by far, BY FAR, the most trouble I've ever experienced has been with fans and players in the soccer leagues. It shouldn't be this way, but it is. I am unable to explain it.
 
CTListener said:
Of course, McMahon was spooked by an incident in Boston about a year earlier, when a Latino Morales fan rushed the ring with a knife and opened a gash in the leg of Morales' opponent before the match even started. That's the way stereotypes take hold.
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You know, that last sentence parallels my own thinking. Being in L.A., I have a lot of Latinos around me all the time. But I don't mind, because the vast majority of them are decent, hard working people, like my next-door neighbor Luís, who works in construction and who is one of the friendliest, most pleasant individuals you could hope to meet ... from any ethnic background.

But when a bunch of Latinos form a gang and then proceed to implement a crime spree of robberies, assaults, sometimes (unfortunately) murders, my reaction is "nice going on reinforcing that negative stereotype" (sarcastically) and I think if ICE really did concentrate on removing criminals, even Luís would be happy to see them go.

The real problem is that the stated intent has turned into a convenient excuse for taking anyone into custody who "looks" wrong. That is not what our country was founded on, and I half-expect the idiot-in-chief to have the inscription at the base of the Statue of Liberty removed any minute now.

Bad Bunny doesn't bother me in the least. He is talented and he is legitimately making money with that talent. Just because a bunch of low-IQ MAGAs don't like it, just because the doofus occupying the Oval Office is looking for an excuse to make them happy, just because his cabinet and the members of his party in Congress want to keep him happy, is no excuse for riding roughshod over our rights, including twisting FCC rules to meet whatever Carrtoon wants them to.

I hope this goes nowhere, but sadly I can't be certain of that.
 
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