How we know Turning Point USA's "halftime show" is nothing but xenophobic crap
For some reason the word "xenophobic" is getting quite a workout here today. I used it in Spurious News and now in this. But...here we go.
On September 28, the National Football League announced the headline performer for the Super Bowl halftime show. The choice was Bad Bunny, a rapper from Puerto Rico who is one of the world's most popular musicians. The important thing to know here is Bad Bunny performs primarily in Spanish.
Naturally, the Hard Right shit itself over this.
Turning Point USA, the group founded by right-wing rabble rouser Charlie Kirk and operated by him until Kirk's September 10 murder, has announced counterprogramming to the NFL's official show. Called the "All American Halftime Show," it will probably be distributed over streaming media.
To explain the title of this piece, Turning Point USA set up a website to announce the show. The only thing on it is a block to turn over your personal information to them (so you can get hounded to send money to them, don'tcha know?) and a list of musical genres that you might want to see featured at the show. Among them are classic rock, country, Americana, worship and...
ANYTHING IN ENGLISH.
So, let's create a setlist for these guys. This should be awesome.
We'll start the show with Giuseppe Verde's "Anvil Chorus" from his opera "Il Trovatore."
Then we'll segue to Nena's Eighties hit "99 Luftballons."
After that, Sabaton's "Carolus Rex."
Next, Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" - including the two stanzas people don't generally sing - will be played.
We will then be treated to a platoon of men dressed as monks chanting "Pie iesu domine, dona ies requiem" as they walk around the edge of the stage. They will not be carrying Bibles to hit themselves in the face with.
The show will close out with Toby Keith playing "I'll Never Smoke Weed with Willie Again."
It's perfect. You've got classic rock, country, worship, Americana and not one single word in Spanish. (You have a song in Italian, one in German, one in Swedish and one in Latin...but none at all in Spanish!)
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