Greetings! Reactions pro and con to Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime extravaganza revealed a country divided over an annual event that generally provides more common ground than division. I predict that for future Super Bowl halftime performances we’ll see more counter-concerts like the Turning Point “All American Halftime Show” featuring Kid Rock and other MAGA-loving musicians. (You can watch it here; concert begins at the 41-minute mark.) Worth noting: Trump blasted Bad Bunny’s performance declaring on Truth Social, “No one understands a word this guy is saying.” Memo to Trump: There are close to 40 million Hispanics registered to vote in the U.S. per Pew Research... Clever! For the first time in its five-decade history, the powerful right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation purchased an ad in the Super Bowl LX game program featuring this attention-grabbing headline: “The greatest kick off of all time.” The subhead: “America. The Beautiful.” Hard to argue with the message. (Daily Signal)...After greenlighting the brutal layoffs that decimated the Washington Post editorial staff, it’s obvious that the newspaper’s gazillionaire owner Jeff Bezos has lost interest in it. So who should step in and buy the Post?  (Please send suggestions to me and I’ll forward them to Bezos when I place my next Amazon Prime laundry detergent refill.) Seriously, every democracy-loving citizen should care about this and here’s why as articulated beautifully by Peggy Noonan’s weekend column in the Wall Street Journal. “The capital of the most powerful nation on earth appears to be without a vital, fully functioning newspaper to cover it,” she writes, adding that “it’s a disaster”...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard

Greetings! It’s nice of Trump to offer Savannah Guthrie federal law enforcement officers to help find her abducted mother as Victory Girls points out. But it will almost surely come with strings attached at some undetermined point in the future. No one -- especially journalists -- ever wants to be in this man’s debt if it can be avoided. But how can Savannah refuse this offer if it could somehow lead to the safe return of her mother?....More “Melania”: Breitbart reports that not only is the film “gaining more box office steam” after generating $1.25 million in ticket sales on Wednesday, it will expand its distribution in the U.S. to 2,000 theaters. “As of Monday, ‘Melania’ had already out-grossed the total domestic earnings of five movies nominated for Oscars this year,” wrote Breitbart’s John Nolte. “So, what we have here is another example of the corporate media’s growing impotence.” Worth noting: There’s a Melania Trump fan page on TikTok with nearly 74 million followers. That’s huge...Weekend Watch: The Winter Olympics kicks off tonight on NBC with de rigeur glitzy opening ceremonies in the Italian Alps. Sadly, Savannah Guthrie’s absence (she was supposed to co-anchor) casts a pall over the festivities. Also, on NBC: The Grammy-award-winning superstar Bad Bunny headlines a musical extravaganza that will interrupt a football game, as well as  millions of dollars worth of splashy commercials. Turning Point USA will stream a competing concert to Super Bowl LX  dubbed  The All-American Half-Time Show featuring aging Trump fanboy Kid Rock...If you keep reading, I’ll keep Righting. Howard