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Feb

TOP OF THE DAY by Howard Polskin

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

Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Felt Like a Slap at America

source: Fox News

Bad Bunny delivered a highly divisive Super Bowl halftime show that put identity politics front and center.

Bad Bunny Preached in Spanish

source: Blaze Media

The NEFL hides behind tax perks in English. If the league wants to broadcast politics to 100 million people, it can stop playing coy about the benefits it gets from government and the public money that props it up.

Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show Shines But the Music Goes Down the Rabbit Hole

source: NY Post

Bad Bunny ended the performance with a roll call of Latin American countries and their representatives holding flags to underscore his Grammys anti-ICE speech without being explicit. It felt more like the closing ceremonies at the Pan American Games than the 60th annual pigskin-palooza, which is uniquely American. The U-S-A variety.

White House Drops Epic “Unapologetically American” Smackdown Video to Counter Bad Bunny

source: RedState

The White House preempted Bad Bunny's "middle finger to America" Super Bowl halftime performance with a video explaining why the administration—and most people in this great nation—are "unapologetically American."

The Best Thing About the Halftime Show Was Trump’s Response to It

source: PJ Media

President Donald Trump didn't hold back when he took to Truth Social Sunday night to slam what just might go down as the most bewildering Super Bowl halftime show in recent memory. And frankly, it's hard to disagree with him.

The Turning Point Halftime Show Crushed Expectations

source: Townhall

The Turning Point All-American Halftime Show proved to be a massive success after hosting some amazing performances from artists Kid Rock, Lee Brice, Brantley Gilbert, and Gabby Barrett.

Millions Tune in for TPUSA All-American Halftime Show

source: Daily Wire

The TPUSA All-American Halftime Show outperformed all expectations, with an incredible 6.1 million people tuning in to watch on the YouTube livestream, another 1 million watching on Charlie Kirk’s YouTube, and “monster” numbers on other partner sites streaming it including Rumble and DailyWire+.

The Super Bowl Halftime Show Was a Humiliation Ritual

source: The Federalist

Americans were forced to sit through one of their biggest cultural events of the year in a language that is not theirs, surrounded by symbols of other, foreign places.

A Forgettable Halftime Show at a Forgettable Super Bowl

source: National Review

Bad Bunny’s drag of a concert managed to make a nine-point first half seem halfway interesting.

“Melania” Shows the First Lady Living with Style and Purpose

source: Daily Signal

‘Melania’ sets the stage for the golden age of political storytelling.

“Melania” Leaves Hollywood Elites in the Dust

source: American Thinker

At a moment when the American film industry is shrinking in both relevance and revenue, a non-fiction film dismissed by nearly the entire critical class managed to do what countless prestige projects and legacy franchises no longer can: motivate real people to buy tickets.

AP Whines That Winter Sports Are Too White

source: FrontPage

Never mind that recent immigrants to white-majority European nations from Africa or the Middle East almost certainly have no experience with, much less Olympic-level skill at, sports like downhill skiing or bobsledding. Maybe they don’t even have any interest in them. That’s all irrelevant to the diversity racists.

Trump Administration Cracks Down on Nike’s Alleged Discrimination Against White Workers

source: Washington Stand

The EEOC is reviewing claims that Nike has engaged in intentional race-based discrimination against white employees and applicants, penetrating every corner of the corporate ladder: from hiring decisions and promotions, leadership development programs, internships, and even the process of selecting who gets laid off during cutbacks.

Legacy Media Begging Stars to Get More Political

source: Hollywood in Toto

Sydney Sweeney among latest stars to be bullied into dividing us

Why Is the Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie 24/7 News?

source: American Thinker

For those of us who do not watch NBC’s Today Show, Savannah may be a familiar name, but is not someone we know. She may be a celebrity to the leftists who still watch NBC News, but to the majority of Americans who are suddenly forced to watch news of her abduction on every news channel around the clock, we must ask why?

Maybe It’s Time to Close the Kennedy Center for Good

source: Wall Street Journal

Given scant home-based talent and difficulty recruiting the best talent to Washington, the programming at the Kennedy Center hasn’t been competitive with what large-city performing arts institutions offer. The building is another problem. People try to be nice about it, but let’s face it, it’s cold, flinty and cheap looking.

Mamdani Is Asking Homeless People Nicely to Come Inside and Not Die

source: Victory Girls

Let's hope that no one else dies of hypothermia in these extreme temperatures, but it's doubtful that Mamdani’s plan of nicely asking people who live on the streets to come indoors is going to go as smoothly as he thinks. In the meantime, stay cozy with all that warm collectivism, New Yorkers.