Congressman demands a federal probe into 13 minutes of televised twerking

As this two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment in Democracy comes to a close, we can celebrate that a sitting congressperson demanded we focus resources on a dance.

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While masked government thugs slay citizens legally observing their over-zealous and perhaps extra-judicial immigration enforcement, Tennessee Republican congressperson Andy Ogles has found the real National emergency: Bad Bunny’s hips.

The gentleman from Tennessee has formally demanded that the House Energy and Commerce Committee examine whether the NFL and NBC properly vetted what he calls “widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts, and other sexually suggestive content” during the NFL Superbowl half time show.

Bad Bunny performed his set entirely in Spanish, because all of his music is recorded in that language, aside from his collaborations with English-language artists. The only English singing on the field came from Lady Gaga.

Ogles stated that he wants to “ensure that we hold Spanish language content to the same standards and expectations we have for English language content,” specifically when it comes to sexual content. He stated the song’s performance in Spanish “did not mitigate the explicit nature of the material.”

In his letter, Ogles asked that the Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees broadcast regulation and FCC oversight, examine what knowledge the NFL and NBCUniversal executives, producers and standards personnel had about the “explicit nature of the selected songs,” as well as the choreography. He also requested that the committee examine:

• The internal review, translation, and approval processes are used in preparing the halftime show for live broadcast.

• Whether existing safeguards, including broadcast delay protocols and standards review procedures, were properly applied or intentionally disregarded

• The broader implications for broadcaster accountability when explicit content is aired during programming that reaches a national audience of families and minors.

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As this two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment in Democracy comes to a close, we can celebrate that a sitting congressperson demanded we focus resources on a dance.