The Media Research Center hates Bad Bunny enough to have its own tag for him. A February 2023 post by Stephanie Hamill on the Grammys that year raged against the rapper’s “all-Spanish opening act”: There wasn’t one English word sung or said by Bad Bunny during the entire opening act, not one! If you were channel surfing and landed on this show, you may have thought you were watching the Latin Grammys.”
Jorge Bonilla groused in an October 2024 post about Bad bunny effectively endorsing Kamala Harris in the presidential election:
A recurring theme throughout these reports is the idea of Bad Bunny’s endorsement being spontaneous to the Hinchcliffe set. But it wasn’t. On the same day Bad Bunny shared Kamala Harris’s plan for Puerto Rico (which, it could be reasonably argued, was a copy/paste off of the Black plan”), BB leaned towards the communist running for the island’s governorship.
Bonilla was referring to Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive warm-up act for Donald Trump at a rally at Madison Square Garden, which the MRC really didn’t want to talk about.
Bonilaa returned with a Feb. 7 post raging about a profile of Bad Bunny on NBC, making sure to weirdly refer to him by his birth name of Benito:
It’s been our long-held position that the “mainstream media” doesn’t care about anything or anyone except in service of an agenda. This is particularly true with regard to its coverage of all things related to Puerto Rico, and NBC’s latest fluff piece on trap megastar Bad Bunny is but the latest example.
[…]In fairness, Benito’s done all the things required in order to fit into Hollywood culture. From wearing skirts on the red carpet, to dating a Kardashian sister, to endorsing Kamala Harris for president. But, as always when it comes to the mainstream media and who they choose to elevate, you have to look for what gets left out of the narrative.
There is the issue of Bad Bunny’s raunchy and misogynist lyrics, always paired to beats that are absolute ear crack (especially the trap beats). Because he sings exclusively in Spanish, he is able to evade the scrutiny that befell Cardi B, for example, after the release of W.A.P.
But if Bad Bunny’s rapping only in Spanish is a bad thing, why did Bonilla issue a Spanish version of his post? Seems a bit like pandering. Bonilla concluded by whining:
Although independence is a noble ideal there is little doubt, as I’ve said before, that a free and independent Puerto Rico would be neither of these for very long before quickly falling into the Castro-Chavista axis- which would cause all manner of problems both in the region and here at home.
As always, when looking at what mainstream media chooses to elevate and promote, you have to ask yourself why and why now. This is especially true with regard to NBC’s puff piece on Bad Bunny, a reminder that the media don’t care about Puerto Rico unless there is an agenda to be served.
As if Bonilla is not writing in service of an agenda by raging about Bad Bunny.
So when Bad Bunny was selected as the featured entertainment for the Super Bowl, Bonilla had more agenda-pushing to do, and he did exactly that in a Sept. 29 post:
The NFL announced that the halftime show at Super Bowl LX will be headlined by none other than Bad Bunny. We’re here to tell you the why, as well as what the rest of the media won’t tell you as they trip over themselves trying to cover the story.
The why is simple enough: The league is expanding into Latin America and beyond, and Bad Bunny is a bonafide global superstar. With billions of downloads under his belt as well as a growing mainstream presence his booking, six years after appearing during Shakira and J-Lo’s halftime show, was a no-brainer. At least on paper.
At first blush, it appears that the NFL booked Bad Bunny with little to no vetting beyond his musical success. It is far likelier that he was in fact fully vetted prior to being purposefully booked, proof evident that the league is still fully in the throes of the woke mind virus.
Um, Jorge? The “woke mind virus” is not a thing, except in the minds of hate-filled zealots like Elon Musk. Nevertheless, Bonilla continued to rant:
Bad Bunny’s endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election (although of no effect in Pennsylvania and other swing states with significant Hispanic populations) proves him to be a politically divisive figure. He advocates for Puerto Rican independence and outright separation from the United States, a position favored by only 12% of the island’s population, while retreating to the comforts of mansions in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Then there is the matter of the rank hypocrisy of Bad Bunny playing the Super Bowl after allegedly refusing to tour in the mainland U.S. due to ICE raids, which supposedly compelled him to do a 30-date residency in Puerto Rico instead, a narrative that the media gleefully and uncritically advanced. For starters, ICE has an active presence in Puerto Rico, and has conducted raids in accordance with existing policy. Then there is the matter of the residency itself. Per multiple accounts, the residency was booked in 2023– when Joe Biden was allowing illegal aliens to flood into the country with nary an ICE agent to be seen. What ensued was a brilliant piece of marketing meant to ensure sell outs while saving on travel, logistics, and while avoiding the embarrassment of having to cancel concerts due to poor sales in cities such as Minneapolis.
Linguistically, this may be a very interesting performance. Super Bowl LX will air on Comcast siblings NBC and Telemundo. Whereas NBC will likely let Bad Bunny’s obscene bleatings ride with a “Singing in non-English” caption, Telemundo’s censors will have to run for their lives.
Again, Bonilla served up a version of his post in Spanish, undercutting his argument that the Spanish language is a bad thing. He concluded with one more rant:
The worst part of all is that this performance will be hailed as proof evident that diversity is our greatest strength, and as a triumph of Latino culture. That’s a hard no on both counts.
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance is not a triumph of the traditional “God, country, and family” values that Hispanics have espoused for centuries and brought to America since before the Revolutionary War. However, it is a high-water mark for an artificial and political Latino identity that seeks to perpetuate a permanent alien underclass forever separate and alien from the mainstream of American (captured) culture.
To showcase this brain rot at such a quintessentially American institution as the Super Bowl is a sign of the extent to which our culture remains captured by the far left.
It’s a “far left” agenda item to be proud of your heritage? Since when?
The MRC loves to freak out over Super Bowl entertainment, and there were more MRC meltdowns over Bad Bunny as well. More soon.