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The Daily Show, Jon Stewart on Kid Rock’s performance. Comedy Central <\/p>\n
He then turned to Turning Point USA\u2019s alternative halftime show<\/a>, describing its lead performer Kid Rock as \u201can old man in acid-washed jorts badly lip-sync[ing].\u201d <\/p>\n Stewart joked, \u201cThese people who control every branch of government are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they needed to create their own safe space alternative halftime show.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s actually f—ing pathetic,\u201d Stewart said. <\/p>\n Speaking directly to MAGA pundits, Stewart added, \u201cThe gap between the power you all wield and the victimhood you all claim is the real offense.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf you didn\u2019t actually have the power to do so much damage in our country, I think we\u2019d all dismiss it as a weak and pathetic pity party,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cThat\u2019s what you\u2019re throwing.\u201c<\/p>\n Stewart also covered country singer Lee Brice, who performed at the event. Brice debuted his song, \u201cCountry Nowadays,\u201d in which he complained that he can\u2019t teach his daughter \u201clittle boys ain\u2019t little girls\u201d without fear the left might \u201ccancel\u201d him. <\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re so brave,\u201d Stewart sarcastically told Brice. \u201cPeople throw the word \u2018hero\u2019 around, but this is a bold opinion to hold in your genre, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n He joked further, \u201cReally risking it all, going up against country music\u2019s trans cartel.\u201d<\/p>\n Stewart later dismissively summed up Brice\u2019s song, saying, \u201cTrad Bunny over here is singing songs about how he can\u2019t even enjoy sitting in a truck and drinking beer because he knows that somewhere out there there\u2019s a trans person.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis whole culture war this weekend has really demonstrated one thing: It\u2019s that for all of MAGA\u2019s triumphalism, it\u2019s not a movement that seems confident in its position,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n Speaking further on the MAGA backlash to Bad Bunny, Stewart lamented, \u201cWhen did the right become such f—ing p—ies? When?\u201d <\/p>\n Stewart asked Republicans, \u201cRemember 2017? Remember what you hated about liberals? Oh, perpetually offended, safe spaces, censoring free speech, culture of victimhood. Remind you of anyone?\u201d<\/p>\n Obsessed with pop culture and entertainment? Follow us on Substack<\/a> and YouTube<\/a> for even more coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart has bluntly outlined the real reason behind Kid Rock\u2019s lip-synced counterprogramming to the Super Bowl halftime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[5897,236,88,9609,13726,1803,1505,9610],"class_list":{"0":"post-460108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jon-stewart","12":"tag-late-night","13":"tag-super-bowl","14":"tag-television","15":"tag-the-daily-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}