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RFK Jr. Dragged After Claiming He Can Easily Spot Kids At The Airport Who Aren't 'Healthy'
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shared a dubious anecdote with reporters about how he can tell if a child isn't "healthy" just by looking at them.
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MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services has been mired in controversy since hisnomination.
Now HHS headRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn further concern and criticism with his latest bizarre false claim about his expertise in spotting diseases and disorders in children.
RFK Jr.—who once recounted a story about aworm in his brain—was publiclypanned by the Kennedy family and77 Nobel Prize laureates as a dangerouslyincompetent conspiracy theorist and exposed as a snake oil salesman—or someone completely detached from reality—getting rich off donations to hisantivaxxerpseudoscience organization.
But the Republican controlled Senate voted Kennedy into the cabinet position that heads up public health, after the disastrous fumbling of the Trump administration during the first globalpandemic since 1918's influenza outbreak. During that test of leadership, Trump's inaction, incompetence, and misinformation killed over a million people.
Kennedy's tenure as HHS Secretary has beenmarked by that same sort ofineptitude as demonstrated by his easilydisproven lies andmisinformation virtually every time he opens his mouth.
His latest bizarre claim came after RFK Jr. arrived 30 minutes late to a press conference with Texas MAGA Republican Governor Greg Abbott to celebrate the signing of three bills to support the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.
The HHS head told the press he can look at a child and diagnose them with cellular abnormalities.
The American public health administrator didn't specify if he employed x-ray vision or psychic powers to do something trained doctors and scientists required numerous scans and testing to achieve.
RFK Jr. stated:
"I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like."
The incredibly unhealthy-looking nepo baby added:
"I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation, you can tell from their faces, from their body movements and from their lack of social connection.”
“I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
You can watch the moment RFK Jr. revealed his special powers here:
People gave RFK Jr.'s latest claim the serious consideration it deserved.
Somebody should tell RFK Jr. that stalking children in airports isn’t science.
— The USA Singers (@theusasingers.bsky.social)August 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My mitochondrialDNA decays every time I listen to RFK, JR. talk. Maybe he can see it in real time while in airports.
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)August 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?This is an insane person.
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— Clay Ranck (@clayranck.bsky.social)August 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
RFK JR *approaches beleaguered mom in line*: Your children haveweird faces and they’re staring at their phones. I diagnose mitochondrial inflammation.MOM: Um…Are you a doctor?RFK JR: …CASHIER: Sir, this is an airport Arby’s.
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— Julie Cohen (@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social)August 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Beware - RFK Jr. is looking at children in airports and diagnosing them based on their appearance. He's a creepy, insane psychopath trying to destroy scientific research so he can replace it with conspiracy theories that will kill people.
— Alison (@thewiserose.bsky.social)August 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
RFK Jr.'s accomplishments as head of HHS have consisted mostly of gutting programs and departments, advancing disproven conspiracy theories, spreading lies and misinformation, and holding shirtless workout sessions with gym bunny buddy Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
If the goal is population control, the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services is setting the United States up well for its next mass casualty event.
If only he'd been in charge during Trump's first term. With RFK Jr.'s expertise, they could have killed many more millions of Americans during the COVID pandemic.
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MAGA Republican President Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services has been mired in controversy since hisnomination.
Now HHS headRobert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn further concern and criticism with his latest bizarre false claim about his expertise in spotting diseases and disorders in children.
RFK Jr.—who once recounted a story about aworm in his brain—was publiclypanned by the Kennedy family and77 Nobel Prize laureates as a dangerouslyincompetent conspiracy theorist and exposed as a snake oil salesman—or someone completely detached from reality—getting rich off donations to hisantivaxxerpseudoscience organization.
But the Republican controlled Senate voted Kennedy into the cabinet position that heads up public health, after the disastrous fumbling of the Trump administration during the first globalpandemic since 1918's influenza outbreak. During that test of leadership, Trump's inaction, incompetence, and misinformation killed over a million people.
Kennedy's tenure as HHS Secretary has beenmarked by that same sort ofineptitude as demonstrated by his easilydisproven lies andmisinformation virtually every time he opens his mouth.
His latest bizarre claim came after RFK Jr. arrived 30 minutes late to a press conference with Texas MAGA Republican Governor Greg Abbott to celebrate the signing of three bills to support the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda.
The HHS head told the press he can look at a child and diagnose them with cellular abnormalities.
The American public health administrator didn't specify if he employed x-ray vision or psychic powers to do something trained doctors and scientists required numerous scans and testing to achieve.
RFK Jr. stated:
"I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like."
The incredibly unhealthy-looking nepo baby added:
"I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today, as I walk down the street, and I see these kids that are overburdened with mitochondrial challenges, with inflammation, you can tell from their faces, from their body movements and from their lack of social connection.”
“I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
You can watch the moment RFK Jr. revealed his special powers here:
People gave RFK Jr.'s latest claim the serious consideration it deserved.
Somebody should tell RFK Jr. that stalking children in airports isn’t science.
— The USA Singers (@theusasingers.bsky.social)August 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
My mitochondrialDNA decays every time I listen to RFK, JR. talk. Maybe he can see it in real time while in airports.
— Anthony Michael Kreis (@anthonymkreis.bsky.social)August 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them?This is an insane person.
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— Clay Ranck (@clayranck.bsky.social)August 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
RFK JR *approaches beleaguered mom in line*: Your children haveweird faces and they’re staring at their phones. I diagnose mitochondrial inflammation.MOM: Um…Are you a doctor?RFK JR: …CASHIER: Sir, this is an airport Arby’s.
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— Julie Cohen (@filmmakerjulie.bsky.social)August 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Beware - RFK Jr. is looking at children in airports and diagnosing them based on their appearance. He's a creepy, insane psychopath trying to destroy scientific research so he can replace it with conspiracy theories that will kill people.
— Alison (@thewiserose.bsky.social)August 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
RFK Jr.'s accomplishments as head of HHS have consisted mostly of gutting programs and departments, advancing disproven conspiracy theories, spreading lies and misinformation, and holding shirtless workout sessions with gym bunny buddy Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
If the goal is population control, the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services is setting the United States up well for its next mass casualty event.
If only he'd been in charge during Trump's first term. With RFK Jr.'s expertise, they could have killed many more millions of Americans during the COVID pandemic.
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The Creepiest Displays Of Intelligence People Ever Witnessed In Real Life
Have you ever heard someone referred to as being "scary smart."
It usually doesn't mean they're actually terrifying, just that their knowledge or abilities are unusual.
Reddit userJessica_Enna asked:
"What's the creepiest display of intelligence you've ever witnessed in real Iife?"
Remember Me?
"We were studying and she recognized a young man from a photo in an anatomy textbook. She said it was from her 3rd grade math book. We didn't belive her and made fun of her, so one day she showed up with that book. Same young man, totally different pose and environment."
"Obviously some stock photos."
"She still works in medicine, but works with the police several times a year for super-recognizer screenings or whatever that's called."
"When we would go out, she would see someone and just go: 'ah, this guy was at the lake 4 years ago when we were there'. We all just stopped confirming with those people because she was always right and it was always creepy."
"The wildest recognition I remember was a girl that she had seen in a grocery store in Bangkok when she was backpacking across Asia 2 years earlier."
~ reedshut
A Slice Of Pi
"Miriam. A friend introduced me to her at a party. She was a math major."
"She had gotten into a bet with her roommate to see who could memorize pi to the most digits. She won, by *thousands* of digits."
"My friend said, 'Hey Miriam! Do pi!'."
"Her eyes went glassy and she went, '3.1415926535...' She went on for several minutes."
~ BoredBSEE
Puzzling
"I knew a kid who had an intellectual disability. He was nonverbal and needed 1 to 1 support all day, every day."
"However, pull out a 500 piece puzzle, he puts it together upside down."
"As in... the pieces are flipped to the blank side. No imagery to fit together."
"Extremely fascinating to watch, never seen anything like it!"
~ honey_bee_bee_
Part
"My old cat, who was the eldest of 4cats I had, was wicked smart. He was insanely clean."
"We had 2 large litter boxes for the 4 cats. He made the 3 younger girls copy his habits and they used 1 litter box only for pee and the other only for poo."
"I swore up and down to my partner, who at the time didn't believe me he could understand English, but when I asked sarcastically to get the kitten out from behind the drawer, the cat just looked at me.
"Then he went to the drawer, had a 'conversation' with the kitten and she came right out! We had tried for hours! If my partner didn't see it with her own eyes..."
~ Unrigg3D
Familiar Faces
"My boyfriend has eidetic memory for faces. He never forgets a face, even if it only passes by a few seconds."
"One time he saw an Instagram story of a friend who was traveling in Turkey, this friend was on a boat. He realised that the captain on the boat was the captain he saw 10 years ago, when he was traveling on a boat to some remote island in Turkey."
"I have the opposite of this, it’s called face blindness I think. I have to meet someone a few times and have had some proper conversations (not just small talks) before I can remember their face."
"One time, 2 of his friends flew over (to where we live) for their honeymoon. I went to dinner with them. We hung out for a few hours."
"One year later, when we went to my bf’s hometown, we met the 2 friends, they hugged me, and I was so confused thinking, 'who are these people?'."
~ EnvironmentalTart794
Visualize This
"My husband grew up in a bad area, bad family, high school drop out because school was so bad for people with learning disabilities. He grew up truly believing he was stupid."
"I'm a writer, and he would never read. Complained that he couldn't read. Not a lack of ability, but he apparently has that thing where you can't visualize in your head—but no word for it 30 years ago, and I didn't even realize that was a possible thing."
"He just told me he can't see the story like I can, so it doesn't make any sense for him. He found it difficult and pointless."
"Then, at 20 years old, he sat down and read a college chemistry textbook left at our house in one evening and literally taught himself chemistry. I was a 'gifted' student with a full scholarship, and chemistry was where I got lost AF. Because I could not understand what I was seeing."
"He said, 'I don't have to imagine with this book. It just explains. Easiest book I've ever seen!'."
"Apparently the ONLY way he can visualize is that he (and our youngest) has an eidetic memory for TV & movies. Once he's seen something, he can replay it perfectly in his head but not if he hasn't literally seen it happen."
~ HotAsElle
Self-Taught
"I have a 6yo level 2 autistic son who gradually became verbal in the last 2 years. He silently taught himself to read last year and didn’t let anyone know until he decided to show me by reading a brand new bedtime story to me."
"When he did, I tried testing him with sight cards that started at pre-k and went to 3rd grade. Hundreds of cards, he didn’t miss a single one."
"Then he started reading billboards and signs, 'Voltage' 'Electrocution'. He was processing so much more than he had the capacity to speak before."
"I noticed he’s teaching himself how to read music now. He’ll stop if he thinks you’re watching, but he’s teaching himself with some musical bells, workbooks, and YouTube. For Christmas Santa casually left him some sharp and flat note bells to fill out his set."
"Autistic kids don’t all do stuff like my son, but there are lots of interesting examples like it. Pattern recognition can be a real strength."
~ SunburntLyra
Scenic View
"I was on holidays in a Turkish wakeboard park. They have somedogs there, which were strays, but living there in the park now. Super friendly doggos."
"One morning, we wanted to get up a hill for the sunrise. When we stepped out, two of the dogs slept in front of our house. Theywoke up and immediately understood what we were up to. They lead the way up the hill."
"When we were up there, one of them was sitting down and staring into the sunrise with me. Nothing else. He just looked at the shiny orb in the skies."
"This dog was not lead byfood, companionship or anything. He was just there. Probably admiring the sunrise, too. Nothing a dull animal would be able to."
~ Kaibaer
Smooth Criminal
"I did a little time. I ran into a guy in there that engineered a fight between three unrelated parties. That part wasn't the creepy part (though, good enough, really - two of the three fighting parties were not fighting people and he got 'em in the mix effortlessly)."
"The creepy part was that in the roughly one minute before the fight kicked off (resulting in the block being locked down for three days, btw) he explained to me point by point and in close detail what the administrational response would be, exactly who would be involved, who would be written up, injured, reassigned to different blocks, etc..."
"He did this so that a fourth party, not involved in the violence, would be caught up in cell searches with contraband, which happened. A tattoo kit. That guy left the block with the three fighters, but never came back."
"He told me all of this stuff point by point like a grocery list. Down to which guards would come and what their moods and reactions would be. He was in the cell next to mine and he just kept laying it out right until they locked us in."
~ Economy_Field9111
Keeping Count
"Watched someone inVegas win hand after hand of poker. Stopped after maybe 20k in winning and said, 'I’m bored.' This was someone I knew well who was a math genius. I asked why he didn’t gamble all the time."
"He said, 'it doesn’t interest me. I could win all day every day.'"
"Please note he worked in finance and made crazy money. Just interesting to watch someone not want to win every nickel they could."
~ LoyalLoss18
Pushing Pins
"Working for a city in traffic engineering, we had a large map on a wall where we would place pins with colored heads to represent types of accidents from police accident reports, for example pedestrian related, property damage only, death, etc..."
"Instead of bringing the stack of reports and working out each pin and exact location individually, one legendary lady would go in and stick the pins from memory. This was not a small city!"
"One engineer was incredulous and questioned how she could remember so many. She became offended, but when he checked her work he found she got every one right."
"I didn't witness it, but I believe him, and I can't imagine how she did it!"
~ madhousechild
Show Your Work
"I had a classmate once who could do complex equations in her head. She was asked to solve an equation on the whiteboard once (showing her work), but only wrote the answer."
"When the teacher asked her to show how she got to the answer, she just said, 'I can't'. Of course the teacher made her do a few more, and yep, she got them all right."
"The scariest part is supposedly her sister was even smarter than her."
~ lumoslomas
Niche
"A guy I was friends with ended up working in a car yard - it wasn’t a big brand one, just a small family owned second hand car yard - guy did ok in school, wasn’t a genius, wasn’t an idiot."
"I dropped in to visit him at work after he’d been working there for about 6 years and his boss called out asking if he could remember a car and added the registration number (no description or anything) and my mate rattled off the car’s details, the name of the person who traded it in, what they bought, and who bought it, by name… but phrased it as a question: 'you mean the blue toyota whatever, with the such and such, that so and so came in with etc...'."
"This had all happed about six months after he’d started there."
"He clearly found his place."
~ elroyonline
DJ
"I worked with a DJ who knew the station’s entire catalog by heart. 'Oh, you want to hear "Please, Mr. Postman"? That’s CD 472, Track 5.'"
"He was never wrong! And it made board op-ing with him so much easier."
~ marylennox1
Look Up
"I met two people with eidetic memory as far as I know. They both had the same habit of answering a question: pausing, looking upwards as if they were reading something in the air, and then answer."
"One I met was in the Army. My first meeting with him, he noticed my last name and said, 'Oh, that’sJapanese,' paused, looked at the ceiling, and then started speaking to me in Japanese. I told him it was a Japanese last name but I was Mexican-American. Again, he paused, looked up, and then started speaking to me in Spanish."
"Later, he picked up quite a bit of German in just a couple of months. He was definitely a polyglot. I believe he also became Soldier of the Month three months running, but was asked to not do it again."
"The funniest thing was he had very little social graces. He was a very good looking guy and always smiled. People would approach him, but after a few minutes they would leave, looking at him like he was an alien. I have to admit, he could have been, but I still miss him."
~ whiskytangophil
What are some examples you've seen?
Jennifer Garner Just Pitched A New Sport For The Winter Olympics—And Fans Are Into It
The Summer and Winter Olympics are already pretty great, but Jennifer Garner believes the Winter Olympics could use one more sport to make it perfect.
While passing through Central Park,Jennifer Garner came across a group of women who were sledding down a shallow hill on none other than small, silver baking sheets.
Garner decided to put a special spin on the moment by submitting a new sports concept to the Winter Olympics: Baking Sheet Sledding.
The13 Going on 30 star held up a baking sheet and proudly said:
"This is my submission for 2026 Team USA."
"Baking sheets come in handy anywhere!"
She then demonstrated by sitting down on the baking sheet at the top of the hill and starting a surprisingly quick descent. The women around her were cheering, and then she spun out, ending up with her legs straight up in the air, the baking sheet coming out from under her, and Garner issuing her iconic laugh.
She then sat up on her knees, proudly throwing her arms up in the air as the women in the background continued to cheer.
You can watchGarner's proposal here:
Especially with everything going on in the world right now, it's refreshing to see someone look for the special moments in life and really celebrate laughter and fun.
Fans appreciated Garner's commitment to enjoying life.
Some recalled their own attempts at sledding with household items.Not all of these options are the safest, technically, but the point really is to ride on something that you can stay on and that will improve your speed. Sometimes, tumbling off and laughing about it later is the best part of the memory!
What's so fun about this is that, in theory, it would be a more accessible and universal form of tobogganing. Imagine professionals taking the simple concept of sledding down a hill and really finessing it for the Winter Olympic Games!
People really got on board with the new Winter Olympics concept.
This won't ever make it to the Olympics, but it's a great reminder to go out and find the fun wherever we can, especially when it's something that can bring us all together, like the Olympics does for so many.
NBC Apologizes After Commentators Repeatedly Misgendered Trans Winter Olympic Skier
The International Olympic Committee is still trying to figure out what their position on transgender inclusion looks like and how decisions are made regarding which events athletes compete in. In the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, Filipino boxer Hergie Bacyadan, a transgender man, had to compete in the women’s event because of their stage in their transition.
In the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics this year, per International Ski Federation regulations, Swedish moguls skier Elis Lundholm also has to compete in the women’s moguls event because he hasn't begun a masculinizing hormone replacement therapy regimen yet.
However the Swedish Olympian lives as a man full-time and uses he/him pronouns.
Elis Lundholm is making history as the first openly transgender skier to compete in the Winter Olympics, representing Sweden on the world stage #NOH8
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— NOH8 Campaign (@noh8campaign.bsky.social)February 9, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Lundholm is the first out transgender man to compete in a Winter Olympics. He is the second outtrans male Olympian ever after Bacyadan in 2024.
What isn't a first is NBC Olympic commentators misgendering a trans athlete.
NBC repeatedly misgenders trans Winter Olympic skier Elis Lundholm ➡️ https://bit.ly/4aobLJQ📷 Getty, Elis Lundholm via Instagram
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— PinkNews (@pinknews.bsky.social)February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Five years earlier in the Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics—delayed due to the pandemic—NBC repeatedly misgendered nonbinary skateboarder Alana Smith. At the time, they apologized for their error, but apparently didn't learn anything.
During a livestream of Lundholm's run on Tuesday, the unidentified NBC color commentator said:
"Getting off course here though…oh she just skids out of that gate. She’s going to hop up and go around to make sure she does not DNF as she continues down the line here."
Another member of the NBC team, professional skier Sam Smoothy, used "they" rather than "he" in reference to Lundholm.
However, the announcer at the moguls event itself did gender Lundholm correctly, using only "he" and "him."
Several news outlets had done coverage on Lundholm in advance of the Olympics, making the information regarding his gender identity and pronouns readily available to NBC's research department.
After being called out for making the same mistake again during their Olympic coverage, NBC issued an apology.
The network said:
"NBC Sports takes this matter seriously. Today we streamed an international feed with non-NBCUniversal commentators who misgendered Olympian Elis Lundholm."
"We apologize to Elis and our viewers, and we have removed the replay of that feed."
NBC Apologizes Over Misgendering Trans Olympian Elis Lundholm
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— Them (@them.us)February 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
During the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, NBC issued a similar apology after commentators repeatedly misgendered nonbinary skater Smith.
Lundholm finished 25th in the qualifiers, so he will not advance to the moguls’ final round.
Hetold reporters:
"I’m happy to put down a run today. It wasn’t the best run."
"There are some things to fix, but I’m happy."
Lundholm added he wants "everyone to be able to compete fairly against each other."
"I haven’t really thought about it that much. I’m here at the same conditions as everyone else, so yeah, I’m just skiing."
"I guess I want everyone to be able to be themselves and just do what they want to do."
When Lundholm was asked by Sweden'sAftonbladet about the transphobic hate he might receive, he replied:
"Of course it’s something I thought about. You can hear the voices out there. But then, I do my thing and don’t give a damn."
That sounds like a healthy attitude to have about sports and life.
Fox News Host Gives Jesse Watters Blunt Reality Check After Stranger Called Him A 'Fascist'
Fox News personality Jesse Watters got a brutal reality check from his colleague Jessica Tarlov when he shared a story live onThe Five about his bewilderment after a stranger shouted "F.U. fascist!" at him while he was walking his dog in his neighborhood.
Watters previously lived in a Manhattan rental and currently livesin a $2.8 million mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey—where at least one neighbor is not a fan of his.
He said:
"I was walking in my neighborhood, on my street and this car comes throttling down. He [the driver] looks me, he's already angry. And he sees me and I give him a wave ... and all of a sudden, he passes me, screeches on the brakes, rolls down the window and says, "F.U. fascist!'"
When one of his colleagues asked, "Is that real?" Watters replied:
"In my neighborhood! I swear to God, this happened this afternoon. And I'm thinking to myself, 'How does... he doesn't know I'm a fascist.'"
Then Tarlov chimed in:
"Yes, he does. You're on TV."
She then cut him off with a simple "Yes!" and gestured at the camera when Watters attempted to ask if he "comes across" as a fascist.
You can watch their exchange below.
Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV
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People cheered her response—and mocked Watters themselves.
It is unlikely the story actually happened considering Watters' tendency to embellish on the air.
It's alsofunny to hear Watters say that his neighbor apparently "doesn’t know I’m a fascist"—because it sure sounds like he definitely considers himself one.
We're pretty sure you know what you are, Jesse—your support for PresidentDonald Trump and all things MAGA speaks for itself.
MAGA Rep. Blasted After Saying Republicans Are Now 'Investigating' Bad Bunny's Halftime Show
In an interview with Real America's Voice, Missouri Republican Representative Mark Alford said House Republicans are now "investigating" rapper Bad Bunny'sSuper Bowl halftime show, claiming it "could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction" for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
The Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show, which was broadcast live on February 1, 2004, featured singers Justin Timberlake and Jackson. The show is infamous for the moment Timberlake exposed Jackson's breast for a moment.
During a duet of Timberlake's hit song "Rock Your Body"—specifically when Timberlake sang the line "Gonna have you naked by the end of this song"—he pulled off Jackson's costume top, briefly revealing her right breast.
The incident, sometimes referred to as "Nipplegate," was widely considered a publicity stunt and started a national conversation about perceived indecency in broadcasting.
According to Alford (who failed to provide any examples of alleged indecency):
“On the Bad Bunny bad performance at the Super Bowl halftime — we’re still investigating this. There’s a lot of information that has come out about the lyrics. I saw the halftime show — we were switching back and forth with the TPUSA halftime show. The lyrics from what we’ve seen from Bad Bunny are very disturbing.”
“And if it holds true, I don’t speak fluent Spanish, okay, I know how to ask where the bathroom is, but these lyrics, if it is true what was said on national television, we have a lot of questions for the entities that broadcast this, and we’ll be talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC about this."
"This could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction, let’s put it that way. ... TheNFL purposely wanted a Hispanic star basically to perform at halftime because they're trying to attract a more Latin America[n] audience and this is what they deliver."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
People were quick to call this outrage the waste of resources that it is—especially when the GOP seems far less concerned about the ongoing Epstein files scandal.
Alford's remarks came after his colleague, Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles,declared the halftime show was "pure smut" that depicted "gay pornography"—even going so far as to write a letter to the Energy and Commerce Committee demanding "a formal congressional inquiry" into the "indecent broadcast."
The letter notes that though Bad Bunny primarily performed in Spanish, his songs included "sexual content" that was "readily apparent across any language barrier." Ogles stressed broadcasters bear a "heightened responsibility to ensure programming aired during this uniquely national event complies with longstanding broadcast decency expectations and serves the public interest."
Ogles was mocked for claiming "children were forced to endure explicit displays of gay sexual acts, women gyrating provocatively, and Bad Bunny shamelessly grabbing his crotch while dry-humping the air" and saying that "American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence."