Rudy Giuliani: Beyoncé's Super Bowl performance wasn't 'wholesome,' should have been censored
The NFL should have censored Beyoncé's halftime performance at the Super Bowl after viewing her rehearsals, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the panelists of Fox News' Fox & Friends concluded Monday morning.
After host Brian Kilmeade expressed disbelief that the performance — which included a salute to the Black Lives Matter movement in Beyoncé's song, "Formation" — was approved for broadcast, Giuliani concurred.
"This is a political position and she's probably going to take advantage of it," he said. "You’re talking to middle America when you have the Super Bowl. So if you’re going to have entertainment, let's have decent, wholesome entertainment. And not use it as a platform to attack the people who put their lives at risk just to save us."
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Complaints about the contents of the halftime show, as well as Super Bowl commercials, are nothing new. Each year, the FCC is deluged with angry letters following the big game.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
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