U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN5) urged a formal investigation of the NFL and and NBC for Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance, one he said was “smut” and that “glorified sodomy.”
The Nashville Republican requested the investigation in a Monday letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. That committee oversees the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Ogles believes the NFL and NBC knowingly approved an “explicit and indecent” performance.
Ogles remains under investigation from an ethics panel for questionable campaign finance transactions. A group of House members sought to censure Ogles last year because he “repeatedly misrepresented his educational and occupational experiences.” At different times Ogles has claimed to be a police officer, an economist, and a tax policy expert, the resolution says, calming he is none of those.
”On February 21, 2023, upon being confronted about his lies and misrepresentations, Representative Andy Ogles said, ‘at the end of the day, I don’t care,’” reads the resolution.
Ogles has also been criticized for inflating his graduate-level education, for exaggerating his work with a nonprofit focused on human trafficking, faced questions about $25,000 in GoFundMe money meant to create a memorial garden for children (for which he used photos of his stillborn child), and faced criticism after his family’s gun-toting Christmas card of 2022 which came in the wake of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
Ogles called the halftime show “pure smut, brazenly aired on national television for every American family to witness.” He then threatened, ”American culture will not be mocked or corrupted without consequence.”
“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,” Ogles tweeted. “And if that weren’t outrageous enough, the performance’s lyrics openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities. These flagrant, indecent acts are illegal to be displayed on public airways.”
Specifically, Ogles pointed to the song “Safaera,” saying it is “widely known for explicit sexual references.” The song, he said, references “analingus, sexual intercourse, and other explicit themes.”
Ogles said the song “Yo Perreo Sola” is a “twerking and perreo-themed song” that was accompanied by choreography featuring overtly “sexualized movements including widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts, and other sexually suggestive conduct.”
Though the set was mostly in Spanish, Ogles said, “it relied on songs whose sexual content remained readily apparent across any language barrier.”