Ocasio-Cortez continued to rib the right when asked about Arizona Rep. Randy Fine’s plans to ask the Federal Communications Commission to look into supposedly “pornographic filth” which was part of the performance, as he announced in a Monday X post.
“I thought they didn’t understand what he was saying!” she quipped.
A bulk of the GOP outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance seems to be centered on sexually explicit lyrics in the song “Safarea,” a Puerto Rican expression for debauchery.
In addition, less raunchy but still sexually suggestive lines delivered by Bad Bunny during his performance were bleeped during the Super Bowl broadcast, as Axios reported on Tuesday.
During Ocasio-Cortez’s catch-up with Ballasy, she also talked about what the Super Bowl set personally meant to her as a Puerto Rican American.
“It just gives me so much pride to see what he did on the national stage,” she said. “Not only that, but really telling the story of America and all the Americas.”
The progressive went on, “I think it was incredibly inspiring and fun and joyful in a time that people find very challenging.”