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GOP Congressman’s Bad Bunny “Investigation” Mocked with Bondi Defiant on Capitol Hill

Rep. Mark Alford

As Attorney General Pam Bondi faced stark criticism from both Democrat and Republican lawmakers during her combative, defiant appearance on Capitol Hill concerning the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files — Bondi’s testimony devolved into “shouting matches,” as NBC News described it — conservative Republican Congressman Mark Alford (R-MO) made the case that there are pressing issues other than the Epstein files for the federal government to investigate.

Inviting sharp-edged ridicule on social media, Alford suggested that Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance warranted a federal investigation. Acknowledging he doesn’t “speak fluent Spanish,” the Congressman asserted that “a lot of information” has “come out about the lyrics,” calling what he’s learned abut Bad Bunny’s show “very disturbing.”

Alford did not say where he was getting his information, nor who else is involved in his investigation — “we’re still investigating this,” he said. But “if it holds true,” Alford said, he will be “talking with Brendan Carr from the FCC” about penalizing the broadcasters in ways that “could be much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.”

[NOTE: In a famous episode at the live Super Bowl halftime show in 2004, the singer Janet Jackson was briefly exposed during a performance with her co-star Justin Timberlake, prompting congressional hearings on indecency. The media ran wild with the story, which still has legs in Alford’s mind, and speculation abounded about, among other things, whether the performer’s exposure was an accident. Other speculation was more cynical — with America at war in Iraq and the national mood grim, Jackson later said she suspected the incident blew up because “it was just perfect timing to take people’s focus off of other things. That’s what happens, and it happened to me.”]

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If Alford was trying to move the focus from Epstein’s crimes and his potential co-conspirators among the elite, whom congress members accused Bondi of protecting, and shifting it to Bad Bunny, a large audience for that shift was not evident in the comments his threats met online.

Among the many derisive responses accusing Alford of having his priorities backwards, was this popular take from commenter Jay Newt: “We are making a big deal out of a Halftime show of a football game performed in Spanish. If it wasn’t ‘white enough’ for you, go read the epstein files, it’s all in english and full of white people.”

Alford also mentioned the competing halftime show sponsored by TPUSA, billed as more “American” English-language programming, and starring Kid Rock, a notable celebrity supporter of President Trump and the MAGA movement.

Commenters were swift to point out that issues might also be taken with some of Rock’s lyrics, including ones that explicitly referenced underage women — a subject that was, of course, supposed to be the focus of Bondi’s testimony about the Epstein files. Numerous commenters weighed in with Rock’s words and also lyrics from Brantley Gilbert, another TPUSA performer.


A summarization of how many Americans, disenchanted with their government’s priorities, see the current situation was offered in a bullet point list that, while affecting sarcasm, actually does sum up the current situation.

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