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| Rudy Giuliani slams Beyonce's '€˜outrageous' Super Bowl performance |
| 2016-02-09 |
| [Wash Times] Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W.Giuliani blasted pop star Beyonce for using her "outrageous" halftime performance at the Super Bowl to attack police officers. "This is football, not Hollywood," the former Republican presidential hopeful said Monday morning on "Fox & Friends." Beyonce's performance of her newly released single "Formation" featured an army of black women wearing leather outfits reminiscent of the Black Panther Party. At one point, Beyonce and her dancers raised black power fists. "I think it was outrageous," Mr. Giuliani said. "The halftime show I thought was ridiculous anyway, I don't know what the heck it was. A bunch of people like bouncing around and doing strange things. It was terrible. "I thought it was really outrageous that she used it as a platform to attack police officers, who are the people who protect her and protect us," he continued. "What we should be doing in the African-American community and all communities is build up respect for police officers. "This is a political position and she's probably going to take advantage of it," Mr. Giuliani 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 to save us." Beyonce's music video for "Formation," which released Saturday, invokes the "Hands up, don't shoot" rallying cry of the Black Lives Matter movement inspired by the 2014 killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the New York Post reported. The song is being adopted as an anthem for some in the movement and the video features scenes of flooded New Orleans and graffiti that reads: "stop shooting us," the Washington Examiner reported. Members of the National Sheriffs' Association holding their annual legislative meeting at the J.W. Marriott in Washington D.C. said they turned off the volume and video during Beyonce's performance. The group called on the NFL to choose less controversial halftime entertainment in the future, the Examiner reported. On Friday, Beyonce's husband, famous rapper Jay Z, announced he would donate the $1.5 million raised from last year's Tidal charity concert to Black Lives Matter. Yet another 'dog bites feeding hand' story.She had no problem taking a police escort to the 'performance.' |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #11 I have to agree wid Rudy on this one - as entertainment, Beyonce's show was so complex it was disjointed or confusing, at least IMO. LADY GAGA'S SHOW WAS SIMPLER BUT MUCHO MORE IMPRESSIVE + FUN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-09 19:50 |
| #10 Well its like a Rodeo. About halfway through gotta get all the bullshit off the field to keep playing. Nice to hear everyday people talking about the game, rather than the show and/or commercials. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-02-09 19:02 |
| #9 I didn't understand a thing. But her derriere could use a good dose of Southern style spanking. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2016-02-09 17:50 |
| #8 Didn't like coldplay trying to throat the rainbow microphone? Yeah, the Hefty Bags segment was the worst, we think they lifted the riff from old Run DMC songs. And the fans holding the color blocks - hilarious. There was like 80% participation at the beginning, and the cameras were smart to get a quick pan, because next view it was down to 40%, then quickly to like 5%. To which I pondered out loud, "Eff this shit man, hold up this board and miss the show." To which was replied, "Noh, eff this shit, I'm going to go take a piss and get a beer." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-02-09 16:48 |
| #7 We had Joel, Crow, Servo, and Gypsy over at our place. We were peeing ourselves the whole performance, but that segment, a few of the memorables: Are those...bandoliers on her arms? What the hell is this? Is she a corporal? Yeah, corporal punishment. "Dad, grandma went outside without he pants on again." Those shoes...oh crap, gonna need a shitload of divot fixers. Game's tough enough without playing around gopher holes. What's the deal with the zipper britches? Strong like Carhart! Probably needed a come-along to get'em zipped. When the performers all looked at each other and made their way to dance off end of show pose, somebody did the "let's get'em girls!" from Blazing Saddles and we lost it, so if there was a panther fisting at the end, we missed it. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-02-09 16:26 |
| #6 We were enjoying our evening repast, when Coldplay's tame and strangely boring show was overrun by leather clad rioters from the sixties. Their gutter-all mumbly-grumbly was utterly incomprehensible to my unsophisticated ears, and I returned to pleasant conversation with the family. |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-02-09 15:40 |
| #5 @4: Spot on! follow the $! Halftime show was an insult to Americans and fulsome praise to America's self-haters. |
| Posted by: borgboy 2016-02-09 12:58 |
| #4 The NFL still has its antitrust exemption, yes? And it only gave up its tax exempt status last year. Maybe a Repub government could take a look at all that. Maybe even charge them back taxes for all those years of lost revenue. You know, for social justice. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-02-09 12:31 |
| #3 "stop shooting us," stop acting like feral tribals committing crimes far beyond your % of American society |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-02-09 10:47 |
| #2 As a friend told my wife last night, the Superbowl Halftime Show was marred by a functioning sound system. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-02-09 10:26 |
| #1 It's about POWER. Never really was about integration. The Asians integrated, see how much power they have. Enough to be actively and openly discriminated against in the UC system. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-02-09 08:53 |