The Entire Twitterverse Dunks on Charlie Kirk for Whining About ‘Sexual Anarchy’ During Super Bowl Halftime Show

Sarah RumpfFeb 13th, 2022, 10:55 pm
 
Pepsi Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show

Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images.

This writer’s fellow Gen Xers were excited about the Super Bowl LVI halftime show for nostalgic reasons (at time of publication, there is still a fierce debate raging on Twitter about whether the performers’ music more properly belongs to us or the Millennials).

But for Turning Point USA founder and obsessive pearl-clutcher Charlie Kirk, however, the performance was a horrifying moral catastrophe of “sexual anarchy.”

SEXUAL. ANARCHY.

Heavens have mercy, where’s my fainting couch? 

Seriously, though. This is what an actual 28-year-old guy tweeted: “The NFL is now the league of sexual anarchy. This halftime show should not be allowed on television.”

The parental objections after Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 halftime show were understandable.

This year’s Pepsi-sponsored halftime show featured Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, plus surprise guests 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak. The performance generated a lot of buzz for the rap legends reunion it accomplished — not to mention the defiant moment when Eminem took a knee — but no one really seemed to be getting their petticoats in a twist about the show being too sexually titillating.

No one, that is, except Gen Z’s designated Puritan scold, Charles J. Kirk.

For reference, the portion of the halftime show that immediately preceded Kirk’s 8:16 pm ET tweet was 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” followed by Blige’s medley of “A Family Affair” and “No More Drama,” both of whom were accompanied by backup dancers.

This isn’t the first time Kirk has fretted about the plague of “sexual anarchy.” Last October, he was thoroughly mocked for a comment on his podcast warning that Democrats want you to “live in sexual anarchy.” Many of Kirk’s Twitter tormentors commented that sounded like a lot of fun and then threw in some ridicule for his unkempt hair.

Kirk’s Super Bowl halftime tweet met with a fresh round of swift, universal, and well-deserved mockery.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.

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Sarah Rumpf joined Mediaite in 2020 and is a Contributing Editor focusing on politics, law, and the media. A native Floridian, Sarah attended the University of Florida, graduating with a double major in Political Science and German, and earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the UF College of Law. Sarah's writing has been featured at National Review, The Daily Beast, Reason, Law&Crime, Independent Journal Review, Texas Monthly, The Capitolist, Breitbart Texas, Townhall, RedState, The Orlando Sentinel, and the Austin-American Statesman, and her political commentary has led to appearances on television, radio, and podcast programs across the globe. Follow Sarah on Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky.