{"id":2073818,"date":"2025-10-07T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2073818"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:22:11","slug":"what-happens-when-the-white-house-criticizes-musicians-ask-the-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-happens-when-the-white-house-criticizes-musicians-ask-the-beach-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"What happens when the White House criticizes musicians? Ask The Beach Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>To the editor<\/b>: A White House advisor criticizing the selection of Bad Bunny to perform the halftime show for the Super Bowl (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2025-10-04\/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cAnyone calling Bad Bunny un-American needs a geography lesson,\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>\u201cAnyone calling Bad Bunny un-American needs a geography lesson,\u201d<\/u><\/a> Oct. 4) is reminiscent of James Watt (President Reagan\u2019s interior secretary) versus The Beach Boys. Watt announced that The Beach Boys would not be a part of the 1983 Independence Day celebrations on the National Mall because they attracted what he called the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2023\/jul\/04\/bad-vibrations-reagan-james-watt-beach-boys-july-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cwrong element.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>\u201cwrong element.\u201d<\/u><\/a> He preferred someone more wholesome, like Wayne Newton, who did perform that day. The criticism was swift and almost universal. Even Nancy Reagan called The Beach Boys \u201cfine, outstanding people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Thomas Butterworth, Tustin<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">..<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_l1p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_l1p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (max-width: 767.95px) {\n        #_R_l1p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_151p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[#_R_151p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: none; }\n@media screen and (min-width: 768px) {\n        #_R_151p56mhek5clubsnm6fbH1_ { display: flex; }\n        iframe { max-width: 100vw; }\n      }]]><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><b>To the editor<\/b>: The notion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents patrolling the 2026 Super Bowl, looking for undocumented residents, is simply ludicrous. First of all, how many undocumented individuals have $8,600 to whimsically spend on a Super Bowl ticket? Not many, I would suppose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Additionally, because ICE is so intent on its round-up mission (and because the Supreme Court <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/politics\/story\/2025-09-08\/supreme-court-immigration-stops-los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recently cleared the way for racial profiling;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><u>recently cleared the way for racial profiling<\/u><\/a>), agents could inadvertently scoop up other fans, such as Latino CEOs and Latino film and TV stars in attendance. If ICE does indeed attend, all Latinos there should remain alert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Louisa Caucia, Tarzana<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story originally appeared in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/story\/2025-10-06\/bad-bunny-the-beach-boys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Times;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the editor: A White House advisor criticizing the selection of Bad Bunny to perform the halftime show for the Super Bowl (\u201cAnyone calling Bad Bunny un-American needs a geography lesson,\u201d Oct. 4) is reminiscent of James Watt (President Reagan\u2019s interior secretary) versus The Beach Boys. Watt announced that The Beach Boys would not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2073819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[30802,388958,388955,306473,388957,388954,388956,346955,347574,385357,22893],"class_list":["post-2073818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bad-bunny","tag-geography-lesson","tag-gladys-vega","tag-halftime-show","tag-interior-secretary","tag-james-watt","tag-president-reagan","tag-super-bowl","tag-the-beach-boys","tag-wayne-newton","tag-white-house"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/What-happens-when-the-White-House-criticizes-musicians-Ask-The.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2073820,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073818\/revisions\/2073820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}