During the Super Bowl, Lady Gaga shocked the world by not taking an enormous political dump all over the stage.

She warbled her usual agglomeration of overproduced garbage,

and she strutted around the stage like a maimed llama wearing Beyonce's old outfits,

and she also appeared to commit suicide two times in the same routine.

But although Laura Ingram thought that she went political, she actually didn't.

Laura Ingram originally tweeted Gaga had ignored the phrase under God in her recitation of the pledge of allegiance, but Lady Gaga actually said it.

And although Lady Gaga did sing Born This Way, which has officially been named now, the second worst song ever penned after John Lennon's Imagine.

The halftime show was actually pretty free of politics.

And this drove some people on the left out of their minds. Here's Michael Wood of the Los Angeles time, quote, Lady Gaga misses her Super Bowl moment to say something profound. Wood complained, the 30-year-old singer offered up a disappointing 12-minute medley that lacked any edge or tension. You wish she'd taken in more of what was going on offstage. Here's Chris Richards at the Washington Post. Lady Gaga calls herself a rebel, but at the Super Bowl, she played it safe. He then complimented Beyonce's ridiculous pro-Black Panthers routine at the Super Bowl last year, and he wrote, quote, with forceful elegance, Beyonce had set a precedent for what could be done on this stage, musically and politically. By comparison, Gaga whiffed. Here's Piet Levy of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Gaga's overall performance overshadowed a potentially meaningful moment. The word safe appears in reviews from variety, the New York Daily News, which said that Gaga landed flat, Newsday, and a bevy of other outlets. For today's media, it is a sin to merely perform the hits for which you're known. If you're given a big stage, you must immediately begin spouting protest lines from the Women's March or Eurecela, no matter how many times you campaigned with Hillary Clinton. You will be forced to take a position, to shout about politics, to destroy your audience goodwill by insulting at least half of them. Lady Gaga didn't. So here's a phrase, I never thought I'd say.

Thanks, Lady Gaga.

Most Americans who were watching the Super Bowl

wanted a break from the partisan rancor

that now consumes most of our event-driven lives.

You provided that break.

That's a statement in and of itself

in a time when everybody needs to calm down

and take a deep breath.

I'm Ben Shapiro.

This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Okay, so we're going to get to the Super Bowl in just one second. We're also going to get to Donald Trump and his comments about Russia. Donald Trump has been very active on Twitter.

I think that he realized everybody had the weekend off and decided, okay, you know what,

now's my time. Back to the Twitter. While everyone is away, he grabbed back his Blackberry hacked into it and began tweeting out random things. So we'll get to all of that because there's a lot to get to. Plus, he did an interview with Bill O'Reilly that was quite insane. But we'll get to all of that. You know, good Trump, bad Trump, the whole shebang. But first, we have to say thank you to our sponsors over at Blue

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