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  • Taylor Swift, October 2018:

    From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Fri Feb 2 20:23:40 2024
    Taylor Swift, October 2018:

    "I...always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect
    and fight for the human rights...we all deserve...
    Discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG...The
    systemic racism we still see in this country...is...sickening and
    prevalent."

    https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1753173626973483261

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 3 12:59:38 2024
    Critic's Notebook
    Fox News Suddenly Wants Celebrities Out of Politics. Well, One
    Celebrity.

    The news network that wants Taylor Swift to stick to singing has had
    no problem handing conservative celebrities the microphone.

    Taylor Swift, you may have noticed, is everywhere: packing arenas on
    the Eras Tour; filling theaters with her concert film; popping onto
    your TV screen from a luxury suite at Kansas City Chiefs games,
    cheering on her boyfriend, Travis Kelce.

    And now she's living rent-free in Fox News hosts' heads.

    After reports that the Biden re-election campaign was angling for an endorsement from the superstar (who backed President Biden in 2020), commentators on the network strapped on their culture-war helmets.
    "Don't get involved in politics!" Jeanine Pirro urged her. "We don't
    want to see you there!" Another commentator, Charly Arnolt, pleaded,
    "Please don't believe everything Taylor Swift says." Sean Hannity
    addressed the issue in prime time: "Maybe she wants to think twice."

    Fox's anxiety attack follows months in which MAGA opinionators have
    spun baroque conspiracy theories about the power couple: that Ms.
    Swift and Mr. Kelce's romance was staged; that the N.F.L. was rigging
    the Super Bowl for the Chiefs; and that it was all an unholy plot to supercharge an eventual Biden endorsement. The Fox host Jesse Watters
    even flirted with the speculation, floating the idea that Swift's
    success was a psyop masterminded by the Defense Department.


    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/03/arts/television/fox-news-taylor-swift.html

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  • From JAB@21:1/5 to All on Sat Feb 3 18:59:57 2024
    They Yap About Taylor Swift, But They're Telling Us About Themselves


    You don't have to be a follower of Taylor Swift or a fan of
    professional football to notice the very strange crusade that
    so-called "conservatives" have been waging against them. Those icons
    of music and sport, as American as they could possibly be, are
    suddenly tarred on right-wing media outlets as secret instruments of a
    plot by powerful hidden forces - in the Pentagon, the White House, or
    somewhere in "the deep state," whatever that means.

    It is now possible to watch otherwise normal-seeming people on
    television, including several with their own nightly shows, spreading
    insane rumors about Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight
    end Travis Kelce. In a calmer time, anyone who persistently shouted
    such lurid nonsense would have been a candidate for long-term
    residence in what was euphemistically called "a nice home," without
    access to sharp objects. With deinstitutionalization, they are now
    paid astronomical salaries to declaim their fantasies on Fox News and
    its cable competitors. (This is considered progress.)

    https://www.nationalmemo.com/taylor-swift-2667162484

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