Fox News to Taylor Swift: ‘Don’t Get Involved in Politics!’

For people who hate being told what to do, they sure love telling people what to do.

They love telling women what to do.
They hate women telling others what to do.

They always say this stuff to liberal celebrities, but invite Ted Nugent and other absolute POS conservatives on

Sonny Bono, Arnold, Glenn Jacobs, Reagan, Trump... I think I'm forgetting some.
Republicans love voting for celebrities when they have the chance.
- Charleton Heston, Kelsey Grammar, Scott Baio, Clint Eastwood, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent...
- Schwarzenegger...
I, for one, am keenly interested in Kid Rock's opinion on the role of central banking in a post-pandemic economy. /s
- And I'm looking forward to Fox bringing him on to talk about why Taylor Swift shouldn't give her political opinions.

Vote.gov is your place to sign up to vote.

Make sure you're actually registered, even if you think you already are. A lot of states have been "cleaning up" their voting registries .
- ~~It's a census year and you can be unregistered if you don't respond in a timely fashion.~~ wrong on all counts.

I read that in Morgan Freeman's voice and didn't even know why until the end.

Wish they had this same attitude towards Ted “fucks pre teens” Nugent

Or the former Apprentice reality TV star
- "Star" is going a little to far, boated host seems more accurate
Did Ted and Don Henley ever preform together?
And Kid Rock. And Gene Simmons.

Why are they allowed to give their opinion on politics but she isn't? Why are they qualified and not her?

She has a brain, they jusy read whatever is on the teleprompter
They are both in the entertainment industry. Neither are qualified
- Why does being an entertainer disqualify you from expressing a political opinion?
No First Amendment rights for her, that's why.

A few thousand seems pretty small
- If I remember the statistic correctly, 30,000 new registrants within the first hour after she posted about registering to vote.
  Even if we assume a rate of decay, that is pretty significant.
If they're lucky it'll only be a few, and honestly at this point these prophesors (lol) have probably fulfilled themselves by now.
She's also not a church, and short of any electioneering, this would be completely legal to do.

Pretty fucking rich that their chosen savior is a reality TV star.

And before that, the darling of the GOP was former actor Ronald Reagan...
- Damn it. Thats a really good point.
Yeah, but their game show host has an R next to his name.
IOKIYAR.

Taylor Swift to Fox News: "Don't get involved in journalism...oh wait"

Don't worry, Fox hasn't engaged in journalism in years.

well I wasn’t going to, but now that you mention it…

Fox Corp.'s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems says that Fox should stop libeling. There are plenty of other lawsuits to point out that say the same thing.

If what Fox claimed were true, they would have won the lawsuit. If what Fox claimed were not provably, knowingly lies, Fox would have won.

I always side with the person who speaks truth, who fights lies.

Has she even said shit at this point or all the morons just going off the handle for no reason?

She endorsed Biden last election, but that doesn't mean they're not going off the handle for no reason.
- That wad last round, jas she said anything about this election?

Have you tried grabbing her by the pussy?

Uhg. can you imagine standing in line waiting to vote, with the swifties all having their favorite songs on blast from the phones?

never thought that would be a reason I'd appreciate vote-by-mail.

(I'm mostly kidding... but yeah. not having to stand in line and deal with...uh... people... is nice.)

LOL. Fuck off, Fox. She will do what she wants to do because she's a woman capable of making her own decisions. Not that you would ever understand or appreciate.

How much Fox News cost and can she afford it?

And it's ok for something claiming to be a "news source" to be political?

EVERYONE is involved in politics, what the hell do they even mean? Politics affect everyone. It's not like people choose to be involved, they are, even if they don't like it.

I gotta say that it's pretty fucking refreshing to see this "celebrities need to stay out of politics" being rejected after it was more or less accepted in the 00s. Reality is pivoting faster than Fox is as old tactics die.

I've also noticed that the condescendingly polite subtle insults are starting to get old and recognized as just normal insults because the subtlety has disappeared.

Also the "ask questions" tactic from How to Win Friends and Influence People is getting more push back rather than leading people to different conclusions, though that one isn't as nice to see because when that worked, it was usually for a good reason but it just being dismissed means one less way people in disagreement can come to agree. But it is an interesting evolution in the way we communicate and interact that I've noticed lately.

Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.

Though those last two might just be due to the different demographic at Lemmy vs Reddit.
This site definitely isn't representative of much if you're using it to speak to larger cultural trends or something. It's definitely not an indicator of those.
I have a theory of my own though. I think that pop culture is dying as a thing in general. I think social media platforms are more widely recognized as the societal ill that they are, broadcast / cable TV is largely dead, movies are moving from the cinemas to streaming services in record time, Internet streaming apps killed the radio star, etc. etc.
Everyone tunes into their own shows, their own music, their own movies, their own books, their own cultural experiences, their own news, and even their own realities.
I think we're living through an era where mainstream popular culture is getting devoured by software platforms and disparate experiences and the output is more and more that everyone's in the "long tail" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail) being exposed only to things that sit in personalized niches.

"That's our job", they added.

Fox News to Donald Trump: “Get involved in politics!”

Hypocrites.

Shut up and dribble

Fox News: You're not playing fair!

Fox News: :: gets bodied by Swift's Superbowl ratings, sheer size of fanbase ::

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Right-wing activists have indulged in baseless speculation that Ms. Swift’s romance with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — a kind of ur-American couple of football star and wholesome pop icon — is a contrivance engineered by Democrats, or perhaps the National Football League, to trick unsuspecting Americans into boosting Super Bowl ratings or voting for Mr. Biden in November.

Swift flies on a private plane, “yet she constantly talks about climate change.” It was the sort of eco-scolding that rarely turns up on a cable network whose guests often voice skepticism about global warming.

Swift said that Mr. Soros’s son, Alex, helped fund the sale of her song catalog to the producer Scooter Braun.

Another “Hannity” guest, the Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt, told viewers not to dismiss the bizarre conspiracies about Ms.

“Republicans haven’t won the Popular Vote in 20 years so now we’re trying the novel strategy of attacking one of the most beloved pop stars on the planet & … the NFL,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration official and a co-host of “The View,” wrote on X.

On Brian Kilmeade’s Saturday show, he asked the Fox Sports analyst Jay Glazer about the Swift phenomenon.

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Wow, they have fucking lost the plot.

Fantasy universe: Taylor Swift and Biden announce her support of his campaign and acceptance of the position of Vice President. Trump really finds out that he is not as popular as Taylor Swift.