Taylor Swift’s haters at Fox News need to calm down

by Therese Odell, posted in watch this

LOOK AT THIS VERY POLITE BABY:

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Taylor Swift’s boyfriend’s football game last Sunday was the most-watched AFC Championship game ever, with 55.5 million tuning in and some 64 million viewers at its peak. The Super Bowl is going to be huge, and the haters gonna hate hate hate hate hate.

And just look at all of these Fox News talking heads shitting their pants about how popular Taylor Swift is and how much power she has to get young people to vote:

They’re SO MAD that Lee Greenwood, Ted Nugent, and Scott Baio just don’t have the same sort of influence with the young.

Oh, and to answer Brian Kilmeade’s dumb question about why she would risk alienating half of the country by staking out a political position? It’s because Taylor knows she has to stand up for what is right and good. I’m not a Swiftie (my husband is), but this moment made me deeply respect this young woman:

BUT BACK TO THE SUPER BOWL: TAYLOR HAS A CONCERT IN JAPAN THE NIGHT BEFORE THE SUPER BOWL, WILL SHE BE ABLE TO MAKE IT BACK TO LAS VEGAS IN TIME FOR THE GAME? Funny you should ask, The West Wing has already done the math:

Dave, for one, has had enough of the Taylor/Travis bashing: “This is a good thing! Shut up! … It’s something positive and happy for the world!” Damn straight, Dave.

Issa Rae has had it with David Zaslav. (I mean, she doesn’t say that specifically, but we can all hear it.)

Dominic West had to take to his bed for two days after reading reviews of his performance on The Crown.

Caitlyn Jenner does not want to be in her son’s little reality show, thanks.

On her MSNBC show last night, Joy Reid was caught on a hot mike saying something about someone “starting another fucking war.” She’s apologized.

Please leave Ruby Rose out of your Nicki Minaj/Megan Thee Stallion beef.

WHO ON EARTH WOULD ALLOW ELON TO PUT ANYTHING INTO THEIR BRAINS? ARE YOU INSANE? HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT HE’S DONE TO TESLA AND TWITTER? NOT TO MENTION ALL THE MONKEYS HE KILLED? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Some good news from Shannen Doherty regarding her diagnosis — let’s hope the treatments keep working!

#MeToo

A former WWE staffer has sued Vince McMahon for rape, sex trafficking, and battery; the WWE for negligence; and former WWE Head of Talent Relations and General Manager John Laurinaitis for sexual assault. It’s a filing with horrific, violent, and deeply disturbing allegations; take caution when reading.

McMahon previously “retired” from the WWE based on this same woman’s allegations in 2022, after which she signed an NDA and was offered $3 million for her silence. When the WWE merged with the UFC, McMahon returned to become the executive chairman of TKO Group Holdings, the new organization. But this asshole didn’t uphold his end of the deal and pay her the $3 million. As a result, McMahon was forced to resign as the CEO after this new lawsuit was filed.

The Bella Twins have responded — John Laurinaitis is their stepfather:

And Ronda Rousey, however, is skeptical that McMahon’s actually been pushed out:

Caroline Manzo has finally sued Bravo, claiming that Brandi Glanville sexually assaulted her during the filming of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip in Morocco. This story has been out there since last year: both women abruptly left filming, and the season itself was never aired. Manzo revealed to People Magazine that Glanville had forcibly kissed her, but this lawsuit reveals much more, including a claim that Glanville trapped her in a bathroom and groped her breasts and vaginas. Glanville is not included in the suit, instead focusing on the producers who did not help Manzo at the time, and in fact, sought Manzo and Glanville to meet to “heighten the drama.” Bethenny Frankel has both of these women’s numbers on speed dial, trust.

The sexual assault lawsuit against rapper Trey Songz has been dismissed as the plaintiff never responded to his motions to dismiss the case.

SAG-AFTRA is calling for sexually explicit A.I. images to be outlawed following the distribution of images featuring Taylor Swift. Twitter’s response to the dispersion of the images was to disable searching for “Taylor Swift” for a day, so Elon has totally got this under control and it was totally a great idea to fire his content moderators. (Swift should take down her Twitter profile once and for all.)

Ugh, Britney has apologized to Justin for telling the truth about what he did to her. Girl, no. You don’t owe anyone anything.

Megyn Kelly used The Boys‘ star Erin Moriarity as an example of plastic surgery being a “social illness,” by using a recent Instagram photo of Moriarity. The problem is, Moriarty didn’t have plastic surgery. Moriarity called out Megyn Kelly for putting out false allegations that she had plastic surgery, before saying she was stepping away from social media for a while to get away from the bullying.

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2 thoughts on “Taylor Swift’s haters at Fox News need to calm down”

  2. Didn’t know this was a thing until yesterday. Sad that everything is political now. I figured it was just annoying the non swifties that watch the NFL. I now expect every team to try to do the equivalent.

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