Pentagon to MAGA world: You need to calm down over Taylor Swift
Pentagon to MAGA world: You need to calm down over Taylor Swift
“The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official.
National security officials are used to shaking off absurd conspiracy theories, but the latest rumor that’s gripped MAGA world just hits different.
The claims by Fox News and far-right influencers that pop star Taylor Swift is part of a Pentagon “psychological operation” to get President Joe Biden reelected, and somehow rig the Super Bowl to benefit Kansas City Chiefs tight end (and Swift’s boyfriend) Travis Kelce, has been met with forehead slaps in the national security world.
“The absurdity of it all boggles the mind,” said one senior administration official, granted anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter. “It feels like one of those ‘tell me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist, without telling me you are a MAGA conspiracy theorist’ memes.”
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USA , can you please reinstate that law (that fox news got rescinded) that requires news to be actual factual news? That way, fox must rebrand itself to "fox bullshit" and you can get actual factual news again.
I think that'd help a lot. Then get rid of the 24 hours
Jewsnews (autocorrect tried being funny) cycle as that hasn't helped anyone but investors in news corporations, and people could actually start believing in media organizations again.That is quite the unfortunate typo.
Yay, at least someone noticed.
Are you thinking of the fairness doctrine? That only ever applied to broadcast TV, not cable TV like Fox News.
The reason for the distinction is that broadcast TV is over radio waves that anyone can receive with off the shelf equipment. The FCC has a lot of jurisdiction over that and can regulate what can be shown. Cable TV is relatively free of that oversight. Legally speaking, they could show hardcore porn at 5pm. They won't because their advertisers would hate it, but they legally could.
Fox news classified themselves as entertainment so that law didn't apply to them.
It would never have applied to them.
Removed, "24 hours Jews cycle", really?
News cycle, NEWS cycle, not Jews cycle. It's a typo and I'm rather amazed that nobody thought of this.
My auto correct keeps changing news to Jews now btw, no idea why. I am not anti-Semitic, I have nothing against Jews or Palestinians or Mexicans or Caucasians or African Americans for God's sake. It's just a random auto correct issue. I'll try and fix it, can you undelete this?
If that were your only problematic comment, I'd ALMOST buy that excuse. But it's not your only problematic comment.
