The Media Research Center has had its Taylor Swift meltdowns over the years — largely involving her failure to hate LGBT people as much as it does — so when Swift endorsed Kamala Harris after her debate with Donald Trump, the MRC went on the Tay-Tay warpath again. Jorge Bonilla sneered in one post-debate post: ‘Not only was Harris v. Trump the single greatest debate performance OF ALL TIME according to the Regime courtesans at MSNBC, but we must also contend with the unmitigated greatness of the Taylor Swift endorsement of Harris in all its exquisite timing.” Curtis Houck groused about discussion of the endorsement on ABC’s “Good Morning America”:
As for the Taylor Swift endorsement, it received a few giddy mentions (but not full segments like on CBS and NBC).
[Robin] Roberts swooned in a tease with Look What You Made Me Do playing in the background: “And overnight, Taylor Swift makes her presidential endorsement following the debate, with over 280 million Instagram followers.”Bruce tried to make it seem as though Swift decided based on ABC’s debate:
Now, one voter who was swayed by what they saw, Taylor Swift, posting to her 283 million Instagram followers that she has seen enough and done enough research to make up her mind, endorsing Kamala Harris.
And, during the Christie-Brazile segment, the latter closed by saying she’s “a Swiftie” and thus wanted to quote “one of Taylor Swift’s great songs”: “Donald Trump is going to have a hard time shaking off that debate performance. A hard time shaking it off.”
Houck further whined:
NBC’s Today wasn’t popping the proverbial champagne bottles on Wednesday like ABC’s Good Morning America did following the latter’s presidential debate marred by the partisan election interference of moderators Linsey Davis and David Muir for Vice President Kamala Harris against Donald Trump. NBC was more concerned about one person’s endorsement of Harris: Taylor Swift.
After chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander tagged on a mention of Swift’s endorsement as having been “perhaps as important or at least getting as much attention”, co-host Savannah Guthrie giddily invoked it alongside Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker and senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson.
“Can we talk about Taylor Swift just briefly? I mean, look, these celebrity endorsements, I guess it’s a question of whether or not they matter, but as far as they go, this is the biggest one out there,” she swooned.
Jackson was pumped about Swift’s “huge platform” and “very loyal followers” and how tens of thousands reportedly registered to vote when she shared a link on how to do so.
[…]Correspondent Joe Fryer called “the surprise late-night endorsement” something “the campaigns and voters are watching very closely” to the point that “they were definitely ready for it.”
In between excerpts of her lengthy endorsement (including touting her signing it a “childless cat lady” alongside a picture of her cat, Benjamin Button), Fryer cheered Walz’s hilarious acting job of being surprised when he was told of the endorsement live on MSNBC and hoped her “massive presence and appeal to younger women” could swing the election.
Fryer also reminded viewers of how “[i]n Swift’s Netflix documentary Miss Americana, she admitted she wished she had expressed her political opinions for the first time back in 2016 to help defeat President Trump.”
Fryer closed with one huge final swoon: “And the endorsement came by surprise with the Harris campaign reportedly having no idea about it before the post, but the campaign is already jumped on it, announcing the sale of Harris-Walz’s friendship bracelets overnight.”
Bonilla served up even more complaining:
It appears that NBC News has definitely settled on a post-debate angle. Having not been an active participant in the clinic on awful moderation put on by ABC, the Peacock Network is going with full-blown Swiftamania.
First came the morning gushfest on Today. Watch as the NBC Nightly News gleefully veers into celebrity news, all in service of the Regime:
[…]NBC News NOW anchor Savannah Sellers’ report goes on to further cite Swift’s reasons for endorsing Kamala Harris per her Instagram post, including her awe at the selection of Tim Walz as running mate, what with his “defense of LGBTQ+ rights.” So Swift is endorsing Harris because Walz put tampons in boys’ bathrooms and made Minnesota into a “trans sanctuary” where parents can lose custody of their kids if they don’t agree to their hormonal or surgical mutilation. That, and abortion on demand.
Sellers tried to provide some intellectual bolstering to this mindless report by citing a Harvard study on celebrity endorsements, adding Swift to the pantheon of other recent Hollywood lefty endorsers such as George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey. The report closes with Sellers expressing awe at the number of visits to a voter registration site.
NBC has clearly chosen their post-debate lane, and it is Swiftamania.
Houck served up even more morning-show-related sour grapes the next day:
With Kamala Harris donor and Obama family friend Gayle King the lead host, CBS Mornings is always going to have a heaping of instances in which they come off as unofficial state-run TV for the left.
But Wednesday’s show reacting to the second 2024 presidential debate went over the edge as King repeatedly showed her excitement over Taylor Swift endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris while other co-hosts and guests wondered if “truth matter[s]” in America anymore since Donald Trump might win.
King huffed in the “Eye Opener” about the debate being “tense”, but her mood changed when, after the highlight package, she gushed that “a lot of people felt that” way in reaction to Jon Stewart joking on The Daily Show that Swift’s endorsement after the debate meant she watched like he did.
“Let’s see what Swiftie nation does,” she added, tossing to correspondent Weijia Jiang with debate highlights with more enthusiasm for how the night went in stating “Harris was consistently on the offense against Trump.”
Clay Waters grumbled that a PBS host “added an odd talking point, saying ‘Democrats are going to love’ that Swift is playing concerts in Miami near Election Day.”
In his daily hate-watch of “The View,” Nicholas Fondacaro cheered Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s petulant response to the endorsement and was mad that thte co-hosts called him out:
ABC moderator Whoopi Goldberg had an absolute meltdown on Thursday’s edition of The View, when she flipped out on Ohio Senator and GOP vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance. His crime? He dared to state the fact the billionaires like singer Taylor Swift were not noticeably harmed by the current poor economic conditions and high inflation because they can still easily afford necessities and more.
Without any actual evidence, Goldberg proclaimed that Swift endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris had “upset snowflakes” on the right. What she claimed was evidence, was just a clip of Vance explaining that billionaires don’t feel economic hardship like average Americans do.
Of course, Goldberg’s approach to addressing the light criticism had all the maturity of an elementary school child:
Which, of course, would be roughly the level on which Fondacaro engages in his mindless bashing of “The View.”
Alex Christy chose to refocus the Swift debate on right-wingers who are apparently not persuaded by her:
When Jimmy Kimmel eventually retires, maybe MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle could take his place. On Friday, Ruhle was not happy with young Republicans who are unpersuaded by Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris because they care more about economic issues than social one because she could not “remember the last time I heard Kamala Harris talk about anything like that.” Meanwhile, RiskReversal Media co-founder Dan Nathan unironically replied by hyping that Harris is supposedly “destroying” Donald Trump on abortion.
Ruhle was set up by NBC internet culture reporter Kalhan Rosenblatt, who recalled that she “spent a week talking to young Republicans who, after the Taylor Swift endorsement, I know we’ll talk about that later, but they were telling me, ‘You know, she cares about social issues because of LGBTQ people, but us common folk, we can’t afford food, we can’t afford housing. It’s a terrible economy.’”
Fondacaro came back for a Sept. 18 “View” hate-watch to defend the wife of NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes for liking a Trump social media post in which he ranted “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” and insisting on calling Brittany Mahomes an “accomplished woman” — something he (or Trump) would never say about Swift.