Taylor Swift Sends Fox News into Meltdown

It seems Fox News can't stop talking about Taylor Swift—and people are starting to notice the obsession.

From peddling bizarre conspiracy theories to suggesting she has extreme views about the Republican Party, shows across the network have dedicated segments to the "Bad Blood" singer.

One pundit who noticed the "unrelenting attacks" was former federal prosecutor Ron Fililpkowkski, who is currently the editor-in-chief of media commentary site Meidas Touch.

"Fox reaches a new low in their unrelenting attacks on Taylor Swift, airing a segment where they decided to comment on and body shame fake nude AI pics of the pop star circulating on social media," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

The image on the post showed a shot from The Jesse Watters Primetime where Watters and comedian Ben Bankas commented on the controversial AI images of a nude Swift that had circulated online.

Fox News has also taken aim at Swift's political activism, using her private plane and her budding relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

One X user shared a clip from Fox News that described Swift's influence as "scary" and noted a petition for people to support the San Francisco 49ers in their upcoming showdown with the Chiefs at the Super Bowl in February.

Charly Arnolt, the host of Outkick.com, made the comments on Fox News and said the Chiefs needed to lose the Super Bowl so that Swift and Kelce's popularity could not rise further, as Swift has an incredible influence on voting.

Exclusive polling conducted for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies found that 18 percent of voters said they're "more likely" or "significantly more likely" to vote for a candidate endorsed by Swift in the 2024 presidential election.

The survey, which had a sample size of 1,500 eligible voters, was conducted on January 18 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.53 percent.

"Fox News is devoting a segment to attacking Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Bold strategy, Cotton!" wrote the X user who had shared the video.

Elsewhere on X, Fox News was slammed for its negative coverage of Swift using her private jet to fly around the country to watch Kelce play, which it described as her "supportive girlfriend tour."

Fox News claimed her flights to Kelce's games cost "138 tons of emissions in three months, as the pop star continues to be the world's most carbon-emitting celebrity."

But a representative for Swift told the outlet she had "bought double the carbon credits required for her Eras tour before it kicked off in March, justifying her personal emissions."

Many people criticized Fox News' coverage of her private jet usage, especially considering the network's skepticism of climate change in the past.

"Just stop it with this, it's not working how you think it is," replied one person on X.

Ans another added: "Wow, you guys really are digging for some little bit of something here. Unbelievable."

There are other examples of the increased Swift coverage recently on Fox News, including Sean Hannity's rant on his eponymous Fox News show claiming the singer believed "lies" about the GOP.

"Swift has bought into all the lies about conservatives and Republicans, that they're racist, and sexist, and homophobic, and xenophobic, and transphobic, and Islamophobic. [And] that Republicans and conservatives, want dirty air and water, and a total ban on all abortion with no exceptions," Hannity started on his most recent show.

"If she believes all that, she is believing a lie, because those talking points are simply untrue," he said.

Swift endorsed Biden in 2020 and has previously been critical of Donald Trump who is likely to win the Republican nomination again, but she has yet to weigh in on the 2024 race.

Before his conversation about the AI-generated images of Swift, Watters suggested a wild conspiracy theory that the singer was working for the Pentagon as a "psyop."

Watters wondered how Swift got famous and alleged it was because the U.S. government recruited her to be a psyop— an agent used to convey selected information, such as propaganda to influence people's thinking and behavior.

"I like her music," Watters said about Swift during his show in early January. "She's all right, but I mean, have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?"

Watters then dropped the bombshell: "Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon psychological operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting. What kind of asset? A psyop for combatting online misinformation."

Fox then aired an edited clip of a woman speaking, but it turned out it was an academic presenting research at a 2019 cyber security conference organized by NATO and was not proof of his claims.