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Does Taylor Swift Really Have Electoral Clout? · Conversations: Special Guests with Preston Scott

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  It's a segment we look forward to all months long. Ladies and gentlemen.
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  It's the final hour of the Tuesday edition of The Morning Show with Preston Scott
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  and joining Grant, Allen and Me. Is the Irreverent, not irrelevant,
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  but the irreverent Jerome Hudson. He's the entertainment editor at Bridebar dot com.
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  He's also author of the Fifty Things books. Hello friend, how are you?
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  I'm good. I think if you google Peter Griffin, irreverence is one
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  of the adjectives used to describe that family guy character, So I'll take it.
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  I'm doing great. My mom just texted me asking me why I'm up
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  so early, and I sort of chuckled because I've been up for about an
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  hour and a half. Now, I mean, you understand this, President,
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  This is not early. No, no no. When I sleep until
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  six in the morning, I'm bed sore. I get I'm achy from sleeping
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  that much longer. Okay, Look, Jerome and I don't script what we're
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  going to talk about unless there's something like really important he wants to weigh in
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  on. But I will tell you everything I want to bring up today is
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  from your pages. Okay, all right, so this is strictly your wheelhouse.
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  All right, hopefully I don't fail here. Well, no, you're
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  not going to, because, first of all, you got serious game.
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  Otherwise you wouldn't be a guest on this program. You wouldn't be doing what
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  you're doing. You wouldn't be writing books that people want to read. So
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  I need some to explain the entire Taylor Swift thing to me. First of
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  all, is it true that she is capable of swinging enough votes to Biden
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  that it matters? Not? According to some polling, so she could sway
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  twenty percent of the electorate. But if you dig into the numbers, most
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  of that twenty percent are young voters. I think it's eighteen to thirty four.
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  That is actually the group of Americans, sadly, very sadly, who
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  are historically disaffected with their belief that they can actually achieve the American dream.
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  And the first thing that comes to mind is home ownership. It has been
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  sort of the actual physical symbol of the American dream for many Americans for over
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  half a century. And so the Biden administration rolling out a billionaire in Taylor
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  Swift. She's not in the one percent, she's in the zero point zero
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  one percent is just the type of Biden campaign strategy that we've all come to
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  expect, given how awful the Biden administration strategy has been. So you're okay,
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  let me ask you though, So now, even though you and I
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  both probably agree wholeheartedly that the Republicans seemingly are incapable of seizing messaging opportunities and
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  using them effectively, but let's just say they get a brain transplant and they
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  suddenly are able to. Wouldn't then a Taylor Swift endorsement of Biden actually be
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  a godsend for the Republicans because they can point out the disconnect between Taylor Swift
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  and everybody that she's influencing. Yeah, and you know, thank God that
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  this radio program exists and the bride Bart News Network exists because to your first
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  point, No, the Republican National Committee and the the the Republican Party messaging
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  machine permanently, permanently out of out of out of service, and so it
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  will it will, as it usually is the case, take you know,
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  the smart minded people in the movement to reach the people on the ground,
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  those those everyday Americans who, frankly, Taylor Swift has spent about the better
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  part of a decade smearing. I actually not to give too much away,
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  put a dossier together last night. US is probably too fancy a word.
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  Oh no, but I love it. That's a cool word, and it's
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  sort of it just it juices up the imports of of of the thing just
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  way too much. No. I went back and I looked at all of
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  the coverage that Breitbart News has done of Taylor Swift. In the first link
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  here is let's see that is May twenty fifteen. The headline is quote quote
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  wow, misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. That
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  is Taylor Swift telling Maxim magazine she was the June cover girl, I'm assuming
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  in the summer issue of twenty fifteen. So Jales has been pretty horrible for
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  about a decade wherever you may be, from Florida Sunshine State to New York's
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  forget New York. Scratch that. New York's now hopeless. At least the
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  city is for the rest. We're your Morning Show, The Morning Show with
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  Preston Scott twelve minutes past the hour. Jerome Hudson with US Jome, do
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  we ignore Taylor Swift at our peril. Now she's going to be there and
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  the one thing or a few things. One of the most important things that
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  I realized was just how bad Taylor Swift is on so many issues that actually
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  do matter to people. But I don't know, I think that the bright
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  bart. I can't speak for the entire brain trust of the news room,
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  But insofar as the conversations that I've already had on how we cover Taylor Swift's
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  involvement in the twenty twenty four presidential election, We're just going to point out
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  number one, how bad she's been on policy. You know, she's headlined
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  a concert in the summer of twenty nineteen and by far the most barbaric and
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  brutal country on the planet in China. Taylor Swift, I think she still
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  has two private jets Preston. I know she did at one point for many
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  years. I think she sold one of her private jets in twenty twenty,
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  but I do think that she purchased another one, and I think she purchased
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  it just to lend it out to her friends. But she's also a climate
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  change alarmists. Yeah, to be clear, there's nothing wrong with owning the
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  jets. The problem is to be a hypocrite. Just shut up about how
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  the planet is warming and we're all at our peril because we breathe and fart
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  too much or whatever. She has given multiple statements about trans writes, whatever
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  those are. She's donated money to egregious organizations that quite frankly, don't actually
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  promote or seemingly care about the physical and mental, long term hazards of altering
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  your body at a young age. The list just goes on and on,
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  and she has smeared probably a large share of this audience if they agree with
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  at least eighty percent of the politics that you and I agree on. I
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  mean, she's called Republicans and conservatives racists, misogynist, homophobes, and that
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  quote misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born, en quote.
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  Jalis said that in the summer of twenty fifteen, that's probably preston one
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  of the top ten things that I despise about American politics and its discourse.
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  You to think, to think that someone is fatally flawed in that way before
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  they learn how to poop and pee, there's something that's That's what the preamble
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  to the ku Klutz Klan had to be you know, at the introductory meeting.
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  Black people, Jews and gaze are are flawed from the time they are
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  born. For I don't know, Taylor Swift still thinks that misogyny is ingrained
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  in people from the time they're born. She may not, given what we
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  know about Travis Kelcey's dating history, a bit of a womanizer in years past,
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  to say the least. But no, we can't ignore there's an amazing
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  mean machine already out there. One says, I saw that Taylor Swift endorse
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  Joe Biden, which wasn't surprising considering ninety five percent of her songs or about
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  choosing the wrong guy. So enclosing for this segment, are we going to
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  see an entertainment page devoted to or even a separate website called the Taylor Swift
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  Dotsier. No, I mean, I think, look, it's such a
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  searchable thing right now. I think you guys ought to roll out a page
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  that looks like a fan age where you just tell the truth using her own
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  words of what she believes. Is this, This will age, This will
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  age very well. I don't I don't I trust the American people of Oh
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  don't do that. Hold on there, I got it. I'm gonna have
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  to have a chat with my friend here in the break back with more,
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  Jerome Hudson of bridebart dot com. It's the entertainment editor and one of my
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  favorite people ever. Twenty two minutes past the hour. I can't tell you
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  how much I look forward to our visits with my friend Jerome Hudson bridebar dot
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  com. Fifty things books and we've been talking about and you know, there's
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  a part of me that feels like I've just I've just violated some I don't
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  know, some oath of decency by spending this much time talking about Taylor Swift.
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  But you mentioned a little ad hoc dossier that you kind of threw together.
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  What do you think the odds are there being a page? Maybe it's
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  not at Breitbart, maybe it is, or maybe it's just at another site.
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  You guys create where you're not editorializing, but where you're just letting Taylor
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  Swift's words speak for themselves as they've been uttered and let people let the youngsters
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  know what she really thinks about these issues. A page that anything's possible.
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  Yeah, Usually the tact taken on issues or subjects content opportunities like this is
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  you know, we just we just sort of mock it and make fun of
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  it. And I think that's we will do that. It'll be serious reportage.
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  And you suggested something, just use Taylor Swift's own words, and that's
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  that's sort of the best way the egal Rights Amendment and the audience is forgiven
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  if they don't actually know what the er is. Has been around for decades
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  and it's never actually been codified in a federal law for a lot of good
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  reasons. And Taylor Swift has sort of been the celebrity face of that awful
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  piece of policy for years. And you know, there is a deceased and
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  very prominent former justice, I'll say, who came out against the egal Rights
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  Amendment many years ago, and it's just, I mean, this woman is
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  a stalwart of abortion rights and feminism and has been and deservedly so. And
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  it's so it's using this iconic former justice of the United States Supreme Court to
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  call out everything that is not only wrong with the egal Rights Amendment, but
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  to say, hey, Taylor Swift, we appreciate your off more lyricism and
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  your catchy hooks, but you know, leave the serious policy and legislative politics
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  stuff to the people who've dedicated their lives to it. You know, no
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  offense, but thanks, but no thanks, And that'll be our approach.
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  People can like Taylors with music. They can, you know, see her
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  business acumen for what it is, absolutely stellar. But I'm just telling you,
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  like how wrong she's been on just about every shiba left of the American
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  left is quite stunning. So the people will be informed. I will come
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  on this radio show monthly and we will we will laugh a lot about it.
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  I'm actually sad though, because wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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  wait a minute, let me make let me make a count not a counter
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  argument, because Breitbart's gonna do what it's gonna do. You guys are gonna
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  do what you're gonna do, and I think it's awesome and I think it's
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  great. Now it's reality a time. Here's the reality. You're going to
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  solidify the thinking of the readers of Breitbart, the listeners of morning shows like
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  mine, listeners when you're doing serious XM, You're going to solidify what we
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  believe and think and know, and we're going to go, yeah, that's
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  true. If you just do that, though, and don't try to get
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  outside the sphere of Breitbart. You're not going to have a chance of impacting
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  because it's going to be dismissed as just, oh, that's that right wing
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  bright Bart's site. That's why I think someone, whether it's Breitbart or somebody
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  that you guys might know, that might come up with the same idea.
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  Who knows. I'm actually giving a speech at Orlando Young Americans Foundation on February
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  tenth, and I had been thinking and praying and ruminating about what I was
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  going to talk about for at least a month, sort of my pre speech
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  writing ritual. But now this conversation in front of a very large audience,
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  maybe I should make not the focus of my speech, but a large or
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  sizeable portion of my speech about you know, goes with It's like so many
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  of these famous, talented maybe arguably, but she's like the embodiment of the
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  American dream, and every public policy fan she's taken would invariably make it harder
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  for people to achieve the heights that she herself has. And someone's got to
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  get that message to people that may not have forged a hard opinion one way
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  or the other. But use her own words against her and not be dismissed
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  because it came from Breitbart. That's my argument. Hey, hang out in
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  the green room a second longer. He knows what I mean by that.
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  Bright Bart's Jerome Hudson. He's entertainment editor, author of the Fifty Things books.
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  Look him up on Amazon. You'll find them very thoughtful and of course
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  one of our favorite guests here on the Morning Show with Presdon Scott