Whoopi Goldberg Slams Fox News for Touting Taylor Swift Conspiracy That She’s a Government Asset: ‘I’m Tired of Dumb People’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Whoopi Goldberg used the January 11 episode of “The View” to slam Fox News for perpetuating a conspiracy theory that claims the U.S.

government is using Taylor Swift to control public opinion (via Entertainment Weekly). “There are real issues impacting millions of Americans,” Goldberg said. “This is what the Fox News folks wanted viewers to be worried about during their prime-time broadcast on Tuesday.” “The View” then cut to a clip from Fox News featuring popular host Jesse Watters questioning whether or not Swift’s enormous popularity is linked to her being a government asset. “Have you ever wondered why or how she blew up like this?” Watters asked his viewers. “Well, around four years ago, the Pentagon’s Psychological Operations unit floated turning Taylor Swift into an asset during a NATO meeting.

What kind of asset? A PsyOp for combatting online misinformation.” Watters tried to claim that Swift encouraging her fans to vote was proof of her ties to the U.S.

government, as “hundreds of thousands of young Taylor Swift fans all of a sudden registered to vote. I wonder who got to her, from the White House or from wherever?” “You know, I have to say, when we talk about snowflakes, you people worry about the weirdest stuff,” Goldberg fired back.