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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2021 4:39:31 GMT
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said during an interview published this week that Taylor Swift, who came out against her ahead of the 2018 midterms, and other performers would be “the first victim” of a socialist or Marxist government. “When I’m talking to my friends who are musicians and entertainers, I say, ‘If — if we have a socialistic government, if we have Marxism, you are going to be the first ones who will be caught off because the state would have to approve your music,’ ” Blackburn told Breitbart News. “And, you know, Taylor Swift, came after me and my 2018 campaign, but Taylor Swift would be the first victim of that because when you look at Marxist, socialist societies, they do not allow women to dress, or sing, or be on stage, or to entertain,” she continued, adding that such governments “don't allow protection of private intellectual property rights.” http://instagram.com/p/BopoXpYnCes It was unclear to which societies the Tennessee Republican was referring. “I know the left is all out now and trying to change country music and make it woke,” she added. In 2018, Swift, a Tennessee native who noted at the time that she had "been reluctant to publicly voice my political opinions," came out against Blackburn and other Republicans ahead of that year's elections. “As much as I have in the past and would like to continue voting for women in office, I cannot support Marsha Blackburn. Her voting record in Congress appalls and terrifies me,” Swift wrote on Instagram. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2021 22:43:50 GMT
DALLAS–Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has repeatedly reached out to singer Taylor Swift since 2018 to meet and discuss their differences but they haven't gotten together, she said Saturday, as she followed up on recent remarks that Swift would be one of the "first victims" of a socialist regime.
Speaking with Fox News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Blackburn reiterated her statements from an earlier interview with Breitbart News, in which she said Swift would be the first to be canceled if "Marxism" were implemented across the country. She called on celebrities, corporations, and figures on the left to redirect their attention away from cancelling other Americans and towards the behavior and mistreatment of people by the Chinese Communist Party.
When asked if her specific reference to Swift was because of the singer's criticism of her during the 2018 campaign, Blackburn clarified it wasn't, and that the topic came up in the interview because she was discussing responses by celebrities and corporations to the actions of the CCP.
SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN: CHINA IS PART OF ‘NEW AXIS OF EVIL’
"I think she's incredibly talented. We're fortunate that Nashville is the center of her creative universe," Blackburn said of Swift. "What we talked about was that it is entertainers like Taylor Swift that would be the first victims of a socialist, Marxist regime because they do not allow freedom of expression or freedom of speech. They clamp down on that. They tell you what you're going to sing and what you're going to say. How you're going to act. They're in charge."
Asked about her efforts to meet with Swift, she told Fox she would "work with anyone who wants to improve the lives of Tennesseans." No overtures have been made to her since 2020, her office said Saturday.
Swift came off the political sidelines in 2018 to sharply criticize Blackburn and endorse her Democratic opponent Phil Bredesen, causing a media frenzy, particularly from liberals who had long strangely suspected her of being a secret Donald Trump supporter.
Blackburn went on to slam the media's coverage of conservatives compared to celebrities, and blamed pressure from the left as the cause for celebrities and corporations to push policies further from what people actually believe.
"Well what [the media] will do is shame conservatives … and they praise [celebrities] for being woke," Blackburn said. "And you see this in corporations who have felt the pressure from those on the left, who are pushing for policies that they feel lead these corporations further left in diversity, equity, inclusion, and then all of a sudden people go ‘hey, wait a minute, this is not what I believe.'"
"I mean Nike is a great example. [They] put out a statement that they are ‘of China and for China’ … Are they saying that they are for this Communist regime that is carrying out a genocide? … Or that is taking intellectual property rights? So you can't have it both ways," she added, before suggesting that celebrities, corporations and the media should instead be criticizing the Chinese Communist Party for their intellectual property theft, treatment of the Uighur population and handling of the coronavirus.
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