"Anti-American Sentiment in Washington & Elon Musk Backlash" | Wild Card Wednesday
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.
In this episode of Wild Card Wednesday, Michele Tafoya dives into the rising anti-American sentiment in Washington and the intense backlash against Elon Musk from the left. She discusses Speaker Mike Johnson's leadership, the growing frustration with the left’s attempts to destroy Musk, and highlights some of the latest political controversies, including a troubling incident involving a Tesla being vandalized. Plus, Michele shares her thoughts on the waste in government and why the U.S. still remains the last great hope for the world. Don't miss her candid take on the state of politics today!
Record-setting, four-time Sports Emmy Award winner Michele Tafoya worked her final NBC Sunday Night Football game at Super Bowl LVI on February 13, 2022, her fifth Super Bowl. She retired from sportscasting the following day. In total, she covered 327 games — the most national primetime TV games (regular + postseason) for an NFL sideline reporter.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. |
| 0:09.2 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tofoya podcast, Wild Card Wednesday, our favorite day of the week. |
| 0:15.0 | We've got a lot to cover. |
| 0:16.6 | One thing I'm not going to cover is this whole signal text chain with Pete Hagseth and Tulsi Gabbard and, you know, that whole group. |
| 0:27.7 | Why? |
| 0:29.5 | Because I'm tired of it. |
| 0:33.1 | It matters. |
| 0:34.7 | I wish it hadn't happened. |
| 0:37.4 | It's an embarrassment. And now we get to move on. And |
| 0:41.7 | fortunately, nobody got hurt, except the Houthi rebels who were supposed to get hurt. So I want to |
| 0:48.3 | clear that up right now. I want to get to other stuff that maybe you're not seeing as much of |
| 0:53.7 | in the news. Some of it you probably are, but we're going to get to other stuff that maybe you're not seeing as much of in the news. |
| 0:55.2 | Some of it you probably are, but we're going to get to a lot of different stuff. |
| 0:58.1 | Before I move on, please hit that subscribe button. |
| 1:00.4 | Wherever you're watching, wherever you're listening, just hit subscribe so you never miss an episode of the show. |
| 1:07.4 | All right, I think that speaker, Mike Johnson, is kind of getting short shrift in terms of what kind of leader he is. |
| 1:16.8 | He's always struck me as very well-spoken. |
| 1:20.1 | He's gotten stuff finished and across the line with a very slim majority. |
| 1:24.6 | And he said something this week that I've found to be really interesting. And that is |
| 1:32.2 | anti-Americanism. And that's something that I sense. Now I'm coming to you from Florida this week. |
| 1:39.7 | So I don't really sense it down here. But in my home state of Minnesota, I definitely sense it. |
| 1:45.6 | And just in general, there seems to be from the left side of the aisle rooting against |
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