Cancelled by the Seattle Times
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
He was fired by the jelly-spined Seattle Times after a few readers didn’t like his social posts. Independent journalist and former university lecturer, David Josef Volodzko, is now the man behind 'The Radicalist', a Substack newsletter about communism, fascism and radical movements. Hear his very personal connection to the recent attacks on Israel, and why he is “proud to be American."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:03.9 | David Yosef Lollodzko was writing for the Seattle Times. |
| 0:08.3 | He had moved his whole family there to take a new job. |
| 0:11.9 | He was on the editorial board. |
| 0:13.5 | He would write editorials, which means you get to write your opinion about things. |
| 0:18.4 | And so he wrote an opinion. |
| 0:22.2 | Seattle Times said they had his back. |
| 0:25.2 | Two hours later, he was fired. |
| 0:28.7 | David Yosef Volosko is going to join us to tell his story. |
| 0:31.4 | This is incredible, and this is another example of cancel culture at work in America. |
| 0:38.1 | It's time for the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:44.0 | So cancel culture is a big part of this show because I want to keep telling people that it's real, |
| 0:50.7 | that it is happening. |
| 0:51.9 | And it's happening to, it's amazing to me that you can have a bunch of people chanting, you know, from the river to the sea and pro-hamas slogans. |
| 1:07.7 | And that's everyone's standing back and letting it happen. |
| 1:11.2 | But a guy hired by the Seattle Times to write his opinion writes one and a very well thought |
| 1:18.6 | out and educated one. |
| 1:20.5 | And the Twitter mob sets in and he defends his peace and they still keep coming after him. |
| 1:27.4 | Seattle Times says, don't worry, |
| 1:29.3 | we got your back until they didn't. And two months into his tenure with the Seattle Times, |
| 1:35.4 | he was out of a job. He's a tremendous writer. And we found out about him through the free press, |
| 1:42.5 | Barry Weiss's operation, which you know we're |
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