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The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Defund NPR and PBS

The Michele Tafoya Podcast

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary, Society & Culture

2.4590 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

David Bozell is the President of the Media Research Center. He contends that NPR and PBS are long overdue for defunding.  Michele agrees.  Find out why.

Michele Tafoya is a four-time Emmy award-winning sportscaster turned political and cultural commentator.

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

And to do that with taxpayer resources is kind of unconscionable to May.

0:09.0

It's clear liberal agenda.

0:12.5

It's borderline pedophiliic, if I had to be totally blunt about it.

0:18.3

This is why they've been targeted for, for an across-the-board

0:23.2

defund. You know, we're 36 trillion in the hole. We need to cut some things somewhere along the

0:28.7

line. Having a drag cream show devoted to children that nobody watches, that costs $1.2 billion a year to put together,

0:42.6

should be at the top of the list for cutting.

0:47.4

All right, so who was your favorite Sesame Street character?

0:51.0

Mine was probably Grover and remains Grover.

0:53.9

I loved it when he flew. I loved his voice.

0:56.0

I loved everything about Grover. He was just endearing. Grover now is no longer owned by NPR, PBS,

1:04.3

the corporate corporation for public broadcasting. All rights to Sesame Street are now owned by HBO.

1:11.1

Did you know that?

1:12.5

Sesame Street has always been an incredibly marketable product, which is why it's now owned by the private sector.

1:19.6

So we don't need to pay for it anymore, taxpayers.

1:23.3

That's cool.

1:24.6

And there's a lot at NPR and PBS that we should not be paying for.

1:28.5

We'll make that argument with David Bozell. He is the president of the Media Research Center.

1:34.0

And he's been involved in this for a long time. You may know newsbusters.org, the site,

1:38.7

newsbusters. You can get a lot of information there. Before we talk to David, let me remind you to please subscribe.

1:43.8

Just hit that

1:44.2

subscribe button wherever you're listening or watching right now. This one has some stuff you're

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