No debate? No America.
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
James Fishback wrote a piece in The Free Press about the leftist ideology permeating the National Speech & Debate Association. His article was eye-opening, to say the least. To hear him discuss it is even more stunning. You need to hear this.
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| 0:00.8 | Welcome to the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | We got a lot of feedback about an article we discussed about a week ago about debates on school campuses and the judges that bring their quote unquote paradigms, their belief system into these debates that can impact how a kid actually argues a point. |
| 0:22.7 | It was incredible. |
| 0:24.0 | You clearly thought it was incredible. |
| 0:26.4 | We have the author with us. |
| 0:27.7 | That's next. |
| 0:29.3 | Now, it's time for some sanity. |
| 0:32.0 | It's the Michelle Tofoya podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | We heard from a lot of you about this piece that we discussed from the free press, |
| 0:40.5 | Barry Weiss's outfit. At high school debates, debate is no longer allowed. This article so struck me, |
| 0:48.3 | and clearly the free press, I think they held a town hall forum about it because people were just |
| 0:53.7 | astonished that a high |
| 0:56.3 | school debate judge could bring a set of values and viewpoints into the debate that could |
| 1:02.9 | impact the kids' arguments. |
| 1:06.5 | I say kids because they're kids. |
| 1:08.5 | Impact what they say. |
| 1:10.2 | Impact how they argue or whether or not they even broach a topic if they think it might get |
| 1:15.3 | them, you know, the loss in the debate. |
| 1:17.8 | They could win or lose based on the judge's belief system. |
| 1:22.9 | It's incredible. |
| 1:23.9 | And I'm excited that we have the writer of that piece from the free press with us coming up in a matter of moments. |
| 1:29.8 | But first, some breaking news. |
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