Wildcard Wednesday: Free Speech Edition
The Michele Tafoya Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
2.4 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
The reaction to Jimmy Kimmel's benching was laced with hypocrisy. Michele brings the goods. Plus, was Trump sabotoged at the UN?
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 | Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tafoya podcast. |
| 0:12.9 | It is Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:14.4 | Don't forget to subscribe. |
| 0:16.2 | We keep growing. |
| 0:17.1 | Join us. |
| 0:17.7 | Click that subscribe button, whether you're on YouTube Rumble, Apple podcast, |
| 0:22.2 | Spotify. We'd love to have you with us every single time. All right, it's Wild Card Wednesday. |
| 0:27.7 | That means we're covering a whole lot of stuff today. And I want to start with something that is |
| 0:33.7 | perfect for this week. Because while the left and Democrats have been shouting about, |
| 0:40.3 | oh, no, people are being silenced. |
| 0:43.3 | The First Amendment doesn't exist under this fascist rule. |
| 0:49.6 | They are saying that about Jimmy Kimmel. |
| 0:52.2 | And Jimmy Kimmel has returned to air. |
| 0:54.5 | We all know that. |
| 0:55.3 | But it's really, the hypocrisy is amazing. |
| 1:00.9 | Google admits censorship under Biden promises to end bands of YouTube account, |
| 1:08.0 | accounts of thousands of Americans censored for political speech. |
| 1:13.6 | Washington, D.C., and this happened on Tuesday, thanks to the oversight of Chairman Jim Jordan, Google commits to offer all creators previously kicked off YouTube due to political speech violations on topics such as COVID-19 and elections and opportunity to return to the platform, Google admitted the Biden administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube's policies. |
| 1:45.6 | Didn't violate YouTube's policies, but the Biden administration pressured them. |
| 1:49.6 | So they said, okay, Biden administration. |
| 1:53.3 | The Biden administration's censorship pressure was, quote, unacceptable and wrong. |
| 1:58.4 | So the point is that under the Biden administration, we saw the Twitter files, |
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