{"id":1308306,"date":"2022-02-17T21:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1308306"},"modified":"2022-02-17T21:37:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T02:37:40","slug":"michele-tafoya-blasted-by-media-elites-after-criticizing-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michele-tafoya-blasted-by-media-elites-after-criticizing-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"Michele Tafoya Blasted by Media Elites After Criticizing Critical Race Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichele-tafoya-blasted-by-media-elites-after-criticizing-critical-race-theory%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1308306&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Former NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya has become a target of the left-wing media elites since announcing she is joining a Republican political campaign and criticizing the teaching of critical race theory.<\/p>\n<p>The popular NFL sidelines reporter spent nearly 30 years in the trenches covering sports. However, now she has retired from the sports world and joined the campaign of a Minnesota Republican running for governor of the North Star State.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Naturally, she is quickly becoming the newest target of attack by the left.<\/p>\n<p>Tafoya recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/michele-tafoya-why-i-am-leaving-nbc-for-gop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> on Tucker Carlson\u2019s Fox News show and explained that she feels it is time to \u201cgive back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been on my mind. I\u2019ve been waking up every day with a palpable pull at my gut. My middle-ground, \u2026 moderate viewpoint is not being represented to the rest of the world. And so rather than, you know, just banging it out on Twitter or Instagram every day \u2013 I thought \u2013 I\u2019ve got to do something. I have benefited greatly from the American dream, and I feel like for the sake of my kids, and because I so love this country, I\u2019ve got to start giving back,\u201d Tafoya told Carlson.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tafoya has been a target of the left at least since she appeared as a guest host on ABC\u2019s extremist, left-wing daytime talk show, <i>The View<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/14215416\/sunday-night-football-sideline-reporter-michele-tafoya-speaks-during-picture-id1353430898\" alt=\"Sunday Night Football&quot; sideline reporter Michele Tafoya speaks during a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA \u2013 NOVEMBER 14: NBC \u201cSunday Night Football\u201d sideline reporter Michele Tafoya speaks during a game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders at Allegiant Stadium on November 14, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tafoya sat in with the women on the show in November and repeatedly riled the left with her comments. But with her appearance on Fox, she is riling the left even more, especially when she attacked the woke, critical race theory policies of her child\u2019s school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son\u2019s first best friend was a little African-American boy. They were inseparable. Get to a certain age; they start having what\u2019s called an affinity group, which means you go for lunch and pizza with people who look like you,\u201d Tafoya told Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a big, big focus on the color of your skin and my children \u2026 Why are we even teaching that the color of the skin matters? Because to me, what matters is your character and your values,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the fact that Tafoya\u2019s comments are exactly in-line with Dr. Martin Luther King\u2019s famous <em>I Have a Dream<\/em> speech where he called for people to judge others not based on the color of skin \u201cbut by the content of their character,\u201d leftists lined up to take shots at Tafoya for her comments.<\/p>\n<p>Race baiter and newly minted CNN commentator Jemele Hill, of course, led the pack, going on the attack and claiming that Critical Race Theory is a \u201cmade-up issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Imagine leaving a high-profile job over a made-up issue. Does Michele Tafoya even know what CRT is? Does she have kids in school being taught CRT? Can she provide any examples? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s5ryE9ovoM\">https:\/\/t.co\/s5ryE9ovoM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jemelehill\/status\/1494166432887701511?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dave Zirin, sports editor for <em>The Nation<\/em>&nbsp;and a man with apparently zero self-awareness about who the true race-grifters are in this country and which political party they belong to,&nbsp;blasted Tafoya for using race to \u201cgrift.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There\u2019s no lazier grift than racism. There isn\u2019t a grift more lucrative than racism. Pathetic.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdgeofSports\/status\/1494288321530548230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tim Burke, a former writer for the left-wing Deadspin, went down the usual, boring road leftists take when confronted with a Republican; he called Tucker Carlson\u2019s show the \u201cWhite Nationalist Hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michele Tafoya is currently on the White Nationalist Hour if you&#8217;re curious what her post-NBC Sports career was gonna be<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bubbaprog\/status\/1494123406035464197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Other leftists piled on:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And when people like Michele witness that, for years, then pretend there are no problems; or pretend the problem is noting America&#8217;s history of racism\u2014it leaves me to ask, &#8220;Have you not paid a morsel of attention? Have you not been listening as people tell you their sagas?&#8221; [4]\n<p>\u2014 Jeff Pearlman (@jeffpearlman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffpearlman\/status\/1494175543905849348?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NBC Sports reporter, Michele Tafoya is retriring and going into Republican politics. I&#8217;m always shocked these days when a seemingly sane person turns out to be a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cenkuygur\/status\/1493285342085980161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jemele Hill basically left ESPN to talk more freely against racism. Michele Tafoya left NBC Sports to talk more freely in promoting racism. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eKWbIg3nzs\">https:\/\/t.co\/eKWbIg3nzs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ChuckModi (@ChuckModi1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckModi1\/status\/1494320127264923650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Michele Tafoya was a reporter for 30 damn years and never once thought to herself, &#8220;Hey, maybe I should talk to someone about what critical race theory actually is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Getting information is literally her job, and she actively chose not to seek it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Heisler (@bennyheis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyheis\/status\/1494171624257503232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, Tafoya said she doesn\u2019t care about the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t care if I\u2019m attacked. I really am not afraid of that, and I guess I feel like so many people now are afraid,\u201d she told Carlson. \u201cYeah. And I\u2019m not. Listen, I know there are repercussions for whatever I choose to say. And I\u2019ve talked to my kids\u2019 school about it. You know, please don\u2019t hold this against my kids. I\u2019m speaking for me. I\u2019m speaking for my family. But please don\u2019t hold this against my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former NBC Sports reporter Michele Tafoya has become a target of the left-wing media elites since announcing she is joining a Republican political campaign and criticizing the teaching of critical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}