Election season is spilling over into the sports world following Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s caustic speech before a joint session of Congress this week, leading one NFL sideline reporter to call out a “Squad” congresswoman for her blatant disrespect of a head of state.

Michele Tafoya, 59, covered professional football for NBC Sports for more than a dozen years before retiring in 2022. Now free to speak her mind, the reporter-turned-podcaster is calling out Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for quietly protesting Bibi as he pleaded with American lawmakers to stick by his nation while they work to free the remaining hostages held captive by Hamas. Photographs of the House floor show Tlaib holding up an auction-style sign that read “war criminal” in bold letters. One X user noted, “Rashida Tlaib sat in the same room as Noa Argamani – who was brutally kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas for 245 days – and wore a keffiyeh in SUPPORT of the genocidal rapist jihadists who abused and terrorized Noa.”

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The silent protest was too much for Tafoya, who replied, “When a sitting United States congressperson is lobbying on behalf of another country, they need to resign.”

The Minnesota native has played footsie with Republican politics since retiring in 2022 and left open the possibility of her own run for office. She chaired the unsuccessful campaign of her homestate Republican gubernatorial candidate Kendall Qualls that year and took on an increased surrogate role following an attempt to branch out on her own during a controversial 2021 interview with the ultra-liberal ABC program “The View.”

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Appearing alongside far-left hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, and others, Tafoya blasted critical race theory and attempted to defend vaccine opponents, throwing the liberal ladies into a full-blown meltdown. “I just want to give the benefit of the doubt to some people that there are two sides to the story. I think all of us can agree that there is probably a lot to this story we still don’t know,” Tafoya said to the audience, who jeered right back at her. “Oh, you’re going to groan at me!” Tafoya lamented. Joy Behar quipped,“That’s The View, honey.” Her comments led to a brief disappearance from NBC Sports which executives chalked up to scheduling conflicts at the time.

Targeting the Squad, however, may prove to be smarter politics for Tafoya now that she herself is an unsigned agent. The media-savvy ex-reporter is tapping into broad dissatisfaction with far-left ideologies and candidates, and Rep. Tlaib may be looking over her shoulder after fellow anti-Israel critic, Rep. Jamaal Bowman, lost his Democratic primary last month to a staunch progressive Jewish suburbanite. Similarly, Missouri Democrat Cori Bush (D-MO) is running neck-and-neck with a progressive opponent in a Detroit district where voters have grown tired of her posturing and pursuit of national headlines.

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