It’s probably starting to hit Kristi Noem the kind of damage that she did to herself with her ill advised puppy murder anecdote — although now it turns out there there are other equally ill advised anecdotes in her book that are now coming to light. More about that in a moment. Noem was scheduled to go to CO-07 for a fundraiser and book signing Saturday May 4. It was cancelled out of “safety concerns” and then it comes out that a massive protest was planned. And in all fairness, that could be cause to worry about safety. This is just one more railroad spike in Noem’s coffin.
Hold up; "Top Donors" event this weekend at MAL, and that fundraiser certainly won't be cancelled or protested…😑
— CinnamonAndSpice (@CinnamonWSpice) May 4, 2024
Jefferson County Republican Party Chair Nancy Pallozzi said in a statement Friday that the group’s fundraising dinner, which was set to take place Saturday, was being cancelled “due to safety concerns” after the group, the governor and her staff, and the hotel hosting the event received “numerous threats and/or death threats.”
“After a conversation with the Governor’s office late Wednesday, we mutually decided that safety was the most important concern for everyone involved,” Pallozzi said. “The Denver West Marriott also received alarming comments and shared with us their deep concern over the safety and security for those attending our event, other guests, and their staff.”
Noem was confirmed to be a keynote speaker at the Jefferson County Republicans’ annual fundraiser in early April after the group sent her an invitation in January, Pallozzi said.
That was before The Guardian released an article late last month that described Noem’s account of leading her 14-month-old dog, Cricket, to a gravel pit to be shot after concluding it was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.”
This last minute change would, conveniently, free Noem up to attend Donald Trump’s fundraising bash in Mar-a-Lago, also this weekend. I’m going to bet you won’t see her there.
Now, as to what else Noem has done to blow up her campaign. You may have read here earlier today how Noem claimed to have met Kin Jong-Un and “stared him down.” She also said she had experience in “staring little tyrants down” having once been a youth pastor. I am seriously beginning to wonder if whoever wrote this book for Noem was a an undercover Democratic operative, because the more that comes out about this woman’s book, the more utterly clueless and ridiculous she seems.
Kristi Noem is turning into the Ron DeSantis of VP candidates. If you didn’t know that much about her, she seemed fine. She had the MAGA look, MAGA appeal, she toadies to Trump, all should be well, right? If she hadn’t published this stupid book, she might in fact be in the running for VP. She’s managed to destroy her political career in one week, astonishingly. Say what you will about Ron and Casey DeSantis, it took them a couple of months to self-immolate.
And there is a larger lesson here. This is basically the Peter Principle in action. Both Noem and DeSantis got to a certain level in politics. They rose to the level that they could go and that level was not national. DeSantis was a terrible presidential candidate and his campaign was on of the most inept ever seen. Likewise, in her quest to let people “know her better” — which is what I presume was the purpose of her book — she has only shown herself to be a heartless, tone deaf person and now an out and out liar.
The dog anecdote did not set well. If there’s one things Americans are, it’s animal lovers. We adore our four footed family members. We love them more than we love other people. Noem tried to spin the story later as her protecting her children from a vicious dog, but that was way too late and a stupid excuse.
And the Kim Jong-Un story is stupid. It’s too easy to vet. She never met Kim.
Both anecdotes have one thing in common and that’s that they were evidently shared to evoke some kind of a reaction — and they did do that — but it was emphatically not the reaction Noem was looking to evoke. And the other thing that both anecdotes have in common is that it’s assumed that people are stupid and that they will see the world through the eyes of Kristi Noem and agree with her.
Whatever ghostwriter did this (and I’m assuming she had a ghostwriter. Maybe she did not and maybe that’s the problem right there) hates Kristi Noem. That’s pretty clear. Or, maybe Noem did pen the piece herself and she simply doesn’t know the basics of writing anything autobiographical is that first of all you tell the complete truth about what happened and then you let the chips fall where they may. She doesn’t like that end of it. Assuming she told the complete truth about hating Cricket, that’s fine. She told the truth. Now be prepared for the blowback that the average American just can’t deal with the image of shooting a family pet like that.
Noem characterized Cricket as a “working dog.” Fine. Lassie was a working dog, too, but the story of Lassie is so tear jerking that all you can think about is the devotion that Lassie had to her people, not how she kept the sheep together.
Before all this blew up there were other signs that Noem wasn’t who she professed to be. She’s not welcome on the reservations of the Oglala tribe. And there was that business a few years ago when she had a real estate appraiser examination changed so that her daughter could pass it.
Noem needs to be out of politics. She’s achieved that end for herself, incredibly. And what is more incredible still, is I don’t think she understands what really has happened here. Noem immediately jumped into damage control mode on Sean Hannity’s show where she carried on about the “fake news spin.” What’s the fake news part of this story? Did she shoot the dog or not? Did she say she hated it, and that it was worthless, or not? Again, IF Noem wrote this herself, the demand she’s making is that people experience life through a Kristi Noem lens. And unfortunately for her, callous slaughter of animals is not normal.
Maybe that’s the part she can’t get. Maybe Sean Hannity can explain it to her.
‘Fake news’ is most definitely a maga shibboleth now.
It’s a mantra mouthed at the drop of a hat.
But here, as Ursula notes, it’s not fake news,
IT’S WHAT SHE WROTE IN HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Well, unless Noem wants to admit that she’s a “fake” person. That’s really the only way she can claim her autobiography is “fake news.”
We all know that many biographers have tended to “stretch” or “bend” the truth a bit (think about Columbus’s being the only one to know the Earth was round and convincing the King and Queen of Spain or, more ironically, about Washington and the cherry tree). It’s not always to sell books but biographers from previous eras tended to play up their subject’s good points or minimize (or even ignore) the bad* and, oftentimes, these biographies came decades or even centuries after the subject’s lifetime and, frankly, most of the biographies that had truly detailed research were dull to read and so remained almost exclusively to the world of academia. The biographies that were intended for public consumption tended to just show the good because people who were worthy of being honored with a biography were supposed to be “role models” for others (I mean, consider all the Jesus stories that focus on the good stuff and tend to ignore that whole money lenders “unpleasantness”–it makes Jesus look a little less “godly” when He’s showing a bit of a temper, especially against a bunch of capitalist entrepreneurs just minding their own business). Nowadays, most of the biographies are of people who lived within the lifetimes of most of the intended audience and there’s more of a taste for “scandal” but within reason.
But AUTOBIOGRAPHIES? That’s a completely different animal. People buy those mainly because they want to know more about the person–and ONLY THE GOOD STUFF. Granted, if you grew up living with junkie parents and you were hooked on meth at age 5 but you managed to turn your life around–for whatever reason–and became a veritable success in whatever field that made you famous, well, people will want THAT. But saying that your own drug habit got all your kids hooked on drugs and you didn’t clean up until after your kid’s fatal overdose, well, you’re going to become Public Enemy #1–much like Noem and her doggy-killing story. (If Noem had killed the pet because it had contracted rabies–though taking it to a vet or having a professional put down the dog would’ve been a better option –or she had to kill it because one of her kids was being turned into a chew toy, people would’ve probably been willing to give the story a pass. Or, at least, not make her seem like a serial killer in training.)
*Kind of reminds you of what the right-wing wants to do when they’re “approving” books for school use. Only the good stuff about America’s history and leaders and none of that bad stuff.
To the folks in CO who scared this rhymes with hunt into pissing herself–way to go! You folks deserve medals all around. Of course a solid gold medal will go to the one who does to noem EXACTLY what she did to those poor animals.
I hope these protests, or threatened ones since the rhymes with hunt is too f*cking chicken-shit to face her opponents, carry on across the entire nation. Like ALL con, xtian, pubes she is a coward. Kind of funny but that fact right there makes her the perfect f*ckwad to share the ticket with cadet bone spurs.
Shoots doggy. Bad.
Shoots goat. Dumb.
Shoots goat again after needing to go back t car for second bullet. Smelly.
Shoots self in foot by writing this. Bad.
Shoots self in head by lying about what she wrote. Twice. Crazy.
Kills many of her own constituents because of her Covid denial-ism. Almost forgotten. Horrible!!!
WOW! Kristi’s got the Sarah Sanders frown nailed for sure.
Speaking of fake news, I don’t believe for one second that Noem and/or her venue received serious death threats from puppy lovers. I’m sure people threatened protests and crowds and maybe even setting up a gravel pit to drag her into to see how she likes it (sans shotgun)! But the death threats part of it sounds like she made it up so she could stage a pity party!! 😫
Dog day afternoon!
At least that was a love story.
Lucky her husband would didn’t do the same after her adultery.
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Not a happy camper. She’s got the look of someone who just saw her all royalty checks go down the tubes. I hope she sends an autographed copy to her BFF Kim Jong-un. He may actually enjoy it.
You “got me” at youth pastor. That sent chills and shivers down the spine. Simply goes to prove that Satan is not afraid of holy places. All dogs go to heaven. I doubt she will.