When the news first emerged that Kristi Noem had used her latest book to tell the grisly tale of killing her own dog, the South Dakota governor blamed the whole thing on the “fake news.” “You know how the fake news works,” Noem told Sean Hannity in an attempt at damage control. “They leave out some or most of the facts of a story, they put the worst spin on it. And that’s what’s happened in this case.” Later, after being pressed by CBS’s Margaret Brennan about the false story that she met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Noem whined on X: “In the fake news media, there are two sets of rules, and conservative are always treated differently. That’s why Americans don’t trust the Fake News.”
This is, of course, a classic move for Republicans, perfected by Donald Trump, who has spent years claiming to be a victim of what he variously calls the “fake news,” the “radical left-wing media,” the “lamestream media,” and the “enemy of the people.” But unfortunately for Noem, she’s not getting any sympathy from the conservative media either. In fact, hosts everywhere from Newsmax to Fox tore into her on Tuesday like a dog with a bone.
On Fox Business, Stuart Varney pressed the governor multiple times about whether she thought it was a good idea to include the puppy-slaying story in her book, noting that it may have killed her shot at being Trump’s VP and that the network had “been consumed with emails saying, ‘I won’t vote for this person. I won’t vote for Trump if he puts her in the vice presidential spot.’”
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