Kristi Noem is considered a leading contender to be Trump VP pick. Here she says that women who are victims of rape or incest should be denied access to abortion services.
Big Journalism's timidity is never more obvious than when, confronted with a blatant lie from a (usually Republican) politician, the news org then frames the lie as a mere mistake.
Example today from ABC News -- headline:
"South Dakota Gov. Noem admits error of describing meeting Kim Jong Un in new book"
Come on, journalists, this just makes you look ridiculous.
A seventh Native American tribe in South Dakota has banned Gov. Kristi #Noem (R) from its reservation after she commented earlier this year that tribal leaders benefited from drug cartels.
& then he falsified the biz records in furtherance of effort to viol campaign finance laws.
Are these folks really this stupid?
Bash: We actually have the reimbursement checks… Are you comfortable with this?
#Noem: #MichaelCohen worked for #Trump. Pres Trump paid his legal fees, he paid his Michael Cohen legal fees & bills & that's what this trial will bringing fwd
Even the macho guys with gun racks on their trucks who are building our deck think Kristi #Noem is despicable. Two of them live on acreage with farm animals. The topic came up when one of our dogs started barking at a new guy he hadn’t met.
The project lead told me last night, “farm folks do not put down their dogs or livestock unless it’s a mercy killing - and we hate doing it. That crazy bitch enjoyed shooting a puppy she was too lazy to train. Just give the dog away!”
South Dakota has apologized and will pay $300,000 under a settlement with a transgender advocacy group that sued Gov. #KristiNoem and her health secretary last year after the state terminated a contract with it.
What a way for #Noem to waste taxpayer money by engaging in political #bigotry and #hatred in the first place
How disloyal of Mike Pence not supporting the guy that tried to have him killed.
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#Noem: I think Mike #Pence has failed Donald #Trump since #Jan6 because he certainly does not recognize that we need someone in The White House who needs him out on the trail advocating for him instead of constantly criticizing him
"A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the #PineRidgeReservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send #RazorWire and security personnel to #Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations.
“'Due to the safety of the #Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the #OglalaSioux Tribe!” Tribe President #FrankStarComesOut said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.
"#StarComesOut accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate.
"Many of those arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border are #IndigenousPeople from places like #ElSalvador, #Guatemala and #Mexico who come 'in search of jobs and a better life,' the tribal leader added.
"'They don’t need to be put in cages, separated from their children like during the Trump Administration, or be cut up by razor wire furnished by, of all places, South Dakota,' he said.
"Star Comes Out also addressed #Noem’s remarks in the speech to lawmakers Wednesday in which she said a gang calling itself the Ghost Dancers is murdering people on the Pine Ridge Reservation and is affiliated with border-crossing cartels that use South Dakota reservations to spread drugs throughout the Midwest.
"Star Comes Out said he took deep offense at her reference, saying the #GhostDance is one of the Oglala Sioux’s “most sacred ceremonies,' 'was used with blatant disrespect and is insulting to our Oyate.'"
This is what happened when MAGA people at CPAC thought I was one of them.
Exiled from the press pen, I was just part of the audience, a space previously off-limits to reporters.
To say the least, it was enlightening.
On Friday, for instance, I listened to a main-stage speech from Chris #Miller, a Republican running for governor of West Virginia.
Because of its tax-exempt status, CPAC bans speakers from openly campaigning there, so he was listed on the program simply as “businessman.”
Like virtually every other speaker at the event, Miller devoted several of his allotted five minutes to railing against #transgender#healthcare.
“Woke doctors are literally making boys into girls,” he declared.
“They’re practicing #mutilation, not medicine. They should be in prison.”
At that point, a burly man in a giant black cowboy hat sitting next to me leaned over conspiratorially and proclaimed,
“I think we should #hang them all! I really do.”
And he laughed like we were in on the same joke.
I confess that I was too cowardly to tell him I was with the left-wing fake news
Later, during a speech by South Dakota Governor Kristi #Noem, I was sitting next to a woman in full-on MAGA gear.
When Noem declared, “There are some people who love America, and there are some people who #hate America,” my neighbor gave me a small heart attack.
“Get the FUCK OUT!” she yelled furiously, ready to rumble. “Get the FUCK OUT!”
Meanwhile, the old man in the camo Trump hat next to her had somehow fallen asleep.
In the hotel lobby outside the CPAC main stage, the right-wing cable network Real America’s Voice had set up a studio. #Bannon spent most of the conference holding court there and interviewing various MAGA celebs like Kash #Patel, who President Donald Trump had once put in charge of counterterrorism at the National Security Administration, or Rep. Byron #Donalds (R-FL), the rare Black conservative in the mix.
The studio often drew a crowd that rivaled that of some of the speakers on the main stage. It certainly rivaled the convention in volume.
While I was taking in the spectacle, a middle-aged man in a gray suit came up to me and pointed to a nearby 7-foot-high poster of Tucker #Carlson’s face.
“Do you know why that’s here?” he asked.
I explained that it was an ad for Tucker: The Biography, a book written by Chadwick Moore, a gay journalist and former liberal.
“Oh, I see,” he replied. The man clearly wanted to keep talking, asking me what I was here for, which was unusual since in the past my press badge said it all.
My inquisitor had come to #CPAC to see what people were saying about school choice and was disappointed to discover that the answer to that question was nothing.
Education policy, he lamented, was nowhere to be found at this event. Indeed, what passed for policy discussions at CPAC this year was largely limited to mass #deportations and attacks on #trans athletes.
The sober panels about the national debt, balancing the budget, or Social Security reform that once commanded top billing were a relic of another era before CPAC became an extension of Trump Inc., devoted to all the MAGA grievances like racial #equity, the evils of #windmills, or bans on gas #stoves.
When I finally was able to explain that I was a reporter who’d been denied a press pass, the man launched into an earnest yet incomprehensible spiel about how the government is #censoring people. Politely, I fled into the crowd watching Bannon. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/02/being-denied-a-press-pass-at-cpac-was-the-best-way-to-cover-the-conference/
Thinking about how little outrcry there was when #Noem demonized #NativeAmerican nations to such an extent that she is literally banned from setting foot on their territories, and how much there was when she killed animals. I’ve got nothing against animals (and don’t even eat them), but how can her #Racism get a pass? Thoughts about this? Care about this? Join me as a sustaining donor to #Lakotalaw
"Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children."
“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
@br00t4c #Noem is all over RW "news" telling people "the dog was vicious".
She NEVER claimed the dog was vicious before, doesn't make the claim in her book, and was SO vicious her young daughter asked her "where's Cricket?"
If proudly shooting a puppy wasn't disturbing enough, they way they so easily just lie and think they can put one over on us and we'd be too stupid to notice... should show everyone just how little they think of their voters.
@Centurion480 Sorry, friend. Wrong state.
Blame #SouthDakota for #Noem. Blame #NorthDakota for #Burgum.
Let's get this straight, people!
Ignorance of the two Dakotas may be convenient to most who simply fly over, but its alienating as hell to those of us who are living it on the ground.