Noem appeared on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, where the two devoted five minutes to Noem’s late wirehair pointer…
Noem just can’t stop talking about killing her dog — much to the collective confusion of horrified observers.
Noem describes her dog, still nearly a puppy, as “a trained assassin”
“I hated that dog,”
Noem also writes of how — perhaps feeling emboldened after killing Cricket — she then decided to kill a “nasty and mean” family goat, dragging it to the same gravel pit where Cricket met her demise. But the goat jumped as Noem shot it, forcing the Republican governor to return to her truck for another shell.
The scene of slaughter ends with Noem’s kids getting off the school bus, and her daughter asking, “Hey, where’s Cricket?”
Noem seems to have recounted the episode as something of a parable, intended to show both that she is tough enough to face “difficult, messy and ugly” tasks and authentic enough to tell the truth about it.
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“We love animals, but tough decisions like this happen all the time on a farm,” she wrote,
Noem, who went on to describe herself as an “authentic” leader who doesn’t “shy away from tough challenges.”
the morbid fascination with the Noah’s ark worth of animals Noem has talked about putting down — three horses, a goat, a dog —… On Thursday, for instance, a bipartisan group of lawmakers responded to the news by forming the Congressional Dog Lovers Caucus.
Noem…continues to talk about it, holding up the gravel pit executions as a character reference for her leadership chops.
“It’s hard to imagine a universe where bragging about shooting your 14-month-old puppy increases your brand value,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) wrote in a text. “I’ve known hunters who accidentally or impulsively shot their hunting dog, but I’ve never known anyone who bragged about it or considered it noble in any way.”
“Why … would you write about this in a book and flex on it? That doesn’t look tough. It looks stupid.”
“I read that and I’m like: ‘Who put that in the book?’ I was like, ‘Your ghost writer must really not like you if they’re going to include that one. That was rough.’”
