South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been traveling the interview circuit ahead of the release of her book, “No Going Back,” which is set to drop on Tuesday. The first excerpts of the book – including Noem’s tale about shooting a dog named Cricket – set off a firestorm of publicity and controversy, and Noem has offered no apologies.
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In these interviews she’s given more detail about what led to her decision to shoot Cricket in the head and dump her body in a gravel pit. Whether one agrees with Noem’s decision or not, the fact that the incident has to be explained is a problem. As RedState’s Andrew Malcolm has observed about politics, “If you’re explaining, you’re losing.”
As it turns out, the only thing Noem’s worse at than explaining is deflecting. In a “Face the Nation” interview…
