Welp. You may have noticed that no more interviews with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem are being advertised on television. It has been so for a few days.
The book tour has been canceled. It is hard to imagine a politician with a book to push crashing and burning as quickly as Noem did. She chose to do CBS’s Face the Nation for the first interview for her memoir No Going Back. At the time, I thought that was an odd choice. Margaret Brennan, the host of that show, is arrogantly partisan and smirks at Republican guests.
By the time Noem did the interview, the story of Cricket the Dog was out and creating a buzz everywhere. Then another story popped up that would cause Noem problems – her alleged meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Brennan tried to get to the bottom of that story but Noem refused to give any details. All she would say was that she has met with many…
