Love Angela’s first post on her blog. She takes Noem to the woodshed. It is monumental.
I had the pleasure of donating for the second year to Emily’s Hope art auction. This year I attended. First I will say when you serve medium rare 8 oz filets, provide a steak knife (I was laughing at all the people sawing thru their steak with a butter knife, maybe 4 star hotels don’t have steak knives?)
Either or, it was a great night talking to my artist friends! Chad, David and Nancy, you made my night, always great catching up!
Now back to Angela’s article. I enjoyed the candor of the article, but if you knew this was going on, why didn’t you say something?
Many peeps over the years have worried about me and my big mouth online and have asked me if I was worried and I always say, ‘Last time I checked I live in America, and the 1st Amendment rules the day.’ And it has always protected me. I have had so many private organization peeps try to shut me down with cease and desist orders, which I ignore. I have only taken down ONE post, I used a copyrighted image of a mountain, and the photographer was not happy. So I deleted the post. As for government folks, screw you, I own this information and I paid for it, and you know it.
So let’s deep dive into Angela’s piece;
In fact, early in my career, when people from both sides of the aisle complained about my work, I took it as confirmation that I was doing my job correctly.
Exactly. When I see action in local government because of my needling, I look at it as a win!
Kristi Noem became the first governor in my career who not only refused to sit down for interviews on these issues, but who actively tried to discredit me as a journalist.
Kristi Noem is the Dumbest Person on Earth. And I don’t mean that as satire, it is true. I have followed her career since she was screaming in a 4-H barn.
She is a Sadist. There is no other word to describe her. She takes pleasure in other peoples pain, and she has been doing it for a long time;
What makes this moment even more disturbing is that Noem is no longer just discrediting journalists. She is discrediting the dead. Alex Pretti cannot correct the record. He cannot defend himself against false claims that portray him as a violent threat. His family has to live with the public narrative created by an administration that chose to misrepresent what happened, even when video evidence shows otherwise. To lose a loved one in such a sudden and traumatic way is devastating enough. To then watch the government lie about who that person was, what they did, and why they died is an added cruelty no family should have to endure. This is not about politics or messaging. It is about basic human decency and the obligation of those in power to tell the truth, especially when the person most affected no longer has a voice.
Thank you for saying this Angela!
When elected officials are not held to account, trust collapses. When journalists are discredited for doing their jobs, the public is left without a shared set of facts. When authority goes unchecked, abuses become easier to justify, easier to dismiss, and easier to repeat.
This is why I bitched about Marshall Selberg who was ILLEGALLY living out of his district while serving on the city council and perjured a campaign finance form. PERJURY! Elected officials need to be held to account, on all actions, including lying about a financial disclosure at a public meeting, Mr. Spellerberg!!!!
A functioning democracy depends on credibility.
AMEN!
Hey Angela, if you ever want to cooperate on stories together, hit me up! I still forgive you for your hard hitting article about me making fun of Vernon Brown’s bald head. I still laugh about that to this day!
BTW, speaking of funny stories that went by the wayside, here is one for you. So when Jolene Loetscher was running against Poops her and I had a side convo at one of her coffees, and she told me the story about Poops being a ‘stalker’. At first I was alarmed, because that is a crazy accusation, until she explained. Apparently Jolene and John Thune were good friends and Jolene asked John for an endorsement and he told her it would put the SD GOP on it’s head, but he did tell Jolene something funny, he said that when Poops was running his rip off web developer business he tried to get Thune as a client, and Thune told Jolene that Poops was a ‘Stalker.’