I can almost
guarantee that this next story
will be on the joke list tonight.
Some people not so sure it's funny.
One of Donald Trump's
possible running
May contenders made this, as
some people would say, bizarre admission
that has a lot of people angry.
Okay, here is the back story.
South Dakota
Governor Kristi Noem released a new book.
The Guardian got its hands on a copy
and the outlet is flagging a section
in which she describes
killing her dog named Cricket.
So the easy way to explain
what happened here,
if you haven't read it,
is to read it out loud to you.
So we have the main part of the article
and we're just going to read it.
So listen it.
All right.
So it begins here.
Cricket was a wire hair pointer.
About 14 months old,
she says, adding that the dog,
a female,
had an
aggressive personality
and needed to be trained
to be used for hunting.
She includes her story
about the ill fated cricket.
She says to illustrate her willingness
in politics
as well as in South Dakota life
to do anything, quote,
difficult, messy and ugly, end quote.
If it simply needs to be done
by taking cricket
on a pheasant hunt with older dogs,
Noem says
she hoped to calm the young dog down.
It began to teach her how to behave.
She's just a puppy.
All right.
Unfortunately, cricket ruined the hunt,
she said, going quote, out of her
mind with excitement,
chasing all the birds
and having the time of her life.
Known describes calling cricket,
then using an electronic collar
to attempt to bring her under control.
Nothing worked.
Then on the way home
after the hunt, as Gnome
stopped to talk to a local family,
Cricket escaped
Nome's truck and attacked
the family's chickens,
so, quote, grabbing
one chicken at a time,
crunching it to death with one by
then dropping it
to attack another cricket.
The untraceable dog gnome
rice behaved like a, quote,
trained assassin.
When Gnome finally grabbed cricket,
she says the dog, quote,
whipped around to bite me.
Then, as the chicken's owner wept,
Gnome repeatedly
apologized, wrote
the show, wrote the shocked family
a check quote for the price they asked
and helped them dispose of the carcasses
littering the scene of the crime.
Through it
all, Gnome says cricket
was, quote, the picture of pure joy.
I hated that, dog, Gnome writes,
adding that cricket had proved
herself, quote, untreatable,
dangerous to anyone
she came in contact with
and less than worthless as a hunting dog.
So at that moment, Gnome
says, I realized I had to put her down.
Gnome, who also represented
a state in Congress for eight years,
got her gun,
then led cricket to a gravel pit.
It was not a pleasant job,
she writes, but it had to be done.
And after it was over,
I realized another unpleasant
job needed to be done.
Incredibly, Gnomes
Tale of Slaughter
is not finished for family,
she writes,
also owned a male goat
that was nasty and mean
because it had not been castrated
naturally.
Furthermore, Aslan knows
the goat smelled disgusting, musky,
rancid and loved to chase
gnomes, children
knocking them down
and ruining their clothes.
Gnome decided to kill the unnamed goat
the same way she had just killed
Cricket the dog.
But though
she dragged him to a gravel pit,
the goat jumped as she shot
and therefore survived the wound.
Gnome says she went back to her truck,
retreated to another shell,
then hurry back to the gravel pit
and put him down at that point.
Gnome writes
She realized 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.
Gnomes, children.
Kennedy looked around, confused.
Gnome writes of her daughter,
who asked, Hey, where's Cricket?
This is not a joke.
If you are thinking this is not true.
Gnome has now defended the scenes
in the statements
that she made in her own book
saying she loves animals.
But tough decisions happen
all the time on a farm.
In fact,
she says they recently
put down three horses.
I don't know how to bring
the panel back after that,
but I'm going to do it now.
We've got S.E.
Cupp, Van Lathan, Van Jones,
Scott Jennings and our Kerry champion
all standing by.
I journalistically,
I know that I need to sort of.
You can't kill a dog or a goat like that.
It's insane.
Well, it's your comment.
It's not it's not Old Yeller,
that's for sure.
Listen to things.
I hunt over dogs.
It's a thing.
They don't have to be put down
if they're not great at hunting.
Right.
Are a thousand other things
you can do with them
before you have to kill it for really no
good reason to.
This is a thing
that some women politicians do.
You remember Joni Ernst
talking about castrating pigs
when she was coming into the Senate
to talk about like rural life?
Life on the farm
makes them seem a little tough.
Maybe it's not a thing
any of us need as voters.
We don't need to hear about it.
Save that trauma for your therapist.
I can't.
I can't tell what you're thinking.
I see a look on your face
and I can't tell what's going on.
Well, I'm a I'm a dog owner.
I had a dog who recently
passed, had her for 18 years.
So I'm just I'm at the
humanity aspect of it.
I don't know.
I have never lived on a farm
and I and I and believe it or not,
I think there are people somewhere
in middle America
or wherever they live
that can understand what she said.
I don't know who they are.
I can't quite understand that.
And I don't know why
it needs to be documented.
But there's this thing where people want,
to your point, some sort of credibility.
I don't know what she felt like
that would make her
look like or feel like or if people
were going to say
that this is what I want
someone who knows this no nonsense.
It's really disgusting
and I think also traumatizing.
And she writes that the dog behaved
like a trained assassin.
I said, who says, like,
did you feel like hunted dog?
That is a job to go
after those things you're hunting.
We have to be smart about it.
This lady snapped
this, but they do this.
She went on an animal rampage
killing spree,
and it was all across
the areas of zoology.
She didn't kill three horses.
A goat and a dog like this.
This is troubling. In front of silver.
In front of big.
Oh 14.
Where's cricket again?
What's a god?
That's like a still a great novel.
What are we supposed to make of that?
Yeah, this is.
I am doing my best
that there's two aspects of this,
and I absolutely understand
the aspect as a dog owner,
having that visceral reaction
as I'm describing this.
So there's what she did,
and people can take that
for what it is, judge it as they want.
And then there's the decision
to write about it,
not just write about it,
but frankly, to brag about it
and brag about it
because you think you're going
to get something out of it.
If, first of all, on your screen,
he's breathing a sigh of relief tonight.
The president,
he was the worst dog owner in America.
We still don't know what happened
to commander, by the way.
We have no idea
how Kristi Noem is the worst.
So congratulations, Joe Biden.
You've got to jump in and say that,
you know, his dogs are attacking people
in the White House and beat fighting
numerous, numerous.
There's no bad dogs, only bad owners.
You know,
Governor Deval has I mean, no one has a00
cold in the Dakotas.
She may have needed a coat. I don't know.
Oh, my God,
This is a terrible PR problem, but worse,
there are two other
sort of technical terms. A psychopath.
Nobody shoots a puppy dog like this.
I have a puppy right now.
The way you communicate to dogs who are
but you call them by their full name
instead of their
instead of their first name.
So whenever my bulldog Elvis,
like when he jumps on the kitchen table,
he just got to
if I say
Elvis, Jay Bull dog,
eat in the third, then he
then he will jump down.
I never have contemplated
shooting him off of the kitchen table
while you can
you can send them to the pound
if you really I mean that
that's hard training.
You can train them that simple.
Okay.
So Ben
Van Jones and Scott,
if anybody at the table. But but Van,
is she still in the running for VP?
Oh, especially after this.
Look,
Lyndon Johnson
picked up a beagle by the ears
and soon was out of the presidential race
for a number of reasons.
Vietnam was one of them.
But abusing dogs has a pretty poor track
record of advancing political careers.
I think she's out, right?
Mitt Romney. Yes. Yes.
Because
we talked about how on a family road trip
they put a dog on the roof in a cage
and drool.
This dog got sick
and it hurt him in the campaign
actually was a thing
where people
that that's a different plan.
And that was ridiculous.
You remember, because I was there.
You were all there
when Democrats made Mitt
Romney a monster.
Among other things,
he was an animal killer.
And I was there when
he choked by the women.
He was a sexist pig.
This is a self-induced.
Oh,
of course, nobody will know the story.
But you know that
you thought that communicating this to
the electorate would help her.
Yeah, well, so what?
What what if it does?
Okay, we might know.
Is there
not a staffer
or consultant anywhere within
100 miles of this governor?
That's like, Hey, I know, I know.
You love that story, right?
Don't tell it. Hello.
But maybe I'll put it in the book.
Maybe we take
Is there an editor or the editor? Right.
Stop doing commercials
for, like, dental implants
and other weird stuff.
She's not a weird one.
We should note that
someone did complain
and is hoping
that she gets charged
with animal cruelty.
So there is a
there is a complaint out there
after reading this
because people were so disturbed
after seeing the story.
And then the very last thing,
just hearing that her daughter was like,
where's cricket? That hurt me.
I wonder if she's trying to get out
in front of the story somehow
because she thought her daughter
would make it to the press,
except for those construction
worker construction workers.
We're going to talk.
All right.
Yeah. Yep.
Nothing else to say.
This will result
in which Donald Trump loves this.
I would not put that past him,
but I don't know
if it even Donald Trump,
he has basic political instincts.
I think people are shocked and appalled.
And I thought honestly, once
you read it, you say, oh,
this makes sense.
Every line with more horrifying.
I read the whole thing.
Like what?
Like after you've murdered the dog,
why would you talk about the fact
that your child
will not
talk about the fact
like you just got worse and worse?
Yeah. Yeah, right, Right.
Everyone is like, calm down.
John's all right. No, I just.
Because I. Yeah, we've done it.
We're going to take a break.