Greg Gutfeld Ruthlessly Roasts Kristi Noem with Mock Interview After She Cancels Amid Disastrous Book Tour
Greg Gutfeld ruthlessly roasted South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) after she canceled an interview with him amid a rocky book tour.
Gutfeld informed his audience that Noem nixed the interview and blamed “the weather.”
“I don’t believe it. I just think it’s a little late to keep her on a short leash. I hoped she’d reconsider, but I’m not going to sit up and beg,” he said.
The dog puns were a clear needling reference to a tale from her book, No Going Back, that leaked before its publication, where the governor recalls killing a puppy she considered untrainable. There has also since been a retraction after critics questioned a story where the governor claimed to have met North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
A series of media appearances on both left and right-leaning networks have since gotten a little tense as Noem has refused to say she did not meet Kim Jong Un directly, and she’s been questioned about these stories being “brought” to her “attention” when her name is on the book and social media posts previously showed her recording the audiobook.
On Tuesday, Gutfeld declared he was moving forward with his interview with or without Noem, bringing in Dana Perino to stand in as the governor.
“So, Dana, AKA Gov. Noem, did you write the book yourself?” Gutfeld asked.
“You know, that’s a great question for someone who wrote the book, and I don’t think I will dignify your question with a response. There are so many other important issues in the world like animal cruelty,” Perino said as Noem.
Gutfeld then asked if she’d actually read the book.
“Thank you for reading my book. I said some words that were written about me, and they were in a certain order of…they call them sentences, and so I read those aloud. I don’t know if that means I read the book, though,” Perino said.
She went on to joke that she had another dog named “Ghost Writer” and, “I killed him this morning.”
Asked if she regretted including the dog story, Perino fit in a couple final digs at Noem, once considered a frontrunner to be Donald Trump’s VP pick.
“I regret that I was in Germany in the ’80s doing movies. I regret that. I didn’t include that in the book, and now I regret not including that,” she said. “I also regret not canceling on you on Saturday, so I didn’t waste your time reading a book that I was not going to come on and do the interview about.”
“Amen,” Gutfeld said.
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