Kristi Noem’s office emailed a reporter with Spectator USA today and said the governor is a victim of ‘conservative cancel culture’:
Gov. Kristi Noem's office says in an email that she is a victim of "conservative cancel culture," adds that she is not caving to the NCAA but that "the bill picked a fight with the NCAA – a fight that renowned conservative legal experts advise Governor Noem that she will lose."
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) March 24, 2021
More: "If conservative media would take 5 seconds to read past the knee-jerk headlines and actually understand Governor Noem’s position, they’d come to a very different realization."
— Amber Athey (@amber_athey) March 24, 2021
This did not go over well at all among big conservatives on Twitter:
Disagreement on policy or approach isn’t cancellation. She’s not been removed from office or banned from anywhere. Doesn’t make a lot of sense for Noem or her advisers to use this line of defense here. https://t.co/dOEeo8ig7U
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) March 24, 2021
How embarrassing and discrediting. There's a reason Noem won't name the "experts" who bullied her into vetoing the bill: they're corporate cronies who have significant financial interests in doing whatever Amazon and NCAA tell them to do. https://t.co/1civNGDhbh
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 24, 2021
This is Weaksauce Lite https://t.co/dQGkgGNOS4
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 24, 2021
Not a good look. https://t.co/QEQDrhvOe2
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 24, 2021
Putting the debate on the specifics aside, nobody is cancelling or censoring. We are having a disagreement without censorship. In that sense, it's a pretty healthy disagreement. https://t.co/MV6BSh20Wq
— Daniel Horowitz (@RMConservative) March 24, 2021
Plenty of awful examples of cancel culture recently. It's a trend that is not exclusive only to the left. With that said, I'm getting really tired of people like Noem abusing the term to just mean criticism for something you did. It's harmful to the fight against cancel mobs. https://t.co/Epa9YY85xr
— AG (@AGHamilton29) March 24, 2021